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News briefsThe Vision Council has developed a regulatory monitor
The Vision Council is introducing what it calls an online regulatory monitoring service for the optometrists and providers of telemedicine. Dubbed PolicyWatch, the system tracks changes to US laws and regulations pertaining to teleoptometry. It covers all 50 states and the District of Columbia, offers email updates and provides “easy ...
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The Vision Council looks at US glasses wearers’ style preferences
US women are twice as likely as men to choose tortoise (26 percent vs. 12 percent) or multicolor frames (24 percent vs. 10 percent) when they purchase glasses. Conversely, men tend to opt more often than women for metallic frames (34 percent vs. 21 percent). These are some of the ...
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ArticleThe Vision Council publishes new US optical-market and consumer data
Announcing the release of its Market inSights 2023, the Vision Council has estimated the total value of the US optical market for last year at $65.6 billion. The organization explains that it changed it has changed research methodology again this year, adding advanced analytics, updating its sources to include consumer ...
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U.S. ECPs’ economic outlook worsens
The economic outlook of U.S. eye care professionals (ECPs) worsened in Q3 compared to Q2 according to the quarterly research report by The Vision Council, and an increasing proportion among them is less confident that they will be able to meet their revenue goals this year. As in previous quarters, ...
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New director of shows for Vision Expo
The Vision Council, which co-organizes the Vision Expo shows with RX, has announced the promotion of Suzanne Krauss to the position of director of Vision Expo East and Vision Expo West. Krauss has been working for the last 16 years in the industry body as industry relations manager on the ...
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The Vision Council updates Lens Product Desciption Standard
The Vision Council has announced the completion of Version 1.00 of its Lens Product Description Standard (LPDS), a reference industry standard for lens manufacturers to provide technical information on their lenses and lens blanks. The new standard, which was unanimously approved by the U.S. association’s LPDS committee at the recent ...
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News briefsSmart eyewear about halfway to consumer awareness, according to report
More than a third of Americans plan to buy smart eyewear within the next year, according to the 2023 edition of The Vision Council’s report Focused inSights Smart Eyewear. Keenest to buy are men aged 18 to 44, city-dwellers and early adopters of the tech. American consumer awareness of smart ...
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ArticleAmerican eyecare providers expect good things from 2023
In its report for the first quarter of 2023 The Vision Council finds that optimism reigns among eyecare providers in the U.S. – despite what the Council’s senior director of market research and analytics, Alysse Henkel, calls “acute pressures” from price inflation and a tight labor market. Surveyed providers found ...
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ArticleThe Vision Council sees a much bigger but flat U.S. market for 2022
The Vision Council has changed its view of the U.S. optical industry, after a revamping of its statistical methods, and has just published a retitled annual survey: the Market inSights Report. Available free of charge to the Council’s members, the report estimates data for product categories, market divisions and the ...
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Stable eyewear and eyecare demand in the U.S. in Q3, report says
The demand for eyecare and eyewear in the U.S. has remained fairly stable since the start of the year, according to The Vision Council’s Consumer inSights Q3 report, which is based on a survey of over 15,000 adults. The results for the third quarter of the year were largely in ...
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More than half U.S. customers aware of blue light glasses, survey finds
According to a consumer survey by The Vision Council that involved over 15,000 adults earlier this year in the U.S., 25 percent of participants said they were currently using glasses or contact lenses that filter blue light. Half of consumers also said that they were concerned about the potential effects ...
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ArticleThe Vision Council releases its consumer survey update for Q2
The Vision Council has released its quarterly update for its Consumer inSights research. The report is based on a survey of over 15,000 U.S. adult consumers who answered questions about their vision correction, eye exams and purchases of eyeglasses, contact lenses, readers and sunglasses. We are sharing here a few ...
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Vision Expo upgrades its digital sourcing platform
The Vision Council and RX, co-organizers of Vision Expo, recently hosted a webinar to review the first year and future of ShopVISION, Vision Expo’s global digital sourcing platform for players in the optical and optometric market. Launched last July, ShopVISION so far lists some 7,000 products in 80 categories and ...
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The Vision Council reports on U.S. consumer choices
The Vision Council has released its first report on consumer decision-making with respect to eyecare. Titled Focused inSights 2022: Consumer Choices, the report covers in particular eye exams and eyewear. It is available for purchase on the Council’s website. The main reasons for American adults to take eye exams are ...
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The Vision Council has a new director of shows
The Vision Council has hired Sara Bonizio to be its director of shows. Bonizio will be reporting to Mitch Barkley, vice president of trade shows and events, and collaborating with RX, co-organizer of Vision Expo East and West. Bonizio spent seven years working for Metro Optics Group, her family’s group ...
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The Vision Council releases first quarterly consumer report
The Vision Council has released its Consumer inSights Q1 2022 Report, the first publication from its recently established newinSights Research Program. The report presents the results of a survey of 15,015 adults in the U.S. It covers vision correction, eye exams, eyeglasses, contact lenses, readers and plano sunglasses. It ...
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ArticleU.S. market up throughout 2021, despite cooling Q4
According to The Vision Council’s latest VisionWatch market report, covering the fourth quarter of 2021, U.S. eyewear sales reached $45.83 billion over the course of 2021, up by 24.3 percent year-on-year and by 5 percent since 2019. “While 2021 marked a significant rebound from a challenging 2020 for the optical ...
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ArticleVision Expo East gears up for first show since 2019
So far about 240 exhibitors have committed to Vision Expo East, whose next edition – the first since 2019 – is scheduled to run from March 31 to April 3 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. (The educational program and OptiCon@Vision Expo will be opening on ...
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ArticleU.S. market confirms its rebound in Q3
According to The Vision Council’s most recent VisionWatch report, covering the third quarter of U.S. market, the 12 months preceding September 2021 suggest a solid recovery in eyewear revenues. Sales for the period reached $46.45 billion, up by 24 percent from the comparable period of 2020 and by 6.3 percent ...
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390 brands and 1,500 buyers active on ShopVISION
The Vision Council and RX, formerly known as Reed Exhibitions, have announced a series of figures in relation with the performance of ShopVISION, their global digital sourcing platform kicked off in June last year in collaboration with Balluun, a supplier of B to B marketplace digital solutions. According to the ...
