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German eyewear industry sales inched up in 2023 as exports slowed down
German eyewear industry association Spectaris has released preliminary data for the sales of its members on both the domestic and export markets at the recent opti trade fair in Munich, based on figures for the January to September 2023 period. As reflected in the table below, the total industry revenue ...
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Spectaris has a new chairman
SPECTARIS, the German industry association for optics and other related sectors, has announced the election of Dr. Bernhard Ohnesorge as its new chairman. Ohnesorge, who is the managing director of Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH was elected with over 90 percent of the votes at the last general meeting of the ...
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Mixed signals from the German optical market for the half year
The German optical market grew by 3.7 percent in volume at retail in the fist six months of 2023 versus the previous year, according to data provided by the ZVA, the country’s national association of opticians and optometrists. Adding the effect of price increases, optical retail sales increased by 7.6 ...
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Spectaris wins digital communication award for contact lenses’ program
Spectaris, the German industry association for optics and other related sectors, has received a mediaV-Award 2023 from trade magazine Verbändereport in the category ”Best image campaign” for its digital and marketing campaign to promote contact lenses in the country. Launched in 2019, the initiative has been increasing the visibility of ...
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A German contact-lens portal
The Spectaris Contact Lens Circle and an industry initiative called Kuratorium Gutes Sehen (KGS) have set up an internet portal to persuade wearers of glasses to try contact lenses. The German website (kontaktlinseninfo.de) is described as comprehensive and neutral with respect to brands and manufacturers. It reviews the full range ...
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Spectaris launches forum to help members comply with EU regulations
The German industry association Spectaris is expanding its services for the ophthalmic optics industry with the new information forum “Regulatory Forum for the Ophthalmic Optics Industry” (RFAO), which is intended to assist in complying with increasingly complex statutory and legal requirements of the European Union. The RFAO is expected to ...
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German optical associations release new market data at opti
Ahead of the opening of the opti trade show in Munich today, industry association Spectaris announced that, based on its preliminary calculations, sales from German-based suppliers of ophthalmic optics and consumer optics reached a total of €4.87 million for 2022, up by 2.5 percent from 2021. The growth was entirely ...
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German industry association calls for urgent measures to protect SMEs
In a direct address to its national government, German industry association Spectaris is calling for the rapid implementation of a multi-point program to secure the future of healthcare industries in Germany, particularly for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that are most exposed to the current economic crisis. First and foremost, ...
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German industry association Spectaris bids farewell to Josef May, elects successors
Josef May, who has been chairman of the German industry association Spectaris and Chairman of the Consumer Optics division, has handed over his posts to two experienced successors after almost two decades on the board. Ulrich Krauss, CEO of Analytik Jena, was elected as the new chairman of the association ...
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ZVA confirms German market rebound, but lack of opticians endures
The Zentralverband der Augenoptiker und Optometristen (ZVA), the German association of opticians and optometrists, has released its annual report on the German market for 2021. The results are based on data collected from its members but also from other market players, associations and research companies. The report shows that ...
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Spectaris informs its members about Ukraine war effects on business
To keep its members informed, the German manufacturers of ophthalmic optics and consumer optics association has launched a new section on its website that is dedicated to the war in Ukraine. The association informs its members about the current sanctions in effect by the E.U., the U.S., and counter-sanctions installed ...
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Spectaris: German optics industry recovered from pandemic impact in 2021
According to a press statement published by the industry association Spectaris, the German manufacturers of ophthalmic optics and consumer optics that are members of the association have successfully recovered from the negative effects of the Corona pandemic in 2021. In 2021, overall sales of the 140 Spectaris members who have ...
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German suppliers saw their sales drop 9.5% last year
The Covid-19 pandemic put a brutal end to a decade of steady growth for the German eyewear industry, according to a new report by Spectaris, the national trade association. After a record sales’ increase of 5.4 percent in 2019, revenues of German suppliers of optical products dropped by 9.5 percent ...
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German optics industry calls for stripped-down free trade deal between U.K., EU
Spectaris , the German industry association for optics, photonics, analysis and medical technology based in Berlin, called for a “stripped-down” free trade agreement between the U.K. and the European Union to avoid the parties failing to strike a deal, which would lead to a so-called hard Brexit. “Better a ...
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Germany increases funding for industrial research
Following lobbying by the German industry association Spectaris and other groups, the German government has agreed to increase by €50 million funds destined to corporate industrial research to a total of €300.6 million. The money is part of a stimulus package to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. ...
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Germany remains the biggest importer in Europe
According to the latest report on European trade flows published by Spectaris, the German ophthalmic optics industry association, Germany was once again the European Union s biggest importer of ophthalmic optics products in 2018, reaching a level of €1.43 billion. France remained in second place with an import value of ...