just skip this as digressive, but I want to make a short folder to hold a few items...
Blue Parrot-they make a lot of headsets. They were an early user of Sensory IP for high end models....
Blue Parrot is the name of the brand. The brand of
VXI CORPORATION
VXI got sold
Intrepid Announces the Sale of VXi Corporation, a Leading Provider of Headset Communications Solutions, to GN Audio (Jabra), a Denmark-Based Leader in Intelligent Audio Solutions
October 14, 2016 02:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Intrepid Investment Bankers (Intrepid), a leading middle-market investment bank, today announced that its client, VXi Corporation (VXi), a leading provider of headset communication solutions for enterprises and mobile professionals, has been acquired by GN Audio, a division of GN Group (GN: CO), a Denmark-based leader in intelligent audio solutions, offering wireless headsets and earbuds under the Jabra brand, as well as hearing aids and medical grade audio solutions under the ReSound brand. VXi was a portfolio company of Vicente Capital Partners (VCP), a private equity firm specializing in both non-control and control investments in growth businesses that have annual revenues between $5 million and $25 million. The sale of VXi marks the third deal for Intrepid’s Commercial & Consumer Technology team in the last 12 months.
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he VXi brand and is the leading Bluetooth headset provider for truckers and other professional drivers under the BlueParrott brand.
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The GN Group
The GN Group is a global leader in intelligent audio solutions that let you hear more, do more and be more than you ever thought possible.
Our unique portfolio of medical, professional & consumer audio solutions – and the deep research & development expertise behind this range of products gives our brands unprecedented advantages in the med-tech, hearables and intelligent audio field.
Every day, we transform lives through the power of sound: Smart Hearing aids that enhance the lives of people with hearing loss; integrated headset and communications solutions that assist professionals in all types of businesses to be more productive; wireless headsets and earbuds designed to support any lifestyle and inspire everyone who likes to keep fit.
With world leading expertise in the human ear, sound, wireless technology and miniaturization, GN’s innovative and intelligent audio solutions are marketed by our premium brands ReSound and Jabra.
GN provides products and solutions to users in more than 90 countries across the world. Additional to ReSound and Jabra, GN also markets hearing aids under the Beltone and Interton brands.
Founded in 1869, the GN Group today has 5,400 employees and its parent company, GN Store Nord, is listed on NASDAQ Copenhagen (GN.CO).
What have I learned so far....Sensory IP now has adjacent possible within the hearing aid companies....this is the first item I have read
with a hint that the existing hearing aid folks are making moves.....
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GN prepares for the future of intelligent audio solutions and hearables
GN News
May 27, 2016
GN Group strengthens its unique proposition with the flagship brands ReSound and Jabra – and changes legal company names to support a renewed brand platform
For 147 years, GN Store Nord has been a global force of innovation in communication. From enabling worldwide communication with the first telegraphic connection between Europe and Asia in the 1870s, the GN Group today stands out as a world leader in intelligent audio solutions that transform people’s lives through the power of sound.
The combination of cutting-edge Jabra headsets and medical industry-leading ReSound smart hearing aid technology makes the GN Group unique in the industry.
Setting GN Group up for the next phase of intelligent audio solutions
GN Group is preparing for a changing world by shaping it. We believe people will use ear-worn technology ever more to increase productivity and improve health and well-being. Intelligent audio solutions based on medical and sound expertise, in combination with always-on access to the internet and information, present a sweet spot for GN’s unique innovative expertise and market access across medical, professional and consumer target groups.
Today, GN is the only company that can transform deep insight from both the hearing aid and the headset customers into world-leading expertise in the human auditory system, sound processing and wireless technologies. This enables the GN Group’s scientists to develop truly intelligent audio solutions that do much more than amplify speech and sound. Comprehensive solutions that today and in the future will support the user in an array of innovative ways.
Presenting a new communication and brand platform
The GN Group’s core competencies in the human ear, sound applications, connectivity and miniaturization, all uniquely residing under the same roof, are the foundation for the group’s strong brands.
The GN Group’s brand platform is now modernized to fully reflect the group’s unique portfolio of medical, professional and consumer grade products and to emphasize the multiple advantages the Jabra and ReSound brands offer to consumers.
With our purpose to MAKE LIFE SOUND BETTER, the GN Group will continue to satisfy the hearing aid and headset markets with ReSound and Jabra as the driving brands and further utilize our combined competencies in the emerging markets for hearables and intelligent audio solutions.
The GN Group’s new brand proposition expresses the benefits that the products and solutions under the ReSound and Jabra brands offer to users: INTELLIGENT AUDIO SOLUTIONS THAT LET YOU HEAR MORE, DO MORE AND BE MORE THAN YOU EVER THOUGHT POSSIBLE.
Changes to legal company names
As of today, this new brand platform will lead to some consequential changes in the GN Group:
- The Danish parent company in the hearing aid group – GN ReSound A/S – will change its name to GN Hearing A/S. The group’s flagship hearing aid brand is ReSound, but it will continue operating other specialty brands such as Beltone, Interton and Otometrics
- The headset business’ Danish parent company – GN Netcom A/S – will change names to GN Audio A/S. This company will exclusively market itself under the Jabra brand
- The group’s subsidiaries outside of Denmark will change names in accordance with the above parent company changes during 2017
To reflect the GN Group’s vision and purpose – and to support the new brand platforms for its two leading brands ReSound and Jabra – a new and modernized corporate look is now rolled out.
Today, we also launch our new corporate homepage that will give the audience a first taste of our new brand platform, which will be implemented globally throughout the remainder of 2016. Visit us at GN.com.
This is the first time I have come across evidence that always listening will come to GN audio- Beltone, Jabra.
Nice. Note this is where Knowles is an incumbent with the LPSD ing mic.
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They gotta move along....
#HEALTH NEWS
NOVEMBER 2, 2017 / 6:01 AM / A MONTH AGO
Hearing aid maker GN Store Nord suffers as rivals catch up
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Shares in GN Store Nord fell more than 5 percent on Thursday as slightly weaker-than-expected quarterly revenue stoked fears that rivals are catching up with its technology.
FILE PHOTO: A ReSound LiNX mock-up is pictured in Vienna November 22, 2013. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader
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Market leader Sonova earlier this year launched a new hearing aid microchip capable of streaming audio directly from wireless devices, as the Swiss company tried to close a technology gap with its Danish competitor.
“The competitors are coming, but we can’t focus on what they have in their bags,” Chief Executive Anders Hedegaard told Reuters, adding it was important to constantly renew products in the $6 billion-a-year hearing aid market.
GN shares were down 5.0 percent at 200.5 Danish crowns at 0851 GMT, after third-quarter hearing aid sales growth slowed, due in part to disruptions caused by hurricanes in the United States, the company’s biggest market.
Its GN Hearing division reported underlying growth of 6 percent, which disappointed analysts after the launch of its newest hearing aid, ReSound LiNX 3D, led to double-digit growth in May and June.
“GN Hearing has benefited from having very differentiated products compared to the competitors in the past couple of years but that has become more blurred now,” Sydbank analyst Morten Imsgard said.
The ReSound LiNX 3D hearing aid offers remote tuning and direct streaming from an Apple iPhone to the hearing aid, aiming to win over tech-savvy Baby Boomers.
Sonova now aims to compete on direct-streaming with a 2.4 GHz chip - which GN was first to present years ago - that enables direct streaming from not just Apple but other Bluetooth-equipped devices as well.
GN posted third-quarter revenue of 2.28 billion Danish crowns ($357 million) slightly lower than analysts’ average forecast of 2.30 billion, according to a Reuters poll.
Digressive reading is so rewarding. That QUIK/Nordic Voice over BLE will get plenty of attention and start to prepare that it could be even be in places like GN hearing, Sonova....
I did not expect us to have much in the markets of companies like GN, but with them owning the blue parrot brand, that IS already a Sensory IP company, evidence that they are under pressure.
THe phrase that they see
always-on access to the internet and information, present a sweet spot for GN’s unique innovative expertise a
They actually need always on voice, blue parrot would be a good place for them to use Eos, while they should use Knowles for some other products.
Will track along.
Sensry wins either way....QUIK and Knowles are both Sensory IP folks- hence Todd M. comment that they are in shootouts with themselves quite often.
My QUIK holdings are 10% sensory, have been since '15.
