All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 13, Issue 8-9 – Page 3

  • Article

    Optic 2000 launches an e-commerce operation

    2012-05-25T00:00:00Z

    The new virtual store of the French buying group, which went live last month, offers two distinct routes to the customer, one for prescription eyewear and the other for sunglasses and contact lenses. In the first case, the customer must pick frames and lenses at an affiliated retail store. In ...

  • Article

    Randazzo grows by 2.5% on a comparable basis

    2012-05-25T00:00:00Z

    The Randazzo Group, Italy's second-largest eyewear chain in terms of turnover and number of sales outlets after Salmoiraghi & Viganò, closed 2011 with sales of €111.1 million. In absolute terms that means growth of 4.8 percent, but on a same-size basis the figure comes down to 2.5 percent. At the ...

  • News briefs

    Spy increased revenues by 22 percent to $8.1 million in...

    2012-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Spy increased revenues by 22 percent to $8.1 million in the first quarter, with a 22 percent increase for the Spy brand alone to $7.9 million. The balance of $0.3 million consisted of closeout inventories of other products that the American company is no longer producing, which dragged down the ...

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    New Look Eyewear of Montreal reported turnover of 20.1 million...

    2012-05-25T00:00:00Z

    New Look Eyewear of Montreal reported turnover of 20.1 million Canadian dollars (€15.5m-$19.6m) for the first quarter ended March 31, up by 5.2 percent from the same period in 2011. Comparable store sales dipped by 0.5 percent, and net earnings sank to C$1.2 million (€927,600-$1.2m) from C$1.6 million last year.

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    Allergan's sales rose by 9.0 percent to $1,365.7 million in...

    2012-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Allergan's sales rose by 9.0 percent to $1,365.7 million in the first quarter, or by 10.4 percent in constant currencies. In particular, specialty pharmaceuticals went up by 10.8 percent in dollars and by 12.2 percent in local currencies.

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    A.T. Cross reported an 18.2 percent sales increase to $20.0...

    2012-05-25T00:00:00Z

    A.T. Cross reported an 18.2 percent sales increase to $20.0 million in the first quarter for its Cross Optical Group, comprising the Native and Costa del Mar brands of eyewear. The segment generated an operating profit of $2.8 million, up from $2.4 million in the year-ago period, more than offsetting ...