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ArticleRepeat customers and eyeglasses drove KITS 27% revenue growth in 2025
Following the preliminary results published last month, KITS Eyecare has confirmed that its revenue increased by 20.2 percent year on year to a record 53.9 million Canadian dollars (€34m) in Q4 2025, slowing down from the previous quarter (25.1 percent growth). The contact lens and eyewear e-tailer said that its ...
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ArticleRudy Project ready for strong US push
Rudy Project has acquired 100 percent of Rudy Project North America in a move to accelerate its international expansion through direct control of its strategic markets, the company has announced. Founded in 1998 by Brad Shapiro and other eyewear and sport industry entrepreneurs, the California-based distribution company has been working ...
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ArticleTopcon Healthcare launches EMEA innovation center
Topcon Healthcare has launched the Topcon Healthcare Innovation Center EMEA (THINC EMEA) in London’s Knowledge Quarter, modeled from its first THINC facility in La Jolla, California. The new London center will serve as a collaborative platform between eye‑care specialists, healthcare professionals, academics, industry partners, and patient associations across Europe, the ...
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ArticleWarby Parker gears up for launch of AI glasses, expects 10-12% sales growth in 2026
Warby Parker said it was gearing up to launch its first AI glasses through a partnership with Google and Samsung later in 2026, when it looks to grow its top line by 10-12 percent even before any sales from the new glasses are considered. David Gilboa, co-founder and co-CEO, said ...
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ArticleTOG ends difficult FY2025 with solid Q4
Thai Optical Group (TOG) revenue nicely rebounded in the last quarter of fiscal 2025, growing by 10 percent to 892 million Thai baht (€24m), following two negative quarters in Q2 and Q3. The end-of-year recovery enabled the lens manufacturer to report a 2.1 percent year-on-year revenue increase to THB 3,591 ...
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ArticleReported Meta-Essilux arm-wrestling on AI glasses pricing highlights diverging priorities
Meta and EssilorLuxottica are working through disagreements over the pricing and promotion strategy of their Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses, with the tech giant pushing for lower prices and the eyewear group pushing in the opposite direction, according to “people familiar with the matter” quoted by Bloomberg News earlier this week. ...
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ArticleAlcon reports 7% CL sales uptick in Q4, underlines price resistance outside North America
Alcon reported contact lenses of $683 million in the fourth quarter of 2025, up by 7 percent compared to the year earlier, as growth continued to be driven by demand for innovative products and price increases, partly offset by a decline in sales of legacy products. On a constant-currency basis, ...
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ArticleVision Group CEO sees ‘a lot of white space’ to expand store fleet
Vision Group has made expansion through acquisitions a key part of its growth strategy, and there’s no sign that will change anytime soon. Marco Procacciante, the CEO and founder of the eyewear retailer that boasts Italy’s largest network of optical stores Eyewear Intelligence that he sees “a lot of white ...
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ArticleFast topline growth, slightly squeezed margins for Synsam in FY 2025
Synsam Group ended fiscal 2025 on a strong note with Q4 revenue growing by 9.4 percent year on year to 1,784 million Swedish crowns (€167m), roughly in line with its pace in the preceding quarter. Q4 sales were up by 11.4 percent organically and by 9.1 percent on a like-for-like ...
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ArticleDel Vecchio heir looks to increase stake in controlling shareholder
Leonardo Maria del Vecchio, Chief Strategy Officer at EssilorLuxottica and one of the heirs of Luxottica founder Leonardo del Vecchio, is looking to increase his stake in Delfin, the Del Vecchio holding company that controls the eyewear group with a 32.2 percent stake, according to media reports. Delfin has not ...
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ArticleBidco is set to acquire INSPECS but may have to compose with Safilo
Bidco, the consortium led by British entrepreneurs Luke Johnson and Ian Livingstone, is changing tactics for its planned acquisition of INSPECS Group, which appears to be contested by Safilo Group. On Friday last week, INSPECS officially said that Bidco was switching from the court-sanctioned scheme announced in December last year ...
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ArticleTrump’s tariffs – a timeline
Here, Eyewear Intelligence contributors will post all the news regarding Trump´s tariffs that have an effect on the industry.
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ArticleBausch + Lomb Q4 contact lens sales rise 10%
Bausch + Lomb generated contact lens sales of $271 million in the fourth quarter of 2025, up by 10 percent compared to the year earlier and 8 percent higher at constant currency rates. Growth continued to be underpinned by the sales of the company’s daily disposable silicon hydrogen lenses, which ...
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ArticleLeaked Apple AI glasses plans suggest group is mostly playing catch-up in category
Apple is planning to start the production of its smart glasses in December this year before a commercial launch in 2027, according to “people with knowledge of the plans” cited by Bloomberg. The business news outlet already reported in October last year that Apple was shifting priorities from VR headsets ...
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ArticleZoff slows down in Q4, prepares for Megane Super integration
Zoff revenue increased by 5.5 percent year on year to 11.8 billion Japanese yen (€65m) in Q4 2025, decelerating sharply from the 21.1 percent growth reported in Q3. The slowdown was mostly due to the gradual phase out of the company’s sunglasses marketing campaign that proved very successful in the ...
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ArticleItaly-Austria Micro-Alps project on microplastics waste management bears first fruit
Micro-Alps, an Italian-Austrian project looking into microplastics waste management in the eyewear sector in the Alpine region, has yielded its first concrete results, with microplastics generated from lens grinding recovered and reused as a raw material for filaments that will now be tested out as a potential resource for creating ...
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ArticleLenskart stock price gets a boost after strong Q3 results
Lenskart stock price jumped by close to 10 percent yesterday at the Bombay Stock Exchange, following the communication of the group’s strong results for the third quarter of its 2025/26 fiscal year. They now trade 27 percent higher than their IPO price in November last year. Total sales from operations ...
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ArticleFielmann reports 7% sales hike, solid margin gains for FY2025
Delivering primarily strong results for fiscal 2025, Fielmann Group said that annual external sales rose by 7.4 percent year on year to €2,435 million, with half of the growth being organic. Seeing that the German-based retail group reported a 9.1 percent sales growth for the first nine months of the ...
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ArticleEssilux wraps 2025 with startup-like topline growth but slightly lower profits
EssilorLuxottica ended fiscal 2025 with a bang as the group’s revenue in Q4 jumped by 12.1 percent year-on-year to €7,600 million, or by a whopping 18.4 percent in constant currencies. For the full year, the topline rose by 7.5 percent in reported terms and by 11.2 percent at constant rates ...
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ArticleLower margins on slightly higher sales for Kering Eyewear in FY2025
Kering Eyewear Q4 revenue declined by 2 percent year over year to €319 million, but it was up by 3 percent on a like-for-like basis, Kering announced yesterday during its annual results presentation. While they slowed down from the previous quarter (+7 percent like for like), eyewear sales continued to ...
