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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.
ArticleFrench optical market flattish in 2022, official report says
The French optical market inched up by 0.2 percent year-on-year to €7,272 million according to the new report by the national research and statistics office, the Direction de la recherche, des études, de l’évaluation et des statistiques (DREES). The small hike in market value follows two years of strong COVID-related ...
ArticleGlobal lens and frames market resilient to COVID and economic crisis, report finds
Underpinned by solid positive and long-term trends – aging populations and more digital lifestyles in the first place –, the global optical market emerged relatively unscathed from the COVID-19 crisis. That was one of the conclusions from the World Lens and Frames Demand report released last year by independent research ...
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Sports optic market to grow 3% annually by 2028
The global market for sports optic – including binoculars, rangefinders, riflescopes and field scopes – is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 2.8 percent to $2.43 billion by 2028, according to a new report by Fortune Business Insights, an Indian research company. The company says that the market growth ...
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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 ...
News briefsItalian exports maintained double-digit growth pace in Q1
The Italian eyewear industry association ANFAO released preliminary exports’ data for the first quarter of 2023 at its general assembly held at the end of last week in Verona. Italian exports in Q1 were up 16.7 percent year-on-year to €1,388 million, decelerating slightly from the 22.5 percent growth reported ...
Driven 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, ...
American 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.
GFK 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.
ANFAO turns focus to costs after exports jumped in 2022
Just a few days ahead of the 2023 edition of MIDO, Italian eyewear industry association ANFAO released preliminary data for 2022 that broadly confirmed the contrasted picture given last December, between booming exports and a flattish domestic market.
The 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.
Leading French buying group evaluates lens suppliers
Along with Galileo Business Consulting, the Centrale des Opticiens (CDO) – which purports to France’s largest buying group for independent opticians – has conducted a survey of its membership to map the lay of the land between opticians and their lens suppliers. The results were released on the occasion of ...
Italian exports recover faster than expected
ANFAO has brightened its forecast for the Italy’s eyewear industry, as figures for the first half of 2021 are hinting at a brisker-than-expected recovery.
Italian fashion industry still expects sharp declines in H1
The Italian fashion industry still expects sharp declines in sales during the first two quarters of 2021, after falling by 26 percent in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a survey released by Confindustria Moda, the umbrella association which comprises Anfao, the trade association representing eyewear manufacturers; Sistema ...
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