UK, ROI Hearing Instrument Market Grew 7% in 2025, BIHIMA Reports
Data shows strong annual performance across public and private sectors, though quarterly trends were mixed with a dip in private sales in Q4.
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Economic Headwinds Flatten Hearing Aid Sales in 2022
US hearing aid sales increased nominally by 0.8% to 4.77 million units in 2022, compared to the post-pandemic year of 2021, when sales surged by 37%, according to the Hearing Industries Association (HIA).
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EHIMA Reports Hearing Aid Sale Decline in 2020
In 2020, EHIMA members sold 14.12 million hearing aids in total; compared to the previous year, sales fell by 17.2%, an “unprecedented first after years of continued growth,” according to EHIMA.
BIHIMA Releases Q3 2020 Market Data Showing Recovery After Lockdown
According to BIHIMA’s announcement, the latest UK and Irish hearing instrument Q3 data shows that “the private hearing instrument market is recovering well, with the NHS market picking up at a slower rate.”
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US Hearing Aid Sales Rebound Strongly in Third Quarter 2020
It may not be a miraculous market recovery for the hearing healthcare field, but it’s still very good. Total US hearing aid net unit sales—while still down by -6.2% in the third quarter —made what can be considered a very strong rebound from the -58.6% thumping experienced from April-June (Q2) due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, statistics generated by HIA show that private/commercial sector hearing aid sales actually increased by 0.5% compared to Q3 of last year.
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COVID-19 and How It’s Speeding Up the Future of Healthcare
COVID-19 has transformed healthcare. The clinician’s role has taken on an increased significance. Because of this, it has sped up the adoption of technology to keep the hearing healthcare professional and the patient connected, even when social distancing is keeping them apart.
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BSHAA Publishes Results of April Covid-19 Member Survey
The British Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists (BSHAA) has published results from an April survey of its UK members about how they were responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. The survey has several interesting parallels to a Hearing Review survey of US hearing care practices during the same period in mid-April.
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Hearing Review Coronavirus Impact Survey #1 Results (March 19-24)
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, The Hearing Review surveyed hearing care professionals during the past week regarding how the outbreak is impacting their business. Here are the results.
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Amplifon Off to a Hot Start in 2019
Amplifon, the parent group of Miracle Ear and Elite Hearing Network, published impressive first quarter 2019 financial results, showing revenue growth of 25.4% driven by solid organic growth and a large contribution from their M&A activity, notably from their recent purchase of the GAES hearing aid dispensing network based in Spain.
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Blog: Seasonality in Hearing Aid Sales
Hearing care practice owners often get sweaty palms this time of year due to a drop in business and hearing aid units sold. However, industry statistics show that, if that’s the case in your business, maybe you should relax a little; historically, January and February are probably the worst months for hearing aid sales in the private sector.
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US Hearing Aid Sales Increase by 5.3% in 2018; Approach 4-Million Unit Mark
US hearing aid unit sales increased by 5.3% in 2018, falling just 30,000 units short of the 4 million mark, according to HIA fourth quarter statistics. For the year, the commercial sector experienced unit sales gains of 5.95%, while the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) dispensing activity increased by 2.4%.
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Will Hearing Aid Sales Top 4 Million Units in 2018?
According to HIA statistics, the US hearing aid market has experienced sales gains of 5.9% and may exceed 4 million hearing aid units dispensed by the end of 2018. Here’s a summary of the US hearing industry statistics through the third quarter of this year, including a look at the most-common styles of hearing aids sold.
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US Hearing Aid Sales Up by 5.7% in First Half of 2018
In the second quarter of 2018, US quarterly sales of hearing aids exceeded 1 million net units for the first time in the industry’s history, according to statistics generated by the Hearing Industries Association (HIA). In Q2 2018, unit sales increased by 5.73% compared to the same period last year—the exact same percentage growth as the first quarter’s sales’ growth rate.
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EHIMA Data Shows 5.7% Increase in Global Hearing Aid Sales
In 2017, the six EHIMA members who are the world’s largest and leading hearing instrument manufacturers sold 15.05 million hearing aids in total. Compared to the previous year, sales grew by 5.7%.
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US Hearing Aid Sales Up 5.7% in First Quarter 2018
Hearing aid net unit sales in the United States increased by 7.2% for the private sector and stayed about the same (-0.5%) at the VA in the first quarter of 2018 compared to the same period last year. RICs constituted 71.7% of the total market.
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Keep Building Your Business
Those practices with larger gross revenues have the critical mass to leverage their advantages in an increasingly competitive market.
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Staff Standpoint: Hearing Aid Sales Increase by 3.4% in 2017
Hearing aid net unit sales in the United States grew by 3.4% in 2017, with a 4.0% growth rate for the commercial/private sector and 0.92% for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), according to statistics generated by the Hearing Industries Assn (HIA), Washington, DC.
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BIHIMA Releases 2017 Q3 Market Statistics Report
The BIHMA reports what they call “improved growth” in the number of units distributed through the private market in both the UK and Ireland.
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