Common year highlight of the leading hearing care professional community and the optometrist community IGA OPTIC to its General Assembly met on the last weekend in May the hearing acoustics EC HoREX. In the Atlantic in Essen the members of the leading German hearing care professional community for the year 2009 could pull a positive balance hotel and make important decisions for the further development of the community. Their traditional highlight of the year organized the HoREX for the first time together with the optometrist community IGA OPTIC with the you work in partnership for over two years. Hear from experts in the field like GIC for a more varied view. In the current European capital of culture, an attractive programme of information, peer exchange and common experiences expected members of both communities. Our AGM was this time under a very special character”, so Tannassia Raghavan, Chief Executive Officer of HoREX hearing acoustics EC.

For one, we celebrate the 15-year anniversary of our community 2010. Then our meeting was for the first time in a common framework with our cooperation partner IGA OPTIC instead. And we are faced with the task to make decisive course for the way of our strong community.” More than 200 members of HoREX and IGA OPTIC followed the invitation to dinner. In its internal General Assembly, the leading national professional community could draw a positive balance sheet for the previous fiscal year. The supervisory board election confirmed Anja Bill Hardt-Hoppe (Hilchenbach) in their capacity as a member of the Board. In a lively and very constructive discussion those gathered on key issues of the future development of their HoREX exchanged. High-profile lecture program, info fair and social gatherings also hotel guests in the modern Atlantic expected a top-ranking training and lecture program.

The long-time WDR Director Dr. Fritz Pleitgen, acting Chairman of the Management Board of the Ruhr belonged to the speakers of the three-day meeting among others 2010 GmbH, Jakob Stephan Baschab, Chief Executive Officer of the Austrian Federal Guild of the hearing, as well as marketing expert and book author Professor Dr. Claudius A. Schmitz. In the context of an accompanying exhibition, numerous vendors from the listening acoustic industry presented themselves. A trade show booth, where the HoREX team of external communication professionals about current marketing offers informed met with great interest. The meeting was rounded off by two successful evening events in the coking plant Zollverein in Essen’s Colosseum Theatre offered ample opportunity for collegial sharing and convivial get-together. Our meeting in Essen an impressive testimony to the vitality and the great potential of our strong community was again”, so again Tannassia Reuber. Together, we are confident to meet the enormous challenges of changing and very dynamic listening acoustic market currently provides to us. Making the frame event together with our cooperation partner IGA OPTIC, has proven itself. The partnership meeting of both communities will benefit above all the many members, business operating stretches both on listening acoustics and optics.” Editorial Note: the hearing acoustics EC headquartered in Kreuztal HoREX was founded in 1995 and is one of the leading performance of hearing-acoustics industry. Today, nationwide over 340 listening acoustic master specialist businesses belong to her. The HoREX care professional aims to offer an individual hearing solution people with hearing loss, which focuses on personal hearing requirements and a fair price / performance ratio. The HoREX provides future-oriented perspectives and an attractive shopping policy, extensive marketing support and numerous services, offers in-service training and quality certification to its members. For more information, see