# Philips Avent

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**Philips Avent**, stylized as **Philips AVENT**, is a [child care](/source/Child_care) brand which manufactures [baby bottles](/source/Baby_bottle), [breast pumps](/source/Breast_pump), and other baby feeding and health accessories. It is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

## History

In 1982, [Edward Atkin](/source/Edward_Atkin), a young British man, at the birth of his first child, wanted to improve the traditional baby bottles which had several defects when used: the teats were hard and narrow and the container unstable and difficult to fill. He wants to rethink the bottle created years earlier by his father, David Atkin. It creates a wide neck for easy filling and cleaning and adds a soft, flared silicone teat that is tasteless and odorless. This pacifier, presented as equipped with an advanced anti-colic system, marks the beginning of the Avent brand in breastfeeding and bottle feeding.[1]

The name AVENT came from the sub-brand *Avent Naturally* which was launched by a Company called Cannon Rubber (est.1936).[2] The brand was created in 1984 to launch a new type of baby bottle that was short with a wide neck. Avent was the first baby feeding company to produce [teats](/source/Teat) from odourless and tasteless silicone as well as other patented innovations such as a steam and microwave steriliser and piston-free [breast pump](/source/Breast_pump).[citation needed]

In 2005, Charterhouse Venture Capital acquired the company, then known as Cannon Avent. In 2006, Dutch company [Philips](/source/Philips) acquired the brand and renamed it Philips Avent.[citation needed]

Philips Avent has won several international awards for its products. Its Smart Baby Bottle won an international Good Design Award for three years running, from 2017 to 2019,[3] while its Advanced Bottle Sterilizer and Dryer won the Good Design Award in 2020.[4]

The Avent manufacturing plant was located in [Suffolk](/source/Suffolk), a county in the east of [England](/source/England), however it was closed in 2020 by Philips due to Brexit. Manufacturing is now done outside of the UK.[5] Avent's electric breast pump also won an IF Design Award in 2020.[6]

## References

1. Maisonneuve, Catherine (October 2008). ["Le Haut-Conseil des professions paramédicales consulté sur la réforme des études"](http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1779-0123(08)70634-x). *Kinésithérapie, la Revue*. **8** (82): 4. [doi:10.1016/s1779-0123(08)70634-x](https://doi.org/10.1016/s1779-0123(08)70634-x). [ISSN 1779-0123](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/1779-0123)

1. Maisonneuve, Catherine (October 2008). ["Le Haut-Conseil des professions paramédicales consulté sur la réforme des études"](http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1779-0123(08)70634-x). *Kinésithérapie, la Revue*. **8** (82): 4. [doi:10.1016/s1779-0123(08)70634-x](https://doi.org/10.1016/s1779-0123(08)70634-x). [ISSN 1779-0123](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/1779-0123)

1. ["Good Design Awards: Philips Avent Smart Baby Bottle 2017-2019"](https://www.good-designawards.com/award-details.html?award=35349). Retrieved 22 Jan 2022.

1. ["Good Design Awards: Children's Products 2021"](https://www.good-designawards.com/award-category.html?cat=40535). *22 Jan 2022*

1. ["Philips to close Suffolk factory putting 430 jobs at risk"](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46907026). *BBC News*. 17 January 2019.

1. ["IF Design Award 2020: Philips Avent Electric Breast Pump"](https://ifdesign.com/en/winner-ranking/project/philips-avent/272588). Retrieved 25 Jan 2022.

## External links

- [Official website](http://philips.com/c-cs/philips-avent.html)
- [History of Philips AVENT](http://www.consumer.philips.com/consumer/en/gb/consumer/cc/_categoryid_TOPIC_ABOUT_PHILIPS_AVENT_GB_CONSUMER/)

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