Oticon Medical (A Demant Company)- A company founded on care
Over 116 years ago, Hans Demant set out to help his wife, Camilla Louise Demant, who had hearing loss. Passionate to help his hearing-impaired wife, Hans Demant purchased a hearing instrument for her after learning that the Danish born Queen Alexandra of England was wearing one at her 1902 coronation. Hans Demant was intrigued at how this hearing instrument improved his wife’s hearing taking an interest in hearing devices. He later went on to win a contract with the American manufacturer General Acoustic Company and sells his first hearing aid in Odense, Denmark. – the company’s very first hearing aid.
In 1904, Hans Demant, founded the company, today known as Demant. Their son William eventually took over the company and in 1957, donating shares in the company to the William Demant Foundation – the main shareholder in Demant A/S today. Since then, the Demant Group has advanced technology beyond recognition offering many hearing device solutions that help restore hearing loss of all types (from traditional hearing aids to bone anchored hearing aids and cochlear implants). Oticon Medical as one of the Demant Group’s subsidiaries continues to remain firmly founded on care that puts people first.
Today, the Demant Group is a market leader within hearing health and operates in hearing devices, hearing implants, diagnostic instruments and intelligent audio solutions. Thank you to the Demant Group, including Oticon and Oticon Medical for all of the lives that have been transformed with hearing device technology over the past century, including the many lives that have been touched by those who have hearing loss and benefit from these amazing hearing device technologies!
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Here are some great images that show how much hearing device technology has transformed over the past century through the Demant Group and Oticon/Oticon Medical.
