The latest financial results and analysis from the key players in the eyewear industry.
Slow H1 for Arts Optical as sales of OEM prescription glasses drop
Arts Optical, the Hong Kong-based eyewear manufacturer, has reported a 2.4 percent year-on-year decline in total revenue to 566.4 million Hong Kong dollars (€68m) for the first six months of 2023 as positive results in its distribution and lenses’ divisions could not completely offset a decline in OEM sales. Furthermore, ...
The U.K. and North America drove INSPECS in H1
The Inspecs Group has reported a significant improvement in profitability for the first half year of 2023, mostly thanks to the substantial reduction of its lens unit’s losses, while group revenue progressed at a low mid-single digit pace in constant currencies. As previously announced, the company has changed its reporting ...
Driven by sunglasses, Mister Spex posts positive operating margin in H1
Mister Spex’ turnaround plan seems to be paying off as the German-based retail group reported a double-digit growth in revenue for the second quarter of 2023, market share gains in its domestic market and a return to a positive adjusted EBITDA for the first six months of the year. The ...
CooperVision accelerates in Q3, upgrades full-year forecast
CooperCompanies has reported an 11 percent year-on-year revenue increase to $630.2 million for its CooperVision (CVI) unit in Q3, marking the tenth consecutive double-digit quarterly progression and an acceleration from the previous quarter (+6 percent). Sales of contact lenses were up by 12 percent at constant exchange rates and by ...
Specsavers full-year results show profitability drop
According to Specsavers official accounts’ filing, the U.K.-based retail group’s profitability significantly declined in the twelve-month period ended Feb. 28 compared with the previous fiscal year. While consolidated revenue inched up by 1.1 percent to £3,436 million (€3,988 m) on a reported basis (the company reported last month a 5.6 ...
Synsam posts another record quarter
Synsam Group has reported another quarter of double-digit revenue growth as sales for the quarter ended June 30 reached a record 1,566 million Swedish kronor (€132 m), up by 12.0 percent compared with Q2 2022. This however marks a deceleration from the previous quarter when they grew by 19.0 percent ...
Menicon Q1 vision care sales inch up 4%
Menicon’s vision care sales inched up by 3.7 percent to 25,087 million Japanese yen (€158.8m) in the first quarter of fiscal year 2023, underpinned by a strong performance in the Japan-based contact lens maker’s overseas markets.
National Vision raises 2023 earnings guidance as prepares for end of Walmart partnership
National Vision raised its earnings guidance for the full year while maintaining its outlook for sales, as the optical retailer’s management provided financial analysts with initial indications of how it intends to ride out the previously announced end next year of its long-standing partnership with the retailer Walmart.
Warby Parker sweetens outlook after Q2 sales rise 11%, store rollout continues
Warby Parker tweaked its guidance for sales upwards as it continues with the rollout of new physical stores and after revenues in the second quarter ended June 30 rose by 11 percent to $166.1 million to beat its guidance for the period of 7-9 percent growth.
Italian OEM cluster group surfing on luxury eyewear momentum
Venevision, a group of Italian eyewear manufacturing companies in the Dolomites region, has announced that its revenue for the first half of this year reached €39.6 million, increasing by 58 percent year-on-year thanks to a series of acquisitions in the second half of 2022. On a comparable scope, sales were ...