All Financial results articles – Page 21
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ArticleSynsam keeps growing but adjusts to tougher market
Reporting its results for the fourth quarter of 2022 and the full year, leading Nordic retailer Synsam Group said that its double-digit revenue hike resulted in market share gains in a challenging market environment. The company’s growth pace is however slowing down and profitability declined sharply year-on-year on strong network ...
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Afflelou network passes €1bn in annual sales
The Afflelou group has announced external sales of €1,012 million (including VAT) in calendar year 2022 for its optical and hearing aid business, passing the symbolic €1 billion mark for the first time. Network sales were up by 3.2 percent compared to 2021. In 2022, the retail group opened 21 ...
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Menicon hits 30% overseas sales ratio
Menicon Q3 results showed that the Japanese company reached an important milestone in the internationalization of its business as overseas sales reached 30 percent of total revenue. That compares with 12 percent five years ago and a 35 percent target ratio for 2025. International sales of contact lenses jumped by ...
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ArticleKering Eyewear speeds over the €1bn mark
Kering Eyewear has reported €1,115 million in annual revenue for 2022, up by 59.7 percent from 2021, with an almost equal contribution to growth from acquisitions and existing portfolio. In the last two years, the subsidiary of French luxury group Kering has more than doubled its topline figure. In more ...
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Carl Zeiss Meditec reports strong sales growth but lower margins for Q1
Carl Zeiss Meditec revenues increased by 14.6 percent year-on-year in Q1 2022/23 to €470.3 million, or by 12.1 percent in constant currencies, in spite of ongoing supply chain issues for both its business units. At constant exchange rates and compared with Q1 2021/22, sales in the Ophthalmology division went up ...
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Mitsui to expand capacities as vision care sales keep growing
Mitsui Chemicals posted a 17.6 percent year-on-year sales increase to 186.8 billion Japanese yen (€1.3 bn) for its Life & Healthcare Solutions’ business unit in the third quarter of its fiscal year. The division includes the Japanese group’s vision care business among other activities such as agrochemicals or oral care. ...
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ArticleHOYA announces mixed Q3 results, global partnership with NIDEK
HOYA CORPORATION revenue inched up by 1 percent year-on-year in Q3 to 173.5 billion Japanese yen (€1.2 bn) as the continuous – albeit slowing – growth in its Life Care segment’s sales and currency tailwinds offset a sharp decline in the IT division business. At constant rates, the group’s topline ...
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Topcon Eye Care sales up 19% in Q3
Japanese-based equipment maker Topcon has reported a 19 percent year-on-year increase in revenue to a record high 49,289 million Japanese yen (€348 m) for its Eye Care division in Q3. Both the screening devices and the digital optometry systems’ categories grew strongly in the quarter. Favorable currency variations against the ...
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ArticleInspecs 2022 revenue up 9%
Inspecs Group has just released a trading update for its business in 2022, in line with the previous update announced in October and showing signs of improvements that sent the group’s share price up by more than 40 percent on the day of the announcement. At 94 pence now, the ...
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ArticleGood 2022 results for Safilo, but Longarone plant’s future uncertain
While showing positive results for 2022, with increases in both revenue and margins, the statement released by the Safilo Group yesterday (Jan. 26) raised concerns about the future of its Longarone plant and its 500 employees. In the opening remarks of its financial announcement, Safilo said that its board of ...
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8% revenue hike but operational loss for Mister Spex in 2022
Releasing preliminary results for the full year, omnichannel retailer Mister Spex has announced an 8 percent year-on-year growth in revenue to €210 million for 2022 and an adjusted EBITDA margin of between -6 percent and -3 percent. The company stressed that these results were in line with the guidance announced ...
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ArticleJohnson & Johnson Q4 CL sales grow 7.7% at constant fx
Johnson & Johnson’s global sales of contact lenses in the fourth quarter decreased by a reported 0.2 percent to $831 million as currency headwinds hit the top line. Sales at constant currency rates instead jumped by 7.7 percent, as the company highlighted the strong performance of its Acuvue Oasys 1-Day ...
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JINS driven by overseas markets in Q1
Japanese-based retailer JINS booked an 11.6 percent year-on-year increase in Q1 sales to 17,051 million Japanese yen (€120m), accelerating strongly from the 5.1 percent growth reported for the previous quarter. The Q1 sales uptick was largely driven by a 35.5 percent jump in overseas revenue to ¥ 4,584 million (€32m) ...
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KITS Eyecare sales up 25 percent in Q4
Canadian e-commerce company KITS Eyecare has announced a 25 percent year-on-year revenue growth to $25 million for Q4 2022, with repeat consumers accounting for roughly 60 percent of sales. For the full year, the company is expecting the topline to grow by 9 percent compared to 2021, reaching $90 million. ...
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ArticleAfflelou up 2.1% in Q1 with return to growth in France
The Afflelou group has posted a 2.1 percent year-on-year increase in network sales to €213 million for the first quarter of its 2022 financial year, ended on Oct. 31, with growth in all its markets in spite of the troubled macroeconomic environment. On a like-for-like basis, sales were up by ...
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ArticleZeiss Vision Care up double digits in 2021/22
Zeiss Vision Care, the main business unit within the Consumer Markets segment of the ZEISS Group, has reported a double-digit increase in revenue at constant exchange rates for its 2021/22 fiscal year, ended Sept. 30, compared to the previous year, with market share gains in all regions. The company does ...
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ArticleCarl Zeiss Meditec ends year with 15 % topline growth and full order book
Carl Zeiss Meditec has reported annual revenue of €1,903 million for its 2021/22 fiscal year, an increase of 15.5 percent in reported terms and of 13.3 percent at constant exchange rates compared to the previous year. Orders received increased at an even faster pace (27.7 percent in constant currencies) to ...
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ArticleRecord revenue but lower margins for Cooper
CooperCompanies has reported mixed results for its last fiscal quarter of the year as well as for the full year. While the group’s revenue continued to grow at a double-digit pace year-on-year reaching record levels in both business units, CooperVision (CVI) and CooperSurgical, profit ratios declined significantly. CVI Q4 revenue ...
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ArticleSlight profitability decline for Specsavers in 2021/22 as investments resumed
According to the Specavers group’s official financial filings to the U.K. commerce register, the optical retail giant has seen its operating profits increase marginally to £449 million (€520 m) in the fiscal year ended Feb. 28, 2022, from £445 million (€513 m) in the previous year. However, as total revenue ...
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ArticleSynsam keeps double-digit sales’ growth pace but profit ratios decline
Reporting on its performance during the third quarter of 2022, the Synsam Group said that it increased its market share in a weak consumer market, with sales growing double-digits, and that it continued to invest for future growth, which led to a reduction in profit ratios. Total sales were up ...
