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Interim Report Q1 2025: Growth challenged by market uncertainty – proactive cost mitigation initiated to support long-term margins
Highlights The Hearing division delivered -1% organic revenue growth driven by a strong initial uptake of ReSound Vivia, but off-set by a challenged U.S. market as well as some slowdown of existing products in anticipation of ReSound Vivia. The strong uptake of ReSound Vivia has continued into April, lending support for expected market share gains. As a consequence of the launch initiatives and the challenged U.S. market, the divisional profit margin ended at 28.4%.The Enterprise division was ch
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