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News briefsA good 2022 at Pro Optik
Pro Optik is reporting double-digit growth in profits and a positive balance sheet for full-year 2022. Sales rose by €9 million to reach €154 million, resulting in market share gains, and EBITA by 10 percent, both year-on-year. The company has declined to release its figures for EBITDA. Store count in ...
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ArticleZVA confirms German market rebound, but lack of opticians endures
The Zentralverband der Augenoptiker und Optometristen (ZVA), the German association of opticians and optometrists, has released its annual report on the German market for 2021. The results are based on data collected from its members but also from other market players, associations and research companies. The report shows that ...
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ArticlePro Optik reports strong growth, plans further digitization
Pro Optik reported strong results in 2021, outperforming the sector despite recent market headwinds, and consolidating its third place in the ranking of optical retail banners by sales in Germany, the company announced. Sales increased last year by around 11% to €144 million from €130 million in 2020, driven by ...
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ArticlePro Optik discusses future plans in online video
Inaugurating a new communication format with a round table talk available on Vimeo, four Pro Optik managers gave some insights on the present and future plans of the German optician group, nicknamed Pro Optik 2.0 after the changes the company went through. According to the four managers, Anja Fujan (HR), ...
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German optical retailers’ customer service performance analyzed
Focus , a German business magazine, looked at the performance in terms of customer service for 22,000 companies operating in 150 different sectors in the country. The research published a couple of weeks ago was based on the analysis by artificial intelligence tools of tens of thousands of online messages ...
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ArticlePro Optik goes online, plans to add 200 stores by 2025
Pro Optik , a German optical retail chain with about 150 stores, opened its first e-commerce website in January, offering direct purchase and delivery for most of its ranges as well as live consultations with opticians. Products offered online include single vision glasses, sunglasses, contact lenses and eye care products. ...
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Pro Optik hires Gerd Kaufmann as CFO
Pro Optik , the German eyewear chain, has hired Gerd Kaufmann . He previously held a similar position with bielomatik , a German plastic welding firm. Micha Siebenhandl , Pro Optik’s chief executive, who was appointed in March 2020, has been reinforcing the company’s management team over the past ...
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News briefsPro Optik reinforces its management
Micha Siebenhandl, Pro Optik ’s 47-year old chief executive, who was appointed in March 2020, has reinforced the German company’s management. The company has hired Holger Schumann , previously head of financial planning and analysis at Apollo-Optik , as head of controlling. Meanwhile, Thorsten Lücke was appointed ...
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Pro Optik donates corrective frames to doctors and nurses in Germany
Pro Optik , a chain of 140 mostly franchised stores in Germany, has paid tribute to doctors and nurses during the coronavirus crisis by giving corrective frames to people working in the health care system. Entitled are about 500,000 doctors and almost 1.1 million nurses who are in the forefront ...
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New CEO at Pro Optik
Pro Optik , a chain of 145 mostly franchised stores in Germany, appointed Micha S. Siebenhandl as its new chief executive on March 16. He is reporting directly to Paragon Partners , an investment company in Munich that acquired the majority of the chain’s shares together with Hannibal Zemariam , ...
