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ArticleReport puts fresh numbers on German optical retail long-term trends
Zentralverband der Augenoptiker und Optometristen (ZVA), the German association of opticians and optometrists, has released the four-year update of its BranchenStrukturerhebung report, an analysis of the German optical retail sector’s structure put together with research company GFK. It provides a number of market indicators for the year 2022 and, for ...
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ArticleGerman market inched up in 2022 despite lower eyeglass purchases
The Zentralverband der Augenoptiker und Optometristen (ZVA), the German association of opticians and optometrists, has released its annual report on the German market for last year. The release was accompanied by a general sense of relief as, after it was feared that the market would fall into recession in the ...
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ArticleGFK sees French market up 5% in 2022
GFK delivered a mixed picture for the European market during its presentation at the annual conference of the Club Inter-Optiques, a French-based industry association, last Friday. The research company’s data is based on sell-out figures collected at a panel of optical shops in the different countries. As shown in the ...
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ArticleQ3 sales and profits’ decline in Germany weigh on Fielmann results
One week after the announcement of mixed preliminary results for the third quarter and the first nine months of 2022, the Fielmann group has just released more details, in particular for the geographic breakdown of its sales and income. In this article, we only focus on newly published data. As ...
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ArticleFrench market up 16% in 2021 with little impact from healthcare reform
The Direction de la recherche, des études, de l’évaluation et des statistiques (Drees), the French administration in charge of national research and statistics, has published earlier this week its annual report on healthcare expenses in the country. According to the agency, the optical market in France jumped by 15.8 percent ...
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ArticleZVA confirms German market rebound, but lack of opticians endures
The Zentralverband der Augenoptiker und Optometristen (ZVA), the German association of opticians and optometrists, has released its annual report on the German market for 2021. The results are based on data collected from its members but also from other market players, associations and research companies. The report shows that ...
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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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ArticleSpanish market to rebound halfway in 2021 after Covid drop
FEDAO, the Spanish optical federation that regroups both industry and retail associations, has just released its annual Libro Blanco – white paper –, detailing the results of the national optical market’s performance last year. The data presented by the federation is based on a mix of figures ...
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German suppliers saw their sales drop 9.5% last year
The Covid-19 pandemic put a brutal end to a decade of steady growth for the German eyewear industry, according to a new report by Spectaris, the national trade association. After a record sales’ increase of 5.4 percent in 2019, revenues of German suppliers of optical products dropped by 9.5 percent ...
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ArticleFrance and Germany fared better than Italy and Spain last year
In an online presentation to the members of Club Inter-Optiques, a French eyewear professionals’ association, GFK announced the results of its annual research on the optical market in France and four other European countries for 2020. The company’s results are based on sell-out data from a representative panel of opticians ...
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ArticleGFK estimates French market fell by 11% in 2020
GFK provided the Club Inter-Optiques’ conference participants with more detailed figures on the French optical market, giving it a value of €5.9 billion in 2020, representing a 10.7 percent year-on-year decline as mentioned in the previous article. In volume, the company estimates that 1.3 million fewer corrective eyeglasses were sold ...
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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 ...
