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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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FEDAO recommends eyecare subsidy in Spain
The Spanish Federation of Optical Sector Associations (FEDAO) and the public-utility association Visión y Vida have released the Covid-19 edition of its White Book of Vision 2021 (Libro Blanco de la Visión 2021), reviewing the state of eyecare in Spain. It asserts, citing Spain’s National Institute of Statistics (INE), that ...
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ArticleItalian fashion industry still expects sharp declines in H1
The Italian fashion industry still expects sharp declines in sales during the first two quarters of 2021, after falling by 26 percent in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a survey released by Confindustria Moda, the umbrella association which comprises Anfao, the trade association representing eyewear manufacturers; Sistema ...
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Eyewear market to grow an average 8% a year to 2024 - Technavio
The eyewear market is expected to grow almost 8 percent a year between 2020 and 2024, resulting in an increase of $57.69 billion, according to a report published by the research and advisory company Technavio. Asia Pacific (APAC) will contribute to 32 percent of the growth, it forecast. In 2020, ...
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ArticleGlobal personal luxury goods seen down 23% this year
Global sales of personal luxury goods are estimated to fall by 23 percent this year to €217 billion, with constant currency sales down by 22 percent. It will be the first drop since the financial meltdown of 2009, according to the Altagamma-Bain Worldwide Luxury Market Monitor 2020. The survey forecasts ...
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News briefsBritons started Christmas shopping in October
Britons started their Christmas shopping early this year, according to data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). In October, retail sales volumes increased by 1.2 percent in the U.K. when compared with September, marking the sixth consecutive month of growth. The increased reached 6.4 percent for non-store retailing, ...
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Opticians’ sales down 99.1% in France in April
Banque de France reported that optical shops’ revenues in the country decreased by 99.1 percent in April, the only full month under lockdown, as compared to the same month last year. It is the second highest drop rate among all sectors in France, after bicycles and motorbikes, which went down ...
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Americans are adjusting to the Covid-19 crisis
Interesting new trends have emerged in The Vision Council’s newly released April COVID-19 Optical Impact Consumer Study. In the words of the council’s chief executive, Ashley Mills, the team behind the survey has identified “subtle shifts in consumer sentiment toward eyecare and vision correction.” Over the course of April, the ...
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Altagamma predicts 20 percent drop in global luxury goods sales this year
Global sales of luxury goods are forecast to fall by 20 percent this year, with Europe most affected. It could take until 2023 to return to 2019 levels, according to forecasts by Altagamma and the consultancy Bain & Company.
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Italy's eyewear industry may have lost half its revenues with the Covid-19 crisis
The Italian eyewear industry, especially smaller companies, may have lost about 50 percent of its revenues as the Covid-19 pandemic has been spreading worldwide, leading to about half of humanity being placed in quarantine, pointed out Giovanni Vitaloni, president of the Italian manufacturers’ association Anfao, in an exclusive interview with ...
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The German industry projects a drop of 23 to 34%
Spectaris, the German ophthalmic industry association, conducted an online survey among members of the German industry in mid-April. According to the report, 90 percent of the participating companies said that they had received fewer orders in the previous weeks, 75 percent said that their economic situation had worsened due to ...
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The German optical retail market grew by 3.8% in 2019
ZVA, the German association of opticians, published a report on the German ophthalmic optics market on April 27. ZVA reported that the German optical retail market increased by an estimated 3.8 percent to €6.5 billion in 2019, as compared to the previous year.
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Suppliers help opticians in the U.S.
More than 75 percent of U.S. opticians consulted by the Vision Council said they were receiving some form of support from their suppliers in a survey conducted between April 8 and 11, up from 31 percent in a previous survey on March 24-27. Details about the kind of support could ...
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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 ...
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