Industry Health Care Headquarters Bern Number of employees 500 | Website www.bernafon.com Founded 1946 Parent organization William Demant | |
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Products Hearing instruments and accessories Profiles | ||
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Bernafon is a Swiss hearing health company that specializes in hearing instruments. Bernafon belongs to the Danish William Demant Holding Group which is among the largest hearing instrument manufacturers worldwide.
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History
The story of Bernafon began shortly after the Second World War, at the Gfeller company in Flamatt, Switzerland. The head of the company, Hans Gfeller, was severely hearing-impaired. As a result of this, Hans Gfeller’s son and one of his fellow students started building their own hearing instruments.
The first model, completed in 1946, saw the device and its battery housed in two separate leather cases. It was therefore given the name A1 2-Pack. The device was soon in demand.
By 1949, sales contracts had been signed with customers in Italy, North Africa and the Middle East. By 1975, the instruments provided 20% of the firm’s total turnover. The most important products, however, were telephones and telephone systems.
In 1987, the companies Autophon, Gfeller AG, Hasler and Zellweger Telecommunications were merged to form the Ascom group. The newly created group employed a total of 14,000 workers and was ranked eleventh among the world’s telecommunication firms.
A further expansion took place in 1992 with the takeover of the hearing instrument activities of the German firm Robert Bosch GmbH. The integration of Bosch’s hearing instrument activities and the simultaneous creation of a production line in Australia proved too great a challenge for the relatively small company.
The takeover by the William Demant group resulted in a move into new headquarters in Bern. In 1995 all the divisions were renamed under the name Bernafon.
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