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Amplifon
 
.  Amplifon hearing-aids are heading towards the Stock Exchange. The quotation will certainly take place although neither the time nor the methods of the operation have  
been decided yet.    
The group's turnover was equal to 200 billion lira in 1997 and the increase in 1996 was 10,6%. The holding Amplifin - that controls the Amplifon group - belongs to the founder's family: his wife Anna Maria Formiggini, the President, and her two daughters. One of them, Susan Carrol Holland, is the company's Vicepresident.