Oticon is the worlds second largest hearing aid

Hearing aid

A hearing aid is an electroacoustic device which typically fits in or behind the wearer's ear, and is designed to amplify and modulate sound for the wearer. Earlier devices, known as "ear trumpets" or "ear horns", were passive funnel-like amplification cones designed to gather sound energy and...

 manufacturer. It is situated in Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 outside the capital Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

. It was founded in 1904 by Hans Demant, whose wife was hearing impaired. Oticon is particularly well known for their loose management

Management

Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...

 style referred to as "Spaghetti Organization". The company is a subsidiary

Subsidiary

A subsidiary company, subsidiary, or daughter company is a company that is completely or partly owned and wholly controlled by another company that owns more than half of the subsidiary's stock. The subsidiary can be a company, corporation, or limited liability company. In some cases it is a...

 of the William Demant Holding Group

William Demant

The William Demant Holding Group is a leading international hearing health care company within hearing aids, audiometric equipment, and personal communication.- Beginning :...

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Oticon has branches in various countries, such as their production plant in Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

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Product Lines

• Agil
• Safari
• Dual
• Acto
• Hit
• Amigo
• Chili

Mature product line

• Epoq
• Vigo
• Delta
• Lexis
• Syncro
• Tego
• Atlas
• Swift
• Go
• Go pro
• Gaia
• Safran
• Sumo
• Sumo DM

External links

• Oticon's official website
• Oticon's official UK site for NHS (Oticon NHS), which includes information and training resources for NHS hearing care professionals and the general public
• Oticon official history
• http://deafness.about.com/od/hearingaidmanufacturers/p/oticon.htm