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Hoya lenses sales up 7% in Q4, margins slightly down
HOYA has reported another quarter of record sales and profits at group level, with Q4 FY21 revenues increasing by 12 percent year-on-year to 169.6 billion yen (€1,233m). Both business units contributed double-digit growths in reported terms, partly boosted by currency tailwinds. At constant exchange rates, group sales were up by ...
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Eyewear industry stock prices down 13% in Q1
The first quarter of 2022 was the worst quarter for global equity markets since the first quarter of 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic started spreading worldwide, leading to travel restrictions and lockdowns and prompting stock markets to collapse in March. Since the start of this year, the U.S. equity market ...
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Hoya posts record revenue and profit for Q3
Hoya has reported record-high revenue and operating profit for the third quarter of its financial year, with both the IT and Life Care divisions contributing double-digit sales growth as compared to Q3 2020. In the Life Care business, which includes medical equipment, eyeglass lenses and contact lenses, quarterly revenues were ...
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New CEO for HOYA
HOYA Corporation has selected Eichiro Ikeda, currently the group’s chief technology officer (CTO), to be its new chief executive officer as of March 1, in replacement of current CEO Hiroshi Suzuki. Suzuki, who spent more than 20 years at the helm of the Japanese group and delayed his retirement to ...
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Top 5 eyewear companies’ stock prices up 4.6 % in Q4
We are updating here our quarterly chart on the evolution of stock prices for the public companies in the eyewear market, including manufacturers, distributors or retailers of contact lenses, prescription lenses, eyeglasses and sunglasses. We are also publishing a ranking of these 22 companies based on their stock market value. ...
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Eyewear industry stock prices up 3.5% in Q3
We are publishing here our quarterly update on the evolution in stock prices of public companies operating in our core eyewear market, including manufacturers, distributors or retailers of contact lenses, prescription lenses, eyeglasses and sunglasses. As shown in the chart below, the non-weighted average growth for the 22 companies included ...
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Hoya returns to pre-Covid sales level in lenses
Hoya Corporation reported a 45 percent year-on-year increase in Q1 group revenues to 158.0 billion Japanese yen (€1,212m-$1,439m), confirming its rebound from the Covid-19 crisis with strong sales’ growth in both its Life Care and Information Technology segments. On a currency neutral basis, quarterly revenues grew by 39 percent ...
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Hoya gives an update on its MiYoSmart study
Hoya Vision Care presented an update of its MiYoSmart research on children’s myopia management during the national congress of the French ophthalmologists’ association last month. The presentation, which came after three years of research in partnership with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University , largely confirmed previous results communicated ...
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VSP partners with Zeiss and Hoya
VSP Global announced that it would add Carl Zeiss Vision and HOYA Vision Care lenses and treatments into its VSP Global Premier Program starting July 1, in addition to its own VSP Optics products. The decision comes after the VSP network’s doctors asked for a ...
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Essilux ramps up Stellest
Only a few days after announcing significant developments for its myopia management lens in China and the U.S. during its conference call with financial investors, EssilorLuxottica disclosed updated results on its Stellest research during the online congress of the Société Française d’Ophtalmologie a few days ago and ...
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Eyewear industry stock prices up 10% in Q1
Following the publication for the first time of our industry stock market capitalization at the start of the year, we are providing here a quarterly update for the evolution of the stock price of 19 stock listed companies operating in our core market, showing its evolution between Jan. 1 and ...
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Sales recovery and record profits for Hoya in Q3
The results of Hoya Corporation for its third quarter, ended Dec. 31, showed that the Japanese group was pursuing its recovery from the negative impact of Covid-19, with stable revenues and a double-digit year-on-year increase in profits. Top line figures for the Health Care division were back in the ...
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Eyewear industry stocks grew by 6% in 2020
We are publishing here for the first time our ranking of the main stock-listed eyewear industry companies, based on their stock market capitalization in euros at the end of 2020. The corresponding table also shows the change in market value from the previous year, both in local currency and euros. ...
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Hoya 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, ...
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New CEO and brand positioning for Hoya Vision Care
Hoya has announced the appointment of Alexandre Montague as the new CEO of Hoya Vision Care, the lens division of the Japanese group. The French eyewear industry veteran started in this position in August, after spending six months at the helm of Hoya Eye Care, the company managing ...
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Silmo Paris announces its Silmo d’Or awards online
In spite of the cancellation of this year’s edition of the show, the organizers of Silmo Paris have decided to proceed with some parts of their usual program, including the annual distribution of the Silmo d’Or awards. However, instead of the usual festive event, the Silmo d’Or laureates were ...
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Hoya’s lenses revenues down 42% in Q1
Hoya Corporation ’s performance was again severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic in the first quarter ended on June 30, particularly for its life care segment. The group reported quarterly revenues of 61.9 billion yen (€496,6m-$585.3m) for the segment, down by 34 percent in absolute terms from ¥93.8 billion in ...
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Two-speed restart in France after coronavirus crisis
Lens manufacturers are enjoying a strong recovery on the French market, while frame manufacturers are experiencing a slower restart as cash-strapped opticians delay reassortments.
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Hoya reports a squeeze in segment sales and profits
The results of Hoya Corp. for the third quarter ended on Dec. 31 were negatively impacted by the expected increase in the sales tax in Japan, which had increased purchases in the previous quarter. In particular, sales of contact lenses and eyeglass lenses declined in the country, affecting also the ...
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