{"id":28741,"date":"2012-12-17T15:26:38","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T13:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=28741"},"modified":"2012-12-17T15:29:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T13:29:28","slug":"garmin-names-coo-pemble-as-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/28741\/garmin-names-coo-pemble-as-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Garmin names COO Pemble as CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Navigation device maker Garmin Ltd named Chief Operating Officer Clifton Pemble as chief executive, succeeding co-founder Min Kao.<\/p>\n<p>Pemble, who joined Garmin in 1989 as one of the company&#8217;s first engineers and has been serving as COO since October 2007, will start in his new role from January 1.<\/p>\n<p>Kao will assume the role of executive chairman, and continue to serve as the chairman of the board.<\/p>\n<p>Garmin has been fighting sluggish demand for its GPS-enabled handheld navigation devices as smartphones loaded with free mapping apps invade its market, and it is betting on outdoor and fitness products to drive growth.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Sruthi Ramakrishnan in Bangalore; Editing by Don Sebastian)<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Apple navigation plans hit Harman shares\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/15262\/apple-navigation-plans-hit-harman-shares\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Apple navigation plans hit Harman shares<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navigation device maker Garmin Ltd named Chief Operating Officer Clifton Pemble as chief executive, succeeding co-founder Min Kao.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":28744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,3130],"class_list":["post-28741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-garmin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28741"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28746,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28741\/revisions\/28746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}