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ArticleEyewear stock price up 8% in Q4, sector market capitalization up 10% year-on-year
Along with our usual quarterly update on public eyewear companies’ stock price variations, we are also publishing in the table below the year-on-year changes to provide a longer-term perspective, as well as our annual market capitalization ranking further down on this page. After a negative third quarter, the average stock ...
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Bags and accessories’ luxury sales up 15 % in 2022
Luxury good sales in the bag and accessories segment, in which eyewear is included, went up by 15.3 percent year-on-year to $3.6 billion in 2022 according to Deloitte’s annual ranking of the hundred largest luxury companies worldwide. The category, which accounts for approximately 1 percent of total luxury goods’ sales, ...
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ArticleReport puts fresh numbers on German optical retail long-term trends
Zentralverband der Augenoptiker und Optometristen (ZVA), the German association of opticians and optometrists, has released the four-year update of its BranchenStrukturerhebung report, an analysis of the German optical retail sector’s structure put together with research company GFK. It provides a number of market indicators for the year 2022 and, for ...
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U.S. ECPs’ economic outlook worsens
The economic outlook of U.S. eye care professionals (ECPs) worsened in Q3 compared to Q2 according to the quarterly research report by The Vision Council, and an increasing proportion among them is less confident that they will be able to meet their revenue goals this year. As in previous quarters, ...
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70% of French parents open to remote eye exams, report finds
KRYS GROUP and research company IPSOS have announced the main results of their annual survey on various issues related to eye health in France. Among the main conclusions, the research showed that the screen use time of 3 to 10 year-old children has increased by 10 percent from 2022, reaching ...
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ArticleEyewear companies' average stock price down in Q3
After two consecutive quarters of double-digit growth, the average stock price of eyewear companies went down by an average 7 percent on a non-weighted basis (see chart below) in the quarter ended Sept. 30. This also marks an unusual underperformance compared with the MSCI World Index, a global index comprising ...
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ArticleItalian eyewear exports maintain momentum in Q2
ANFAO, the Italian eyewear industry association, has reported a 15.7 percent year-on-year increase in Italian eyewear exports to €2,840 million for the first half of 2023 as sales in Q2 roughly maintained the 16.7 percent growth reported for Q1. As reflected in the table below, the momentum was driven by ...
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ArticleFrench optical market flattish in 2022, official report says
The French optical market inched up by 0.2 percent year-on-year to €7,272 million according to the new report by the national research and statistics office, the Direction de la recherche, des études, de l’évaluation et des statistiques (DREES). The small hike in market value follows two years of strong COVID-related ...
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ArticleGlobal lens and frames market resilient to COVID and economic crisis, report finds
Underpinned by solid positive and long-term trends – aging populations and more digital lifestyles in the first place –, the global optical market emerged relatively unscathed from the COVID-19 crisis. That was one of the conclusions from the World Lens and Frames Demand report released last year by independent research ...
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Sports optic market to grow 3% annually by 2028
The global market for sports optic – including binoculars, rangefinders, riflescopes and field scopes – is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 2.8 percent to $2.43 billion by 2028, according to a new report by Fortune Business Insights, an Indian research company. The company says that the market growth ...
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Mixed signals from the German optical market for the half year
The German optical market grew by 3.7 percent in volume at retail in the fist six months of 2023 versus the previous year, according to data provided by the ZVA, the country’s national association of opticians and optometrists. Adding the effect of price increases, optical retail sales increased by 7.6 ...
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News briefsItalian exports maintained double-digit growth pace in Q1
The Italian eyewear industry association ANFAO released preliminary exports’ data for the first quarter of 2023 at its general assembly held at the end of last week in Verona. Italian exports in Q1 were up 16.7 percent year-on-year to €1,388 million, decelerating slightly from the 22.5 percent growth reported ...
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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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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 ...
