Demant has killed the KIND hearing aid manufacturing factory

tenkan, this question is somewhat related: Is Demant going to acquire Amplifon, which had just acquired ReSound?

Sorry I wouldn’t know about this, I mean that would be really interesting because at one time they did want to buy ReSound, plus that’s the logical thinking, instead of a crowd that only knows/has retail store’s.

@tenkan, Kind was mostly selling rebranded Starkeys and started to carry rebranded Oticon even before the acquisition.

For their lowest technology level offering, they actually had their own HAs which came from the factory that’s now closing. Rest assured it’s not a big loss.

When my mom was shopping for new HAs in Germany two years ago, I took a closer look at the spec sheet for Kind’s own HAs. I wasn’t impressed, they listed the processing delay as being more than 10ms. That’s high.

My mom still bought from Kind and ended up with rebranded Oticon Intent 3, for which she paid way too much. There is no Costco in Germany, so what can you do…