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ArticleNational Vision’s rebranding drive reaches Eyeglass World
National Vision has kicked off the second phase of its rebranding drive: after refreshing America’s Best in 2025, it’s now turning to Eyeglass World, its smaller banner. Developed with agency VML, the new campaign carries the line “Change Your Glasses. Change Your World.” and centers on a launch film following ...
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Silhouette opens first store outside Austria
Silhouette International will open a second House of Silhouette store this autumn, in Hamburg’s Kaisergalerie shopping arcade—its first in Germany, following the concept’s 2024 debut in Vienna. As in Vienna, the store will present all three group brands, Silhouette, evil eye, and Neubau, combining brand presentation with personal consultation. The ...
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ArticleSpecsavers’ operating margin jumps to 9.9 percent
Specsavers’ profitability improved sharply in fiscal 2025/26, with its operating margin climbing 1.7 percentage points to 9.9 percent, according to the group’s latest Companies House filing, which offers a narrower but more detailed view of the business than the group’s own Annual Review document. Turnover at the filing entity, Specsavers ...
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ArticleFielmann cuts full-year guidance as detailed H1 figures confirm depth of German slowdown
Fielmann Group confirmed on Aug. 27 the detailed financial results behind the preliminary first-half figures it published in mid-July, while also delivering the formal guidance cut it had signaled a week earlier. On Aug.20, the German optical retailer lowered its full-year 2026 sales growth guidance, with the midpoint moving from ...
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News briefsGerman digital-rights group takes on the smart-glasses supply chain
HateAid, the Berlin digital-rights group, has filed a criminal complaint against the management of Meta, the brands Ray-Ban and Oakley (both EssilorLuxottica units), and four retailers: Fielmann, Apollo-Optik (also part of EssilorLuxottica), Mister Spex and MediaMarkt. Filed Aug. 12 with Frankfurt’s cybercrime unit, ZIT, the complaint targets the Ray-Ban Meta ...
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JINS completes acquisition of Phillipine franchisee
JINS Holdings has completed the acquisition of the eight-store eyewear retail business it operated under franchise in the Philippines, closing on July 31 through its local subsidiary established last year. The Japanese group paid approximately ¥300 million (€1.6m) in cash for the business, previously run by Suyen Corporation under a ...
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MO Global expands into Portugal
Spanish optical group MO Global Eyewear (Multiópticas) will enter the Portuguese market this autumn with its first store, in the Boavista district of Porto, the company has announced. The move follows a €45 million capital increase completed at the end of 2025, aimed at funding international growth. The Porto store ...
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Contact lens patients more profitable than glasses wearers, trade group study argues
In the long run, US eye care professionals are better off selling contact lenses rather than glasses to their patients. The conclusion comes from a report commissioned by the Contact Lens Institute (CLI), a US trade group for the contact lens and lens care industry whose members include Alcon, Bausch ...
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ArticleGentle Monster plans to quadruple overseas stores as AI glasses launch nears
IICOMBINED, the Seoul-based parent of Gentle Monster, plans to increase its eyewear brand’s overseas store count roughly fourfold within three to five years, taking the network from around 50 stores today to a targeted 200, according to Korean media reports citing fashion industry sources. The group currently operates 86 stores ...
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ArticleJINS reports double-digit revenue growth, lower margins in 9M results
JINS HOLDINGS posted nine-month results showing sales growth holding at double digits, even as profit growth all but stalled, with a sharp domestic margin decline largely counterbalanced by a marked overseas profitability improvement. Net sales for the nine months through May 31 rose 15.6 percent year on year to ¥80.7 ...
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IZIPIZI opens first store in Japan
Paris-based eyewear brand IZIPIZI has opened its first directly operated store in Japan, located in Tokyo’s Harajuku district. The store was opened in partnership with IDEAPORT, IZIPIZI’s longtime distributor in the country.Shoppers can browse the brand’s core lines — SUN, READING, KIDS, ACTIVE and SCREEN — alongside exclusive models created ...
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China’s Shenzhen opens first AI eyewear mall
Shenzhen’s Longgang district has opened China’s first AI-glasses-themed commercial complex, marking a bid to reposition the region’s decades-old eyewear manufacturing base as a consumer and branding hub. The Henggang AI+ Glasses Center held its opening ceremony on July 8 in Longgang’s Henggang subdistrict, alongside the launch of Vision Hub, a ...
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Walmart launches no-cost optician training program
Walmart announced last week the launch of “Associate to Optician,” a new no-cost career pathway program allowing hourly associates to train as licensed opticians. The initiative, delivered through Walmart’s existing Live Better U education benefit, offers a fully funded associate degree in Optical Science combined with hands-on clinical training, saving ...
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ArticleEyes + More bets on brand building with pan-European ambitions
About one and a half years after being acquired by KKR, Nexeye, the Dutch-based retail group, is accelerating its network expansion across Europe with the ambition of growing its retail footprint from roughly 750 stores today, spread across the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria, and Sweden, to 1,000 doors by 2028. ...
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Mister Spex outsources logistics, expands Rodenstock partnership
As part of its ongoing turnaround plan, Mister Spex is outsourcing its logistics to Arvato, a supply chain service provider, and closing its own site in Berlin Spandau, the company announced. Arvato will take over inbound and outbound logistics, warehousing, and returns management for the struggling retail group. Approximately 125 ...
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Menicon acquires small contact lens retail chain in Japan
Menicon announced on July 1, 2026 that it had acquired Inter Optical Co., a regional store operator, to strengthen its retail base and customer touchpoints in eastern Japan. This is the latest step in a decade-long roll-up: the Japan-based conctact lens maker already owns Ace Contact (through subsidiary W.I. System, ...
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ArticleEssilorLuxottica advances medtech roadmap in the US with first LensCrafters Vision & Eye Health
CenterLensCrafters, the EssilorLuxottica-owned optical retail chain, opened its first Vision & Eye Health Center on June 30 in Exton, Pennsylvania, marking the LensCrafters brand’s entry into in-house surgical care in the US. The Exton location offers comprehensive eye health evaluations alongside many surgical options, including implantable collamer lenses, refractive lens ...
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Eyes + More accelerates in Sweden
Eyes + More will open three stores in Stockholm, Sweden, in the three weeks to July 9. The retail chain opened its first store in the country in 2022 and accelerated sharply since Nexeye Group, its mother company, was acquired by private equity firm KKR in 2024. The new openings ...
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KKR builds up optical portfolio with Investment in FYihealth
Global private equity investor KKR has made a strategic investment in FYihealth, a Canadian-based group founded in 2008 and operating 370 optometry clinics and retail stores across Canada and the US. Financial details were not disclosed for the transaction, which is expected to close in the coming months after regulatory ...
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ArticleSpecsavers annual sales up 9%, led by the UK and Ireland
Specsavers has reported an 8.9 percent year-on-year increase in group revenue to £4,540 million (€5,250m) for its fiscal year ended Feb. 28, 2026, accelerating sharply from the 4.3 percent increase in the previous year. The UK-based group is thus consolidating its position as the second-largest optical retailer in the world, ...
