The latest insights and analysis about the international eyewear market including market sizes, growth, drivers and trends on a country, regional and global level.
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Eyewear industry stock prices up 10% in Q1
Following the publication for the first time of our industry stock market capitalization at the start of the year, we are providing here a quarterly update for the evolution of the stock price of 19 stock listed companies operating in our core market, showing its evolution between Jan. 1 and ...
Eyewear industry stocks grew by 6% in 2020
We are publishing here for the first time our ranking of the main stock-listed eyewear industry companies, based on their stock market capitalization in euros at the end of 2020. The corresponding table also shows the change in market value from the previous year, both in local currency and euros.
How Covid-19 has impacted companies’ trade show budgets
It has become commonplace to say that the Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically accelerated trends that were already underway with the digitalization of the economy and society in general.
Fashion industry sales may return to pre-Covid levels late 2022
The global fashion industry is expected to suffer a 15-30 percent decline in sales this year and is not expected to return to 2019 levels until at least the third quarter of 2022, according “The State of Fashion 2021”, a new report by Business of Fashion and McKinsey & Co.
Executive Survey: Optical industry braces up for a difficult spring/summer 2021 season
The optical industry is expecting a significant decline in demand for spring/summer 2021 collections as the world economy still reels from the blow of the Covid-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, many are maintaining comprehensive collections and relying on digital tools to defend or develop their businesses, according to an executive survey carried ...
Amazon and other marketplaces may be in for a reckoning over illegal sales
Why the sale of illegal products through online platforms could become a problem for Amazon and other marketplaces – and why the widespread circumvention of EU competition law may soon be over
WGSN sees three major consumer groups emerging from the crisis
The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated societal changes and is forcing industries worldwide to adapt to the resulting changes in consumption, and WGSN has set out to predict what consumers will be looking for in the next couple of years.
Italian fashion industry still expects sharp declines in H1
The Italian fashion industry still expects sharp declines in sales during the first two quarters of 2021, after falling by 26 percent in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a survey released by Confindustria Moda, the umbrella association which comprises Anfao, the trade association representing eyewear manufacturers; Sistema ...
Global personal luxury goods seen down 23% this year
Global sales of personal luxury goods are estimated to fall by 23 percent this year to €217 billion, with constant currency sales down by 22 percent. It will be the first drop since the financial meltdown of 2009, according to the Altagamma-Bain Worldwide Luxury Market Monitor 2020.
Altagamma predicts 20 percent drop in global luxury goods sales this year
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.
Italy's eyewear industry may have lost half its revenues with the Covid-19 crisis
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 ...
The German industry projects a drop of 23 to 34%
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 ...
The German optical retail market grew by 3.8% in 2019
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.
Suppliers help opticians in the U.S.
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 ...
German independents outperformed in Europe in 2019
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 ...
