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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 ...
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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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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 ...

