About Blom Group

OUR AMBITIONS

Blom is based on the company collecting, processing and selling high quality geographical information data. Blom’s ambition is to take a greater share of the information technology value chain, to continue growing and become the leading European player in this growth industry through superior products and technology, efficient solutions and highly skilled personnel.

Blom strives to ensure that customers get the return on their investment by utilizing the most efficient and practical data acquisition method available, whether it is in the field, in the air or through collection of data from other sources such as documents, maps and data bases. Blom supplies services along the complete value chain of geographic and related information.

The demand for advanced flexible Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is growing rapidly. Blom has a strong position in the digital map data market today, and aim at becoming the most innovative and preferred provider of geographic information in Europe. Today Blom is the largest company in Europe for airborne collection of geographic referenced information.

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

As a stock-listed company, Blom group has the financial strength to ensure that the company is continually investing and researching new technologies to improve our operational processes and develop new products and services to meet the challenges of a continually changing market. Fundamentally the group is using its large resources and project management skills to realign its commercial strategy and develop a data ownership / licensing model, thereby providing on-demand data in addition to our contract based projects and capabilities.

The Company, which was established in 1954 has subsidiaries in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany, UK, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Poland in addition to approximately 200 people at own production units in Romania and Indonesia.

OUR MARKET

Blom’s customer base traditionally consists primarily of governmental, municipal and industrial offices. However, the Company has increased the focus on the commercial and private markets. The increased usage of internet combined with the continuous developments in technology gives enormous growth potential in the usage of GIS products for the private market in the near future.

Blom expects a substantial increase in the use of, and demand for, geographic information, ranging from image pixels with a geographic reference to data swarms for the development of terrain models. Combined, these geographic databases can be developed and used for different commercial services and products. Blom is working on a number of value-added solutions based on the company’s map databases through the use of advanced software, with particular focus on the telecom and navigation industry. In addition, Blom has built a unique pan-European library of digital map databases and terrain models for resale. In 2005 Blom entered into an exclusive agreement for the marketing and sales of Pictometry® in Europe. The agreement was updated in 2009 and now comprises 43 countries in Western and Eastern Europe. Pictometry® is a pioneering digital photo and software technology that enables the users to view high-resolution digital color images (aerial photographs) of selected areas from optional angles.

To learn more about the Blom Group's markets, products & services, technologies and Data models and imagery please visit the new Group web pages

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EQUIPMENT

Blom has a substantial fleet of planes and high-tech equipment. In addition to owning 21 planes for surveying (Cessna, Piper, Learjet), up to 12 planes are operated for Pictometry® data capture and 4 helicopters are at its disposal. Blom owns several state of the art lasers, the latest digital and analogue cameras, has superior software applications and substantial storage capabilities.