All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 26 No. 23+24 – Page 2
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Opti 2026 to introduce hearing acoustics area
Organizers of opti have announced the launch at the next edition of the show (Jan. 16-18, 2025, in Munich) of SPHEARE, a 200 square-meter area focusing on hearing acoustics. Bellman & Symfon, Meditrend, Nuance Audio, Optimus Hearing, oton & friends PROABO and Sinfonia have confirmed their participation to the new ...
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Marcolin opens showroom in Barcelona
Marcolin inaugurated its Barcelona showroom on Nov. 18, 2025, with guests including representatives from the Spanish press, clients, partners and local institutions. “This space represents an important step in strengthening our commercial presence in the Spanish and Southern European markets, in line with the Group’s global vision and following our ...
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ANFAO push in Turkey as industry strives to diversify export markets
ANFAO, the Italian eyewear industry association, reinforced its presence in Turkey through a group presence at the Silmo Istanbul 2025 trade show that closed its doors on Nov. 22, 2025. The initiative, financially supported by the Italian Trade Agency, is aimed at developing a structured market access strategy for Italian ...
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EssilorLuxottica reportedly offering to take a 5-10% stake in Armani
EssilorLuxottica has offered to buy a 5 to 10 percent stake in Armani, Il Sole 24 Ore reported on Nov. 22, quoting unnamed sources. The eyewear group would, however, not be interested in taking an active role in the management of Armani, according to the Italian financial newspaper. As previously ...
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iVision Tech 9M sales rise 14% as lens sales jump, eyewear sales slip
iVision Tech saw group sales in the first nine months of 2025 rise by 14.2 percent compared to the year earlier to €10.7 million, as top line growth continued to be supported by recent acquisitions. Revenues from eyewear sales decreased by 29 percent to €5.7 million although lens sales jumped ...
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ArticleInspecs takeover talks extended with current highest bid at £85m
Private equity seems to have an edge in the negotiations but Safilo is reviewing its options. The UK-based eyewear group has also announced a trading update that forecasts a 4 percent decline in annual revenue.
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Japan market watchdog investigates Ray-Ban and Oakley trade practices
The Japan Fair Trade Commission began an on-site inspection at Luxottica Japan’s headquarters earlier this week, Nikkei Shinbun and other news outlets have reported. The company is reportedly suspected of having fixed resale prices of some Ray-Ban and Oakley products for several years, by asking retailers not to sell them ...
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ArticleAfflelou network sales up 5% in FY2025
Network sales were up mid-single digits in France and Spain, the retailer’s two key markets. Margins also progressed year over year despite increasing and substantial debt-related costs.
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ArticleGlassesUSA.com operator launches multi-brand luxury eyewear webshop
Most large eyewear companies in the luxury segment, save one, partner with the new online shop.
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Zoff topline jumps by 21% in Q3
Zoff revenue jumped by 21.2 percent year on year in Q3 to 14.4 billion Japanese yen (€79m), more than doubling in growth pace from the 10.1 percent increase reported for H1. The Japanese-based retail group saw its topline progress by 14.0 percent to ¥38.3 billion (€211m) in the first nine ...
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ArticleStrong Q3 sales growth for Synsam despite Denmark subscriptions slump
Synsam Group revenue returned to double-digit growth in Q3 after a 6.9 percent hike in the previous quarter. Total quarterly sales rose by 11.0 percent year over year to 1,731 million Swedish crowns (€158m), driven by sharp increases in Sweden and Norway (see table). They were up by 12.4 percent ...
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News briefsFDA approves Topcon’s Omnia four-in-one device
Topcon Healthcare has obtained 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Omnia, a device that performs initial tests in objective refraction, keratometry, tonometry and pachymetry alike. It is now available in the US. The device appears also to be the same TRK-3 Omnia that Topcon released ...
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Lenskart launches Meller in India
Lenskart has announced that it is launching Meller, the Spanish direct-to-consumer eyewear brand in which it bought an 80 percent stake for €45 million earlier this year, in about 500 of its Indian stores. According to the group, Meller revenue amounted to 2.7 billion rupees (€26.5m) in fiscal 2025 (ended ...
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Vuzix highlights pipeline build-up after Q3 revenue drop
Vuzix has reported a 16.2 percent year-on-year drop in revenue to $1.2 million on lower smart glasses and related engineering services sales for the third quarter of fiscal 2025. The net loss in the period narrowed to $7.4 million from $9.2 million in 2024 thanks mostly to declines in selling, ...
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Menicon Q2 vision care sales up 3% on higher supply and price increases
Menicon Q2 vision care unit’s revenue rose by 2.9 percent year on year to 29.1 billion Japanese yen (€162m), accelerating from the 0.6 percent growth reported for the previous quarter. The increase in growth pace was primarily driven by the daily contact lens segment where production bottlenecks are progressively easing. ...
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News briefsMarcolin, New York Tech hold design contest
This month Marcolin and the New York Institute of Technology (New York Tech) conducted what the company calls an “academic-industrial initiative.” Called “Vision Reframed: Designing Eyewear Beyond Boundaries,” the initiative called on students from New York Tech’s departments of architecture, interior design, digital art and design, and medicine (presumably its ...
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ArticleParis Miki main stakeholder to delist the company through an MBO
The tender offer by the founding family fund values the company at approximately 33 billion yen (€182m). The plan is to restructure the retailer’s domestic and overseas businesses after a decade of revenue stagnation and low or negative profit margins.
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ArticleEssilux backs Stellest 2.0 claims with new peer-reviewed study, joins CCOI
On the heels of the presentation of its new Stellest 2.0 lens at the China International Import Expo in Shanghai last week, EssilorLuxottica has announced the publication of a new peer-reviewed study that supports its claims of higher efficiency in slowing the progression of myopia. The results of the study ...
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ArticleMister Spex resumes store expansion as bottom line takes a lighter shade of red
Mister Spex’s top and bottom line remained on sharply diverging trajectories in Q3 as the embattled German-based retail group continued to execute the strategic turnaround plan it launched about one year ago. The quarter was also marked by the acquisition of four optical stores in Germany. Sales drop, ...
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ArticleAlcon Q3 CL sales grow 6%, sees STAAR deal as attractive but not essential
Alcon generated $707 million in contact lens sales in the third quarter ended Sept. 30, up by 6 percent compared to the year earlier, as growth was driven by product innovation and price increases, partially offset by declines in legacy products. At constant-currency rates, sales were up by 5 percent. ...
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