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Company Overview

Business Description

Sector
Health Care
Industry
Health Care
Headquarters
Switzerland CH
Employees
18 580
IPO date
Apr 23, 2009

Sonova Holding AG makes hearing care products and services. It designs and sells hearing aids, cochlear implants, wireless communication systems, and related accessories under brands used by hearing-care professionals and end customers. The company also offers audiology services and support tools that help people test, fit, and maintain their hearing devices.

Its main customers are people with hearing loss, audiologists, hearing clinics, hospitals, and retailers that fit and sell hearing devices. Sonova earns money by selling devices, replacement parts, accessories, and professional services through its own hearing-care network and through third-party distribution channels. In practice, it sits between the medical technology industry and the retail hearing-care market.

What makes Sonova's business different is that it combines product design with a direct role in fitting and supporting hearing solutions. Hearing care is not just a one-time sale: devices often need adjustment, software updates, and ongoing service, so the company can build long-term relationships with users and clinics. That mix of equipment sales, service, and clinical support gives it a stronger role in the hearing-care chain than a pure hardware maker.

Sonova Holding AG Investor Relations

Address
Laubisruetistrasse 28
Staefa, Zuerich
Switzerland

Business Segments

Hearing instruments

This segment designs and sells hearing aids, cochlear implants, and related wireless accessories under brands such as Phonak, Unitron, and Advanced Bionics. It also includes products that connect hearing devices to phone...

Customers and revenue model

Audiological care

This segment runs hearing care clinics that test hearing, fit hearing aids, and provide follow-up service and repairs.

Customers and revenue model

Management

Mr. Arnd Kaldowski

CEO, COO & Member of Management Board

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Ms. Birgit M. Conix

CFO & Member of Management Board

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Mr. Ludger Althoff

Group VP of Operations & Member of Management Board

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Mr. Robert T. Woolley

Group VP of Hearing Instruments & Member of the Management Board

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Ms. Katya Kruglova

GVP of Human Resources & Communications and Member of Management Board

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Mr. Oliver Lux

Group VP Audiological Care & Member of Management Board

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Ms. Lilika Beck

Group VP Consumer Hearing & Member of Management Board

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Mr. Alistair Simpson

Member of Management Board & Group Vice President Cochlear Implants

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Mr. Thomas Bernhardsgrutter

Senior Director of Investor Relations

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Mr. Jan Metzdorff

President of Hearing Instruments Wholesale for US

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