Geers hearing acoustics

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GEERS Hörakustik GmbH & Co. KG
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1951
resolution August 31, 2018
Reason for dissolution Merger in accordance with Section 19 (2) UmwG
Seat Dortmund
management Last managing directors: Andreas Schmidlechner, Melanie Thomann-Bopp
Number of employees 2000
Branch Hearing aids

The Geers Hörakustik GmbH & Co. KG was an internationally active company in the field of audiology, are employs around 2,000 employees at over 700 locations. In addition to more than 550 specialist shops in Germany , the company also had branches in Poland . The focus of Geers Hörrakustik was the sale and adjustment of hearing aids and acoustic needs.

Company history

Geers Hörrakustik branch in Harkortstrasse, the pedestrian zone in Dortmund-Hombruch

The company was founded in 1951 by Käthe and Theodor Geers in Dortmund as the first independent specialist shop for hearing systems in Germany. In the 1950s, further specialist shops opened in Duisburg , Hagen , Münster , Bochum and Essen . In 1974 the two sons Volker and Wolfgang Geers took over the management of the company. From 1977 to 1987, the company attracted attention through product innovations such as the first in-the-ear hearing systems and the smallest hearing system in the world. In 1990 the company's first specialist shop was founded in Dresden in the new federal states. 14 more branches followed. From 1993 Geers ran shops in Poland and since 1994 in Hungary. In 1999 the brothers Volker and Wolfgang Geers retired from operational management. At the same time, Geers Hörakustik AG & Co. KG was founded. From 2003 Geers also had branches in Russia and Switzerland . The shareholders' meeting on May 4, 2005 resolved to amend the articles of association in § § 1 (company name and seat of the company). New company: Geers International GmbH.

Due to the merger agreement dated August 7, 2018 and the approval of resolutions of the shareholders' meetings of legal entities involved, the company with the Sonova Retail Germany GmbH, based in Dortmund by taking merged .

Others

From 1976 Geers Hörrakustik supported research projects in the field of hearing impairments with its own Geers Foundation . The company is also involved with special children's hearing centers for children with hearing loss.

On the board of directors of the Federal Health Insurance Guild, a health insurance fund founded by the Federal Guild of Hearing Aid Acousticians in 1996, u. a. Volker Geers the employer side.

Awards

  • 1986 German industry innovation award for the development and construction of the first in-the-ear hearing aids
  • 2007 MOE Award for the special entrepreneurial commitment in Central and Eastern Europe

swell

  • The West of August 3, 2009: 50 years of Geers
  • Hörakustik 11/2006: Research is rewarded
  • Hörakustik 12/2006: Strong in Europe

Web links

Commons : Geers Hörakustik  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Geers Hörrakustik: About us. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  2. Commercial Register Dortmund B 15445 Changes from June 3, 2005.
  3. Dortmund District Court, HRB 29562, August 24, 2018.
  4. Geers Foundation lives on as a child hearing foundation magazine Die Stiftung from June 16, 2017
  5. Gerald Nill: Bund throws a bad light on BIG in: WR.
  6. innovationspreis.com ( Memento from June 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  7. Geers Hörakustik wins MOE Award 2007. ( Memento of the original from August 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Hypovereinsbank press release of July 6, 2007, accessed May 30, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.presseportal.de

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