{"id":182528,"date":"2026-03-06T12:20:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmobility.news\/?p=182528"},"modified":"2026-03-06T11:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:04:15","slug":"tomtom-enters-new-phase-as-founder-and-ceo-goddijn-steps-aside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmobility.news\/fr\/2026\/03\/06\/tomtom-enters-new-phase-as-founder-and-ceo-goddijn-steps-aside\/","title":{"rendered":"TomTom entre dans une nouvelle phase avec le d\u00e9part du fondateur et PDG Goddijn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Le pionnier n\u00e9erlandais de la navigation TomTom entame un nouveau chapitre alors que son cofondateur et directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de longue date, Harold Goddijn, s'appr\u00eate \u00e0 quitter ses fonctions apr\u00e8s plus de deux d\u00e9cennies \u00e0 la t\u00eate de l'entreprise.<\/p>\n<p>Cette d\u00e9cision marque la fin d'une \u00e9poque pour une entreprise qui symbolisait autrefois les ambitions de l'Europe en mati\u00e8re de technologie grand public, mais qui s'est depuis r\u00e9invent\u00e9e en tant que fournisseur de l'industrie automobile dans les coulisses.<\/p>\n<p>M. Goddijn, qui a cofond\u00e9 TomTom en 1991 et dirige l'entreprise depuis 2001, quittera ses fonctions de directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral et de membre du conseil d'administration \u00e0 l'issue de l'assembl\u00e9e g\u00e9n\u00e9rale annuelle des actionnaires de l'entreprise, le 16 avril.<\/p>\n<p>Il devrait rejoindre le conseil de surveillance. Mike Schoofs, directeur des recettes de TomTom, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9sign\u00e9 pour lui succ\u00e9der. M. Schoofs a rejoint l'entreprise en 2005 et a supervis\u00e9 le d\u00e9veloppement de l'organisation mondiale des ventes et des relations commerciales avec les constructeurs automobiles et d'autres entreprises clientes.<\/p>\n<h4>Vigreux prend \u00e9galement du recul<\/h4>\n<p>La transition de la direction co\u00efncide \u00e9galement avec le retrait de la cofondatrice Corinne Vigreux de la direction ex\u00e9cutive de l'entreprise. L'entrepreneuse fran\u00e7aise, qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es responsable du marketing de TomTom et qui est mari\u00e9e \u00e0 M. Goddijn, a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9troitement associ\u00e9e \u00e0 l'\u00e9laboration de la strat\u00e9gie de l'entreprise. Ensemble, ils ont guid\u00e9 TomTom dans son ascension spectaculaire et dans sa difficile transformation dans un contexte de bouleversements technologiques.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_182533\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182533\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-182533 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-06-om-10.57.56.png?resize=640%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-06-om-10.57.56.png?resize=1024%2C532&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-06-om-10.57.56.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-06-om-10.57.56.png?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-182533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corinne Vigreux, cofondatrice et longtemps responsable du marketing de TomTom, a jou\u00e9 un r\u00f4le cl\u00e9 dans l'essor du pionnier n\u00e9erlandais de la navigation \/TomTom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Il y a vingt ans, TomTom \u00e9tait l'une des marques technologiques les plus connues d'Europe. Ses appareils de navigation portables sont devenus des gadgets incontournables pour les automobilistes, les guidant \u00e0 travers les villes et les continents gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une technologie de navigation par satellite encore nouvelle \u00e0 l'\u00e9poque.<\/p>\n<p>L'entreprise a rapidement domin\u00e9 le march\u00e9 europ\u00e9en. En 2006, TomTom d\u00e9tenait environ la moiti\u00e9 du march\u00e9 des appareils de navigation de la r\u00e9gion, et le nom de la marque \u00e9tait devenu synonyme du produit lui-m\u00eame. Pour de nombreux automobilistes, demander un syst\u00e8me de navigation signifiait demander \u2018un TomTom\u2019.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Le succ\u00e8s de l'entreprise l'a propuls\u00e9e \u00e0 la bourse d'Amsterdam en 2005 et dans l'indice AEX aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de g\u00e9ants tels que Shell et Philips. \u00c0 l'\u00e9poque, les d\u00e9cideurs politiques consid\u00e9raient souvent TomTom comme un mod\u00e8le d'innovation aux Pays-Bas, appelant de leurs v\u0153ux \u201cle prochain TomTom\u201d.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>Acquisition de TeleAtlas<\/h4>\n<p>Mais la fortune de l'entreprise a chang\u00e9 radicalement au fur et \u00e0 mesure que le paysage technologique \u00e9voluait. L'acquisition co\u00fbteuse de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de cartographie num\u00e9rique TeleAtlas en 2007 a co\u00efncid\u00e9 avec la crise financi\u00e8re mondiale et l'\u00e9mergence rapide des smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>L'entreprise <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">T\u00e9l\u00e9 Atlas<\/span><\/span>, qui <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">TomTom<\/span><\/span> acquise en 2007 pour environ 2,9 milliards d'euros, \u00e9tait \u00e0 l'origine une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 n\u00e9erlando-belge de cartographie num\u00e9rique et l'un des deux principaux fournisseurs mondiaux de donn\u00e9es cartographiques de navigation \u00e0 l'\u00e9poque (l'autre \u00e9tant la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Navteq<\/span><\/span>, rachet\u00e9e par la suite par <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Nokia<\/span><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>Les applications de navigation telles que Google Maps ont rapidement offert des alternatives gratuites aux appareils de navigation sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9s, sapant l'activit\u00e9 principale de TomTom aupr\u00e8s des consommateurs.<\/p>\n<p>En l'espace d'un an, le cours de l'action de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 a chut\u00e9 d'environ 90 %. Au fil du temps, TomTom a disparu de l'AEX, puis de l'indice des moyennes capitalisations, pour finalement se retrouver parmi les plus petites entreprises de la bourse d'Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>La pression s'est accentu\u00e9e lorsque les principaux constructeurs automobiles ont commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 adopter les syst\u00e8mes de navigation de Google. En 2018, l'alliance Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi est pass\u00e9e \u00e0 la technologie Google, ce qui a amen\u00e9 les analystes \u00e0 se demander si TomTom pouvait survivre. Certains ont d\u00e9clar\u00e9 que la d\u00e9cision \u00e9tait un \u2018coup fatal\u2019 pour l'entreprise bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<h4>Ind\u00e9pendants des grandes entreprises technologiques<\/h4>\n<p>M. Goddijn a longtemps affirm\u00e9 que de nombreux constructeurs automobiles pr\u00e9f\u00e9raient TomTom pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment parce qu'il restait ind\u00e9pendant des g\u00e9ants am\u00e9ricains de la technologie tels que Google, Apple et Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Il a d\u00e9crit son entreprise comme la \u2018Suisse de l'industrie de la navigation\u2019, une plateforme neutre o\u00f9 les pr\u00e9cieuses donn\u00e9es automobiles pourraient rester s\u00e9curis\u00e9es et sous le contr\u00f4le des constructeurs plut\u00f4t que sous celui de grandes plateformes technologiques. Pourtant, il s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 difficile d'ignorer la pression concurrentielle exerc\u00e9e par les grandes entreprises technologiques.<\/p>\n<p>Malgr\u00e9 les pr\u00e9dictions r\u00e9p\u00e9t\u00e9es de sa disparition, TomTom a r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 se r\u00e9inventer. L'entreprise s'est progressivement d\u00e9tourn\u00e9e du mat\u00e9riel grand public pour s'orienter vers les cartes num\u00e9riques, les logiciels de navigation et les services de donn\u00e9es de localisation pour les entreprises.<\/p>\n<h4>Technologie pour les constructeurs automobiles<\/h4>\n<p>Aujourd'hui, la majeure partie de ses revenus provient de la fourniture de technologies aux constructeurs automobiles et aux entreprises clientes, plut\u00f4t que de la vente d'appareils aux consommateurs.<\/p>\n<p>Cette transformation a rendu TomTom beaucoup moins visible pour le public. La disparition des appareils de navigation sur le tableau de bord a \u00e9galement fait dispara\u00eetre la marque de la vue des automobilistes.<\/p>\n<p>M. Goddijn a fait remarquer que les gens lui demandent parfois si l'entreprise existe encore. Alors que TomTom comptait autrefois des millions de consommateurs parmi ses clients, elle travaille aujourd'hui avec quelques centaines de grandes entreprises clientes dont les produits s'appuient sur sa technologie cartographique.<\/p>\n<p>S'il est peu probable que l'entreprise retrouve l'importance qu'elle avait autrefois aupr\u00e8s des consommateurs, sa technologie joue toujours un r\u00f4le dans les tendances \u00e9mergentes en mati\u00e8re de mobilit\u00e9. Les cartes num\u00e9riques tr\u00e8s d\u00e9taill\u00e9es sont de plus en plus importantes pour les syst\u00e8mes avanc\u00e9s d'aide \u00e0 la conduite et le d\u00e9veloppement futur des v\u00e9hicules autonomes. Ce march\u00e9 pourrait se d\u00e9velopper consid\u00e9rablement dans les ann\u00e9es \u00e0 venir, offrant de nouvelles opportunit\u00e9s aux entreprises sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9es dans les donn\u00e9es de localisation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch navigation pioneer TomTom is entering a new chapter as co-founder and long-time chief executive Harold Goddijn prepares to step down after more than two decades at the helm of the company. The move marks the end of an era for a firm that once symbolised Europe\u2019s consumer tech ambitions but has since reinvented itself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":182532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[7,77151,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobility","category-services","category-technology","category-top-stories-today"],"acf":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-06-om-10.59.10-scaled.png?fit=2560%2C1398&ssl=1",2560,1398,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-06-om-10.59.10-scaled.png?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-06-om-10.59.10-scaled.png?fit=300%2C164&ssl=1",300,164,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-06-om-10.59.10-scaled.png?fit=640%2C350&ssl=1",640,350,true],"large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-06-om-10.59.10-scaled.png?fit=640%2C349&ssl=1",640,349,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-06-om-10.59.10-scaled.png?fit=1536%2C839&ssl=1",1536,839,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-06-om-10.59.10-scaled.png?fit=2048%2C1118&ssl=1",2048,1118,true],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-06-om-10.59.10-scaled.png?fit=18%2C10&ssl=1",18,10,true],"related-thumb":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-06-om-10.59.10-scaled.png?resize=640%2C480&ssl=1",640,480,true],"gform-image-choice-sm":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-06-om-10.59.10-scaled.png?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1",300,300,true],"gform-image-choice-md":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-06-om-10.59.10-scaled.png?resize=400%2C400&ssl=1",400,400,true],"gform-image-choice-lg":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-06-om-10.59.10-scaled.png?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1",600,600,true],"mailchimp":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-06-om-10.59.10-scaled.png?fit=560%2C306&ssl=1",560,306,true],"unipress-phone":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-06-om-10.59.10-scaled.png?resize=640%2C100&ssl=1",640,100,true],"unipress-tablet":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-06-om-10.59.10-scaled.png?resize=1536%2C240&ssl=1",1536,240,true],"unipress-tablet-portrait":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-06-om-10.59.10-scaled.png?resize=1536%2C180&ssl=1",1536,180,true],"unipress-tablet-landscape":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-06-om-10.59.10-scaled.png?resize=2048%2C180&ssl=1",2048,180,true],"unipress-smartphone":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-06-om-10.59.10-scaled.png?resize=1080%2C168&ssl=1",1080,168,true],"unipress-wide-screen":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newmobility.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scherm%C2%ADafbeelding-2026-03-06-om-10.59.10-scaled.png?resize=2560%2C180&ssl=1",2560,180,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>Dutch navigation pioneer TomTom is entering a new chapter as co-founder and long-time chief executive Harold Goddijn prepares to step down after more than two decades at the helm of the company. The move marks the end of an era for a firm that once symbolised Europe\u2019s consumer tech ambitions but has since reinvented itself as a behind-the-scenes supplier to the automotive industry. Goddijn, who co-founded TomTom in 1991 and has led the company since 2001, will step down as chief executive and board member following the company\u2019s annual shareholder meeting on April 16. 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