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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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ArticleSpain’s optical manufacturers expect a record spring
The Spanish Association of Optical Manufacturers (AEO) is looking forward to strong eyewear sales in spring, as demand for sunglasses rose again in the third quarter, after two years of low inventory renewals. Third-quarter eyewear sales were in fact up by 20 percent overall in volume and by 11 percent ...
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ArticleConsumer sentiment improves in Europe
Consumer sentiment improved slightly in Germany, France and Italy, the three main economies of the European Union, but consumers remain cautious in a difficult economic environment. In December, German consumer sentiment is expected to rise by 1.7 points to -40.2 points from -41.9 points in November, according to the market ...
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French children eye health deteriorating quickly, survey finds
French children’s eye health has severely deteriorated since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic according to a recent study commissioned by the KRYS GROUP to research company Ipsos. The company said that 40 percent of children between 3 and 10 years old currently suffer from eyesight problems, which represents an ...
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More than half U.S. customers aware of blue light glasses, survey finds
According to a consumer survey by The Vision Council that involved over 15,000 adults earlier this year in the U.S., 25 percent of participants said they were currently using glasses or contact lenses that filter blue light. Half of consumers also said that they were concerned about the potential effects ...
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ArticleStrong stock price variations for eyewear companies in Q3
On a non-weighted average basis, stock prices of publicly listed companies in the eyewear sector went down by 1.3 percent in the quarter to September 30 in an apparent relative recovery from the 17 percent dive reported for the previous quarter. It compares slightly unfavorably with the global MSCI index, ...
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ArticleNew report puts global ophthalmic lenses and frames’ market at €22 bn
The global market for ophthalmic lenses and frames has recovered well from the impact of the COVID pandemic, according to Mark Mackenzie, co-founder with his wife Ingeborg of Strategy with Vision Management (SWV), an independent optical consultancy and research company started in 2001. This is one of the conclusions that ...
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ArticleU.S. eyecare market insulated from inflation, CLI survey says
Vision Expo West – held on Sept. 14-17 in Las Vegas – previewed the results of a survey on eyecare in times of financial duress. Commissioned by the Contact Lens Institute through its “See Tomorrow” initiative, and conducted on Aug. 9-17, the survey queried 251 contact lens wearers screened from ...
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Data & AnalysisWORLD LENS AND FRAME DEMAND STUDY 2022
What were the volumes and values of ophthalmic lenses and ophthalmic frames sold worldwide in 2021?
