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Nokia to Buy Navigation Company - NAVTEQ

October 1, 2007 9:14 AM | Nokia | Comments (1)

Nokia and NAVTEQ today announced a definitive agreement for Nokia to acquire NAVTEQ.  Under the terms of the agreement, Nokia will pay $78 in cash for each share of NAVTEQ including outstanding options for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $8.1 billion (EUR 5.7 billion), or approximately $7.7 billion (EUR 5.4 billion) net of NAVTEQ existing cash balance. The acquisition has been approved by the board of directors of each company and is subject to customary closing conditions including regulatory approvals and NAVTEQ shareholders' approval. 
 
The navigation area is a fast growing business, and with location-based services expanding rapidly into mobile communications devices, the industry is poised for even further growth. 
 
NAVTEQ brings a number of key assets to Nokia: a great team with best-in-world maps and navigation industry expertise, a strong customer base and an industry-leading map data and technology platform with the broadest geographical coverage.

NAVTEQ will continue to provide the most advanced and flexible map data platform to navigation industry players. With NAVTEQ, Nokia will further strengthen its location based services offering and bring to market the most innovative, context aware Nokia Internet services with accelerated time to market.


 

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Comments

I have been covering Navteq for a while. Here is my analysis: http://sramanamitra.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buys-navteq-place-becomes-key/ This is an excellent move on Nokia’s part. Note, there is no other indepdendent GIS data vendor in the market. Regards, Sramana

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