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ArticleThe Vision Council reports on ‘Made in the USA’
What the label means and what the public thinks are separate things.
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ArticleThe Vision Council reviews Q2 in the US
The Vision Council has released its Consumer inSights report on the US market for Q2 2024. In the summation of Alysse Henkel, the Council’s Vice President of Research and inSights, much has remained the same from Q1. “Consumers,” she said, “are still largely receiving the same amount of care, prefer ...
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ArticleSpanish optical market up by 6.0 percent in 2023
The Spanish optical market value grew by 6.0 percent year-on-year in 2023 according to the “Libro Blanco de la Visión”, the annual report by FEDAO, the national federation of optical associations. Accelerating slightly from the previous year (+4.4 percent versus 2021), the Spanish market ended 2023 with a value of ...
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ArticleAssistance, design key drivers in eyewear purchases
Both the assistance provided to customers and eyewear design are key drivers when choosing to buy a pair of eyeglasses and sunglasses, according to a survey conducted by the Italian market research group Yoodata among eyewear purchasers in Italy, France, Spain, Germany, the UK, the US and China. According to ...
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French association releases new poll results on kids eye health
AsnaV, whose acronym stands for “association for eyesight improvement” in French, and research company OpinionWay have published the results on an opinion poll focusing on the eye health of children under 12 years old in France. Based on online questionnaires filled by 1,302 people including 473 parents, the survey showed ...
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News briefsSmart eyewear about halfway to consumer awareness, according to report
More than a third of Americans plan to buy smart eyewear within the next year, according to the 2023 edition of The Vision Council’s report Focused inSights Smart Eyewear. Keenest to buy are men aged 18 to 44, city-dwellers and early adopters of the tech. American consumer awareness of smart ...
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News briefsStrong children myopia increase in Spain, research finds
A fifth of Spain’s schoolchildren suffer from myopia, whose incidence over the past six years has increased by 17.8 percent. So says this year’s edition of the “Barometer of Myopia in Spain,” a report put out by the Alain Afflelou Foundation and Madrid’s Complutense University. Myopia is most prevalent (30%) ...
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ArticleDriven by lenses, Spanish optical market tops pre-COVID level in 2022
The Spanish optical market grew by 4.4 percent year-on-year to €1.,918 million including VAT in 2022 according to a new report presented yesterday in an online meeting by the Federación Espaňola de Asociasones del Sector Óptico (FEDAO). Adding up to the 20.4 percent rebound reported a year ago for 2021, ...
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ArticleAmerican eyecare providers expect good things from 2023
In its report for the first quarter of 2023 The Vision Council finds that optimism reigns among eyecare providers in the U.S. – despite what the Council’s senior director of market research and analytics, Alysse Henkel, calls “acute pressures” from price inflation and a tight labor market. Surveyed providers found ...
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News briefsMyopia worsening in Spain
According to a report by Vision y Vida, a 65-year-old association of public utility in Spain, the spread of myopia is about to become pathological – in the technical sense. It points out that already some 62.5 percent of Spain’s university students are myopes. Worse still, however, is the situation ...
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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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ArticleANFAO turns focus to costs after exports jumped in 2022
Just a few days ahead of the 2023 edition of MIDO, Italian eyewear industry association ANFAO released preliminary data for 2022 that broadly confirmed the contrasted picture given last December, between booming exports and a flattish domestic market. Production value of Italian eyewear increased by 24.0 percent year-on-year to €5,171 ...
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ArticleThe Vision Council sees a much bigger but flat U.S. market for 2022
The Vision Council has changed its view of the U.S. optical industry, after a revamping of its statistical methods, and has just published a retitled annual survey: the Market inSights Report. Available free of charge to the Council’s members, the report estimates data for product categories, market divisions and the ...
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News briefsThe Vision Council surveys digital habits
Social media is on the rise in the eyewear and eyecare segments alike, according to a new report from The Vision Council: “Focused inSights 2022: Digital Habits,” a survey conducted in August on digital devices, eyestrain, online purchasing, social media and telehealth for eyecare. The sample comprised 3,102 U.S. adults. ...
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ArticleLeading French buying group evaluates lens suppliers
Along with Galileo Business Consulting, the Centrale des Opticiens (CDO) – which purports to France’s largest buying group for independent opticians – has conducted a survey of its membership to map the lay of the land between opticians and their lens suppliers. The results were released on the occasion of ...
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The Vision Council reports on U.S. consumer choices
The Vision Council has released its first report on consumer decision-making with respect to eyecare. Titled Focused inSights 2022: Consumer Choices, the report covers in particular eye exams and eyewear. It is available for purchase on the Council’s website. The main reasons for American adults to take eye exams are ...
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Optical shops struggling to recruit
A clear majority, some 89 percent, of U.S. eyecare businesses find staffing to be more difficult after than before Covid, whereas about 11 percent find no change, and 2 percent find it easier. Such are the results of a poll conducted by Vision Monday and Women in Optometry, two American ...
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The Vision Council releases first quarterly consumer report
The Vision Council has released its Consumer inSights Q1 2022 Report, the first publication from its recently established newinSights Research Program. The report presents the results of a survey of 15,015 adults in the U.S. It covers vision correction, eye exams, eyeglasses, contact lenses, readers and plano sunglasses. It ...
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Relatively few business failures among optical shops in France
Altares, which collects and analyzes data on B2B markets, notably in France, the Benelux countries and North Africa, has released figures for business failures (bankruptcies, restructurings, liquidations) in France. There were 28,371 business failures in 2021, the lowest total in 35 years, with less than 100,000 jobs affected. The total ...
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ArticleItalian exports recover faster than expected
ANFAO has brightened its forecast for the Italy’s eyewear industry, as figures for the first half of 2021 are hinting at a brisker-than-expected recovery. As we reported at the time, the association’s president, Giovanni Vitaloni, presented a darker picture at the MIDO trade show back in May, when the pandemic ...
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