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ArticlePro Optik reports strong growth, plans further digitization
Pro Optik reported strong results in 2021, outperforming the sector despite recent market headwinds, and consolidating its third place in the ranking of optical retail banners by sales in Germany, the company announced. Sales increased last year by around 11% to €144 million from €130 million in 2020, driven by ...
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Spectaris informs its members about Ukraine war effects on business
To keep its members informed, the German manufacturers of ophthalmic optics and consumer optics association has launched a new section on its website that is dedicated to the war in Ukraine. The association informs its members about the current sanctions in effect by the E.U., the U.S., and counter-sanctions installed ...
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ArticleSpectaris: German optics industry recovered from pandemic impact in 2021
According to a press statement published by the industry association Spectaris, the German manufacturers of ophthalmic optics and consumer optics that are members of the association have successfully recovered from the negative effects of the Corona pandemic in 2021. In 2021, overall sales of the 140 Spectaris members who have ...
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ArticleFrench market up 1.4% vs 2019 despite headwinds
In an online conference for the members of the French-based industry association Club Inter-Optiques last week, GFK released some key indicators on the performance of the French optical market in 2021, also providing some comparison points with the German, Spanish and Italian markets. The research company’s data is based on ...
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ArticlePro Optik discusses future plans in online video
Inaugurating a new communication format with a round table talk available on Vimeo, four Pro Optik managers gave some insights on the present and future plans of the German optician group, nicknamed Pro Optik 2.0 after the changes the company went through. According to the four managers, Anja Fujan (HR), ...
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Inspecs acquires BoDe Design
Inspecs, the U.K.-based eyewear and lenses company, has announced the acquisition of BoDe Design Vertriebs, a distributor of eyeglasses and sunglasses in the German speaking countries and the Netherlands. Founded in 1993, BoDe has been essentially distributing Inspecs’ portfolio brands such as Superdry, O’Neill or Botaniq, along with its house ...
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Interlook 2022 show postponed too
A few days after the postponement of the opti trade show from January to May 2022, the organizers of Interlook, the other German trade show formerly known as Brille & Co., have put their 2022 edition on hold as the Covid-19 pandemic is rebounding in Germany and other parts of ...
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Survey gives H1 optical sales up 3% in Germany vs. 2019
Quoting figures from an Euronet survey based on over 400 participating companies in the eyewear sector with average revenues of €280,000, the German trade publication Der Augenoptiker reports that the sector’s sales in Germany for the first half of the year increased by 18.5 percent year-on-year. Compared to the pre-Covid ...
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ArticleMister Spex up double digits, opens first stores abroad
Mister Spex , the German-based omnichannel retailer, announced last week that its 2020 revenues grew by 18 percent last year as compared to 2019, reaching €164 million. The company registered a double-digit hike in sales both in Germany and in its international markets. Dirk Graber , founder ...
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ArticleZVA sees German market down 7.4 percent last year
Like for most other business sectors, 2020 turned to be a difficult year for the ophthalmic optics market, as shown by the latest figures published by the Zentralverband der Augenoptiker und Optometristen (ZVA), the German association of opticians and optometrists. Overall, the German eyewear sector faced a 7.4 percent drop ...
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German optical retailers’ customer service performance analyzed
Focus , a German business magazine, looked at the performance in terms of customer service for 22,000 companies operating in 150 different sectors in the country. The research published a couple of weeks ago was based on the analysis by artificial intelligence tools of tens of thousands of online messages ...
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Germans’ willingness to buy is in “freefall”
The propensity to buy of German consumers is “in freefall,” according to the think tank GfK. Hit by strict Covid-19 related lockdowns, consumer confidence in Germany is seen falling to -15.6 in February from -7.5 in January, which was revised from an original reading of -7.3. “The closure of the ...
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New anti-Covid measures in Germany
In concert with the governments of the individual Länder, the federal government of Germany has ordered the lockdown of all the brick-and-mortar stores that sell non-essential products, starting on Wednesday, Dec. 16. Opticians are mentioned among the few exceptions. The new restrictions came after a spike in new contaminations ...
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Mister Spex expands German retail network to 31 stores
The German optician and eyewear retailer Mister Spex is expanding its domestic store network to 31 units with new openings in Bielefeld on June 10, Heidelberg on June 18 and Saarbrücken and Lübeck on June 25 and July 2 respectively. With the Bielefeld store, the company further consolidates ...
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Essilor to give more importance to “Made in Germany” label
After the modernisation of its German production facility in Braunschweig, Essilor, the lens manufacturing unit of EssilorLuxottica , wants to give more relevance to the “Made in Germany” label in its communication. This should give partner opticians in the important German market additional sales arguments. Above all, the ...
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ZVA surveys its members on their handling of the coronavirus crisis
ZVA, the German opticians’ association, conducted another survey of its members from May 28 to June 3. The first survey, at the beginning of April, asked more than 1,400 members how they were handling the coronavirus crisis. More than 56 percent of participating opticians have since returned to their normal ...
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Germany’s VAT cut may hit retailers across the border
Germany decided on June 3 to reduce the value-added tax (VAT) rate on non-food products to 16 percent from 19 percent, starting from July 1 and through the balance of this year, to give a boost to consumption and the economy. It has also cut the VAT rate for restaurants ...
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German independents outperformed in Europe in 2019
Independent opticians performed particularly well in Germany in the past year. According to GfK, the German market enjoyed strong growth in Europe, rising by 5.5 percent to €5.8 billion at the retail level, compared with increases of 1.4 percent in France and 1.1 percent in Spain and a decrease of ...
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Germany faces up to the disease differently
Governments around the world have stepped up restrictions on the movement of their citizens to reduce the spread of Covid-19, which, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) , has infected over 780,000 and killed more than 37,000 people globally. As of March 31, more than 67,000 cases were ...
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Germany remains the biggest importer in Europe
According to the latest report on European trade flows published by Spectaris, the German ophthalmic optics industry association, Germany was once again the European Union s biggest importer of ophthalmic optics products in 2018, reaching a level of €1.43 billion. France remained in second place with an import value of ...
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