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    Britons started Christmas shopping in October

    22 November 2020

    Britons started their Christmas shopping early this year, according to data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). In October, retail sales volumes increased by 1.2 percent in the U.K. when compared with September, marking the sixth consecutive month of growth. The increased reached 6.4 percent for non-store retailing, ...

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    Opticians’ sales down 99.1% in France in April

    25 May 2020

    Banque de France reported that optical shops’ revenues in the country decreased by 99.1 percent in April, the only full month under lockdown, as compared to the same month last year. It is the second highest drop rate among all sectors in France, after bicycles and motorbikes, which went down ...

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    Americans are adjusting to the Covid-19 crisis

    15 May 2020

    Interesting new trends have emerged in The Vision Council’s newly released April COVID-19 Optical Impact Consumer Study. In the words of the council’s chief executive, Ashley Mills, the team behind the survey has identified “subtle shifts in consumer sentiment toward eyecare and vision correction.” Over the course of April, the ...

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    Altagamma predicts 20 percent drop in global luxury goods sales this year

    11 May 2020

    Global sales of luxury goods are forecast to fall by 20 percent this year, with Europe most affected. It could take until 2023 to return to 2019 levels, according to forecasts by Altagamma and the consultancy Bain & Company.

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    Italy's eyewear industry may have lost half its revenues with the Covid-19 crisis

    6 May 2020

    The Italian eyewear industry, especially smaller companies, may have lost about 50 percent of its revenues as the Covid-19 pandemic has been spreading worldwide, leading to about half of humanity being placed in quarantine, pointed out Giovanni Vitaloni, president of the Italian manufacturers’ association Anfao, in an exclusive interview with ...

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    The German industry projects a drop of 23 to 34%

    6 May 2020

    Spectaris, the German ophthalmic industry association, conducted an online survey among members of the German industry in mid-April. According to the report, 90 percent of the participating companies said that they had received fewer orders in the previous weeks, 75 percent said that their economic situation had worsened due to ...

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    The German optical retail market grew by 3.8% in 2019

    6 May 2020

    ZVA, the German association of opticians, published a report on the German ophthalmic optics market on April 27. ZVA reported that the German optical retail market increased by an estimated 3.8 percent to €6.5 billion in 2019, as compared to the previous year.

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    Suppliers help opticians in the U.S.

    2 May 2020

    More than 75 percent of U.S. opticians consulted by the Vision Council said they were receiving some form of support from their suppliers in a survey conducted between April 8 and 11, up from 31 percent in a previous survey on March 24-27. Details about the kind of support could ...

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    German independents outperformed in Europe in 2019

    5 April 2020

    Independent opticians performed particularly well in Germany in the past year. According to GfK, the German market enjoyed strong growth in Europe, rising by 5.5 percent to €5.8 billion at the retail level, compared with increases of 1.4 percent in France and 1.1 percent in Spain and a decrease of ...

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    The European contact lens market rose by 4.3% in 2019

    2 April 2020

    The contact lens market in 33 European countries rose by 8.8 percent in 2019 to €1,960 million, according to data released by Euromcontact, which represents the contact lens and lens care industry in Europe. On a comparable basis, the growth was limited at 4.3 percent, as the organization was not ...

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    Essilor is recognized as a Diversity Leader

    16 December 2019

    Essilor has been awarded the title of “Diversity Leader 2020” by the Financial Times (FT). The French eyewear group ranked 62nd out of a total of 10,000 companies in the FT’s new annual ranking of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. The assessment covered the companies’ achievements in multiple types ...

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    Germany remains the biggest importer in Europe

    16 December 2019

    According to the latest report on European trade flows published by Spectaris, the German ophthalmic optics industry association, Germany was once again the European Union’s biggest importer of ophthalmic optics products in 2018, reaching a level of €1.43 billion. France remained in second place with an import value of €1.38 ...

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    Eyewear sales will be 12% online by 2023

    16 December 2019

    The global consumption of prescription frames and sunglasses is expected to grow annually by 3-4 percent to reach €61 billion in 2023 as compared to €51 billion in 2018, with sales rising by 2 percent a year in developed countries and by 5 percent in emerging markets, according to data ...

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    Italy’s eyewear exports rise by 7.4%

    4 November 2019

    Italy’s eyewear exports rose by 7.4 percent in value during the first half of 2019, with sales of prescription frames up by 10.3 percent and sunglasses up by 5.7 percent. They benefited in particular from the weakness of the euro against the dollar and new commercial initiatives by some companies ...

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    Russia imports more contact lenses

    5 August 2019

    In 2018, Russia imported contact lenses worth $141.2 million, 4 percent more than in the previous year, according to the Russian Federal Customs Service (FCS). The country also exported contact lenses valued at $2.97 million, but it gave no information on the previous year’s export score. The biggest suppliers of ...

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    Jobson Optical Research's 2019 Optical Retailer Report is now available

    5 August 2019

    Jobson Optical Research’s 2019 Optical Retailer Report & Directory is now available. It contains a list of the top optical retailers in the U.S., including contact information for company headquarters, key executives, buyers’ names for all product categories, and trade names. The report includes Vision Monday’s annual “Top 50 U.S. ...

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    The contact lens market keeps growing

    4 April 2019

    In 2018, the market value of soft contact lenses to eye care professionals increased by 4.5 percent to €1,831 million, according to an annual study by the European Federation of National Associations and International Companies of Contact Lens and Lens Care Manufacturers (Euromcontact). The strongest growth was in Switzerland, where ...