TomTom annual report
TomTom NV
Oosterdoksstraat 114
1011 DK Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 (0)20 757 5000 www.tomtom.com Annual Report 2012
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Forward-looking statements/important notice
This document contains certain forward-looking statements with respect to the financial condition, results of operations and business of TomTom and certain of the plans and objectives of TomTom with respect to these items. In particular the words ‘expect’, ‘anticipate’, ‘estimate’, ‘may’, ‘should’, ‘believe’ and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements, and you should not place undue reliance on them. We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and projections about future events, including numerous assumptions regarding our present and future business strategies, operations and the environment in which we will operate in the future. There are a number of factors that could cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, levels of customer spending in major economies, changes in consumer tastes and preferences, changes in law, the performance of the financial markets, the levels of marketing and promotional expenditures by TomTom and its competitors, raw materials and employee costs, changes in exchange and interest rates (in particular changes in the US dollar and GB pound versus the euro can materially affect results), changes in tax rates, future business combinations, acquisitions or disposals, the rate of technological changes, political and military developments in countries where TomTom operates and the
Oosterdoksstraat 114
1011 DK Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 (0)20 757 5000 www.tomtom.com Annual Report 2012
maps | traffic | navigation
Forward-looking statements/important notice
This document contains certain forward-looking statements with respect to the financial condition, results of operations and business of TomTom and certain of the plans and objectives of TomTom with respect to these items. In particular the words ‘expect’, ‘anticipate’, ‘estimate’, ‘may’, ‘should’, ‘believe’ and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements, and you should not place undue reliance on them. We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and projections about future events, including numerous assumptions regarding our present and future business strategies, operations and the environment in which we will operate in the future. There are a number of factors that could cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, levels of customer spending in major economies, changes in consumer tastes and preferences, changes in law, the performance of the financial markets, the levels of marketing and promotional expenditures by TomTom and its competitors, raw materials and employee costs, changes in exchange and interest rates (in particular changes in the US dollar and GB pound versus the euro can materially affect results), changes in tax rates, future business combinations, acquisitions or disposals, the rate of technological changes, political and military developments in countries where TomTom operates and the