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ArticleTwo retail groups top our Q2 stock price chart
Stock prices of eyewear industry companies confirmed in Q2 their upward trend started in the previous quarter. On a non-weighed average basis, they increased by 12.5 percent quarter-on-quarter overperforming the 6.3 percent rice of MSCI World, a global index comprising over 1,500 companies. EWI Stock price chart Q2 2023 ...
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ArticleDriven by lenses, Spanish optical market tops pre-COVID level in 2022
The Spanish optical market grew by 4.4 percent year-on-year to €1.,918 million including VAT in 2022 according to a new report presented yesterday in an online meeting by the Federación Espaňola de Asociasones del Sector Óptico (FEDAO). Adding up to the 20.4 percent rebound reported a year ago for 2021, ...
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ArticleAmerican eyecare providers expect good things from 2023
In its report for the first quarter of 2023 The Vision Council finds that optimism reigns among eyecare providers in the U.S. – despite what the Council’s senior director of market research and analytics, Alysse Henkel, calls “acute pressures” from price inflation and a tight labor market. Surveyed providers found ...
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ArticleHow did the top eyewear companies perform in their last fiscal year?
For the first time we are publishing a comparative analysis of the performance of the eyewear industry’s main players during their last financial year. You can see the detailed results in the interactive table below. Most companies in this table are stock listed and their financial year ends on ...
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ArticleFrench opticians release new market data ahead of new health care plan negotiations
As the French government prepares for a new round of discussions with healthcare professionals for an update of its so-called 100% Santé reform, the Rassemblement des Opticiens de France (ROF), the main opticians’ association in the country, has released a new set of data around the implementation of the plan ...
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News briefs
New Vision Council report looks at eye care journey trends by demographics
A new report just published by the Vision Council looks at how consumers’ eyecare journeys differ across different age groups. Among the key findings of the research, the U.S. industry association noticed that, while they have the highest rate of managed vision care coverage, Gen X consumers are the least ...
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ArticleEuropean soft contact lens wholesale market up double-digit in 2022
Euromcontact, the European federation of national associations and international contact lens manufacturers, calculated that total sales of soft contact lenses to eye care professionals (ECP) increased by 13.1 percent year-on-year to €2,079 million last year in the 30 countries researched in 2022. The list includes mostly European countries but also ...
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ArticleGerman market inched up in 2022 despite lower eyeglass purchases
The Zentralverband der Augenoptiker und Optometristen (ZVA), the German association of opticians and optometrists, has released its annual report on the German market for last year. The release was accompanied by a general sense of relief as, after it was feared that the market would fall into recession in the ...
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ArticleFrance sees five-year rise in annual healthcare expenses
Five years after its last one, Cofidis has released the results of its latest survey of the French citizenry on healthcare expenses, conducted with the aid of CSA Research. The signal finding is that the average annual expense has risen by almost 75 percent, from €715 to €1,249. The increase, ...
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ArticleEyewear stocks start 2023 on the right foot
Stock prices of eyewear companies were off to a good start of the year, with an average growth of 13 percent on a non-weighted basis in Q1 2023 compared with Q4 2022. It is the first time in more than a year that their average value significantly increased, overperforming the ...
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News briefsSome optimism among U.S. ECPs
The effect of the uncertain economy has been slight on 68 percent and great on 25 percent of eyecare professionals (ECPs). This according to a survey highlighted by Vision Monday and conducted in March by Jobson Research on a sample of 296 ECPs – some independent, some in one of ...
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News briefs
ZVA releases preliminary German market figures, announces new president
According to preliminary figures announced by the Zentralverband der Augenoptiker und Optometristen (ZVA) at his annual meeting last week, the German optical market value inched up by 2 percent year-on-year in 2022, with brick-and-mortar outperforming, notably in the area of prescription lenses, while online sales were said to have dropped ...
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ArticleANFAO turns focus to costs after exports jumped in 2022
Just a few days ahead of the 2023 edition of MIDO, Italian eyewear industry association ANFAO released preliminary data for 2022 that broadly confirmed the contrasted picture given last December, between booming exports and a flattish domestic market. Production value of Italian eyewear increased by 24.0 percent year-on-year to €5,171 ...
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ArticleBrits cutting back on eye care, surveys show
A new survey by Specsavers among 2,000 U.K. adults showed that, while 73 percent of respondents wanted to prioritize their health in 2023, 11 percent declared that this would be impossible due to the cost-of-living crisis. Researchers also found that eye care was one of the first healthcare priorities to ...
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ArticleGerman optical associations release new market data at opti
Ahead of the opening of the opti trade show in Munich today, industry association Spectaris announced that, based on its preliminary calculations, sales from German-based suppliers of ophthalmic optics and consumer optics reached a total of €4.87 million for 2022, up by 2.5 percent from 2021. The growth was entirely ...
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ArticleIndustry top 5 average stocks' value up 11 % in Q4
Stock prices of public companies in the eyewear sector have confirmed their recovery in the last quarter of 2022, as the average value inched up by 0.3 percent in the period on a non-weighted basis. It is the first time that our quarterly chart shows an improvement in average value ...
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ArticleA look at the year ahead
A year ago, things were looking brighter, or so it seemed, and one could have described the general eyewear industry mood as “cautiously optimistic.” After the initial COVID-19 shock in 2020, business conditions progressively returned to normal in all main optical markets, to the exception of China and other Asian ...
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ArticleExports jump and new projects for Italian eyewear but ANFAO warns of looming crisis
On the occasion of its annual general meeting last week, the Italian eyewear industry association ANFAO delivered positive interim export figures for 2022 and announced two new initiatives related to feminine empowerment and innovation in the industry. As reflected in our tables below, exports of Italian eyewear increased by 22 ...
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News briefs
Stable eyewear and eyecare demand in the U.S. in Q3, report says
The demand for eyecare and eyewear in the U.S. has remained fairly stable since the start of the year, according to The Vision Council’s Consumer inSights Q3 report, which is based on a survey of over 15,000 adults. The results for the third quarter of the year were largely in ...
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ArticleEyewear companies climb in Deloitte luxury players’ ranking
Along with Thélios and Kering Eyewear, the eyewear subsidiaries of LVMH and Kering, three Italian-based eyewear manufacturers have been listed in the 2022 edition Deloitte’s “Global Powers of Luxury Goods”, an annual report ranking the 100 largest luxury companies in the world. Companies were ranked according to their consolidated sales ...
