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    JINS upgrades 2022 forecast

    2022-01-23T14:25:00Z

    The Japanese-based optical retail group JINS has reported a 3.1 percent year-on-year increase in Q1 revenues, reaching total sales of 15,275 million yen (€118.4m-$134.4m). The domestic market, which accounts for almost 80 percent of the company’s revenues, grew by 1.7 percent year-on-year, after a 14.6 percent drop in the previous ...

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    JINS revenues up 6% for the year, in spite of Q4 drop

    2021-10-25T08:20:00Z

    JINS Holdings, the Japanese-based retail group, reported a 12.4 percent year-on-year drop in quarterly sales for the last quarter of its financial year ended Aug. 31. The Q4 topline figure declined to 16.2 billion Japanese yen (€122m-$142m) versus Q4 2019, in stark contrast with the 56.2 percent year-on-year jump reported ...

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    New investor and strategic focus on Asia for FittingBox

    2021-09-22T13:45:00Z

    FittingBox, the French-based provider of virtual try on (VTO) systems and other digital solutions, just announced that JINS, the fast-growing Japanese retail chain, had become a shareholder of the company. The investment by JINS allowed earlier financial investors, mainly French venture capital funds Kreaxi and LBO France that have been ...

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    JINS’ Q3 sales up 56%

    2021-07-19T08:23:00Z

    The Japanese-based optical retailer JINS reported a 56.2 percent year-on-year increase in Q3 revenues, reaching total sales of 16,098 million yen (€124.1m-$146.4m). The domestic market, which accounts for roughly 80 percent of the company’s revenues, grew by 66.9 percent while the international market segment increased by 40.4 percent. Beyond ...

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    JINS’ eyewear sales up 4.5% in H1

    2021-05-21T06:59:00Z

    JINS , the Japanese low-cost optical retailer, has reported a slight increase in H1 revenues to 31,634 million Japanese yen (€237.6m-$290.6m), or 0.4 percent higher than in H1 2020. Year-on-year, increases in eyewear sales of 4.0 percent and 6.2 percent, respectively, in Japan and abroad during the first half of ...

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    Eyewear industry stock prices up 10% in Q1

    2021-04-06T01:09:00Z

    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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    JINS’ revenues down by 38 percent in Q3

    2020-07-16T15:46:00Z

    Revenues were down by 37.8 percent year-on-year to 10,303 million yen (€84.2m-$96.2m) in the third quarter ended on May 31 for JINS , the Japanese-based low-cost optical retail chain. The company, which was able to maintain a good momentum in the previous quarter, was more severely hit in the third ...

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    Japan exits state of emergency cautiously

    2020-06-05T10:40:00Z

    After lifting a mild state of emergency, which enabled smaller retailers to remain open, Japan is cautiously turning back to normal but the eyewear industry remains under pressure.