Financial Results – Page 4
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ArticleNational Vision posts good Q4, transitions out of Walmart partnership
National Vision, the third largest optical retail player in the U.S., has reported Q4 revenue of $500.4 million, up by 8.0 percent year-on-year. The company said that the quarterly growth was primarily driven by a 6.0 percent increase in comparable store sales that reflected both an increase in customer transactions ...
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ArticleAfter a good 2023, Atol to accelerate on audition and low-cost banners
French voluntary retail group Atol has announced a 6.3 percent year-on-year increase in company revenue to €455 million for 2023, including €3 million from the sales of hearing aids. The group stressed that last year was a record high both in terms of revenue and growth pace and that it ...
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ArticleBausch + Lomb Q4 contact lens sales inch up 1% amid distribution disruptions
Bausch + Lomb reported contact lens sales of $222 million in the fourth quarter of 2023, up by a reported one percent compared to the year earlier and three percent higher at constant currency rates. This growth was primarily driven by the continued momentum of its Infuse/Ultra One Day daily ...
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ArticleSynsam wraps up another double-digit growth fiscal year
Synsam Group has reported a 7.7 percent year-on-year increase in revenue to 1,479 million Swedish crowns (€132 m) for the last quarter of fiscal 2023, slowing down slightly from the previous quarter when sales rose by 9.9 percent. On an organic basis, excluding acquisitions, currency effects and franchised stores, quarterly ...
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ArticleParis Miki reports Q3 slowdown despite booming sunglass segment
Paris Miki has announced a 2.6 percent year-on-year increase in Q3 revenue to 12,689 million Japanese yen (€78 m), slowing down from the 8.7 percent growth reported for the previous quarter. The Japanese-based retailer’s quarterly revenue uptick was driven by its domestic market where sales rose by 2.8 percent to ...
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ArticleEssilorLuxottica accelerates in Q4 to wrap another record year
After a relative slowdown in the previous quarter, EssilorLuxottica has reported a return to high-single-digit revenue growth for the last quarter of 2023, leading the group to report another record year in terms of revenue, as its topline reached €25,393 million in 2023, up by 3.7 percent in reported terms ...
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ArticleKering Eyewear sales surge 35 percent in 2023
Kering Eyewear continues to outperform the other subsidiaries of French luxury goods group Kering, with annual revenues in 2023 jumping by 35 percent to €1,502 million. It was the only unit to post topline growth last year. Currency and scope effects boosted full-year revenues by 25 percent, as ...
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ArticleDe Rigo wholesale and retail up double digits in 2023
De Rigo Group has announced solid revenue growth for both its wholesale and its retail operations in 2023, as the company’s consolidated sales reached €506 million, up by 11.8 percent year-on-year on a reported basis. This is the first time that the topline has exceeded €500 million since 2008, when ...
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ArticleSustained eye care sales growth and IT unit rebound for HOYA in Q3
HOYA CORPORATION has reported another quarter of solid growth in its Life Care business unit, as total revenue went up by 12 percent year-on-year to 133.5 billion Japanese yen (€842m) in reported terms for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2023. At constant exchange rates, Life Care increased by 6 percent ...
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ArticleInspecs posts mixed results for 2023, resumes acquisitions strategy
Releasing a trading update for 2023, UK-based Inspecs Group has reported margin improvements on flattish year-on-year sales for last year (£200.3m, €234.9m). On a constant-currency basis, the group’s topline declined by 1.6 percent versus 2022, which the company attributed to softer trading in December. This apparently more than offset the ...
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ArticleJohnson & Johnson Q4 contact lens sales rise 7.9%
Johnson & Johnson’s global sales of contact lenses in the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31 grew by a reported 6.1 percent to $882 million. Sales at constant currency rates increased by 7.9 percent, with growth driven by price actions and the continued strong performance of the Acuvue Oasys 1-Day family ...
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ArticleKaneko mother company posts very strong 9-month results
Japan Eyewear Holdings (JEH), mother company of the Kaneko Optical and Four Nines (or 999.9) brands, published its quarterly financial results in December last year and for the first time since its IPO on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in November. For the third quarter alone, sales jumped by 33.6 percent ...
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ArticleZEISS Consumer Markets unit up 5% in fiscal year, group topline over €10 bn
ZEISS Group has reported record revenue of €10.1 billion for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, up by 15 percent compared with 2021/22 and over the symbolic €10 bn mark for the first time. As shown in the table below, the group’s growth was largely driven by its semiconductor business ...
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ArticleDouble-digit sales growth but lower margin in full year for Carl Zeiss Meditec
Carl Zeiss Meditec has reported a 9.8 percent year-on-year increase in revenue to €2,089 for its full fiscal year ended Sept. 30. In constant currencies, the topline was up by 10.1 percent with market share gains in both business units - ophthalmic devices and microsurgery. The company stressed that it ...
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ArticleMitsui aims to boost its Life & Healthcare business’ profits by 2030
During its Vision 2030 business strategy presentation held earlier this week, Mitsui Chemicals has announced that it was planning to increase the operating profit of its Life & Healthcare Solutions division from 36 billion Japanese yen (€229 m) in the current fiscal year to ¥65 billion (€413 m) in fiscal ...
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ArticleCooperVision slowed down by production capacity limitations
CooperCompanies has reported an 11 percent year-on-year revenue increase to $622.9 million for its CooperVision division in the last quarter of its 2023 fiscal year ended Sept. 30. Quarterly sales of contact lenses were up by 9 percent at constant exchange rates and by 11 percent organically compared with Q4 ...
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ArticleAfflelou Group ends fiscal year on a strong Q4
Afflelou Group ended its fiscal year with a strong fourth quarter as network sales grew by 8.1 percent year-on-year to €232.9 million, accelerating from the 4.2 percent growth reported in the previous quarter. The uptick was particularly noticeable in France as sales grew by 7.3 percent year-on-year in Q4, compared ...
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ArticleSynsam improves margins, expands EyeView roll out
For the first time since the company went public in October 2021, Synsam Group fell short of reporting a double-digit increase in quarterly sales, however not by much as the group’s topline grew by 9.9 percent year-on-year to 1,450 million Swedish crowns (€127m) in Q3. While this confirms the company’s ...
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ArticleNational Vision moves to offset Walmart divorce impact, on track to meet FY guidance
National Vision announced steps to offset the impact on profits of the previously announced end of its partnership with retailing giant Walmart next year, as it released third-quarter results showing it remains on track to meet full-year guidance despite a macroeconomic environment described as “challenging”. Starting in 2024, the company ...
