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New director for Lissac
Lissac, the premium retail chain of the Optic 2000 group, has announced the appointment of Anne-Charlotte Guillaud as its new director. A trained optician, Guillaud boasts 18 years of experience in the French optical retail market with previous experiences at Atol and Optic 2000. She joined Lissac in 2019 and ...
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French families rank their favorite optical chains
“Marques et familles” (Brands & Families), a French marketing organization researching French families’ favorite brands in different sectors, has released the results of the 10th edition of its survey which was based on a poll with close to 2,000 families at the end of 2023. In the optical retail category, ...
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South Korean e-commerce giant takes over Farftech
Coupang, the South Korean-based e-commerce group, has annoucend that it was taking over the business of Farftech, investing $500 million in the struggling luxury online retail platform. The cash injection will enable Farftech to clear its debts and continue its operations. The company, which is currently valued at around $200 ...
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ArticleCircularity gaining traction in the French eyewear market
Circularity in the eyewear sector has been a hot topic in the last couple of weeks in France as two major retail chains, and a young start up specializing in the recycling of used glasses, have announced new programs for second-hand eyewear. ZAC, a Lille-based startup specializing in the ...
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Optic 2000 group reports stable revenue for 2022
The Optic 2000 group, one of the leading optical and hearing aids’ retail players in France, has announced that its sales reached €1.2 billion including VAT in 2022. This represents a flattish year-on-year performance against a record comparison basis in 2021. By banner, sales including VAT reached €891 million for ...
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Optic 2000 partners with flash sales' website on eyewear recycling program
Optic 2000 is partnering with online flash sales’ specialist Veepee (formerly Vente Privée) for a one-week eyewear recycling initiative in November. Veepee members are invited to send up to two pairs of glasses, at no cost, and will receive a €15 voucher per pair in exchange for their participation, to ...
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Gadol hires a network director
The optical buying group Gadol, a division of Optic 2000 Group, has hired Christine Gabriel to be director of its network, reports L’OL magazine. Gabriel most recently spent more than 17 years as director of Club Opticlibre. Before that she was director of international supply at GrandVision, where she helped ...
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ArticleOptic 2000 group just over €1bn in revenue last year
Groupement Optic 2000, one of the leading optical retailers in France, has reported a 17 percent year-on-year increase in revenue to €1,010 million for 2021. This includes annual sales of its two optical banners, Optic 2000 and LISSAC, the business of its buying groups, Gadol in France and Optic Swiss ...
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Optic 2000’s HQ is going geothermal
In March, the Optic 2000 group will begin drilling a 200 meter shaft beneath its headquarters, which occupies some 12,000 square meters in the Parisian suburb of Clamart and employs some 450 people. This is the first stage in a project to shift the optical group away from carbon-based heating ...
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Optic 2000 partners with Paris 2024
The French retail chain Optic 2000 has announced the signature of an “official fan” partnership with the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The company said that the partnership, which is set to last from March 2022 to 2024, will be accompanied by a series of programs around sports and ...
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Optic 2000 appoints new secretary general
The French retail chain Optic 2000 has appointed Benoit Jaubert as its new secretary general starting next September following the departure of Yves Guénin , Acuité reports. Jaubert is new to the optical sector but has been the secretary general of Darty , a French leading retailer ...
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Optic 2000 supplants Krys in French retailer ranking
The results are in for the 12th edition of a ranking called “France’s Favorite Retail Brands” (Enseignes Préférées des Français), based on a survey by e-marketing.fr and EYParthenon of 8,000 French consumers over 18 years of age. Leroy Merlin , a chain of big-box hardware stores, reigns supreme ...
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French retail heavyweights slightly raised market share in 2020
In the last couple of weeks, the Krys Group , Optic 2000 and Afflelou , three of the main retail players in France totaling more than 3,000 stores and an aggregated market share estimated at between 35 and 40 percent, reported drops in revenues varying from 8.5 percent to ...
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Optic 2000 extends support to eyecare research
Optic 2000 , one of the leading optical retail chains in France, has just extended its sponsoring partnership with the Institut de la Vision (Vision Institute) for another three years. Founded in 2008, the Institut de la Vision regroups 300 eye specialists that are researching ocular diseases and looking ...
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French opticians in large malls ordered to close
As part of the new Covid-19 regulations implemented by the French government on Jan. 30, all shops operating in malls of 20,000 square meters and more have to close, to the exception of food retailers and pharmacies, but not opticians. All optical shops, regardless of their locations, had been considered ...
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Optic 2000 partners with Oney to offer financing solutions
Optic 2000 has signed a partnership with the French-based Oney , a subsidiary of the larger BPCE banking group and Auchan Holding. that presents itself as a bank with a retailer DNA, in order to offer credit facilities to clients for their optical and hearing aids’ equipment ...
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Eyeglass prescriptions may fall by 3 million in France this year
In a series of recent interviews by the French website Acuité , several optical retail chain managers including Jean Pierre-Champion , general manager of Krys Group , Yves Guénin , general secretary of Optic 2000 and Gad Dhéry , CEO of Optic Duroc, have expressed concerns about ...
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ArticleTwo-speed restart in France after coronavirus crisis
Lens manufacturers are enjoying a strong recovery on the French market, while frame manufacturers are experiencing a slower restart as cash-strapped opticians delay reassortments.
