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The 2011 calendar year marked another big one for the...
The 2011 calendar year marked another big one for the top 50 eyewear and eye care retailers in the U.S. as ranked by Vision Monday. According to The Vision Council's VisionWatch, sales from the top 50 accounted for 27.9 percent – or $7,939 million – of the country's total sales ...
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Alcon, the branch of Novartis that now includes Ciba Vision,...
Alcon, the branch of Novartis that now includes Ciba Vision, saw its revenues rise by 5 percent to $2.5 billion in the first quarter. However, sales of vision care products increased by only 1 percent, somewhat dampened by the inclusion in the year-ago figures of certain lens products that were ...
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Jobson Research's Optical Business Barometer showed a slight downturn for...
Jobson Research's Optical Business Barometer showed a slight downturn for the month of April, with independent eye care professionals reporting an attitude of 3.7, down from a high of 3.9 in February and March. It was better than the April rating for last year and for 2010, though, as both ...
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Parents, teachers and eye care professionals are going to be...
Parents, teachers and eye care professionals are going to be involved in a large research project studying thousands of 8- and 9-year-olds in northwestern China that is designed to show the impact of eye care and eyeglasses on kids' performance in school. It is a widely held belief in China ...
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The Carl Zeiss Group reports that the restructuring of its...
The Carl Zeiss Group reports that the restructuring of its vision care business is making good progress. For the first half of its financial year, ended on March 31, Carl Zeiss Vision raised its sales marginally to €432 million from €429 million in the same period a year ago. Improvements ...
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A new study published in this month's Lancet, the medical...
A new study published in this month's Lancet, the medical journal, founs that a shocking 90 percent of young people in Asia have myopia, compared with 20 percent of Asians in previous generations. The rate of myopia is riding worldwide; in Europe, 40 percent of young adults have the condition, ...
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PPG Industries' optical and specialty materials division achieved an 8...
PPG Industries' optical and specialty materials division achieved an 8 percent increase in sales to $334 million for the first quarter of 2012. The segment's operating margin grew to 32.6 percent from 29.2 percent one year ago, mainly due to higher volumes of optical products resulting from further market penetration, ...
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Eye care professionals in the U.S. remain relatively optimistic about...
Eye care professionals in the U.S. remain relatively optimistic about the industry, according to the Optical Business Barometer put out for March by Jobson Optical Research. The March rating was 3.9, the same as in February and the highest it's been since the OBB was started in January 2010. The ...
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The German optician's association, ZVA, presented its final figures for...
The German optician's association, ZVA, presented its final figures for the business year 2011 at its annual press conference on April 17 in Düsseldorf. The German ophthalmic optics market recorded an increase in sales of 2.5 percent to €5.039 billion at retail, including value added tax. Without the online eyewear ...
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The Association of Contact Lens Manufacturers has found that sales...
The Association of Contact Lens Manufacturers has found that sales of contact lenses in the U.K. rose by 2 percent in 2011 compared with the year before, up to £231.1 million (€283.4m-$375.7m) for sales of more than 583 million products
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Johnson & Johnson has conducted research in the U.K. that...
Johnson & Johnson has conducted research in the U.K. that reportedly found a widespread lack of knowledge about astigmatism and ways to correct it. Two-thirds of people surveyed didn't know or didn't think they could wear contact lenses to correct astigmatism, and 80 percent of people with the condition said ...
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A survey by Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, a...
A survey by Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, a U.S. health insurance company, has found that 85 percent of Americans know that managing their vision health now is important for their future, 20 percent of them were too busy for their annual eye exam. Fifty-two percent of the respondents ...
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Independent eye care professionals in the U.S. are still optimistic...
Independent eye care professionals in the U.S. are still optimistic about the industry, according to the February Optical Business Barometer by Jobson Optical Research. The rating hit 3.9, the highest rating the Barometer has seen since it was started in January 2010 and matched only once, in March 2011. The ...
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Italians are largely unaware of how they can prevent and...
Italians are largely unaware of how they can prevent and diagnose glaucoma as well as the harm the disease can cause if not cured, according to a recent survey. It was carried out in Milan over a five-day period in March by Commissione Difesa Vista, an Italian eye care promotion ...
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Allergan's total product sales increased by 7.2 percent in the...
Allergan's total product sales increased by 7.2 percent in the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31 to $1,382.8 million on a net basis, up by 8.2 percent on a currency-neutral basis. Also in terms of constant currencies, sales of specialty pharmaceuticals went up by 10.1 percent, while those of medical devices ...
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Comprising the Costa and Native brands of sunglasses, the Cross...
Comprising the Costa and Native brands of sunglasses, the Cross Optical Group of A.T. Cross Company reported a 12.0 percent increase in revenues to $12.8 million in the fourth quarter ended last Dec. 31. For the full year, the segment's revenues increased by 19.8 percent to $72.5 million in 2011, ...
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More German customers are buying new combinations of lenses and...
More German customers are buying new combinations of lenses and frames than before, according to the latest survey conducted by Kuratorium Gutes Sehen in Berlin. That was the case for 74.3 percent of spectacle wearers last year. Back in 2004, instead, after the German health reform, 31 percent changed the ...
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U.S. eye care professionals' optimism for the industry remained stable...
U.S. eye care professionals' optimism for the industry remained stable in January, according to the latest Optical Business Barometer by Jobson Optical Research. The rating was 3.8, the same as in December but up from 3.6 in January 2011. The rating scale goes from 1 to 5, where 1 is ...
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The number of optical retail stores continued to grow by...
The number of optical retail stores continued to grow by 4.7 percent in France last year, with 649 new openings against 126 shutdowns
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In a preliminary statement, Hal Holding says that its optical...
In a preliminary statement, Hal Holding says that its optical retail subsidiaries raised their sales by 0.1 percent in 2011 on a constant-currency and same-store basis, compared with an increase of 0.3 percent in 2010. Including other properties, Hal's total net asset value went up last year by 2.4 percent ...
