[1] In its history, Bernafon has achieved many industry milestones and successes, including the world's first digitally programmable hearing instrument, an ChannelFree™ signal processing.

Shortly after the end of Second World War, management wanted to expand the range of its products, and the head of the company, Hans Gfeller, was himself severely hearing-impaired.

A further expansion took place in 1992 with the takeover of the hearing instrument activities of the German firm Robert Bosch GmbH.

The integration of Bosch's hearing instrument activities and the simultaneous creation of a production line in Australia proved too great a challenge for the relatively small company.

The 1995 takeover of Bernafon by William Demant resulted in the opening of new sales companies and expansion of the product offering.