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Kering Eyewear expects to post sales of €600 million this...
Kering Eyewear expects to post sales of €600 million this year compared with €495 million at the end of 2018, driven by the Gucci brand, which is enjoying double-digit growth, and new licenses such as Balenciaga, the daily La Repubblica reported. Kering Eyewear is also scheduled this year to start ...
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Alcon posted a 4 percent sales increase in the first...
Alcon posted a 4 percent sales increase in the first quarter at constant exchange rates. On a reported basis, sales were flat from last year at $1.8 billion. The operating loss of $48 million in the quarter compared to last year's operating income of $73 million, with decrease due to ...
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In publishing some key figures for the first half ended...
In publishing some key figures for the first half ended on March 31, Carl Zeiss said that its Vision Care strategic business unit expanded its market position, in particular by seizing growth opportunities offered by dynamic economies like China and Brazil. No further details were given about the Vision Care ...
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OpticLibre, a French cooperative of opticians, posted centralized settlements of...
OpticLibre, a French cooperative of opticians, posted centralized settlements of €132 million in 2018 on behalf of its 1,360 affiliated stores, up by 9 percent. It noted that growth was in line with the annual pace seen over the past 15 years.
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Kering Eyewear enjoyed a 23 percent increase in its organic...
Kering Eyewear enjoyed a 23 percent increase in its organic sales during the first quarter of 2019, building up to a level of €128.4 million for the period, according to its parent company, Kering, which owns Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and other luxury brands. The group mentioned the excellent performance ...
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Edel Optics claims to be one of the three largest...
Edel Optics claims to be one of the three largest online retailers of glasses in Europe and the second-largest one in Germany. In celebrating its tenth anniversary, the company announced a turnover of nearly €22 million for 2018. From 2009 to today, Edel Optics said it had sold over 900,000 ...
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Italy's entire fashion industry – including apparel, footwear, leathergoods, jewelry...
Italy's entire fashion industry – including apparel, footwear, leathergoods, jewelry and eyewear – posted a 0.9 percent rise in sales to €95.7 billion last year, according to a preliminary estimate by Confindustria Moda, the new umbrella trade association for all the fashion-related sectors. Exports rose by 2.6 percent to €63.4 ...
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Charmant Europe has reported double-digit annual growth in Germany for...
Charmant Europe has reported double-digit annual growth in Germany for 2018. The company handles its own direct sales in Germany, Austria and the Benelux countries. It made a great effort last year to promote its private brand in these markets, creating an extra sales division for the purpose. In Germany, ...
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Allergan has reported lower sales in both the fourth-quarter and...
Allergan has reported lower sales in both the fourth-quarter and full-year 2018 periods. Fourth-quarter revenues of $4.08 billion represented a 5.7 percent drop from the same quarter a year ago. Full-year 2018 revenues of $15.79 billion marked a 1 percent decrease from 2017. The company said that its core business ...
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For 2018, Wagner + Kühner has reported an increase in total...
For 2018, Wagner + Kühner has reported an increase in total sales of 6.5 percent from the previous year. Sales in Germany represent 80 percent of the company's sales, with the remaining 20 percent generated in the U.S., France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Austria and Eastern Europe. In Germany, Wagner ...
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Altares, the B2B information network and database, has presented its...
Altares, the B2B information network and database, has presented its study on business failures in France for the fourth quarter and the full year 2018. According to the study, 54,600 insolvency proceedings were handed down in 2018, just 1 percent fewer than in 2017. However, the number of business failures ...
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Johnson & Johnson reported a 6.7 percent increase in its...
Johnson Johnson reported a 6.7 percent increase in its global sales to $81.6 billion for 2018. On an operational basis and in local currencies, they grew by 6.3 percent for the year and by 5.3 percent for the fourth quarter alone. Sales went up by 1.5 percent to ...
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Retail sales of eyewear fell by 2.7 percent in France...
Retail sales of eyewear fell by 2.7 percent in France in the last three months of 2018 as compared to the same period of 2017, according to the Bank of France. It's not clear how much of the decline could be attributed to the demonstrations by the “yellow vests,” which ...
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Alain Afflelou posted sales of €190.7 million in the first...
Alain Afflelou posted sales of €190.7 million in the first quarter of its 2018/19 fiscal year, from August to October 2018, representing a 6.7 percent increase compared with the same period of the previous fiscal year. On a same-store basis, the sales increase was of 5.9 percent. The French optical ...
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British people underestimate the cost of eye care. According to...
British people underestimate the cost of eye care. According to new research by Optegra, the Brits spend £17,471.16 (€19,444.7m-$22,136.0m) on their eyes during their lifetime, as compared to £5,045.89 (€5,615.0m-$6,393.1m), the figure they think they spend. The lifetime costs of glasses and daily contact lenses is much higher than the ...
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Markus T, the German-based eyewear manufacturer, recorded a single-digit increase...
Markus T, the German-based eyewear manufacturer, recorded a single-digit increase in annual sales in 2017. For 2018, it expects annual sales to increase by 8 percent. Sales in Germany account for 40 percent of total sales, while sales in Asia represent one-third of the company's total. The brand is sold ...
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Urband, the French brand that was won the Silmo d'Or...
Urband, the French brand that was won the Silmo d'Or 2018 for children's eyewear, expects to record a 30 percent increase in annual sales for 2018, but we could not obtain an idea of its size. The sales growth has been driven mostly by very positive results for the company's ...
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Etnia Barcelona, the Spanish eyewear brand, recorded an increase in...
Etnia Barcelona, the Spanish eyewear brand, recorded an increase in sales of 20 percent in 2017 as compared with 2016 when it announced €68 million in revenues. The company expects to achieve the same growth for the current year. Its most important markets are France, Germany, Italy and Spain, followed ...
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Gigi Barcelona, the Spanish eyewear brand founded by Patricia Ramo in...
Gigi Barcelona, the Spanish eyewear brand founded by Patricia Ramo in 2014, shared some figures at the Silmo show in Paris last month. Currently, it works with 30 sales agents across Europe, has 2,500 customers worldwide and works with 12 distributors internationally. Most recently, it signed a distribution contract with ...
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Gifo, the French optical industry association, has commissioned an independent...
Gifo, the French optical industry association, has commissioned an independent report from Asterès, a French business consulting company, in order to measure the potential impact of the new healthcare reform (see Eyewear Intelligence Vol. 19 n°8+9) on the French optical sector. Among the numerous changes of the so-called “Reste à ...
