LIVE24SEVEN // Business Spotlight BUS INE S S S POT L IGHT - TOM DI XON S T RAT FORD & WOR C E S T E R HEAR ING C ENT R E From Film & Television to
From the film and music industry to Worcester Hearing Centre and a family business that continues to expand and lead the way in hearing solutions.
Tom Dixon may be on speed dial for certain music industry clients, but all his customers are the number one priority for him.
Tom, tell us a bit about how you arrived at where you are today? After travelling the world working in film and television production, I decided that I wanted to follow Victoria (mum) into the audiology world and started as receptionist nearly 10 years ago in a centre in Banbury. Gaining my industry knowledge and experience from the ground up, working inside the centre allowed me to enrol at university and start my formal training to be an audiologist whilst under the clinical supervision of Victoria.
Hearing Specialist!
Within a very short period of time I could see many ways in which I could position a centre to offer a more specialist level of expertise and service to its customers. In our home town of Worcester there wasn’t an independent specialist offering a high level of expertise and service, so that is exactly what we set out to achieve. Following the opening of the Worcester centre we’ve attracted over 3,500 customers, some who travel for the services we offer from as far as London, Portugal, Spain and the Arab Emirates. We recognised there was a growing client base from the Stratford area and wanted to offer the same service as Worcester to local people of Stratford and surrounding areas.
You wear several hats within the business, but one that I find most interesting is the ‘Hearing Protection Specialist’, which when you think about it is important to many careers and walks of life. Can you explain for our readers? Hearing protection is something that is hugely overlooked, due to lack of awareness. From young people wearing in-ear headphones blasting out music, to factory or industry workers who are surrounded by loud noise, both can equally damage your hearing. Having a keen music interest myself and with many friends working in the industry, I have always taken a particular interest in hearing protection and custom audio products. I search the globe for the very best in custom made hearing protection for specific situations on a continual basis, to stay ahead of the game. Our solutions are designed to maintain speech communication and environment awareness, but protect from damaging levels of sound, thereby ensuring we can provide the best solution available for each situation. Our clients include professional musicians, motor sport teams, industry and agriculture workers. One of our most specialist services revolves around shooters, where we have
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