All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 27 No. 3
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ArticleLower margins on slightly higher sales for Kering Eyewear in FY2025
Kering Eyewear Q4 revenue declined by 2 percent year over year to €319 million, but it was up by 3 percent on a like-for-like basis, Kering announced yesterday during its annual results presentation. While they slowed down from the previous quarter (+7 percent like for like), eyewear sales continued to ...
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News briefsic! berlin to sponsor Audi in F1
The Marcolin-owned brand ic! berlin, turning 30 this year, has become the Official Eyewear Partner of the Audi Revolut F1 Team and will be providing “support” on and off the track. The terms and duration are otherwise undisclosed. Audi appears never before to have had an eyewear sponsor. Its other ...
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Ace & Tate takes over small Spanish DTC brand
Ace & Tate, the Dutch-based eyewear company, is acquiring Project Lobster, a Spanish direct-to-consumer omnichannel eyewear brand that filed for bankruptcy at the end of 2025. Ace & Tate will take over five of the seven Project Lobster stores located in Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia, and keep operating them under ...
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Warby Parker has a new CFO
Warby Parker has appointed Adrian Mitchell as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), replacing in this function Dave Gilboa, co-founder and co-CEO of the company who has served as interim CFO since the departure of Steve Miller in October last year. Mitchell joins the direct-to-consumer eyewear brand from US department store group ...
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Italian eyewear innovation center launched in Belluno
Innovereye, an Italian innovation center focused on the adoption of digital technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) in the eyewear sector, has been launched in Belluno with the Italian eyewear trade association ANFAO, the Belluno Dolomiti chapter of the Italian business association Confindustria and Aivisory, a consultancy focused on AI adoption, ...
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ArticleEssilux wraps 2025 with startup-like topline growth but slightly lower profits
EssilorLuxottica ended fiscal 2025 with a bang as the group’s revenue in Q4 jumped by 12.1 percent year-on-year to €7,600 million, or by a whopping 18.4 percent in constant currencies. For the full year, the topline rose by 7.5 percent in reported terms and by 11.2 percent at constant rates ...
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ArticleFielmann reports 7% sales hike, solid margin gains for FY2025
Delivering primarily strong results for fiscal 2025, Fielmann Group said that annual external sales rose by 7.4 percent year on year to €2,435 million, with half of the growth being organic. Seeing that the German-based retail group reported a 9.1 percent sales growth for the first nine months of the ...
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News briefsFrench optical sees modest gains in FY25, survey says
A survey conducted by Acuité of about 350 opticians in France shows year-on-year sales growth of about +1.5 percent for FY 2025, up from 2024’s 0.9 percent. Some 61 percent of respondents report positive revenues for 2025. The optical/eyewear sector saw modest growth of 1.5 percent – more than apparel ...
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News briefsSynsam has a new ‘Made in Sweden’ brand
Synsam Group (Stockholm) is introducing a new brand, Isak V, whose eyewear will be designed and produced in Sweden – and therefore expand the company’s “Made in Sweden” portfolio. The line consists of 14 models of ophthalmic glasses and three models of sunglasses. Their design will be “modern,” “timeless,” “masculine” ...
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ArticleLenskart stock price gets a boost after strong Q3 results
Lenskart stock price jumped by close to 10 percent yesterday at the Bombay Stock Exchange, following the communication of the group’s strong results for the third quarter of its 2025/26 fiscal year. They now trade 27 percent higher than their IPO price in November last year. Total sales from operations ...
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Upmarket Indian eyewear retailer sees 25% jump in international brands sales
Titan Company, the upmarket Indian retail company (watches, jewelry, eyecare), has reported a 17.9 percent year on year increase in eyewear sales to 231 crore Indian rupees (€21m) in Q3 2025/26. The division’s EBIT margin for the quarter was 10.5 percent, up 0.5 percentage points from Q3 last year. The ...
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Menicon dailies revenue up double digit as increased capacity kicks in
Menicon vision care revenue rose by 2.6 percent year-over-year (2.4 percent at constant rates) to 29.8 billion Japanese yen (€164m) in the third quarter of the company’s 2025/26 fiscal year. The momentum was driven by the daily contact lenses category, where Q3 sales grew by 11.6 percent to ¥8.1 billion ...
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Eyes + More switches gear in Sweden
Nexeye opened three new Eyes + More stores in Sweden earlier this month, bringing its total footprint in the country to four locations. The stores are located in Gothenburg, Norrköping and Malmö (2). The group says that it is planning to open dozens of Eyes + More stores across Sweden ...
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Meta reportedly working on facial recognition feature for its AI glasses
Meta is considering the launch of a facial recognition function to its AI glasses, perhaps as soon as this year, according to a report by The New York Times, based on a leaked internal document from May last year. “Name Tag”, by its code name, would allow the glasses wearers ...
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Hoya Vision Care streamlines North American management team
HOYA Vision Care has announced that Stefen Haifawi, President of HOYA Vision Care Canada, will serve as Senior VP of US Commercial, leading the company’s ECP Sales, Marketing and Customer Service teams in the country while keeping continuing to lead the Canadian operations. Haifawi joined the company from ZEISS Vision ...
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ArticleItaly-Austria Micro-Alps project on microplastics waste management bears first fruit
Micro-Alps, an Italian-Austrian project looking into microplastics waste management in the eyewear sector in the Alpine region, has yielded its first concrete results, with microplastics generated from lens grinding recovered and reused as a raw material for filaments that will now be tested out as a potential resource for creating ...
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ArticleZoff slows down in Q4, prepares for Megane Super integration
Zoff revenue increased by 5.5 percent year on year to 11.8 billion Japanese yen (€65m) in Q4 2025, decelerating sharply from the 21.1 percent growth reported in Q3. The slowdown was mostly due to the gradual phase out of the company’s sunglasses marketing campaign that proved very successful in the ...
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Paris Miki 9M sales inch up on higher prices
Paris Miki has reported a 2.1 percent year-on-year increase in revenue to 39.5 billion Japanese yen (€217m) for the nine-month period ended Dec. 31, 2025, after a positive Q3 performance (+5.5 percent). Accounting for 90 percent of the group’s business, sales in Japan rose by 2.8 percent in the nine ...
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ArticleLeaked Apple AI glasses plans suggest group is mostly playing catch-up in category
Apple is planning to start the production of its smart glasses in December this year before a commercial launch in 2027, according to “people with knowledge of the plans” cited by Bloomberg. The business news outlet already reported in October last year that Apple was shifting priorities from VR headsets ...
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Silmo Academy heads to Bali
SILMO has announced the program of its SILMO Academy congress taking place in Bali, Indonesia, from next April 6 to 8. The sessions will cover a wide range of topics, including evolving professional practices, clinical innovation, light management and myopia, presbyopia, and the increasing role of AI, smart eyewear and ...
