−Removed: Trimble is a leading technology solutions provider that enables office and mobile professionals to connect their workflows and asset lifecycles to drive a more productive, sustainable future.
−Removed: With a focus on the industries that feed, build, and move the world, the comprehensive depth and breadth of our solutions is transforming the way the world works, making it easier for Trimble customers to focus on what matters—getting the job done right.
−Removed: We innovate at the intersection of the digital and physical worlds with solutions that span the world’s foundational industries including building, civil and infrastructure construction, geospatial, survey and mapping, agriculture, natural resources, utilities, transportation, and government.
+Added: Trimble is a leading technology solutions provider that enables office and field professionals to connect their workflows and asset lifecycles to drive a more productive, sustainable future.
+Added: With a focus on the industries that build, move, and feed the world, the comprehensive depth and breadth of our solutions is transforming the way the world works, making it easier for Trimble customers to focus on what matters—getting the job done right.
+Added: We innovate at the intersection of the digital and physical worlds with solutions that span the world’s foundational industries, including building, civil and infrastructure construction, geospatial, survey and mapping, natural resources, utilities, transportation, and government.
We exist to empower our customers:
−Removed: asset owners, general and specialty contractors, engineers and designers, surveyors, agricultural companies and farmers, energy and utility companies, trucking companies and drivers, as well as state, federal, and municipal governments.
+Added: asset owners, general and specialty contractors, engineers and designers, surveyors, energy and utility companies, trucking companies and drivers, as well as state, federal, and municipal governments.
Productivity and sustainability are at the heart of who we are—woven into our work internally and through our customers’ application of our technologies.
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Today’s work requires solutions for an interconnected world, no matter the industry.
+Added: This has driven Trimble to move increasingly from point solutions to workflows to industry ecosystems enabled by seamless data and artificial intelligence (“AI”).
Trimble offers a diverse range of coherent capabilities that connect applications, data, workflows, and mobile technologies to more efficiently orchestrate work, often in mixed fleet environments.
−Removed: Our advanced positioning and autonomous guidance capabilities enable increased precision with large equipment, such as agricultural tractors and construction bulldozers.
+Added: We deploy AI, Generative AI, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and similar technologies into our solutions across our business segments to deliver customer value through process automation and operational insights.
+Added: Our advanced positioning and autonomous guidance capabilities enable increased precision with large equipment, including equipment used in construction and civil engineering.
We offer integrated systems that track and manage fleets of vehicles, improve the driver experience, and provide real-time logistical analytics and insights back to the office.
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In construction, we connect teams across the design, build, and operational phases of a project.
−Removed: In agriculture, we continue to develop connected farm solutions to optimize operations for agricultural production and protection.
−Removed: Meanwhile, our connected supply chain solutions provide transportation companies and their drivers with tools to enhance fuel efficiency, safety, transparency, and sustainability throughout their connected fleets.
+Added: Our connected supply chain solutions provide transportation companies and their drivers with tools to enhance fuel efficiency, safety, transparency, and sustainability.
Connected software applications and cloud platform services are key elements of our solutions and account for a steadily increasing portion of our business.
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Ranging from embedded, real-time firmware to software that integrates data with large-scale enterprise back-office systems, many of our solutions are extensible and can be tailored by users for customized business processes and workflows.
−Removed: Trimble software capabilities include extensive three-dimensional (“3D”) modeling, analysis, planning and design solutions as well as a large suite of domain-specific software applications used across industries including construction, geospatial, agriculture, utilities, and transportation.
−Removed: Our software is sold as perpetual licenses, term licenses, or subscription services and can be provisioned for on-premise, and increasingly, hosted as Software as a Service (“SaaS”).
+Added: Trimble software capabilities include extensive three-dimensional (“3D”) modeling, analysis, planning and design solutions, AI capabilities, as well as a large suite of domain-specific software applications used across industries including construction, geospatial, utilities, and transportation.
+Added: Our software is sold as subscription services, term licenses, or perpetual licenses, and is hosted as Software as a Service (“SaaS”), or can be provisioned for on-premise.
We are extending our capabilities to run in multi-cloud environments while delivering our unique value via domain-specific workflows and lifecycle management in our target industries.
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Our growth strategy is centered on multiple elements:
−Removed: • Executing on our Connect and Scale strategy.
+Added: • Execute on our Connect & Scale strategy.
We continue to focus on executing our multi-year platform strategy.
This strategy contains two elements.
−Removed: ◦ The first element, Connect, aims to connect more customer workflows, industry lifecycles, and solution offerings, so that we can continue to transform the way our customers work.
−Removed: This includes integrating more of our customers’ data through cloud offerings and making more of our solutions available on a subscription basis.
+Added: ◦ The first element, Connect , is about connecting more customer workflows, industry lifecycles, and solution offerings so that we can continue to transform the way our customers work.
+Added: This includes integrating more of our customers’ data through cloud offerings, making more of our solutions available on a subscription basis, and incorporating AI capabilities.
For example, our flagship design and construction platform solution, Trimble Connect, enables entire project teams to collaborate in real-time between the office and the field to make efficient decisions around the same data-rich design model enhanced by our cloud capabilities.
−Removed: Our Trimble Construction Cloud creates a connected data environment for online collaboration, the ability to author unique workflows that connect the digital and physical worlds, and the power to dynamically orchestrate design coordination in the cloud from wherever project stakeholders may be.
+Added: Our cloud based solutions in construction create a connected data environment for online collaboration;
+Added: workflows which connect the digital and physical worlds;
+Added: and the power to dynamically orchestrate design coordination in the cloud from wherever project stakeholders may be.
Meanwhile in our Transportation business, the Trimble Transportation Cloud, for example, provides shippers and carriers with the critical information they need to make more informed bid and contract award decisions, while our Transporeon business creates a marketplace for shippers, forwarders, carriers, and retailers to connect online and digitize their end-to-end transportation management processes.
−Removed: ◦ The second element, Scale, allows cloud enablement, which raises the bar with shared, on-demand services that empower network participants to proactively contribute to organic value creation and delivery, directly and with fewer intermediaries.
−Removed: When end users interact on a shared, online platform, the overall value that is created increases as the number of end-user participants increases.
−Removed: This network effect means that the willingness of developers, partners, or end users to engage increases as the number of network participants grows, which further enhances the platform experience and end-user value.
−Removed: Scale also aims to invest in the people, processes, and technologies that are necessary to streamline and standardize our internal processes;
−Removed: provide a seamless experience for our customers as they engage with our connected solutions;
−Removed: and enable us to continue to grow our business efficiently and effectively for many years into the future.
−Removed: • Increasing focus on software and services.
−Removed: Software and services targeted for the needs of vertical end markets are increasingly important elements of our solutions and are core to our growth strategy.
−Removed: We generally have an open application programming interface philosophy and open vendor environment, which leads to increased adoption of our software and analytics offerings.
−Removed: These software and services solutions integrate and optimize additional workflows for our customers, thereby improving their work productivity, and in the case of subscription, maintenance, and support services, also provide us with enhanced business visibility over time.
+Added: ◦ The second element, Scale , is about investing in the people, processes, and technologies that are necessary to streamline and standardize our internal processes, providing a seamless experience for our customers as they engage with our connected solutions, and enabling us to continue to grow our business efficiently and effectively for many years into the future.
+Added: This network effect also means that the willingness of developers, partners, or end users to engage increases as the number of network participants grows, which further enhances the platform experience and end-user value.
+Added: • Deliver customer outcomes that can enable productivity, quality, safety, transparency, and environmental sustainability.
+Added: Across our business segments, our technological solutions deliver customer value through digital transformation, replacing legacy methods to improve productivity, first-time quality, worker safety, operational transparency, and sustainability.
+Added: Our construction and transportation management systems enable customers to optimize their business operations while gaining better operational insight and transparency to facilitate more informed decision-making.
+Added: Our online, multi-sided marketplace solutions provide better real-time insight into market pricing and availability, while the deployment of AI across our solutions increases customer productivity through task and process automation.
+Added: Our field solutions automate tasks and improve first-time quality, while improving operator safety, and the connection of data flows and workflows between field and office and across stakeholders facilitates operational efficiency and transparency.
+Added: By delivering productivity and efficiency gains, avoiding rework, and enabling more sustainable designs, Trimble solutions also deliver sustainability advantages for our customers, reducing the use of fuels and other inputs, which delivers both reduced cost and lower carbon emissions.
+Added: • Focus on software and services.
+Added: Software and services targeted for the needs of vertical end markets are fundamental elements of our solutions and are core to our growth strategy.
+Added: Our software is connecting stakeholders across the industry lifecycle continuums of our served industries.
+Added: Together, our software and services solutions integrate and optimize additional workflows for our customers, with increasing use of AI, thereby improving their work productivity, and in the case of subscription, maintenance, and support services, also provide us with enhanced business visibility over time.
Professional services constitute an additional customer offering that helps our customers integrate and optimize the use of our offerings in their environment.
−Removed: • Focus on attractive markets with significant growth and profitability potential.
+Added: • Address attractive markets with significant growth and profitability potential.
We focus on large markets historically underserved by technology that offer significant potential for long-term revenue growth, profitability, and market leadership.
−Removed: Our core industries, such as construction, agriculture, and transportation, are each multitrillion-dollar global industries that operate in demanding environments with technology adoption in the early phases relative to other industries.
−Removed: With the emergence of mobile and cloud computing capabilities, the increasing technological know-how of end users, and compelling return on investment, we believe many of our markets are attractive for substituting Trimble’s technology and solutions in place of traditional operating methods .
−Removed: • Domain knowledge and technological innovation that benefit a diverse customer base.
−Removed: We have over time redefined our technological focus from hardware-driven point solutions to integrated work process solutions by developing domain expertise and heavily reinvesting in research and development (“R&D”) and acquisitions.
+Added: Our core industries, such as construction and transportation, are each multitrillion-dollar global industries that operate in demanding environments with technology adoption in the early phases relative to other industries.
+Added: With the growth in mobile and cloud computing capabilities, the increasing technological know-how of end users, and compelling return on investment, we believe many of our markets continue to be attractive for substituting Trimble’s technology and solutions in place of traditional operating methods .
+Added: • Capitalize on domain knowledge and technological innovation that benefit a diverse customer base.
+Added: We have over time redefined our technological focus from hardware-driven point solutions to integrated work process solutions to industry ecosystems by developing domain expertise and heavily reinvesting in research and development (“R&D”) and acquisitions.
We currently have over 1,000 unique patents reflective of our technology portfolio and deep domain knowledge to deliver specific, targeted solutions quickly and cost-effectively to each of the vertical markets we serve.
−Removed: Our patent portfolio is continuously updated with new patent grants that emerge from our investments in research and development.
+Added: Our patent portfolio is continuously updated with new patent grants that emerge from our investments in R&D.
We look for opportunities where the opportunity for technological change is high and that have a requirement for the integration of multiple technologies into complete vertical solutions.
−Removed: • Geographic expansion with localization strategy.
+Added: • Drive geographic expansion with a localization strategy.
We view international expansion as an important element of our strategy, and we continue to position ourselves in geographic markets that will serve as important sources of future growth.
−Removed: Products are sold in more than 150 countries, through dealers, joint ventures, original equipment manufacturers (“OEM”), and other channels throughout the world, as well as direct sales to end users.
+Added: Products are sold in more than 170 countries through dealers, joint ventures, original equipment manufacturers (“OEMs”), and other channels throughout the world, as well as direct sales to end users.
Sales are supported by our own offices located in over 40 countries around the world.
−Removed: • Optimized go-to-market strategies to best access our markets.
+Added: • Optimize go-to-market strategies to best access our markets.
We utilize vertically focused go-to-market strategies that leverage domain expertise to best serve the needs of individual markets both domestically and abroad.
−Removed: These go-to-market capabilities include independent dealers, joint ventures including with Caterpillar and Nikon, OEM, and distribution alliances with key partners, as well as direct sales to end users, which provide us with broad market reach and localization capabilities to effectively serve our markets.
−Removed: • Strategic acquisitions, joint ventures, and investments .
+Added: These go-to-market capabilities include:
+Added: independent dealers;
+Added: joint ventures, including with Caterpillar, AGCO, and Nikon;
+Added: OEM arrangements;
+Added: distribution alliances with key partners;
+Added: and direct sales to end users.
+Added: This combination of channels provides us with broad market reach and localization capabilities to effectively serve our markets.
+Added: • Pursue strategic and targeted acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and investments .
O rganic growth continues to be our primary focus, while acquisitions serve to enhance our market position.
−Removed: We acquire businesses that bring domain expertise, geographic presence, technology, products, and distribution capabilities that augment our portfolio and allow us to penetrate existing
−Removed: markets more effectively, or to establish a market beachhead.
+Added: We acquire businesses that bring domain expertise, geographic presence, technology, products, and distribution capabilities that augment our portfolio and allow us to penetrate existing markets more effectively, or to establish a market beachhead.
Our success in targeting and effectively integrating acquisitions is an important aspect of our growth strategy.
−Removed: To further grow and position the Company, we partner with leaders in various fields by investing in early-to-growth stage companies through our venture fund and through strategic formation of joint ventures.
−Removed: In September 2023, we signed a definitive agreement to contribute our Trimble precision agriculture (“Trimble Ag”) business, excluding certain Global Navigation Satellite System (“GNSS”) and guidance technologies, to a JV with AGCO, of which we will retain a 15% ownership stake.
+Added: We entered into a definitive agreement with Platform Science on September 14, 2024 to sell our Mobility business.
+Added: Subsequent to the end of the year 2024, t he transaction closed on February 8, 2025 resulting in our ownership , or rights to acquire ownership of 32.5% o f Platform Science’s expanded business with an approximate fair value of $ 248.7 million .
+Added: We received (i) shares of preferred stock of Platform Science, with certain liquidation preferences, that represent 28.5% of Platform Science’s expanded business and (ii) warrants allowing us the rights to acquire 4% of Platform Science’s expanded business.
+Added: The transaction aims to enhance driver experience, fleet safety, efficiency, and compliance by combining two cutting-edge in-cab commercial vehicle ecosystems, which gives customers access to more applications and offerings.
+Added: To further grow and position Trimble, we partner with leaders in various fields by investing in early-to-growth stage companies through our venture fund and through strategic formation of joint ventures.
+Added: On April 1, 2024, we contributed our Ag business, excluding certain GNSS and guidance technologies, to a newly formed joint venture with AGCO named PTx Trimble, of which we retain a 15% ownership stake.
+Added: Our Ag business was part of our Field Systems segment.
Trimble and AGCO’s shared vision is to create a global leader in mixed fleet smart farming and autonomy solutions that delivers on our collective strategy to better serve farmers with factory fit and aftermarket applications in the mixed fleet precision agriculture market.
−Removed: T he proposed transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2024.
−Removed: • Sustainability.
−Removed: The global economy is experiencing a fundamental shift toward sustainability driven through broad stakeholder engagement, with a focus on decarbonization.
−Removed: Historically, through delivering productivity and efficiency gains, Trimble products have delivered sustainability for our customers, and we envision more opportunities to deliver expanded carbon reductions and other sustainability benefi ts, such as water management in agriculture and utilities.
−Removed: Our focus on these growth drivers has led over time to growth in revenue and profitability and an increasingly diversified business model.
−Removed: As our solutions have expanded, our go-to-market model has also evolved, with a balanced mix between direct, distribution, and OEM customers, as well as an increasing number of enterprise-level customer relationships.
Business Segments and Markets
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Each segment consists of businesses that are responsible for product development, marketing, sales, strategy, and financial performance.
−Removed: We report our financial performance, including revenue and operating income, based on four reportable segments:
−Removed: Buildings and Infrastructure, Geospatial, Resources and Utilities, and Transportation.
−Removed: For further financial information about our segments, see Note 7 “Reporting Segment and Geographic Information” of this report.
−Removed: Buildings and Infrastructure
−Removed: The Buildings and Infrastructure segment primarily serves customers working in architecture, engineering, construction, design, asset management, operations, and maintenance.
−Removed: Within this segment, our most substantial product portfolios are focused on building and civil engineering construction, design, capital planning, and asset management.
−Removed: Building Construction.
−Removed: Our building construction portfolio of solutions for the residential, commercial, and industrial building industry spans the entire lifecycle of a building and is used by construction owners, architects, designers, general contractors, sub-contractors, and engineers.
−Removed: These solutions serve to improve productivity and to enhance data sharing and collaboration across different teams and stakeholders to help keep projects within cost, time, and quality targets.
−Removed: The suite of technologies and solutions we provide to the building industry includes program management solutions for construction owners including software for 3D conceptual design and modeling;
−Removed: BIM software that is used in design, engineering, and construction;
−Removed: enterprise resource planning, project management, and project collaboration for general contractors;
−Removed: and advanced integrated site layout and measurement systems, cost estimating, scheduling, and project controls solutions for contractors.
−Removed: The suite also includes applications for sub-contractors and construction trades such as steel, concrete, and Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (“MEP”);
−Removed: project coordination;
−Removed: and capital program planning and management.
−Removed: In addition, our Trimble Connect collaboration platform streamlines customer workflows and enables interoperability between Trimble’s and other providers’ solutions.
−Removed: These solutions for the building industry serve to automate, streamline, and transform work processes across the building construction industry.
−Removed: Our solutions provide customer benefits such as reduced costs, reduced waste and re-work, increased worker safety and efficiencies, faster project completion times, improved information flow, better decision making, enhanced quality control, and multiple sustainability benefits for our customers.
−Removed: During 2023, we announced a number of new developments including:
−Removed: (i) new versions of our Tekla Structure software for improved user experience such as extended collaboration with BIM model data;
−Removed: (ii) new AI features in Sketchup such as AI-powered image search capabilities to access 3D models on 3D Warehouse, as well as generative AI utilizing text prompts to convert a SketchUp 3D model to a rendered image in seconds with SketchUp Diffusion;
−Removed: (iii) new MEP products including Fabrication Smart Tools for use with native Autodesk users;
−Removed: and (iv) AI functionality for Viewpoint Vista and Spectrum to assist users with injection of PDF invoices.
−Removed: Civil Engineering Construction and Asset Management.
−Removed: Our civil engineering and construction portfolio spans the lifecycle of civil infrastructure assets from feasibility and capital budgeting, to planning and design, to construction, through to long-term operation and maintenance.
−Removed: Our solutions serve the key industry stakeholders including the asset owners or clients, design engineers, consultants, contractors, sub-contractors, and suppliers.
−Removed: Our technological suite is employed across the entire project lifecycle to improve productivity, reduce waste and re-work, including reduced carbon emissions, and enable more informed decision making through enhanced situational awareness, data flow, data-driven insights and decision support, and project
−Removed: collaboration.
+Added: We report our financial performance, including revenue and operating income, based on three reportable segments:
+Added: Architects, Engineers, Construction and Owners (“AECO”), Field Systems, and Transportation and Logistics (“T&L”).
+Added: For further financial information about our segments, see Note 7 “Reporting Segment and Geographic Information” in Item 8 of this report.
+Added: Architects, Engineers, Construction and Owners
+Added: The AECO segment primarily serves customers working in architecture, engineering, construction, design, asset management, operations, and maintenance.
+Added: Within this segment, our most substantial product portfolios are focused on design, engineering, building and civil construction, capital planning, and asset management.
+Added: Architecture Design Software.
+Added: Empowers creative professionals in architecture, design, construction, and related industries with capabilities like SketchUp for design & visualization, 3D modeling, construction and fabrication documentation, and architectural visualization.
+Added: It facilitates innovative and detailed design processes, enabling seamless collaboration among stakeholders.
+Added: Engineering Software.
+Added: Transforms workflows with precision by focusing on enhancing accuracy, productivity, and profitability.
+Added: It includes capabilities for the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (“MEP”) trades for engineering and modeling, structural engineering and modeling, and civil design and engineering by delivering constructable solutions that drive project success.
+Added: Construction Software.
+Added: Designed to optimize connected workflows, this software supports comprehensive project management through enterprise resource planning (“ERP”) and operations solutions.
+Added: Its capabilities span preconstruction and estimating, prefabrication, project and operations management, finance and human capital management, and digital supply chain management.
+Added: Our construction portfolio also enables civil contractors to align operational efficiency from bidding to project execution through estimating, scheduling, field tracking, equipment maintenance, and reporting and analyses.
+Added: Owner Software.
+Added: As architects, engineers, and contractors collaborate to deliver projects, our asset lifecycle management (“ALM”) portfolio centralizes data from capital planning, design, construction, and commissioning and unlocks its value into the operations and maintenance phases of the completed asset.
+Added: This owner-centric technology speeds decision-making, progress measurement, and payment for the AEC providers while improving the owner’s asset stewardship maintenance for years across the public and private sectors.
+Added: When combining our AECO software capabilities with our Field Systems portfolio, we are uniquely able to bring comprehensive integrated workflows to the broad construction industry ecosystem.
+Added: At our core, we are able to bridge the gap between office and field by integrating detailed design models and project tracking capabilities with field hardware (GNSS receivers and laser scanners), and ERP solutions in real-time.
+Added: This drives tremendous efficiencies in seamless workflows, error reduction, and process automation for the spectrum of construction users.
+Added: Our solutions enhance productivity and foster collaboration by improving data sharing across architects, designers, general contractors, subcontractors, and engineers.
+Added: The Trimble Connect collaboration platform streamlines and integrates workflows and ensures interoperability between Trimble’s solutions as well as software tools from the broader construction ecosystem and marketplaces.
+Added: Through automation and innovation, our solutions reduce costs, waste, and rework, enhance worker safety, expedite project timelines, improve decision-making, and enhance quality control.
+Added: These technologies contribute to sustainability by fostering resource efficiency and environmental responsibility across the building construction industry.
+Added: In 2024, Trimble advanced its Connect & Scale strategy with significant AECO software updates.
+Added: Highlights include (i) AppXchange for ERP;
+Added: (ii) Tekla 2024;
+Added: and (iii) enhanced visualization for Sketchup.
+Added: New AI-based capabilities were released in 2024, which included (i) LiveCount AI Takeoff;
+Added: (ii) AI Driven 3D Model Search;
+Added: (iii) Sketchup Diffusion and Assistant;
+Added: and (iv) AI-driven project management workflows in ProjectSight.
+Added: Additionally, Trimble Unity launched, empowering public infrastructure owners with centralized data and connected digital workflows for ALM.
+Added: We sell and distribute our products across the AECO segment through a robust, integrated network of direct, indirect, and digital channels, tailored to optimize customer experiences across the geographic regions we serve.
+Added: We leverage our dedicated direct sales force to deliver software solutions to asset owners, clients, contractors, subcontractors, and consulting engineers, ensuring that the most appropriate channel is matched to each region for maximum market reach and customer satisfaction.
+Added: We develop and nurture a global network of independent distributors with deep expertise and strong customer relationships in their respective markets, including BuildingPoint dealers that specifically address the needs of the building construction industry.
+Added: Our digital channels complement this network by providing flexible, accessible, and scalable solutions that enhance customer engagement and streamline the purchasing process.
+Added: Competitors in this segment are typically companies that produce software specific to the construction process.
+Added: As we extend our software and services offerings to cover the full set of construction lifecycle management solutions used by construction owners, designers, and construction companies, we increasingly compete with large established companies that offer similar systems across all industries.
+Added: We compete principally on the basis of innovation, differentiated products, domain expertise, service, quality, and geographic reach.
+Added: Field Systems
+Added: The Field Systems segment provides products and services to private, commercial, and government customers.
+Added: The businesses within Field Systems service surveying and mapping professionals, civil construction, building construction field services, and positioning systems.
+Added: We sell and distribute our products in the Field Systems segment primarily through a global network of independent distribution partners.
+Added: Through our surveying, mapping, and building construction product portfolio, professional surveyors and engineers provide services to the construction, engineering, mining, oil and gas, energy and utilities, government, and land management sectors.
+Added: Our solutions replace less productive conventional methods of surveying, mapping, 2D or 3D modeling, monitoring, measurement, reporting, and analysis.
+Added: Our suite of solutions includes field-based data collection systems and field software, real-time communications systems, and back-office software for data processing, modeling, monitoring, reporting, and analysis.
+Added: Our field-based technologies are used in handheld, land mobile, and airborne applications and incorporate technologies such as mobile application software, high precision GNSS, robotic measurement systems, inertial positioning, 3D laser scanning, digital imaging, and optical or laser measurement.
+Added: We maintain a joint venture with Nikon, which focuses on the design and manufacture in Japan of surveying instruments including mechanical total stations and related products.
+Added: Our office-based products include software for planning, data processing and editing, quality control, 3D modeling, intelligent data analysis and AI-based feature extraction, deformation monitoring, project reporting, and data export.
+Added: Our customers in this area benefit from using our products, including significantly improved productivity in both field and office activities, improved safety through non-contact measurement and detection of potentially dangerous ground or structure movement, and improved data flow that enables better decision-making.
+Added: Civil Engineering Construction.
+Added: Our civil engineering and construction portfolio spans the lifecycle of civil infrastructure assets from feasibility and capital budgeting, to planning and design, to construction, through long-term operation and maintenance.
+Added: Our solutions serve key industry stakeholders, including asset owners or clients, design engineers, consultants, contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers.
+Added: Our technological suite is employed across the entire project lifecycle to improve productivity, reduce waste and re-work, including reduced carbon emissions, and enable more informed decision-making
+Added: through enhanced situational awareness, data flow, data-driven insights and decision support, and project collaboration.
At the same time, our solutions can improve worker safety and reduce environmental impact.
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This includes data from site positioning and machine control systems, construction asset management equipment and services, and various software applications.
−Removed: Utilizing wireless and internet-based site communications infrastructure, our solutions include the ability to track and control equipment, deploy a 3D model to machines, track progress of work in real-time, and reduce re-work.
+Added: Utilizing wireless and internet-based site communications infrastructure, our solutions include the ability to track and control equipment, deploy a 3D model to machines, track the progress of work in real-time, and reduce re-work.
By leveraging our technology, contractors gain greater insight into their operations, helping them to lower costs and improve productivity, worker safety, and asset utilization.
−Removed: We maintain a joint venture with Caterpillar, Caterpillar-Trimble Control Technologies (“CTCT”), to develop the next generation of advanced electronic guidance and control products for earth-moving machines.
+Added: We maintain a joint venture with Caterpillar, Caterpillar-Trimble Control Technologies, to develop the next generation of advanced electronic guidance and control products for earth-moving machines.
The joint venture develops machine control and guidance products that use site design information combined with accurate positioning technology to automatically control dozer blades and other machine tools.
−Removed: We also maintain a joint venture with Hilti, which focuses on the joint development of measuring solutions for the building construction trades and the integration of data for construction management.
−Removed: During 2023, we announced a number of developments, including:
−Removed: (i) the introduction of Trimble Siteworks Machine Guidance Module, extending the capabilities of Trimble Siteworks Software from surveying and layout to support on-machine excavator guidance and operator assistance;
−Removed: (ii) completion of the first test of a fully autonomous soil compactor on a live jobsite, taking another important step on the path toward Trimble’s autonomous vision;
−Removed: and (iii) release of the Trimble DA2 GNSS Smart Antenna for construction surveying as part of the Trimble Works Subscription program, which provides contractors access to construction technology at a lower upfront cost.
−Removed: We sell and distribute our products in the Building and Infrastructure segment through both a direct sales force and global networks of independent distributors with expertise and customer relationships in the respective markets, including SITECH Technology dealers, which serve the civil construction industry, and BuildingPoint dealers, which serve the building construction industry.
−Removed: We also sell many of our software solutions through our own direct sales force, to asset owners and clients, contractors, sub-contractors, and consulting engineers.
−Removed: Competitors in this segment are typically companies that provide optical, laser, or GNSS positioning products as well as companies that produce software specific to the construction process.
−Removed: As we extend our software and services offerings to cover the full set of construction lifecycle management solutions used by construction owners, designers, and construction companies, we increasingly compete with large established companies that offer similar systems across all industries.
−Removed: We compete principally on the basis of innovation, differentiated products, domain expertise, service, quality, and geographic reach.
−Removed: The Geospatial segment primarily serves customers working in surveying, mapping, engineering, and government.
−Removed: Within this segment, our most substantial product portfolios are focused on surveying and geospatial and geographic information systems (“GIS”).
−Removed: Surveying and Geospatial.
−Removed: Through our surveying product portfolio, professional surveyors and engineers provide services to the construction, engineering, mining, oil and gas, energy and utilities, government, and land management sectors.
−Removed: Our survey solutions replace less productive conventional methods of surveying, mapping, 2D or 3D modeling, monitoring, measurement, reporting, and analysis.
−Removed: Our suite of solutions includes field-based data collection systems and field software, real time communications systems, and back-office software for data processing, modeling, monitoring, reporting, and analysis.
−Removed: Our field-based technologies are used in handheld, land mobile, and airborne applications and incorporate technologies such as mobile application software, high precision GNSS, robotic measurement systems, inertial positioning, 3D laser scanning, digital imaging, and optical or laser measurement.
−Removed: We maintain a joint venture with Nikon, which focuses on the design and manufacture in Japan of surveying instruments including mechanical total stations and related products.
−Removed: Our office-based products include software for planning, data processing and editing, quality control, 3D modeling, intelligent data analysis and feature extraction, deformation monitoring, project reporting, and data export.
−Removed: Our customers in this area benefit from using our products including significantly improved productivity in both field and office activities, improved safety through non-contact measurement and detection of potentially dangerous ground or structure movement, and improved data flow that enables better decision making.
−Removed: Geographic Information Systems .
−Removed: Our GIS product line collects authoritative field data and integrates that data into GIS databases.
−Removed: Our handheld data collection systems allow users to efficiently and accurately log positions and descriptive information about their assets, ensure the integrity and accuracy of GIS information, and ultimately enable better decision-making.
−Removed: Through a combination of wireless technologies and software solutions, fieldwork results are seamlessly delivered to back-office GIS systems, while mobile workers can access relevant GIS information remotely.
−Removed: This capability provides significant advantages to users, including improved productivity, accuracy, and access to information in the field.
−Removed: During 2023, we announced several new developments, including:
−Removed: (i) the scalable and configurable Trimble R580 GNSS Integrated Receiver that includes our industry-leading ProPoint engine;
−Removed: (ii) the newest addition to our scanning portfolio, the Trimble X9 3D laser scanning system;
−Removed: and (iii) the Trimble T10x model 2 tablet for survey and mapping professionals.
−Removed: Additionally, we delivered multiple feature releases in our powerful Trimble Access field software, Trimble Business Center office software, Trimble 4D Control Monitoring software, as well as TerraFlex and TerraOffice enabling productivity gains through improved connectivity, simplicity, and efficiency enhancements for survey, mapping, and construction professionals.
−Removed: We sell and distribute our products in the Geospatial segment primarily through a global network of independent distribution partners.
+Added: We also maintain a joint venture with Hilti, which focuses on the joint development of measuring solutions for the building construction trades and integrating data for construction management.
+Added: Positioning Services.
+Added: Trimble Positioning Services serves customers in a variety of end markets, including agriculture, construction, geospatial, automotive, and other markets.
+Added: This service improves positional accuracy and enables higher levels of precision and automation for work processes and systems, including autonomous solutions.
+Added: Trimble GNSS-based correction services are available in a variety of formats and accuracy levels, depending on the relevant application’s specific needs.
+Added: Subscription-based services offered by Trimble Positioning Services include VRSNow;
+Added: CenterPoint RTX;
+Added: FieldPoint RTX;
+Added: Rangepoint RTX;
+Added: ViewPoint RTX;
+Added: Trimble xFill;
+Added: and OmniSTAR (HP, XP, G2, and VBS) services.
+Added: During 2024, we announced several new developments in Field Systems, including:
+Added: (i) the Trimble R980 GNSS receiver, our new flagship model featuring industry-leading ProPoint and IonoGuard technology;
+Added: (ii) the configurable Trimble X9 3D laser scanning system, available with perpetual and term-based licensing options;
+Added: and (iii) Trimble Reality Capture platform service, an extension within Trimble Connect, unlocking the potential of scan data in the cloud.
+Added: We further expanded our reality capture portfolio with (i) the new Trimble MX90 and Trimble MX60 mobile mapping systems and (ii) an update to our Trimble SiteVision augmented reality software, which now also includes scanning capabilities.
+Added: Additionally, we delivered multiple feature releases in our powerful (i) Trimble Access field software;
+Added: (ii) Trimble Business Center office software;
+Added: (iii) Trimble 4D Control monitoring software;
+Added: as well as (iv) TerraFlex and TerraOffice software.
+Added: Our software development continues to be focused on driving productivity through enhanced connectivity, supporting strategic industry workflows by delivering connected workflows and emphasizing interoperability.
+Added: We sell and distribute our products in the Field Systems segment primarily through global networks of independent distributors with expertise and customer relationships in the respective markets, including SITECH Technology dealers, which serve the civil construction industry, and BuildingPoint dealers, which serve the building construction industry.
+Added: We also sell many of our software solutions through our own direct sales force when bundled into Trimble’s Construction One offering to contractors, sub-contractors, and consulting engineers.
Major competitors in this segment are typically survey instrument companies that provide software-driven 3D measurement and imaging solutions.
We compete principally based on innovation, differentiated products, integrated workflow solutions, domain expertise, service, quality, and geographic reach.
−Removed: Resources and Utilities
−Removed: The Resources and Utilities segment primarily serves customers working in agriculture, forestry, and utilities.
−Removed: Within this segment, our most substantial product portfolio addresses the agriculture market, including our Trimble Ag and Positioning Services businesses.
−Removed: In September, we signed a definitive agreement to contribute our Trimble Ag business, excluding certain GNSS and guidance technologies, to a JV with AGCO, of which we will retain a 15% stake.
−Removed: Trimble and AGCO’s shared vision is to create a global leader in mixed fleet smart farming and autonomy solutions that delivers on our collective strategy to better serve farmers with factory fit and aftermarket applications in the mixed fleet precision agriculture market.
−Removed: T he proposed transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2024.
−Removed: See Note 4 “Divestitures” of this report for additional discussion of this transaction.
−Removed: Our precision agriculture products and services consist of guidance and positioning systems, including autonomous steering systems, automated and variable-rate application and technology systems, and information management solutions that enable farmers and their partners to improve crop performance, profitability, and environmental quality.
−Removed: Our precision agriculture solutions can assist farmers throughout every step of their farming process beginning with land preparation and continuing through the planting, nutrient, pest management, water management, and harvesting phases of a crop cycle.
−Removed: We provide manual and automated navigation guidance for tractors and other farm equipment used in spraying, planting, cultivating, and harvesting applications.
−Removed: The benefits to the farmer include faster machine operation, higher yields, lower consumption of fuel and chemicals, lower carbon footprint, and improved soil health as compared to conventional equipment.
−Removed: In addition, we provide solutions to automate application of pesticide and seeding.
−Removed: Our water solutions help farmers minimize their water costs and distribute water more efficiently and include applications for leveling agricultural fields for irrigation and aligning drainage systems to better manage water flow in fields.
−Removed: Software solutions that use data to enhance farm productivity are an increasing focus in our agriculture business.
−Removed: Our agricultural software is used by farmers to help integrate all of the information on the farm, and is also used by advisors, suppliers, and purchasers to share information to help improve efficiencies.
−Removed: Our agricultural software enables farmers to make more informed decisions leading to higher yields, better quality crops, increased profitability, and increased environmental sustainability.
−Removed: For many of our end-market applications and customer needs, the positional accuracy that can be derived from GNSS satellite signals alone is insufficient.
−Removed: In these applications, higher levels of positional accuracy are required.
−Removed: For these situations, we provide an augmentation service that improves the positional accuracy that is available to the customer;
−Removed: thereby, enabling higher levels of precision and automation in work processes that are conducted in the field.
−Removed: This service is provided by Trimble Positioning Services and is available in a variety of formats and accuracy levels, depending on the relevant application's specific needs.
−Removed: Trimble Positioning Services serves customers in a variety of end markets, including agriculture, construction, geospatial, and other markets, with a majority of its customers being in agriculture.
−Removed: We use multiple distribution approaches to access the mixed fleet agricultural market including independent dealers and direct selling to enterprise accounts.
−Removed: Our aftermarket solutions address both new equipment as well as equipment already in the field.
−Removed: In 2023, the following changes occurred in the Ag distribution channels as follows:
−Removed: • In February, we gave CNH a 12-month notification that we will no longer supply aftermarket precision agriculture products to CNH for resale through the CNH dealer network.
−Removed: • In December, we gave CNH a 12-month notification that we will no longer supply hardware for their factory installations.
−Removed: When the proposed transaction with AGCO closes, the JV will be the exclusive distributor in the agriculture market.
−Removed: Competitors in the agricultural market are vertically integrated farm equipment and implement companies, agricultural instrumentation companies, and companies that provide agricultural software and services.
−Removed: W e compete principally on the basis of robust performance, ease of use, domain expertise, customer support, price, interoperability, interconnectedness, and the completeness of our solutions.
+Added: Transportation and Logistics
+Added: The T&L segment provides a suite of solutions for shippers, carriers, and intermediaries globally.
+Added: Within this segment, our most substantial product portfolio addresses the truckload freight market.
Transportation.
Our transportation solutions provide capabilities for the long-haul trucking and freight shipper markets to create a connected supply chain and integrate all forms of transportation, drivers, back-office management, shippers, and freight.
−Removed: We provide enterprise and mobility solutions focused on business intelligence and data analytics, safety and regulatory compliance, navigation and routing, freight brokerage, supply chain visibility and final mile, and transportation management and fleet maintenance.
−Removed: Within this segment, our most substantial product portfolio addresses the truckload freight market.
−Removed: In the transportation market, we offer a suite of solutions that provides comprehensive fleet and transportation management systems, analytics, routing, mapping, reporting, and predictive modeling solutions to enable the transportation industry to achieve greater overall operational efficiency, fleet utilization, including greater fuel efficiency and reduced carbon emissions, and profitability while ensuring regulatory compliance.
+Added: We provide enterprise and mobility solutions focused on business intelligence and data analytics, safety and regulatory compliance, navigation and routing, freight brokerage, AI-powered transportation procurement, supply chain visibility and final mile, and transportation management and fleet maintenance.
+Added: In the transportation market, we offer a suite of solutions that provides comprehensive fleet and transportation management systems, analytics, routing, mapping, reporting, and predictive modeling solutions to enable the transportation industry to achieve greater overall operational efficiency, fleet utilization, including greater fuel efficiency and reduced carbon emissions,
+Added: and profitability while ensuring regulatory compliance.
In addition to cloud-hosted solutions, we also integrate our applications and services directly into the customer’s IT infrastructure.
−Removed: The mobility solutions encompass route management, safety and compliance, end-to-end vehicle management, video intelligence, and supply chain communications.
The transportation management system serves as a central hub from which the core operations of transportation organizations are managed, data is stored and analyzed, and mission-critical business processes are automated.
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Our products also provide truck routing, mileage, and mapping solutions, as well as a voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation solution.
−Removed: During 2023, we had a number of important developments, including:
−Removed: (i) the acquisition and integration of Transporeon, a leading European cloud-based transportation management software platform;
−Removed: (ii) the wide-scale launch of our new in-cab platform, Instinct, that improves the driver experience and can support both Trimble and third-party apps;
−Removed: and (iii) significant progress in integrating data and connecting workflows, from our own unique set of capabilities and a growing network of partners, and through the Trimble Transportation Cloud (“TTC”).
−Removed: Market facing solutions enabled by TTC include Connected Maintenance, Connected Locations, and Connected Workflows.
−Removed: The Transportation segment generally sells directly to end users and OEMs.
−Removed: Competitors in this segment are typically companies that provide fleet mobility services, transportation management software, and digital freight matching.
+Added: Our Transporeon solutions cover the transportation lifecycle from freight sourcing and procurement, through freight execution including dock and yard management all the way to freight auditing.
+Added: Our collective offerings position us uniquely to help customers tackle everyday challenges in the supply chain industry.
+Added: Our products aim to solve problems where they occur—in between companies—and hence are aimed for collaboration, interoperability, and data-driven decision making.
+Added: Each Transporeon product can be used standalone or in combination with each other.
+Added: With the amount of data we generate every day—up to approximately 200,000 transports and dock scheduling appointments get executed and booked on the Transporeon platform daily—we are able to provide data insights and market benchmarks, and enable our customers to use Generative AI enabled products, which base the decision making and learning on historical data as well as a constantly growing set of new information.
+Added: During 2024, we had a number of developments in T&L.
+Added: In September 2024, Trimble and Platform Science announced a partnership to transform the transportation industry through a definitive agreement for Platform Science to acquire our Mobility business.
+Added: The transaction closed on February 8, 2025, and Trimble became a shareholder in Platform Science’s expanded business.
+Added: Additionally, (i) we integrated our real-time visibility solutions from Trimble and Transporeon for workflows to improve customer service and operational efficiency by giving customers the ability to notify their ecosystems of exceptions and delays with their shipments in real-time;
+Added: and (ii) Transporeon offerings were standardized on Trimble Maps and PC*Miler routing offering customers the benefit of Trimble’s commercial routing solution globally.
+Added: The T&L segment generally sells directly to end users and OEMs.
+Added: Competitors in this segment are typically companies that provide transportation management software, and digital freight matching.
We compete principally on the basis of interoperability, domain expertise, customer support and service, price, innovative product offerings, quality, and the completeness of our solutions.
Seasonality of Business
−Removed: Construction equipment revenue, within our Buildings and Infrastructure segment, historically has been higher in early spring.
−Removed: Our agricultural equipment revenue, within our Resources and Utilities segment, has historically been the highest in the first quarter, followed by the second quarter, reflecting buying in anticipation of the spring planting season in the Northern hemisphere.
−Removed: However, overall, as a company, we are experiencing less seasonality as a result of diversification of our businesses across segments and the increased impact of software and subscription revenue.
+Added: Construction equipment revenue, within our Field Systems segment, historically has been higher in early spring.
+Added: However, overall, as a company, we are experiencing less seasonality as a result of the diversification of our businesses across segments and the increased impact of software and subscription revenue.
Changes in global macroeconomic conditions could also impact the level of seasonality we experience.
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As part of our technology development practices, we actively establish and maintain our intellectual property rights through the use of patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secret laws.
−Removed: We hold over 1,000 unique issued and enforceable patents covering key technology areas, including precision GNSS, optical and inertial positioning solutions, artificial intelligence and machine learning, IoT, cloud computing, laser scanning, 3D modeling, point cloud processing, augmented reality, and many others.
−Removed: Our patent portfolio is continuously updated with new patent grants that emerge from our investments in research and development.
+Added: We hold over 1,000 unique issued and enforceable patents covering key technology areas, including precision GNSS, optical and inertial positioning solutions, AI and machine learning, IoT, cloud computing, laser scanning, 3D modeling, point cloud processing, augmented reality, and many others.
+Added: Our patent portfolio is continuously updated with new patent grants that emerge from our investments in R&D.
We actively manage the intellectual property used in the development, operations, and sales of our products and services.
We also own numerous trademarks and service marks that contribute to the identity and recognition of Trimble and that of its global products and services.
−Removed: Environmental, Social, and Governance
−Removed: We recognize that we are living in a time of increasing urgency for action on sustainability, and we are moving quickly and harnessing our potential to address global challenges.
+Added: Sustainability
+Added: We value sustainability, and we are taking action to harness our potential to address global challenges.
Inspired by our mission of “Transforming the Way the World Works,” and fueled by the dedication of our employees, we are working to build momentum and strive for continual improvement and measurable progress in shaping a sustainable future.
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It’s what guides our innovations and investments.
−Removed: It’s what drives us to build resilience for our company and our customers, to empower people, including our employees and partners, and to lead with integrity in all that we do.
+Added: It’s what drives us to build resilience for our company and our customers, to foster our people and culture, and to lead with integrity in all that we do.
Building Resilience
−Removed: • Drive, Enable, and Contribute to Decarbonization
−Removed: • Drive toward a net-zero future
−Removed: Empowering People
−Removed: Belong, Grow, and Innovate
−Removed: • Key Pillars:
−Removed: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Leaders, and Communities
+Added: • Enable customers to adapt, grow and thrive in the face of change
+Added: • Driving decarbonization in our own operations and supply chain
+Added: People and Culture
+Added: • Guided by our values of Belong, Grow, and Innovate
+Added: • Activated by our leadership capabilities of Inspire, Engage and Achieve
Leading with Integrity
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Building Resilience.
−Removed: Building resilience is about enabling ourselves, our customers, and the essential industries we serve to adapt, grow, and thrive in the face of change.
−Removed: We continue to invest in innovation, research, and development in order to adapt, prepare, and expand capabilities that help transform our industries and accelerate toward a net zero future.
−Removed: In 2022, we received approval of our carbon reduction targets from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), the predominant third-party net-zero target assessment entity.
−Removed: Our goals are consistent with requirements to keep global warming to 1.5°C in accordance with the Paris Climate Agreement.
−Removed: To help us drive toward a net-zero future, we are working to (i) cut our Greenhouse Gas (GHG) footprint in half by 2030, (ii) source 100% renewable energy by 2025, and (iii) engage 70% of our suppliers to set their own science-based targets by 2026.
−Removed: Our customers trust us to deliver solutions that drive their productivity, safety, transparency, quality, and ultimately, their sustainability and profitability.
−Removed: Our technologies enable precision and efficiency for the world’s essential industries by helping our customers to build, move, and feed the world while minimizing waste and consumption—ultimately generating sustainable outcomes for people and communities on a global scale.
−Removed: Empowering People.
−Removed: Together, our diverse community of innovators and problem solvers create opportunities for our employees, customers, and community members to thrive.
−Removed: We extend our commitment to empowering people in the communities where we do business, collectively addressing challenges in alignment with our values.
−Removed: As further described in the below Human Capital section, we are focused on building a welcoming, diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace.
−Removed: We believe our diversity makes us stronger and better able to solve complex problems for our customers.
+Added: We build resilience for our customers, our company, and our supply chain.
+Added: Our technologies in positioning, modeling, and data analytics help our customers take meaningful, precise action, including for sustainability challenges.
+Added: By connecting the physical and digital worlds, our solutions provide the information to make the right decisions at the right time.
+Added: We are working throughout our value chain, with suppliers and customers, as well as within our own operations, toward a more sustainable future.
+Added: Our core growth strategy for our customers includes:
+Added: (i) our Connect & Scale strategy through industry cloud platforms to optimize customers’ work for maximum collaboration, effectiveness, and efficiencies;
+Added: (ii) enabling our customers to make better decisions and work smarter;
+Added: and (iii) investing in cutting-edge innovation through new ventures to accelerate digital transformation in the industries we serve.
+Added: We continue to apply our innovation and efficiency capabilities in line with our own climate action roadmap.
+Added: Guided by our Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi), approved enterprise-level GHG emissions reduction targets, we continue to work towards (i) cutting our GHG footprint in half by 2030;
+Added: (ii) source 100% renewable energy by 2025;
+Added: and (iii) engage 70% of our suppliers to set their own science-based emission reduction targets by 2026 .
+Added: The SBTi covers our two absolute reduction targets:
+Added: (i) Trimble commits to reduce absolute scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions 50% by 2030 from a 2019 base year;
+Added: and (ii) Trimble commits to reduce absolute scope 3 GHG emissions from fuel and energy related activities, business travel, and upstream transportation and distribution 50% by 2030 from a 2019 base year.
+Added: People and Culture.
+Added: Guided by our values of Belong, Grow, and Innovate, our community of talented and innovative employees creates opportunities for our customers and community members to thrive.
+Added: As further described in the below Human Capital section, our focus on our values enables our employees to do their best work and empowers them to better solve complex problems for our customers and the communities that we serve.
Leading with Integrity.
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Through transparency, good governance, and a deep commitment to sustainability and ethics, we continue operating from a strong foundation of integrity now and in the future.
−Removed: Supported by the Audit Committee, People and Compensation Committee, and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, the Board of Directors has oversight for our sustainability strategy, commitments, and accountability for risk management.
−Removed: The Code of Business Conduct provides the tools and information necessary for our team and partners to make the right decisions while working for or with Trimble, acting lawfully, ethically, fairly, complying with our policies, and avoiding even the appearance of impropriety.
−Removed: Enhancing cybersecurity and data protection, maintaining system integrity, and ensuring availability are key to our overall security at Trimble.
−Removed: We make significant investments in technology safety across our value chain, ensuring our customers benefit from our cybersecurity investment as well.
+Added: Supported by the Audit Committee, People and Compensation Committee, and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, the Board of Directors reviews, monitors, and guides our sustainability strategy, commitments, and accountability for risk management.
+Added: Our executive management team further executes the strategies and steers operations.
+Added: Our operations adhere to key guiding policies, such as our Environmental Policy and Human Rights and Labor Policy.
+Added: The Code of Business Conduct provides the tools and information necessary for our team and partners to maintain high ethical standards and business integrity.
Human Capital
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This mindset shapes how we treat one another and how we serve our customers, colleagues, and stockholders.
−Removed: We strive to make Trimble a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and safe workplace and provide opportunities for our employees to grow and develop in their careers, supported by competitive compensation, benefits, health and wellness programs, and by programs that build connections between our employees and their communities.
At the end of 2024, we employed over 12,100 full-time and part-time employees, the overwhelming majority of which were full-time employees.
Approximately 42%, 34%, 19%, and 5% of employees reside in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the rest of the world.
−Removed: Our employees are working in approximately 200 locations in over 40 countries.
−Removed: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (“DEI”)
−Removed: We value diversity in our workforce, including various cultures, backgrounds, ages, genders, races and ethnicities, nationalities, sexual orientations, religions, people with different abilities, parents and caregivers, and many other characteristics, knowing that it drives our best thinking.
−Removed: Our focus on diversity starts at the top.
−Removed: Three out of our ten board members are female or ethnically diverse, and we are making progress towards our goal of increasing global female employees and U.S.
−Removed: ethnically diverse employees in our workforce and in our leadership positions across the company.
−Removed: A number of employee resource networks exist in Trimble that enhance our inclusive and diverse culture, including networks that support women, caregivers, Black, Hispanic/Latinx and Indian professionals, veterans, employees with disabilities, and our LGBTQ+ community.
−Removed: In 2023, we continued our investments in community partners by serving as a Board of Corporate Affiliates sponsor for the National Society of Black Engineers, sponsoring Out & Equal, a non-profit organization working on LGBTQ+ workplace equality, and increasing our presence at events like AfroTech and Colorado Technology Association’s Women in Tech annual summit.
+Added: Our employees work in over 40 countries.
+Added: People and Culture
+Added: We are committed to providing every employee the opportunity to learn, grow, and excel in a collaborative environment where everyone feels they belong.
+Added: We believe that a variety of experiences and perspectives fuels innovation and drives our best thinking.
+Added: Our leaders activate their teams through our leadership capabilities of Inspire, Engage, and Achieve.
+Added: They inspire their teams by fostering a shared vision built on integrity and aspiration;
+Added: they engage them through opportunities that cultivate humility, curiosity, and collaboration;
+Added: and they strive to achieve exceptional results for our customers through relentless innovation.
+Added: Our leaders cultivate an environment of collaboration, innovation, and growth, helping ensure every employee is empowered to contribute their best.
+Added: We engage employees in a variety of ways that promote open, transparent communication.
+Added: Our global engagement surveys are designed to encourage employees to share meaningful feedback that allows us to celebrate our strengths and openly talk about areas that require improvement and continued focus.
+Added: Our performance management program focuses on aligning managers and employees on priorities that best contribute to our strategic objectives and also fosters coaching and feedback that reinforces our shared values.
+Added: Talent Development
+Added: Through our internal global talent platform, we empower employees to identify internal job opportunities, skill development resources, and projects to achieve their personal development goals and full potential.
+Added: We encourage employees to nurture a love of continuous learning and resilience that is essential for accomplishment.
Compensation and Benefits
−Removed: We believe people should be paid for the role they perform and their skills and experience, regardless of their gender, race, age, or other personal characteristics.
−Removed: To deliver on that commitment, we benchmark and set pay ranges based on market data and consider factors such as an employee’s role, their experience, their performance, and the region in which they live.
−Removed: We also regularly review our compensation practices to ensure our pay is fair and equitable.
+Added: We believe people should be paid in accordance with the role they perform and for their skills and experience.
+Added: To deliver on that commitment, we benchmark, and set pay ranges based on market data and consider factors such as an employee’s role, their experience, their performance, and the cost of living in the region in which they live.
+Added: We also regularly review our compensation practices to help ensure our pay is fair and equitable.
In addition to base salaries, certain roles are eligible to participate in short-term and long-term incentive plans .
−Removed: We offer market-competitive benefit programs (that vary by country/region), which include health and wellness benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, flexible savings accounts, paid time off, parental and family leave, employee support programs, retirement plans, and an employee stock purchase plan.
−Removed: Other benefits include fertility, adoption, and surrogacy education assistance;
−Removed: gender affirmation, family and caregiver support;
−Removed: flexible work arrangements;
−Removed: education assistance;
−Removed: and on-site services such as health centers and fitness centers at some sites.
−Removed: Talent Development and Building Connections
−Removed: We are committed to providing every employee with the opportunity to learn, grow, and excel in a respectful and collaborative workplace.
−Removed: Through our internal global talent platform, we empower employees to identify internal job opportunities, skill
−Removed: development resources, and projects to achieve their personal development goals and full potential.
−Removed: We encourage employees to nurture a love of continuous learning and resilience that is essential for accomplishment.
+Added: We offer comprehensive, market-competitive benefit programs tailored to the needs of our global workforce (which vary by country and region).
+Added: Our benefits portfolio supports health, well-being, and financial security of our employees, encompassing health and wellness programs, life and disability insurance, flexible savings accounts, paid time off, parental and family leave, employee support resources, retirement plans, and an employee stock purchase plan.
+Added: We also provide benefits that reflect the evolving needs of our workforce, such as education programs, peer recognition, and on-site services that include health and fitness centers at select locations.
+Added: Additionally, our flexible work strategy is designed to meet the evolving needs of our workforce while maintaining high levels of productivity and innovation.
+Added: Building Community Connections
We believe that building connections between our employees, their families, and our communities creates a more meaningful, fulfilling, and enjoyable workplace.
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Our Trimble Foundation Fund (the “Foundation”) aligns international philanthropic efforts by giving back to the communities where Trimble does business and helping those in need.
−Removed: The Foundation focuses on three key areas within our communities (i) Disaster and Climate Resilience, (ii) Female Education and Empowerment, and (iii) Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
+Added: The Foundation focuses on three key areas within our communities:
+Added: (i) building community resilience thr ough disaster responses as well as climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts;
+Added: (ii) increasing access to quality education and pathways to fulfilling careers;
+Added: and (iii) transforming industries through projects that scale sustainable industry practices.
Health, Safety, and Wellness
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This Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and all amendments to these reports are available free of charge on our website through investor.trimble.com , as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is electronically filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
−Removed: Financial news and reports and related information about our Company, GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliations, as well as our Sustainability report and DEI report, a re also found on this website.
+Added: Financial news and reports and related information about our Company, GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliations, as well as our Sustainability report, a re also found on this website.
Information contained on our website is not part of this report.
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Information about our Executive Officers
−Removed: The names, ages, and positions of our executive officers as of February 26, 2024, are as follows:
+Added: The names, ages, and positions of our executive officers as of April 25, 2025, are as follows:
Name Age Position
Painter 53 President and Chief Executive Officer
−Removed: Barnes 62 Chief Financial Officer
+Added: Phillip Sawarynski
+Added: 52 Chief Financial Officer
Jennifer Allison
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Bisio 56 Senior Vice President
+Added: Chris Keating
+Added: 54 Senior Vice President
Peter Large 55 Senior Vice President
−Removed: Phillip Sawarynski
−Removed: 51 Vice President, Treasurer
Mark Schwartz
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Shepard 67 Chief Accounting Officer
−Removed: Painter —Robert Painter became Trimble’s president and chief executive officer in January 2020.
+Added: Painter —Robert Painter has been Trimble’s president and chief executive officer since January 2020.
From 2016 through 2019, he served as the Company’s chief financial officer.
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Painter held a variety of positions in the Company, including vice president of Trimble Buildings construction software, general manager of the Intelligent Construction Tools international joint venture, general manager of Construction Services, and leadership positions in corporate development and corporate strategy.
−Removed: Before joining the Company in 2006, Mr.
−Removed: Painter served in a variety of management and finance positions at Cenveo, Rapt Inc., Bain & Company, Whole Foods Market, and Kraft Foods.
Painter holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from West Virginia University and an MBA from Harvard University.
−Removed: Barnes —David G.
−Removed: Barnes joined Trimble as chief financial officer in January 2020 with more than 35 years of financial and strategic management experience, including treasury, tax, investor relations, and risk management.
−Removed: Barnes will retire from the Company in May 2024, and Phillip Sawarynski will be his successor at that time.
−Removed: Prior to Trimble, he served as chief financial officer at MWH Global Inc., a global provider of engineering and construction services, from January 2009 to May 2016.
−Removed: At MWH, he served on the board of directors and had responsibility for information technology and procurement in addition to his financial role.
−Removed: Following the sale of MWH to Stantec Inc., he assumed operational responsibility for Stantec’s businesses outside North America from September 2017 to January 2019.
−Removed: He also served as a leader on the committee overseeing the integration of MHW into Stantec from May 2016 to July 2017.
−Removed: Prior to MWH, he held financial leadership positions at Western Union, Coors, and YUM Brands.
−Removed: He began his career as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company.
−Removed: Barnes received a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from Yale University and an MBA in Finance and Marketing from the University of Chicago.
−Removed: Barnes also serves as a board member and chair of the Audit Committee of CSG Systems International.
−Removed: Jennifer Allison — Jennifer Allison became Trimble's general counsel and corporate secretary in April 2023, having served as general counsel for Trimble’s Construction Sector since July 2018, when Trimble acquired Viewpiont, where she had served as general counsel since 2016.
+Added: Phillip Sawarynski —Phillip Sawarynski became Trimble’s chief financial officer in August 2024, having previously served as Trimble’s treasurer since 2018, as well as managing director and co-head of Trimble Ventures since 2021, and vice president of corporate development since 2022.
+Added: From 2015 to 2018, he served as sector vice president of finance in Trimble’s mobility and intelligent transportation division, and from 2013 to 2015, as general manager of the Company’s imaging division.
+Added: Sawarynski joined Trimble in 2009 as a finance director, first in Trimble’s agriculture division from 2009 to 2011 and then in Trimble’s geospatial business segment from 2011 to 2013.
+Added: Prior to joining Trimble, Mr.
+Added: Sawarynski served as CFO of Nexus Corporation and held a variety of finance and engineering positions at Ford Motor Company, The Dow Chemical Company, and International Paper Company.
+Added: He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.
+Added: Jennifer Allison — Jennifer Allison became Trimble's general counsel and corporate secretary in April 2023, having served as general counsel for Trimble’s Construction Sector since July 2018, when Trimble acquired Viewpoint, where she had served as general counsel since 2016.
Previously, Ms.
−Removed: Allison was general counsel at Tripwire, and prior to that she was the assistant general counsel and director of human resources and corporate compliance for EthicsPoint (now NAVEX Global).
+Added: Allison was general counsel at Tripwire, and prior to that she was the assistant
+Added: general counsel and director of human resources and corporate compliance for EthicsPoint (now NAVEX Global).
Prior to those roles, Ms.
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Allison received a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Portland State University and her JD from Lewis & Clark Law School.
−Removed: Bisio — Ronald Bisio currently serves as senior vice president in charge of advanced positioning, agriculture industry solutions, civil construction field systems, and geospatial business operations.
+Added: Bisio — Ronald Bisio currently serves as senior vice president in charge of the Field Systems segment, responsible for advanced positioning, agriculture industry solutions, civil construction field systems, and geospatial business operations.
From July 2022 to November 2023, he served as senior vice president responsible for Trimble’s transportation businesses.
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Bisio earned an MBA from the University of Denver, a Master of Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts, and a Bachelor of Science in Cartography from Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts.
+Added: Chris Keating — Chris Keating currently serves as senior vice president of the T&L segment, responsible for Transporeon, enterprise, MAPS, and forestry.
+Added: Keating first joined Trimble in July 2012 via the acquisition of the SketchUp team from Google.
+Added: Until October 2023, he served in expanding leadership roles in Trimble’s AECO segment, including as general manager of the architecture & design division (SketchUp), vice president and general manager of the AECO design and engineering software group, and senior vice president of corporate strategy.
+Added: Keating holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Clarkson University and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.
Peter Large —Peter Large currently serves as senior vice president in charge of strategy, corporate development, corporate partnerships and alliances, and Trimble’s Office of Technology Innovation.
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Prior to that, he was vice president responsible for Trimble’s construction field solutions businesses.
−Removed: He was appointed to that position when he rejoined Trimble in December 2020, having earlier served with the Company as described below.
−Removed: Prior to re-joining Trimble, he was a research solutions strategist with Boeing’s Digital Solutions and Analytics business from 2019 to 2020.
−Removed: While pursuing a doctoral degree between 2015 to 2019, he engaged in consulting projects with Inmarsat plc, and was also employed as an executive director of Inmarsat from 2016 until 2018.
−Removed: Between 1996 and 2014, he served in a number of leadership roles at Trimble, including as vice president of channel development;
+Added: He was appointed to that position when he rejoined Trimble in December 2020, having earlier served with the Company between 1996 and 2014 in a number of leadership roles, including as vice president of channel development;
as general manager for the mapping, GIS, and utilities business;
and in a variety of product management, marketing, and sales management roles.
+Added: Prior to re-joining Trimble, he obtained a doctoral degree and then was a research solutions strategist with Boeing’s Digital Solutions and Analytics business from 2019 to 2020.
Large holds an Ed.D.
from Oklahoma State University, a Master of Science in Management from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, a Postgraduate Diploma in Strategy and Innovation from the University of Oxford, and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, U.K.
−Removed: Phillip Sawarynski —Phillip Sawarynski has accepted the position of chief financial officer of Trimble Inc., to be effective in May 2024, replacing David Barnes who will be retiring from the Company at that time.
−Removed: Sawarynski served as the Company’s treasurer since 2018, as well as managing director and co-head of Trimble Ventures since 2021, and vice president of corporate development since 2022.
−Removed: From 2015 to 2018, he served as sector vice president of finance in the Company’s mobility and intelligent transportation division, and from 2013 to 2015, as general manager of the Company’s imaging division.
−Removed: Sawarynski joined the Company in 2009 as a finance director, first in the Company’s agriculture division from 2009 to 2011 and then in the Company’s geospatial business segment from 2011 to 2013.
−Removed: Prior to joining the Company, Mr.
−Removed: Sawarynski served as CFO of Nexus Corporation and held a variety of finance and engineering positions at Ford Motor Company, The Dow Chemical Company, and International Paper Company.
−Removed: He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.
−Removed: Mark Schwartz — Mark Schwartz was appointed senior vice president in November 2023 responsible for Trimble’s construction enterprise solutions, civil infrastructure design and engineering, and owner and public sector businesses.
+Added: Mark Schwartz — Mark Schwartz currently serves as senior vice president of the AECO segment, responsible for Trimble’s construction enterprise solutions, civil infrastructure design and engineering, and owner and public sector businesses.
Prior to that, Mr.
Schwartz served as senior vice president responsible for construction enterprise solutions from October 2022 until November 2023, and as Trimble’s chief digital officer from September 2020 through October 2022, leading the transformation initiatives of Trimble's business systems, processes, and infrastructure to better serve the customer through the transition to “as‑a-service” business models.
−Removed: Schwartz served as vice president and general manager of Trimble’s civil construction software business
−Removed: from January 2020 until September 2020 and as chief operating officer of virtual site solutions, a joint venture between Trimble and Caterpillar from April 2017 to January 2020.
−Removed: He joined Trimble in 2010 and has held several executive roles across Trimble’s construction businesses.
+Added: Schwartz served as vice president and general manager of Trimble’s civil construction software business from January 2020 until September 2020 and as chief operating officer of virtual site solutions, a joint venture between Trimble and Caterpillar from April 2017 to January 2020.
Schwartz holds a Bachelor of Science from Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island.
−Removed: Shepard —Julie Shepard currently serves as Trimble’s chief accounting officer.
−Removed: She joined Trimble in December of 2006 as vice president of finance and was appointed chief accounting officer in May 2007.
−Removed: Prior to joining Trimble, she served as vice president of finance and corporate controller at Quantum Corporation.
+Added: Shepard —Julie Shepard has been Trimble’s chief accounting officer since May 2007.
+Added: She joined Trimble in December 2006 as vice president of finance.
+Added: Prior to joining Trimble, she was vice president of finance and corporate controller at Quantum Corporation.
She brings with her over 30 years of experience in a broad range of finance roles, with diverse experience ranging from early-stage private equity backed technology companies to large multinational corporations.
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Shepard received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from California State University.
−Removed: She is a member of the AICPA, Financial Executives Institute, and the Institute of Management Accounting, where she currently serves on the Sustainable Business Management - Global Task Force.
+Added: She is a member of the AICPA, Financial Executives Institute, and the Institute of Management Accounting.
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