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Optiker Bode, the German chain of optical shops, reports that...
Optiker Bode, the German chain of optical shops, reports that its sales increased by 11 percent to €24.8 million in the first half of this year, as compared to the same period of 2012. Optiker Bode is one of the four biggest German chains of optical shops. With its 73 ...
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Allergan reported double-digit sales and earnings growth for the second...
Allergan reported double-digit sales and earnings growth for the second quarter ended June 30. The diversified health care company reported net earnings of $359.9 million for the quarter, compared with $295.4 million for the second quarter of 2012. Product sales were $1,577.0 million for the quarter, representing a 10.6 percent ...
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Coastal Contacts has reported an 11 percent sales increase to...
Coastal Contacts has reported an 11 percent sales increase to $53.7 million for the second quarter ended Apr. 30, as compared to the same period a year ago, but the Canadian company had a net loss of $7.0 million for the quarter, up from a loss of $0.2 million. Sales ...
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Mister Spex, a leading German online retailer, received an investment...
Mister Spex, a leading German online retailer, received an investment of over €16 million at the end of a third funding round in May this year. The main investor is a new shareholder, the Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) investment fund, but the initial investors, DN Capital and Xange, participated in ...
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In the U.K. optical sector, the gap between companies making...
In the U.K. optical sector, the gap between companies making profits and those losing money has been widening. Plimsoll, a U.K.-based business intelligence firm providing a range of industry reports, analyzed data from the country's top 735 opticians and found that 304 had recorded losses while 33 had made record ...
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Carl Zeiss reports that its Vision Care segment achieved a...
Carl Zeiss reports that its Vision Care segment achieved a “clearly positive” operating result in the first half of the group's financial year, ended last March 31, although its sales dropped slightly to €419 million from €432 million in the corresponding period of a year earlier. The group, which fully ...
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Atol, a major French cooperative of opticians, posted 3.3 percent...
Atol, a major French cooperative of opticians, posted 3.3 percent growth in retail sales on a same-store basis in 2012, reaching a turnover of €400.4 million at its 806 affiliated shops. The company said that last year two-thirds of its retailers registered a satisfactory performance, attributing it to their quality-oriented ...
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PPG Industries' optical and specialty materials segment saw its sales...
PPG Industries' optical and specialty materials segment saw its sales drop by 6 percent to $314 million in the first quarter of this year, reflecting a return to a more traditional seasonal sales pattern and somewhat lower consumption in the U.S. PPG noted that the first quarter of 2012 had ...
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A.T. Cross continued to grow in the first quarter of...
A.T. Cross continued to grow in the first quarter of 2013, with sales up by 5.9 percent to $44.4 million compared with the first quarter of 2012. This was driven by a 9.1 percent increase to $23.8 million for its Cross Optical Group (COG), which runs the Costa and Native ...
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Vision Express of the U.K. posted a second consecutive year of...
Vision Express of the U.K. posted a second consecutive year of growth in sales and profit for 2012. Operating income increased by 6 percent to £16.4 million (€19.4m-$25.5m) across its 327 owned and joint-venture stores in the U.K. and Ireland, attributed to modest sales growth on a same-store basis and ...
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Optic 2000 has reported a 5.7 percent increase in its...
Optic 2000 has reported a 5.7 percent increase in its sales in Switzerland last year. The French buying and franchising group opened, in February, the first of five new stores planned for Switzerland in 2013, adding to the 47 affiliated stores it has. In the same month, Optic 2000 signed ...
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The U.K. contact lens market grew by 1 percent in...
The U.K. contact lens market grew by 1 percent in 2012 compared with the previous year, reaching a total value of £234.4 million (€278.7m-$364.1m). This and other data were recently released by Britain's Association of Contact Lens Manufacturers (ACLM), based on information supplied by 12 industry members. Daily disposables represented ...
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Thai Optical Group came unscathed last year from the floods...
Thai Optical Group came unscathed last year from the floods that paralized its facilities for a short while at the end of 2011, but company officials indicate that it has been struggling lately against low-cost casters in China and other parts of Asia. The company's revenues grew to a total ...
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Krys reports a relatively stable turnover of €934 million for...
Krys reports a relatively stable turnover of €934 million for 2012, compared with €928 million in the previous year, for its network of 1,346 optical retail shaps, trading under various banners. The French buying and franchising group says that their sales grew by 1.1 percent on a same-store basis in ...
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Coastal.com has announced that eyeglass sales by revenue and unit...
Coastal.com has announced that eyeglass sales by revenue and unit in the U.S. both increased by approximately 95 percent for the first fiscal quarter ended Jan. 31, when compared with the first quarter of 2012. In Canada, eyeglass sales by value rose by about 36, and grew by about 31 ...
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Alcon's Vision Care division posted a global sales increase of...
Alcon's Vision Care division posted a global sales increase of 4 percent to $606 million for the fourth quarter, thanks to strong sales of contact lenses and better sales of multipurpose products against a weak quarter for them in 2011. Alcon is the second-largest division of the Novartis group portfolio, ...
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Rodenstock recorded an increase in its sales of 7 percent...
Rodenstock recorded an increase in its sales of 7 percent to more than €386 million in 2012. The international business of the company accounts for 64 percent of Rodenstock's total sales. The most dynamic markets for the German company are Asia, the Middle and Far East and South America. In ...
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Etnia Barcelona recorded an increase in its sales of 29 percent in...
Etnia Barcelona recorded an increase in its sales of 29 percent in 2012, with 459,120 frames sold. The monthly record was October, with a sales volume of 60,463 frames. The objective for 2013 is to grow once again by 25 percent. In terms of value, sales increased in France by ...
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Flair recorded total sales of €11 million last year, which...
Flair recorded total sales of €11 million last year, which represents an increase of 5 percent compared with the previous business year. The increase was primarily due to successful sales in Turkey, with sales growth of 30 percent in 2012, and Japan, with a similar increase. Due to the company's ...
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A.T. Cross has said that it expects to meet its...
A.T. Cross has said that it expects to meet its guidance of earnings per share of 70 cents for 2012, against 64 cents in 2011, mainly due to strong sales of its Native and Costa eyewear. Both Costa and Native are designed, produced and marketed by the Cross Optical Group, ...