Garmin

Garmin is a navigation and wearable technology company founded in 1989 by Gary Burrell and Min Kao. Its U.S. headquarters is in Olathe, Kansas, while the parent company, Garmin Ltd., has its principal executive office in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

For outdoor and endurance sports it makes GPS sports and adventure watches, handheld hiking GPS devices, satellite communicators, Edge bike computers, and Varia bike lights and rear-view radars. Garmin describes its business model as vertically integrated, with its own manufacturing facilities in Taiwan, China, the Netherlands, Poland and the United States.