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Jimmy Fairly enters Italy and Spain
As previously announced, Jimmy Fairly is pursuing its international expansion strategy with the opening of its first shop in both Spain (Barcelona) and Italy (Milan) in the last few weeks. The direct-to-consumer brand, which was founded in 2011 and taken over by a French private equity fund ten years later, ...
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Spanish eye health tech start-up enters U.S. market
Wivi Vision, a Barcelona-based start-up focusing on children eye health, has announced the signature of a partnership with Vision Rehab Technologies for the distribution of its products and services in the U.S. Wivi Vision has developed a technology that evaluates visual disfunctions in children, such as dislexya for example, and ...
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News briefsStrong children myopia increase in Spain, research finds
A fifth of Spain’s schoolchildren suffer from myopia, whose incidence over the past six years has increased by 17.8 percent. So says this year’s edition of the “Barometer of Myopia in Spain,” a report put out by the Alain Afflelou Foundation and Madrid’s Complutense University. Myopia is most prevalent (30%) ...
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ArticleDriven by lenses, Spanish optical market tops pre-COVID level in 2022
The Spanish optical market grew by 4.4 percent year-on-year to €1.,918 million including VAT in 2022 according to a new report presented yesterday in an online meeting by the Federación Espaňola de Asociasones del Sector Óptico (FEDAO). Adding up to the 20.4 percent rebound reported a year ago for 2021, ...
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News briefsSpanish optical network to receive digitalization subsidy
Optical buying group Natural Optics Group (NOG) has obtained more than €200,000 in subsidies from the Spanish government’s Kit Digital program. Founded 30-odd years ago, and maintaining offices in Madrid and Torrefarrera, NOG boasts a membership of around 700 shops in Spain, including over 100 under the Natural Optics banner. ...
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ArticleAfflelou driven by historical banner optical sales in Q2
The Afflelou Group has reported a 4.2 percent year-on-year increase in Q2 network sales to €224.9 million (see table), with a relative underperformance in its domestic market compared with international markets, due to declining hearing aids’ sales and a reduced retail footprint related to the phasing out of the Optical ...
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News briefsA web tool for sunglass protection in Spain
Along with the Optics and Optometry School of Terrassa (FOOT, at Polytechnic University of Catalonia) and the Spanish Association of Optical Manufacturers (AEO), Visión y Vida has developed a digital system to match lens filters to the needs of sunglass wearers. It is free of charge and consists of a ...
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News briefsMyopia worsening in Spain
According to a report by Vision y Vida, a 65-year-old association of public utility in Spain, the spread of myopia is about to become pathological – in the technical sense. It points out that already some 62.5 percent of Spain’s university students are myopes. Worse still, however, is the situation ...
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ArticleGFK sees French market up 5% in 2022
GFK delivered a mixed picture for the European market during its presentation at the annual conference of the Club Inter-Optiques, a French-based industry association, last Friday. The research company’s data is based on sell-out figures collected at a panel of optical shops in the different countries. As shown in the ...
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News briefsVisionLab going high tech
This year VisionLab will be investing €5 million in its optical shops to bring their services into line with new user demands, according to Look Vision. The optometrics are to include virtual functions for remote measurements, which will reportedly shave about 20 minutes from the average consultation. The Spanish chain ...
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ArticleFielmann expands Spanish business with new acquisition
The Fielmann Group is strengthening its presence in the Spanish market through the full acquisition of the retail, wholesale and manufacturing businesses of MFI Group, a leading optical and hearing-aid supplier in northern Spain. The transaction will be completed on Dec. 31, 2022. The investment comes after the takeover in ...
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ArticleSpain’s optical manufacturers expect a record spring
The Spanish Association of Optical Manufacturers (AEO) is looking forward to strong eyewear sales in spring, as demand for sunglasses rose again in the third quarter, after two years of low inventory renewals. Third-quarter eyewear sales were in fact up by 20 percent overall in volume and by 11 percent ...
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ArticleSpain’s optical sector all but recovers in 2021
Last year Spain’s optical sector managed to claw back most of the business that had slipped away during the pandemic. Revenues for the whole of 2021 increased by 20.36 percent, to €1.836 billion, but remained 1.8 percent shy of 2019’s figure. Revenues for the pandemic year of 2020 dropped by ...
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ArticleAfflelou Q3 growth driven by COVID recovery, DOS and hearing aids
The Afflelou group has reported a strong increase in network sales for the third quarter of its current fiscal year, thanks mostly to a strong performance in the French-based retailer’s domestic market while the activity in Spain was more subdued (see chart). Afflelou Group- Q3 Network Sales - ...
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Multiópticas enters the audiology sector
Look Vision reports that Multiópticas has launched a brand of hearing aids, called Multisound, that will be exclusive to Spanish company’s audiology chain, Centros Auditivos Multiópticas. As CEO Carlos Crespo explained: “The acoustic contamination to which we are subject every day will in the future make audiology one of the ...
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ArticleFrench market up 1.4% vs 2019 despite headwinds
In an online conference for the members of the French-based industry association Club Inter-Optiques last week, GFK released some key indicators on the performance of the French optical market in 2021, also providing some comparison points with the German, Spanish and Italian markets. The research company’s data is based on ...
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Julbo takes over its distribution in Spain, hires an international sales manager
Julbo is severing ties with Esportiva Aksa, its partner of many years in the Spanish market, and taking charge of its own distribution in the country. To this end, the French optical brand has hired two executives: Brian Sánchez Vigara and Roger Puig Ventura. Julbo is in addition looking to ...
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New dates for ExpoÓptica
ExpoÓptica, the Spanish eyewear trade show, has shifted the dates of its 2022 edition to April 1 to 3, 2022. The organizers had to postpone the event as the IFEMA fairgrounds where it is taking place were fully booked for the first quarter of next year, LookVision reports. The show ...
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Afflelou wins CSR prize from Spanish chamber of commerce
In recognition of its efforts in sustainability and corporate social responsibility, Afflelou Group has received the COCEF prize from the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in France (itself called the COCEF, for short). Over the past year, the French optical firm has produced more than 100,000 sustainable frames through its MAGIC ...
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Opticalia expands retail footprint
The Spanish-based optical group Opticalia has extended its retail presence to a total of 1,111 locations since the start of the year across Spain, Portugal, Colombia and Morocco, according to a report in the trade publication Look Vision . 75 new members have reportedly joined Opticalia’s network, including 35 ...
