All articles by Pierre-Marie Bernard – Page 4
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A majority of stock listed eyewear companies saw their share value decline in Q2
Stock listed eyewear companies have seen their share value increase by 4.3 percent on a non-weighted average basis in the second quarter of 2024, improving slightly from the 1.6 percent increase observed in Q1. The industry average outperformed the MSCI World Index, which includes 1,500 companies worldwide and grew by ...
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Private equity fund about to invest in Lunettes Pour Tous
Quilvest Capital Partners, a global investment fund with over $7 billion in assets under management, is in advanced talks for the acquisition of a significant share in French-based optical retail group Lunettes Pour Tous, according to a recent article by L’Informé, a French independent business news website. This followed an ...
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Fielmann posts double-digit sales increase and higher profit ratios in H1
On the morning of its annual general meeting on July 11, Fielmann Group has reported strong preliminary results for the first half of the current fiscal year. External sales increased by 12 percent year-on-year to €1.1 billion in H1 2024, confirming the double-digit growth already reported for Q1. International ...
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Brazilian optical retail market value up 5% in 2023
The Brazilian optical retail market value grew by 4.9 percent year-on-year to 25.6 billion reais (€4.4bn) in 2023 according to the annual report by Abióptica. The data was calculated based on a survey by Cielo, a credit card service company, at optical stores. It does not include online sales. Founded ...
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Double-digit growth puts Specsavers above the £4 bn annual revenue mark
Publishing its annual business review for its fiscal year ended Feb. 29, 2024, Specsavers has reported group revenue of £4.01 billion, up by 10.3 percent year-on-year at constant exchange rates. This marks a strong improvement from the previous fiscal year when sales were up by 5.6 percent. The performance also ...
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Afflelou sales up 5 percent in Q3
The Afflelou Group has reported a 5.5 percent year-on-year increase in network sales to €229.4 million for the third quarter of its current fiscal year, ended April 30, in line with its growth pace in the previous quarter. For the first nine months of the financial year, sales were up ...
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Kirk & Kirk turns to crowfunding for marketing budget boost
Kirk & Kirk is about to complete a crowdfunding campaign for £150,000 (€177,000) by selling approximately 7 percent of company shares on Crowdcube, a crowdfunding platform focusing on European start-ups. Jason Kirk, CEO, and Karen Kirk, Creative Director, each hold 36 percent of the family business. At the date of ...
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Google takes a seat at AR Alliance’s board, alongside Meta, Essilux and others
The AR Alliance, an international body regrouping companies and organizations in the augmented reality hardware sector, has announced that Google has become a new founding member of the association, taking a seat at its board of directors. The announcement seems to give more substance to speculations that the high-tech giant ...
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Most top industry players maintained momentum last year, but frames companies slowed down
We are publishing here for the second time an industry-wide table showing the year-on-year revenue and profitability performance of most large companies in the eyewear sector in their last fiscal year. For most of them, the fiscal year corresponds to the 2023 calendar year. Exceptions include Japanese-based companies (fiscal year ...
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Increased production capacity supports Menicon’s sales growth, weighs on profitability
Menicon has reported a 5.1 percent year-on-year increase in annual revenue to 106.9 billion Japanese yen (€633m) for its vision care division in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024. The segment accounts for over 90 percent of total group revenue. Including the healthcare and life care unit, whose sales ...
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Fielmann more than doubles US retail footprint with new acquisition
Fielmann Group has announced that it has agreed to acquire 100 percent equity ownership of Shopko Optical, a US optical retail chain based in Wisconsin, through Fielmann USA, its subsidiary in the country. The transaction, for which the amount was not disclosed, is expected to become effective in the third ...
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J.F. REY new owners look to balance brand DNA and changes while navigating supply chain issues
Almost three years after the acquisition of J.F. REY by a Franco-German trio of investors including Dan Levi and Ralf Kmoch of Visibilia, and Walter Pirinoli of Visioptis, we sat down with the French executive to discuss the evolutions and future strategic orientations of the Marseille-based designer eyewear brand. “While ...
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Mitsui expects return to growth for vision care unit sales in FY 2024
Annual sales of Mitsui Chemicals’ Life & Healthcare Solutions unit, which includes the group’s vision care materials, nonwovens and agrochemicals businesses, increased by 13.5 percent year-on-year to 271.7 billion Japanese yen (€1.6bn) for fiscal 2023, ended on March 31. The division reported an operating margin of 11.0 percent for the ...
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CVI upgrades outlook again as increased capacity kicks in
CooperCompanies has upgraded again its full-year outlook after the solid performance of its CooperVision (CVI) unit in the second quarter of fiscal 2024 ended April 30. Quarterly sales of contact lenses increased by 8 percent year-on-year to $635.9 million. On a constant-currency basis, they were up by 10 percent, returning ...
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Topcon topline driven by “blossoming” Screening Business and currencies
Revenues from Topcon eye care business unit jumped by 19.3 percent year-on-year to 21.0 billion Japanese yen (€118m) in the last quarter of the group’s fiscal year ended March 31, 2024. The strong Q4 momentum enabled the division to post record revenue for the full year, as the topline reached ...
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Vision Council switches 2024 US market forecast to “growth” after positive Q1
The Vision Council has improved its total US optical market value forecast for 2024 after its Market Insights Q1 2024 report showed increased spending and a higher number of eye exams by US consumers since the start of this year. The optical industry association is now expecting a 0.68 percent ...
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ZEISS Vision Care publishes results of myopia control research on Asian and Caucasian children
ZEISS Vision Care announced at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) the results of its latest research on the benefits of MyoCare, its myopia control lenses, for Asian and Caucasian children. 240 Chinese children and 304 Caucasian children in Spain and Portugal, all ...
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German optical market slightly positive in 2023 despite declining volumes
The German optical retail market value increased by 1.4 percent year-on-year to €6,763 million including VAT in 2023 according to the annual report of the Zentralverband der Augenoptiker und Optometristen (ZVA), the German association of opticians and optometrists. We are publishing in this article a short selection of the data ...
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Price hikes and sunglasses drove Paris Miki’s growth in FY 03/2024
Paris Miki Holdings has reported group revenue of 12,003 million Japanese yen (€71m) for the last quarter of its financial year, ended on March 31, 2024, up by 5.3 percent year-on-year and accelerating from the 2.6 percent growth reported for Q3. Sales in Japan increased up by 4.2 percent to ...