Press Release

Issued by Garmin International.

March 12, 2019

Garmin International, Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd., today announced it was awarded its 10th best supplier of the year award at the annual Embraer Suppliers Conference, which was held at Embraer's facility in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, on February 28, 2019. Garmin was named the best supplier for Electrical Systems of the Year related to the support of the G1000 Prodigy and G3000 Prodigy Touch integrated flight decks in the Phenom 100 and Phenom 300 respectively.

“We are humbled and honoured yet again to be recognised by Embraer, among hundreds of their suppliers, for our tremendous commitment to serving them on their award-winning Phenom aircraft,” said Carl Wolf, vice president of aviation sales and marketing. “The Electrical Systems Best Supplier award marks our 10th award from Embraer, over the last nine-year period, one that is a testament to the hard work and dedication provided by Garmin's entire team to deliver industry-leading flight deck solutions that are backed by the best support in the industry.”

The 2018 award for Electrical Systems highlights design innovation, user-interface and overall system architecture, as well as outstanding efforts among production line support, quality and on-time reliability of the supply chain. This award further recognises Garmin's achievement in designing and manufacturing state-of-the-art flight deck systems, while being sensitive to market needs and preferences.

This award joins a total of nine previous Embraer best supplier awards earned by Garmin in the following categories:

2017: Technical Support to Operator

2017: Electro Electronic Systems

2016: Electro Mechanical Systems

2015: Electro Mechanical Systems

2015: Material Support to Operator

2014: Material Support to Operator

2011: Electro Electronic Systems

2011: Technical Support to Operator

2010: Electro Electronic Systems

Best supplier recipients undergo stringent evaluation and are recognised as having shown outstanding performance, continuous improvement and increased customer satisfaction among all other suppliers in their respective categories. Nine award categories were presented among Embraer's entire aircraft portfolio, including Executive Aviation, Defense and Commercial Aircraft. Suppliers are considered based on several attributes, including innovation, delivery, quality, reliability, flexibility and customer support.