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The ReSound history

The ReSound history dates back to 1943. Since then, ReSound has been a dominant player in the hearing aid industry.
 Year  Milestone
 1943 Gerd Rosenstand founds Danavox.
 1947 Danavox introduces its first hearing aid.
 1977 GN Store Nord acquires Danavox and later renames it GN Danavox.
 1984 Rodney Perkins founds ReSound Corporation.
 1989 Wide Dynamic Range Compression (WDRC) is introduced, breaking new ground for sound processing.
 1992 GN Danavox introduces the first comercially available hearing aid to use digital sound processing.
 1994 ReSound Corporation acquires Viennatone.
 1996 GN Danavox and ReSound form a strategic allicance, resulting in the world's first software-based digital hearing aids.
 1999 GN ReSound acquires Danplex, which had previously been acquired by Rastronics.
 1999 GN Danavox's parent company, GN Store Nord, purchases all outstanding shares of ReSound and ReSound becomes part of the GN ReSound Group.
 2003 ReSound Air is introduced, providing top sound quality without blocking the ear canal for the very first time.
 2008 dot by ReSound, then the world's smallest hearing aid, represents a radical improvement in both size and performance.
 2008 be by ReSound, the first hearing aid in the new Remote Microphone (RM) category, is introduced.
 2009 ReSound revolutionizes the concept of directionality - with no trade-off between optimal audibility and sound quality and comfort - when introducing Surround Sound by ReSound. Surround Sound by ReSound powers an entirely new product portfolio in the form of ReSound Live, dot² by ReSound, ReSound Alera, ReSound Alera TS and ReSound Vea.
 2010 Launch of ReSound Alera, a smart, robust hearing aid, using the powerful 2.4 GHz wireless technology, enabling it to connect to the wireless accessory family, ReSound Unite, and ReSound Airlink, used for wireless fitting. ReSound Alera is also the first hearing aid built on the ReSound Range chip and hereby using it's extraordinary processing power, enabling Alera to offer an improved Surround Sound by Resound.