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ArticleIndustry stocks inched up in Q3, driven by contact lens companies
The share price of stock-listed eyewear companies increased by 1.5 percent in the three-month period ended Sept. 30, underperforming the MSCI World Index which includes 1,500 companies worldwide across different sectors and grew by 6.7 percent. As usual, however, our quarterly eyewear industry-specific average is calculated on a non-weighted average ...
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ArticleItalian eyewear exports fall in Q2, sector’s full year showing seen in line with 2023
Exports for the half year inched down by 0.3 percent, dragged down by a double-digit drop in the America region.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
