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New Customers Receive Free eTrex® Legend® or Legend C In "Find Your Way With Segway" Promotion
BEDFORD, N.H. and OLATHE, KAN./October 19, 2005/PR Newswire — Segway Inc. and Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN), today announced that Segway will offer customers aGarmin® GPS package in its "Find Your Way With Segway" year-end promotion. Customers will receive a free Garmin eTrex Legend or eTrex Legend C GPS unit with the purchase of a new Segway® Personal Transporter (PT), Cross-Terrain Transporter (XT), or Golf Transporter (GT) now thru January 6 th, 2006. This offer is only available at participating Segway Authorized Dealers in the United States while supplies last.
"With gas prices soaring, alternative transportation—such as the Segway HT—is becoming more and more attractive," said Klee Kleber, Segway Inc.'s vice president of marketing. "Whether you plan to use your Segway PT to commute to work or explore the outdoors, it's great to have a GPS to know where you are, where you've been and where you’re headed. The Segway PT is a smart purchase this holiday season especially with the added benefit of this GPS package from Segway."
"Garmin shares many of the same great attributes as Segway," said Gary Kelley, Garmin's vice president of marketing. "Both companies are innovative technology and design leaders that build versatile, powerful, and fun to use products—so offering them in tandem makes the 'Find Your Way With Segway' offer very compelling."
In addition to the free Garmin eTrex, customers receive a custom Segway PT mount and either MapSource® MetroGuide® (Legend) or MapSource City Select® (Legend C). Both products offer detailed maps of roads and pedestrian thoroughfares throughout the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico—with locations of millions of points of interest—like restaurants, hotels, ATMs, movie theaters, and other attractions. Users can load and display portions of this data directly onto their eTrex Legend or Legend C via a PC.
The eTrex Legend features a monochrome display with 8MB of internal memory for maps. The eTrex Legend C has a easy-to-read color display with 24MB of internal memory, and also features turn-by-turn auto-routing—which gives Segway PT riders detailed directions on how to get to their destination. Both units can also display important information like speed, heading, distance and path traveled, and elapsed time, as well as TracBack® a feature that automatically guides you back to the beginning of your trip.
Existing owners can purchase the Garmin GPS units with software and mounts from Segway Authorized Dealers for $399 and $499 for the eTrex Legend and Legend C, respectively. For more information about the Garmin eTrex Legend and Legend C, visit their website at www.garmin.com. For more information about the "Find Your Way With Segway" free GPS promotion and to find a participating dealer, please visit the Find Your Way with Segway promotion or call 866-4SEGWAY. Promotion participation, inventory and GPS model type may vary by dealer. Call your local dealer to determine participation.
About Garmin International Inc.
Garmin International Inc. is a member of the Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN) group of companies, which designs and manufactures navigation, communication and information devices - most of which are enabled by GPS technology. Garmin is a leader in the general aviation and consumer GPS markets and its products serve aviation, marine, outdoor recreation, automotive, wireless and OEM applications. Garmin Ltd. is incorporated in the Cayman Islands, and its principal subsidiaries are located in the United States, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit Garmin's virtual pressroom at www.garmin.com/pressroom or contact the Media Relations department at 913-397-8200. Garmin, eTrex, Legend, MapSource, MetroGuide, City Select, and TracBack are registered trademarks of Garmin Ltd. or its subsidiaries. Anticipated product availability dates are based on management's current expectations and are not guaranteed.
Notice on forward-looking statements:
This release includes forward-looking statements regarding Garmin Ltd. and its business. All statements regarding the company’s future product introductions and expected product availability dates are forward-looking statements. Such statements are based on management's current expectations. The forward-looking events and circumstances discussed in this release may not occur and actual results could differ materially as a result of known and unknown risk factors and uncertainties affecting Garmin, including, but not limited to, the risk factors listed in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 25, 2004 filed by Garmin with the Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission file number 0-31983). A copy of Garmin’s Form 10-K can be downloaded at www.garmin.com/aboutGarmin/invRelations/finReports.html. No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made and Garmin undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
About Segway
Segway Inc. develops intelligent motion control technology known as Segway® Smart Motion™ that is embedded in the light electric transportation devices it manufactures, such as the well-known Segway® Personal Transporter (PT). Segway Smart Motion provides intelligent motion control that enables a device to monitor its environment, control its motion and make decisions about how it should move.
Segway markets a full line of zero-emissions Segway PTs for sidewalk and cross-terrain use that deliver impressive energy efficiency – equivalent to 450 miles per gallon/191 kilometers per liter of fuel. The company’s line of Segway Robotic Mobility Platforms (RMPs) offers reliable, durable mobility solutions for robotic applications.
Segway Inc., based in Bedford, N.H., U.S.A, has a worldwide distribution network of more than 250 retail points in 61 countries. For additional information about Segway and to find retail locations, please visit www.segway.com or call 1-866-4SEGWAY. Media materials and digital images are available at the Segway Press Center.
