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Garmin takes wrong turn on prediction

Garmin Ltd. is the nation’s biggest maker of navigation devices. Garmin Ltd. is the nation’s biggest maker of navigation devices. (Michael Fein/ Bloomberg News/ File 2007)
October 29, 2009

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Garmin Ltd. plunged after the chief executive of rival TomTom, the biggest maker of navigation devices in Europe, said it expects prices to continue to drop in the fourth quarter. Chief executive Harold Goddijn said navigation device prices fell 27 percent in the third quarter. And Google’s plan to add a free US turn-by-turn mapping service to the Android mobile phone is expected to push prices lower.