Financial Results – Page 16
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ArticleAlcon’s vision care sales flat in Q3
In the third quarter of 2020, Alcon’s vision care division, which includes the contact lens and ocular health businesses, posted net sales of $822 million, unchanged from a year earlier at current and constant currency rates. The company said that strong performances by Precision1, its newest daily silicone hydrogel (SiHy) ...
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ArticleFielmann warns that Covid second wave may affect full-year guidance
Fielmann confirmed its updated full-year guidance but warned that the introduction of restrictive measures in most of its markets to tackle the resurgence of the Covid-19 pandemic could prompt it to review its forecasts. The company currently anticipates external sales, which include value-added tax, to exceed €1.6 billion, but to ...
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ArticleNew Look Vision Q3 sales lifted by pent up demand
In the third quarter, New Look Vision Group, Canada’s largest optical retailer, posted a 16.8 percent year-on-year increase in sales to 86.9 million Canadian dollars (€56.1m-$66.3m) driven primarily by comparable store sales growth as well as from newly acquired stores. Comparable store sales were up by 13.5 percent, underpinned by ...
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ArticleNational Vision sees Q4 comparable sales up by 5-9% as pent-up demand moderates
National Vision expects adjusted comparable store sales to grow by only 5 to 9 percent in the fourth quarter, after rising by 12.4 percent in the previous three months, as pent-up demand peters out. The third quarter experienced a strong rebound after comparable sales declined by 36.5 percent in the ...
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ArticleSafilo sees uncertain year end after Q3 sales rebound
Safilo could not provide an outlook for November and the holiday season due to growing uncertainty resulting from a resurgence of Covid-19 cases in many countries after posting a strong improvement in sales in the third quarter and seeing a continued positive development of its business in October. In the ...
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ArticleAmazon Q3 sales up 37%, net profit triples
Amazon’s third-quarter sales grew by 37 percent to $96.1 billion. They were boosted by booming online transactions during the coronavirus crisis worldwide, which prevented or discouraged shoppers from purchasing in physical stores. Excluding a $691 million favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates during the quarter, sales increased ...
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Bausch Health Q3 revenues up 28% from Q2
Bausch Health’s revenues were $2,138 million in the third quarter of 2020, down by 3 percent from a year earlier both on a reported and an organic basis, as the company continued to suffer from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. But, compared with the second-quarter, the top line was ...
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ArticleEssilorLuxottica sees sharp improvement in Q3
EssilorLuxottica bounced back in the third quarter after second-quarter revenues were nearly halved amid Covid-19 lockdowns. Sales in the three months to Sept. 30 were down by 5.2 percent from the year-ago quarter to €4,085 million, or by 1.1 percent at constant exchange rates. The company did not release earnings ...
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ArticleGrandVision recovers faster than expected in Q3
GrandVision enjoyed a stronger-than-expected recovery in the third quarter, especially thanks to the performance achieved in the Benelux, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, but the company remains cautious as the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic hits Europe. So far, one of the positive aspects of the pandemic has been to ...
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ArticleHoya bounces back in lenses, improves operating margin
As previously announced by Alexandre Montague, the new chief executive of Hoya Vision Care, in an interview with us, eyeglass lenses’ revenues of the Japanese group Hoya have bounced back to pre-Covid levels. In the presentation of its results for the second quarter ended on Sept. 30, the company reported ...
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Safilo Q3 sales better than expected
Safilo estimates that in the third quarter its net sales grew by a mid-single-digit rate at constant exchange rates compared with the same quarter of 2019. It also expects to return to a profit at adjusted Ebitda level. Previously, the company had forecast a moderate decline in sales for the ...
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ArticleFielmann raises FY guidance on better-than-expected Q3 results
Fielmann posted “considerably” better-than-expected third-quarter results and has lifted its full-year guidance. According to preliminary estimates, consolidated sales were about €420 million compared with €400.0 million a year earlier and pre-tax profit is around €80 million against €78.5 million in the third quarter of 2019. The German eyewear retailer pointed ...
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ArticleInspecs posts H1 loss but sees better second half
Inspecs swung to an interim loss in its first results as a public company, but forecast a better second half despite the impact of Covid-19. The British company, which joined the London Alternative Investment Market in February, reported a pretax loss of $8.3 million in the first six months of ...
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ArticleCooperVision Q3 sales down by 12%
CooperVision (CVI) saw a 12 percent drop in sales to $449.3 million in the third quarter of CooperCompanies’ financial year, which ended on July 31, and the division’s gross margin narrowed to 61 percent from 65 percent a year earlier owing to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. At constant ...
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ArticleAlcon’s Q2 vision care sales down 27% driven by contact lenses
In the second quarter of 2020, Alcon’s vision care division, which includes the contact lens and ocular health businesses, posted an 27 percent decrease in net sales to $596 million. At constant currency rates, the decline reached 25 percent and was primarily driven by lower demand and widespread closures, partially ...
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ArticleThai Optical Group to set up TOG Europe
Commenting on its second-quarter financial results, Thai Optical Group (TOG) announced that it will establish a new distribution center for Europe in Poland. According to the lens maker, the new structure is scheduled to be operational before the end of the year and will help to increase business opportunities in ...
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ArticleNew Look Vision enjoys brisk trade since re-start
New Look Vision, Canada’s largest optical retailer, posted a 64.9 percent decrease in revenues to 27.4 million Canadian dollars (€17.5m-$20.5m) in the second quarter, resulting principally from the Covid-19 related interruption, as well as scheduled store closures offset by revenue from newly acquired stores. By the end of the quarter, ...
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ArticleNational Vision returned to growth in June
National Vision’s second quarter net revenues fell to $260.0 million from $429.5 million a year earlier as comparable store sales contracted by a reported 44.7 percent and by 36.5 percent on an adjusted basis. Comparable store sales dropped by 83.9 percent in April and by 56.6 percent in May, but ...
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ArticleBausch Health to spin off its eye health unit
Bausch Health intends to spin off its eye health business into an independent publicly traded entity. It will be an integrated, pure play eye-health company built on the Bausch + Lomb brand. The timing of the spinoff is tied to certain conditions and approvals, including the reorganization of the reporting ...
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ArticleGrandVision’s online booking plays key role in customer conversion
GrandVision continues to see lower retail traffic across its business as a result of higher consumer uncertainty. But, this is being offset by higher customer conversion driven by the underlying need for eyecare and brand loyalty, the Dutch eyewear retailer said in comments accompanying its first-half results. The online appointment ...
