Child hearing aids

Child group
legal form	GmbH & Co. KG
founding	1952
Seat	Großburgwedel , Germany
management	Martin Kind , Alexander Kind
Number of employees	3,000 (worldwide)
sales	approx. 270 million euros (2017)
Branch	Hearing aid acoustics, optics, protective clothing, hotel operations
Website	www.kind.com

The Kind Group ( proper spelling KIND ) with its headquarters in Großburgwedel near Hanover is a mixed company (production and retail) with different business fields.

history

In 1952 Inge and Werner Kind founded a hearing aid shop in Großburgwedel. After that, the son and current managing director, Martin Kind , founded a branch company in 1970, to which other business areas and companies were gradually added. Martin Kind's son, Alexander Kind, is also the managing director.

For further changes see business areas .

In 2018, the construction of a training center with a total of more than 5,000 square meters in Großburgwedel began; in addition, the store in Hanover was designed as a flagship store.

Business areas

Company headquarters in Großburgwedel

A branch in Maidstone in the UK

Earplugs 1980s ...

... for the German Bundeswehr

Kind Hörgeräte GmbH & Co KG in Großburgwedel. In addition to 600 locations in Germany, the branch company is also represented with around 120 specialty stores in Armenia , Azerbaijan , Georgia , Luxembourg , the Netherlands , Austria , Poland , Russia , Switzerland , Singapore , the Czech Republic and the Ukraine . In addition to hearing aids, hearing protection and glasses, custom-made in-ear headphones are also sold under the c-ear brand.
Kind Arbeitsicherheit GmbH in Großburgwedel is responsible for the design, manufacture and sale of protective work clothing.
audifon GmbH & Co KG, from the VEB Funkwerk Kölleda near Weimar (since 2004), carries out the work processes for hearing aids from the development of the first prototype through series production to the final inspection . The products are sold in 65 countries. Audifon has its own sales companies in Germany , Bulgaria , Singapore , the Czech Republic , Uzbekistan and the USA .
Kind Hotel Betriebs GmbH & Co KG has been running the four-star Hotel Kokenhof in Großburgwedel in an old half-timbered house since 2005 .
Bajohr GmbH from Einbeck , with 13 optical stores, founded in 1982, has been part of the Kind Group since January 2017
Emberger Optik with 18 branches in Bavaria and Vienna, also in 2017

literature

Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Child, Hörgeräte GmbH & Co. KG. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 347.
Company portraits: child hearing aids. In: Konrad Fleischer and Hans Heinz Naumann (Hrsg.): Academic teaching centers and teachers of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology in Germany in the 20th century. Springer, Berlin a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-540-60664-5 , p. 327 ( link.springer.com PDF).

Web links

Official website of Kind Hörgeräte GmbH & Co. KG
Holger Paul: Business talk: Alexander and Martin Kind: "Hearing aids can do a lot more". In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 30, 2011
Katrin Terpitz: Kind family business: “Success is so easy!” In: Handelsblatt . March 25, 2014

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b child: significant sales with glasses. (No longer available online.) DOZ Optometry and Fashion, October 16, 2017, archived from the original on February 11, 2018 ; accessed on September 10, 2018 .
↑ DOZ of May 18, 2018, Kind Builds New Academy , accessed on December 1, 2019.
↑ neuepresse.de from May 23, 2019, shell of the Kind Academy completed - work is on schedule , accessed on December 1, 2019.
↑ DOZ of December 3, 2018, Kind opens first flagship store , accessed on December 1, 2019.
↑ faz.net of October 30, 2011, business talk: Alexander and Martin Kind , accessed on December 1, 2019.
↑ Hannoversche Allgemeine from October 1, 2011 , accessed on December 1, 2019.
↑ Kind expands corporate group. (No longer available online.) DOZ Optometry and Fashion, October 16, 2017, archived from the original on February 11, 2018 ; accessed on September 10, 2018 .
↑ Child is buying the next optician. (No longer available online.) DOZ Optometry and Fashion, October 16, 2017, archived from the original on February 11, 2018 ; accessed on December 1, 2019 .

[DOZ-2017-1] child: significant sales with glasses. (No longer available online.) DOZ Optometry and Fashion, October 16, 2017, archived from the original on February 11, 2018 ; accessed on September 10, 2018 .

[2] DOZ of May 18, 2018, Kind Builds New Academy , accessed on December 1, 2019.

[3] uepresse.de from May 23, 2019, shell of the Kind Academy completed - work is on schedule , accessed on December 1, 2019.

[4] DOZ of December 3, 2018, Kind opens first flagship store , accessed on December 1, 2019.

[5] z.net of October 30, 2011, business talk: Alexander and Martin Kind , accessed on December 1, 2019.

[6] Hannoversche Allgemeine from October 1, 2011 , accessed on December 1, 2019.

[DOZ-Bajohr-7] Kind expands corporate group. (No longer available online.) DOZ Optometry and Fashion, October 16, 2017, archived from the original on February 11, 2018 ; accessed on September 10, 2018 .

[DOZ-Augenopt-8] Child is buying the next optician. (No longer available online.) DOZ Optometry and Fashion, October 16, 2017, archived from the original on February 11, 2018 ; accessed on December 1, 2019 .