Good day, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the TomTom second quarter 2018 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. We will be facilitating a question and answer session towards the end of today's prepared remarks. At which time, if you would like to ask a question, you may do so by pressing star one on your telephone. If at any time during the call you would require audio assistance, feel free to press star zero, and the conference coordinator will be happy to assist you. Please note that this conference is being recorded. I will now turn the call over to your host for today's call, Bruno Pirelli, investor relations officer. You may begin.
Thank you, operator. Good afternoon and welcome to our conference call, during which we will discuss our operational highlights and financial results for the second quarter 2018. With me today are Harold Goddijn, our CEO, and Taco Titulaer, TomTom's CFO. You can also listen to the call on our website, and a recording of the call will be available shortly afterwards. As usual, I would like to point out that safe harbor applies. We will start today's call with Harold, who will discuss the key operational developments, followed by a more detailed look at the financial results from Taco. We will take your questions. With that, Harold, I would like to hand it over to you.
Thank you, Bruno. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for joining us today. Our positive start to 2018 carried through into the second quarter. Automotive continued to grow strongly and gross margin further strengthened, and has resulted in a year-on-year gross profit growth and strong cash generation. We further improved our map production system during the year. Higher degrees of automation and machine learning resulted in faster cycle times and lower operational costs. We also significantly extended our map coverage and map quality. Taco will provide further information on the financial highlights and the financial outlook for 2018 later during this presentation. I now will discuss the key operational highlights for the quarter. TomTom EV, Electric Vehicle Services, won the Best E-Mobility Product and Services Award at the CLEPA Innovation Awards. Electric Vehicle Services help drivers to make informed decisions about when and where to charge their vehicles.
We cover more than 45,000 charging stations with real-time availability information globally. We're happy to announce that Microsoft Azure Maps are now offered for general availability. Our maps APIs help Microsoft customers to access robust mapping capabilities that can be integrated in a wide range of applications. In June, the global consultancy firm Frost & Sullivan named TomTom Telematics the European Fleet Telematics Company of the Year. Our connected car service solutions for leasing and rental companies and the complete overhaul of the Webfleet system attracted praise for our products. Our telematics business continues to present double-digit growth in subscriptions. We surpassed 848,000 fleet management and connected car subscribers at the end of the quarter. That is an increase of 11% year-on-year. This concludes my part of the presentation. I'm handing over to Taco.
Thank you, Harold. Let me make a couple of comments on the financials. In the second quarter of 2018, we reported revenue of EUR 231 million, which is 21% higher sequentially, driven by both automotive and consumer. Year-over-year, the revenue was 9% down, driven by consumer and enterprise, partially compensated by the increase in automotive and Telematics. Let me go through the four businesses one by one. Automotive revenue was up by 28% in the quarter and 20% up year-to-date. For the year as a whole, we expect automotive to grow with a similar percentage as we saw in the first half. Full year revenue expected to reach EUR 230 million versus EUR 196 million last year. Automotive is the main driver of our overall revenue guidance uptick from EUR 800 million to EUR 825 million.
Enterprise revenue was down by 22% in the quarter and 16% down year-to-date. For the year as a whole, we expect enterprise to decline with a high single-digit percentage. This is a result of the H1 2017 one-off effect and a weaker USD versus last year. Telematics revenue was up by 7%, equal to its performance year-to-date, and we also expect this trend to continue for the rest of the year. The recurring subscription revenue year-on-year increased by 7% to EUR 34 million. Consumer revenue decreased by 24% in the quarter and 25% in the first half. For the year as a whole, we expect the decline to be even a bit steeper, reaching close to 30%. Gross margin was again solid, and year-to-date, we are above 70% now.
As the mix of our revenue in the second half of the year will continue to lift gross margin, we feel comfortable in raising our gross margin guidance from close to 70% to at least 70% for the full year. Total operating expenses for the quarter was EUR 141 million. We expect this to be the run rate for the remainder of the year. Year-over-year, we see a decline of marketing, though on the other hand, we see growth in the money we spend on sourcing map content and our mapping platform. EBITDA increased by 26% in the quarter and 28% year-to-date. EBIT in the quarter was EUR 25 million, an operating margin of 11%. The adjusted earnings per share was EUR 0.05, together with the EUR 0.10 we reported in Q1, we have now EUR 0.15 year-to-date.
Which makes us comfortable with raising the guidance to at least EUR 0.30 for the full year. Year-to-date, we increased our cash position with EUR 34 million. We now have EUR 155 million of cash, and we have no debt. We expect the second half of the year to be even more cash generative. Last comment is about our deferred revenue position. Main trends here are in consumer and in the automotive lines. Consumer is down EUR 20 million to now EUR 107 million, and automotive is up with EUR 65 million to now EUR 136 million. This trend will continue. On the next slide, we have automotive. Automotive is our second largest revenue stream behind consumer, and automotive is growing strongly. As already explained, we expect to grow this with close to 20% this year. There's a difference between the revenue we invoice and the revenue we report.
The latter tends to be lower as we follow the new IFRS 15 accounting. Let me discuss that here as well. As a rule of thumb, for a large part of the automotive map contracts, we recognize 70%-80% of the total contract value during the selling period and 20%-30% during the service period. The 70%-80% is spread over the month in the selling period as a straight-line revenue constraint. The lower of either cumulative invoice revenue or cumulative straight-line revenue can be recognized. If the cumulative straight-line revenue is lower than the cumulative invoice revenue, the difference between the two is added to the balance sheet as deferred revenue. Every quarter, we assess the expected total contract value of all our automotive customers.
This can mean that we have to release deferred revenue when the gap between cumulative straight-line revenue has narrowed as a result of an increase of the projections. On the slide, as shown before, we highlight the operational revenue of automotive. Operational revenue is the reported revenue plus the net change in the deferred and unbilled revenue positions. The last slide, the outlook of 2018 already discussed. But here to summarize, we are increasing our guidance for the full year. Due to a high demand from our automotive customers, we now expect to deliver full year revenue of around EUR 825 million and gross margin of at least 70%. Previous full year guidance was around EUR 800 million and a gross margin close to 70%. OPEX is expected to be around EUR 550 million.
The above effects will increase the adjusted earnings per share to at least EUR 0.30 in 2018. Operator, we would now like to start with Q&A session.
Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. If you have a question, please press star then one on your touch tone phone. If you wish to be removed from the queue, please press the hash key or the pound sign. If you are using a speakerphone, you may need to pick up the handset first before pressing the numbers. Once again, if you have a question, please press star then one on your touch tone phone. We will now take our first question from François-Xavier Bouvignies of UBS. Please go ahead, sir.
Hello, everyone. Thank you for taking my question. The first one I had was on the Apple News recently, that they were building their own maps now. I have a simple question, really. If you were to lose this customer of yours, what would be the impact on TomTom, both financially and operationally? Would be very interesting to know. If you were to lose it completely, of course.
François-Xavier, I can be very short on that. We're not going to comment on that.
Okay.
It is not in our interest, and it's not our strategy to lose this customer, obviously.
Okay. If we, for example, on the operational side, how important is the data from Apple, all the iPhones, for your maps and live traffic? Is it something that is really competitive advantage in your view?
Don't want to comment on that
Okay. No, I understand. The other question I had is on the automotive bookings. Just wanted to have some qualitative comments. How do you see the booking trends, especially versus three months ago? Any change in terms of take-up, in penetrations or ASPs, anything you could point out?
Yeah, François-Xavier, I think we are tracking according to plan. We don't give the actual numbers for order intake per quarter. The reason is that it can be quite lumpy, and it's not indicative for what can happen over the year. We'll give you a full update with the February results.
Okay. The trend that you saw in the U.S., do you see that continuing with other customers, or it's too early to say?
Well, that's too early to say. We're working hard to deliver that product, of course. We've made good progress there, but to that particular customer, we're not shipping yet. That will take some time before we can see that happening and translating into the top line. The program is running according to plan. There is no slow going on.
Okay. Maybe I had another question on the free cash flow for this year. Last time you said that we could expect like EUR 80 million, if I remember correctly. How should we think now, given the trend that you see in the automotive and your cash flow generation? How should we think about the full year free cash flow?
Yeah. What we indeed said is that we estimated the free cash flow can be anywhere between EUR 70 million or EUR 80 million for the full year. We had an exceptionally strong H1, delivering close to EUR 35 million of free cash flow. We're even more optimistic about the second half. There's definitely room for upside on the previous number that we gave. It will be good if we end the year with a number starting with a two for our cash balance.
Okay. Maybe the last one on my side. How is it evolving your HD Map developments? Is there any contract that we should expect in the second half of the year? How do you see that trending?
Yeah. On the engineering side and on the software side, things are going well. We have a number of what we think are exciting cooperation agreements with a number of tier 1 sensor makers to further develop those products. We feel that we have a better understanding where the market is going. That has not yet translated in large awards for HD Maps. Beginning of next year, a truck maker will start using HD Maps for motor management applications. Not strictly speaking an HD application or a self-driving application, but the data we deliver there are directly derived from an HD Map product. It has high accuracy on lanes, on curvature, on traffic signs, in order to operate the powertrain of that truck, so it can reduce full fuel consumption by a significant amount.
That's a good application, good example of where a map of HD quality is actually going into production. I think the auto industry is moving forward with level 2 and level 3 levels of automation. That means mostly that the technology is now being prepared for driving autonomously on closed access roads or motorways, where the computer needs to do all the tasks of accelerating, braking, overtaking, braking in front of an exit. That is now a problem that seems to be solved and going into production. It's in the not too distant future. For those type of applications, we are quoting HD Maps as we speak.
How do you monetize these HD Maps? Is it like traditional maps, or you do it differently?
No, it is different, because those maps need to be delivered in real time over the life cycle of the car. That means that there is a yearly subscription fee to enable the functionality.
Okay. The value of the contract, do you have any idea how is it compared to a traditional maps? How more expensive it is to have the HD Map versus a traditional map for your customers?
Yeah. That's a bit early. Currently, I think the market is looking, trying to figure out where those prices are exactly. I don't want to elaborate on the exact pricing, but it is a significantly higher amount per car than what we charge for standard maps, navigation data maps.
And that-
That is also because it's an annual fee, an annual subscription fee to the service.
When you say significantly higher, can you give us a magnitude? Because it could be two times, five times, 10 times. I don't know. I have no idea. I just wanted to have.
Yeah, it's a lot higher than what we charge for navigation data maps. You need to bear in mind that the addressable market initially will be small as well. The money, the fees we are talking about are significantly higher than what we're currently charging for maps and map update services or traffic services.
Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you for your answers.
We will now take our next question from Martijn den Drijver of NIBC. Please go ahead.
Yes, good afternoon, gentlemen. I just wanted to go back to automotive growth. Very strong. Can you elaborate a little bit on what is driving that? Is that the PSA Citroën contract further ramping up? Is it an acceleration in take rates? Is it a product sales mix change, so more maps relative to traffic? Can you elaborate a little bit on that? I know you don't want to give an update on order intake, but, to build on the previous question, can you take a little bit of what you're seeing in the RFQs and RFPs in this quarter relative to the previous quarter? The third question, I didn't really understand the drop in profitability in enterprise.
There's EUR 10 million less in sales, and there's a EUR 10 million drop in EBIT last year, going from, also on a yearly comparison, we had a EUR 5 million tick up in sales, but we didn't see the same tick up in EBIT. What's the difference this year? The fourth and final question, it's a bit old one. What are the current roles of Corinne, Peter-Frans, and Pieter Geelen, the founders, within consumer or TomTom as a whole? Are they still involved or not at all? Thank you.
Okay. First question, what is driving the uptick in automotive revenue? That's a direct result of order intake in previous years. It's plain simple. We have booked, we've published those numbers in the past years, increasing total numbers of revenue growth, of order intake, and you see that translating over time into revenue. That's what you see.
Harold, sometimes you also announce smaller contracts. I'm just trying to determine, is it take rates? Is it PSA Citroën? Is it sales mix? I appreciate that that order intake has been up, but a little bit more granularity on that, please.
No, if I can add to that, it is mainly take rates. The driving force is indeed the orders that we have secured two or three years ago. If you see in the rollout that most of the time, due to the success of our application, that the OEMs are getting more excited and then the take rate goes up.
Okay. No significant change in the sales mix?
No, I wouldn't say that. On your specific question on profitability of enterprise and automotive, if I can take that one as well. There are two things here. One is that automotive and enterprise receives intercompany payment for maps, software, and services, mainly from consumer. That is on a declining trend, obviously. The decline is going more rapidly over the last years. The difference, the ballpark numbers where you need to think of is that on an annual basis, the contribution from consumer to automotive and enterprise is down from EUR 30 million to EUR 20 million. The other thing is that we have staff and overhead costs, like real estate and facilities and IT and HR and legal, what have you. These are allocated to the three business units based on either a people key or a revenue key.
Also there you see a big drop in consumer and consequently an increase in automotive and enterprise. Consumer has less people, their share of revenue contribution has also declined. That's helping consumer, that part of the bill is taken up by automotive and enterprise.
Okay. Maybe to go back to automotive, because I also had a question on the RFQs and RFPs in automotive relative to previous quarters. Is there any change in volume?
Well, we're not going to comment on any specific per quarter. The reason why we don't do that is that it's very lumpy, it can be seasonal, things get pulled forward or delayed, and it's very hard to read any trends from that. What Harold already discussed is that we see that the type of RFQs is becoming more hybrid, meaning that next to NDS maps and navigation data maps that are used by the driver himself or herself to drive from A to B. It is more and more also that the OEMs ask for that application to have also a form of HD mapping for the highways. That's a good trend because we are in a good position because we can offer both, and there are not a lot of companies that can offer both to the OEM segment. So far so good.
There is no change in outlook, and we're excited to see the year develop.
Okay. The fourth question about Corinne, Peter-Frans and Pieter Geelen.
Yeah. What do you want to know there?
Well, they used to be very involved in consumer. Peter-Frans and Pieter were always about the consumer product, the GUI, the interface, how to optimize that. Obviously consumer is of much more less relevance. I'm not even aware of their activity levels. Corinne is not in consumer anymore.
That's correct. Corinne has handed over her role of managing director to Mike Schoofs, who is running that business unit at the moment. She's still involved with the business, representing the company, has a big influence on specific topics within the company in the areas of HR, education, training. Peter-Frans is also still very much involved, especially on the product side. Pieter has been less active recently. Corinne and Peter-Frans are still very much engaged.
Okay. Thank you very much.
You're welcome.
Thank you. We will now take our next question from Marc Zwartsenburg of ING. Please go ahead.
Yes, thank you. A couple of questions left. To start with the automotive guidance. Taco, you mentioned that you see the same sort of growth for automotive for the full year as what you saw in the first half. Does it mean that the phasing in the second half, the acceleration is a little bit less? Should I read it like that compared to the second quarter? Is that just a phasing effect from order intake, or can you give a bit more color on the phasing of that?
No, I wouldn't read it that way. We started the year with an implicit guidance that automotive would grow with up to 15%. With the new guidance, we have changed that to 20%. There was a specific release in Q2 from the balance sheet as the total contract value of a certain customer has gone up due to more optimistic foresight. That led to the 28% increase in Q2. For the year as a whole, we have increased our guidance, and we haven't changed our forecast for H2.
Okay. On the consumer business, there you say, well, we expect a further or faster deceleration in the second half. What is driving that? Is that because you do less marketing? How should we see that for next year? Would that be the run rate also going into 2019?
Here we have not changed our guidance. We started the year with indicating a 30% decline for consumer as a whole or close to 30%. We stick with that guidance. H1 has been strong, and that was also the result of a traditional Q2 is the driving season, so that is the most important quarter for consumer. In the second half, the decline will be a bit stronger than what we experienced during the first half. For a year as a whole, we stick with the guidance we gave at the start of the year, and that we estimate that the consumer decline would pull roughly 30% for the whole. Is that the run rate for years to come? As always, we will give a new update in February.
What you need to bear in mind in 2018, specifically, that the decline is also influenced by no sports revenue in the mix anymore in 2018, which was still there in 2017.
Yes. Is there some caution built in then in your second half guidance, or is it really based on?
It's balanced. As always, very balanced. Yeah.
On the cost base, Martijn also referred to it, to understand what's going on in the EBITDA of automotive and enterprise. If I try to isolate a bit what consumer must have done in terms of OpEx decline, it seems to me that the year-on-year in the first half, the OpEx is down almost EUR 55 million or so in that range, based on a stable growth margin. You just referred to a EUR 10 million lower intercompany payment from consumer, so to automotive. Still, there's.
Sorry, Marc. There are obviously three things. It is intercompany payment for products. There's an intercompany payment for corporate services. The real driving factor is obviously the decision that we made last year to stop with our sports activities, and that has led to significantly lower marketing, but also less people in the consumer segment.
Yeah, that was my second point. The marketing is down EUR 15 million, then I have EUR 10, EUR 15, EUR 25, and I'm still missing quite a big chunk. Is there something else that I should be taking into account there in terms of cost allocation?
No. It's just people as well, less people.
That was the third one. Thank you. On the OPEX, looking a bit further out, you said the run rate of Q2 is a bit the market for the second half. How should we think about 2019? I know it's early, but still, we know roughly what consumer will do. The decline will continue in automotive based on the order book build will start to further grow further. The rest is not that exciting to be hugely wrong on it. How should we think about your OPEX in 2019?
The easy answer is obviously you have to wait for February, but let me give a bit of color here. We're building our position in automotive, and not only with the market share that we're taking for NDS maps, the traditional maps for the driver, but also for the future towards HD mapping. With having, apart from very important European customers, we now also have American OEMs and Asian OEMs in the mix. That means that our global footprint needs to be excellent everywhere, not only in Europe but also North America. The requirements for deeper and wider coverage is there. Next to that, with the emerge of HD mapping and autonomous driving, we need to continue to reduce cycle time, reduce the latency of our map quality, and that needs fast, big investment in engineering and automation.
That is the new normal for automotive and enterprise combined. That's the trend that we've seen starting in this year, in 2018. On the other hand, I agree. The cost in the other segments, mainly consumer, it's probably that that will go down further.
Marketing spend will go down further. The investment in R&D should gradually go up a bit further from here. Is that how we should think about it?
The SG&A is also, it depends on which segment you're looking at, but for consumer as a whole, the spend will go down, yes.
On a bit the strategic thinking about the cash position. You have EUR 155 million on the balance sheet. You have quite some excess cash, but also you don't know what the future will bring in HD. Can you share us a bit, maybe Harold, what your thoughts are strategically, why you need to maintain and want to keep all options open towards the future, in terms of thinking about keeping the cash position and what kind of perhaps unforeseen investments you might need in that direction? You share us your thoughts, perhaps there.
We're looking at that cash position every year. We come, and the general meeting is a good moment to discuss what we're going to do with that cash. Taco just said that we want to end the year with about EUR 200 million cash on the balance sheet. I think that's a good number. What we're going to do with that cash is, again, up for discussion in the general meeting. It's good to have a bit of firepower. We get more and more clarity on what's needed for self-driving technology. The market is moving forward. I think we are looking good in that space. It's good to have a level of flexibility that would allow us to go faster if we think that is appropriate.
Would that be along the lines of investments or more like buying a sort of technology that you might want to have?
It's either way. I don't know the answer. What I do know is that it's getting clearer what it is we need to do, how far we are with the technology. We're quite excited about the progress we've made and all the new stuff that's been developed over the last two years in the sense of computer vision technologies and processing data, machine learning. That's all coming to a level of maturity now where it is ready for prime time, and customers can see that. We're also a little bit driven by the speed of our customers, obviously.
When the time is there, we want to be able to pull the trigger and go as fast as we need to go to take a leading position in HD mapping. In that context, I think it's wise to keep a little bit of firepower.
Clear. Then the final one, Taco, can you give a bit of an indication for the deferred revenues you expect to see in the P&L in the second half? Is that EUR 35 million-EUR 40 million or more or less?
The rule of thumb is that consumer declines deferred revenue with EUR 5 million every quarter. Automotive increases with EUR 15 million-EUR 20 million every quarter. Enterprise shows a more seasonal pattern.
Okay. My number is not that wild. All right. Those were my questions. Thank you very much.
Okay.
Thank you. Again, please press star one to ask a question. We will now take our next question from Wim Gille of ABN AMRO Bank. Please go ahead.
Yes, good afternoon. Wim Gille, ABN. A couple of questions. First of all, if I look at the Telematics uptake from new users, you did 17,000 in the first quarter to 22,000 in the second quarter. It seems a bit that you are on a slow start in that area. Is there any kind of specific reason for that? Because as we assume that you guys increase your scale, should be able to onboard more accounts in that area, and it should accelerate on that space a little bit. The second question is on automotive. I'm duly aware that in the year-over-year comparison, operational revenues in automotive are growing on a year-over-year basis.
If I look back in the past three quarters, you did about EUR 76 million in the fourth quarter of 2017, EUR 78 million in the first quarter of 2018, and only EUR 71 million in the second quarter of 2018. How should I look at that? Is it something that should grow on a quarter-by-quarter basis as the adoption increases, or is this a bit of a lumpy seasonal element in here as well? Given the fact that it's a nascent business line, give a bit more feeling on how I look at this number. Third question is on Google Maps. They announced quite a spectacular price increase, a couple of weeks, months ago, and they implemented this week. What did you see in terms of engagement on the Enterprise segment? Do you see a noticeable increase in inquiries?
How should I look at that, also taking into account that Microsoft Azure is now available. Should we see an inflection point in the Enterprise revenues that we haven't seen for a while? Those would be my first three questions, then I've got some more follow-ups. Maybe start with these three.
Telematics. Wim. Telematics was growing, I think in terms of 12%. We'd like to see that number to grow and go faster. There's a couple of things that are happening. We've just renewed the whole back end, and that's a good thing. It also creates space now for innovation. If you go through those big technology transitions, invariably innovation suffers a little bit because you're replacing old for new. That's behind us, successfully transitioned to a more productive platform. I think that in itself will be positive for our customers, but also for further innovation and market penetration. I hope that that number will grow a bit faster than what we have seen in the past. The second element of Telematics is that we've done a lot of groundwork for what we call connected vehicle.
Not a pure Telematics operational solution, but more a connected car solution for leasing companies, insurance companies, and others. A lot of work has been done there. There's quite a lot of exciting contracts that have either been signed or on the verge to be signed, and that will gradually lead to a faster growth and acceleration in the connected car space. One caveat there is that the ARPU in the connected car space is lower than what you've seen in Telematics solutions. I think in the mix, we should be aiming for an acceleration in growth in the Telematics business. I think, Taco, if you can take the question about the automotive growth.
The development of that over time.
Yeah, no, I wouldn't read too much into it. Again, there is the quarterly assessment of all the contracts has an impact as well. It can also be related to just with operational availability of certain models and commercial promotions, et cetera. Everything is going according to plan there. Last, Wim, on Google Maps, yes, we are obviously aware that Google increased their prices significantly. It was, for a lot of developers, a very emotional time. They didn't feel that they were treated well in many cases, and invariably that leads to exploring other opportunities. We have seen significant increase in our own API store. We believe that also through Microsoft Azure platform, there's an increase in interest in the APIs and what we have to offer, and we think that will lead to growth for our map APIs in the future.
Need to be a little bit cautious because it takes time for those transitions to happen. You need to be designed in, those applications then need to start working. We see increased levels of traffic, both on our own API store as well as in the API store that's part of the Azure environment.
Very good. A couple of questions. On the OpEx side, I'd like to go back to the automotive space. Assuming more or less stable growth margin in automotive and enterprise, which is very high anyway, it appears that the OpEx in automotive and enterprise increased somewhere to the tune of EUR 20 million for this half year alone. You already gave us one piece of the puzzle, which is a EUR 5 million increase by internal transfers. Can you give us the other pieces of the puzzle as well, in terms of what the additional overhead allocated to the automotive team is, plus the investments that you're making, because you're expanding outside of the European Union, more into other areas as well. Is that a kind of a permanent thing, a sticky thing, or are there also one-off costs involved for onboarding new clients, essentially?
Well, if you look year-over-year, the intercompany explains actually most of it. Again, transfer pricing had a EUR 5 million negative effect. That means that the money that they get from consumer is EUR 5 million. On an annual basis, that's EUR 10 million. The OpEx allocation has also gone up with approximately EUR 10 million in the first half. That's together, EUR 15 million.
Are these trends to be extrapolated as consumer continues to dwindle, or is most of the overhead now already-
No, not the magnitude, obviously. The reduction in size in consumer is a one-off. It will continue to decline maybe, but you will not see these big shifts. This is just made bigger because the difference between where we are now today with consumer compared to last year is at maximum. Last year, at the same time, consumer had a lot more people and a lot more revenue. That is influencing those allocation keys.
Very fair. Then, a last small question. You bought out a minority stake in TomTom Africa. I think in the annual report, you also, I think, closed TomTom South Africa. TomTom Africa is also in South Africa. I know it's a very small market for you guys, and the capital employed is like what, EUR 2 million or so, but what are you doing there? Why?
This joint venture position was created 10 years ago. We had a minority shareholder position of, they still held on to 24%. It was always in our interest to gain full control, it took some time to agree on the price, we were very happy that that finally happened. We now have full control, we believe we can accelerate with our plans for Africa.
All right. Let me check the last, I think Yeah, that was it from my side. Thanks.
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