All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 27 No. 8 – Page 2
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Menicon launches educational website
Menicon launched the “Menicon Knowledge Hub” on July 21, 2026, a new mulitlingual online platform aimed at the general public (contact lens wearers and consumers), as well as eye care professionals. The site publishes information on eye health, contact lens care, and vision-related topics, based on the company’s research in ...
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ArticleSamsung’s new AI glasses: same silhouette, same guts, still no price tag
Samsung used its Galaxy Unpacked event in London on July 22 to give its clearest look yet at two AI glasses models developed with eyewear brands Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, neither of which received a standalone product name. The Gentle Monster edition is a slim black frame with a ...
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Meta pauses smart glasses feature paywall test
Meta has paused a plan to limit free access to Conversation Focus, an accessibility feature on its Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses that amplifies a speaker’s voice in noisy environments. The company introduced usage caps in early July, restricting free users to three hours per month unless they subscribed to ...
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Maui Jim launches first prescription eyewear collection under Kering Eyewear
Maui Jim has introduced a prescription eyewear collection, its first since joining Kering Eyewear’s portfolio, now available through authorized opticians and partners. The range includes cat-eye, round, rectangular and square frames in acetate, injection-molded material, metal and titanium, with details including elongated hinges and the brand’s Hawaiian pattern. It is ...
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Apple reportedly pushes smart glasses launch to late 2027
Apple’s first smart glasses, codenamed N50, will be unveiled at the group’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2027 rather than late 2026 as previously planned, with consumer release now expected by the end of 2027, according to Bloomberg. The delay reflects both engineering refinements and the challenge of shaping the ...
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LVMH Fashion & Leather Goods returns to growth in Q2 2026
LVMH’s Fashion & Leather Goods division posted organic revenue growth of 1 percent year-over-year in the second quarter of 2026, marking a return to growth after several quarters of decline. For the first half, however, division sales fell 5 percent on a reported basis to €18.1 billion, or 1 percent ...
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ArticleEssilorLuxottica reverses margin slide in H1 as wearables mature and medtech ambitions widen
EssilorLuxottica delivered a second straight half of double-digit revenue growth while reversing the profitability slide that had unsettled investors through 2025, as the rising weight of wearables in the sales mix began to pay off rather than dilute margins. Group revenue reached €7,692 million in the second quarter, up 8.7 ...
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ArticleKering Eyewear keeps outperforming as group returns to growth in H1 2026
Kering Eyewear Q2 revenue rose by 7 percent year over year to €476 million, up by 8 percent on a like-for-like basis, Kering announced yesterday during its first-half results presentation. That is a slight acceleration on Q1’s year-over-year pace (+3 percent reported, +7 percent like for like), even though Q2’s ...
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ArticleAI glasses drive Meta’s Reality Labs revenue growth as unit losses widen
Meta’s Reality Labs revenue grew 16 percent year over year to $431 million in Q2, though the quarter-on-quarter increase from $402 million was comparatively modest, at 7 percent. Meta’s own “Meta Glasses” line, made with EssilorLuxottica, only launched in the final days of June, so it is barely reflected in ...
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Contact lens patients more profitable than glasses wearers, trade group study argues
In the long run, US eye care professionals are better off selling contact lenses rather than glasses to their patients. The conclusion comes from a report commissioned by the Contact Lens Institute (CLI), a US trade group for the contact lens and lens care industry whose members include Alcon, Bausch ...
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MO Global expands into Portugal
Spanish optical group MO Global Eyewear (Multiópticas) will enter the Portuguese market this autumn with its first store, in the Boavista district of Porto, the company has announced. The move follows a €45 million capital increase completed at the end of 2025, aimed at funding international growth. The Porto store ...
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HOYA top executive elected president of European optical industries federation EUROM 1
Oliver Fischbach, senior vice president Western Europe & North America at Hoya Vision Care and a SPECTARIS representative, was elected president of EUROM 1 Optical Industries at the federation’s general assembly in Naples on July 29, 2026, SPECTARIS announced. Fischbach previously led EUROM 1 from 2017 to 2020. SPECTARIS managing ...
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ArticleBausch + Lomb reports broad-based 5 percent uptick in CL sales in Q2
Bausch + Lomb reported contact lens revenue of $271 million in the second quarter of 2026, up from $258 million a year earlier, a 5 percent increase on both a reported and constant-currency basis. Growth was broad-based across product families, but driven by the Daily SiHy portfolio (+ 16 percent), ...
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Ocuco significantly upgrades its Innovations lab software
Ocuco has anoounced the launch of Innovations 3, a new version of its lab management software (LMS) for optical labs, after15 months of development and its largest investment in the platform to date. The release migrates the system to Microsoft SQL Server, which the company says brings advanced encryption, role-based ...
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ArticleExpired US import duties quickly replaced by new tariffs, with another layer looming
The Vision Council (TVC), the US eyewear industry association, has issued guidance to members on a new round of import duties that took effect as the temporary Section 122 tariffs expired. The 10 percent Section 122 surcharge, in place since February 24, lapsed on July 24, 2026, its statutory deadline. ...
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ArticleHOYA Q1 lens sales up double digit, driven by Asia and currency effects
HOYA Corporation revenue rose 16 percent year on year to ¥255.7 billion, or 7 percent at constant currency — a roughly nine-point currency tailwind. Operating profit, now reported on an IFRS basis following early adoption of IFRS 18, climbed 24 percent to ¥82.4 billion. Pretax profit increased 28 percent to ...
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JINS completes acquisition of Phillipine franchisee
JINS Holdings has completed the acquisition of the eight-store eyewear retail business it operated under franchise in the Philippines, closing on July 31 through its local subsidiary established last year. The Japanese group paid approximately ¥300 million (€1.6m) in cash for the business, previously run by Suyen Corporation under a ...
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Rodenstock CEO steps down
Marcus Desimoni has left his post as CEO of Rodenstock, DOZ Verlag first reported, adding that the company confirmed to the trade title that Desimoni ended his role effective June 30, 2026. The move was confirmed on his LinkedIn page. Rodenstock cited personal reasons; its Executive Management Team, backed by ...
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ArticleSafilo's H1 margins soar on tariff refunds as sales slide deepens
Safilo Group’s Q2 net sales fell 4.5 percent at constant exchange rates to €239.1 million, and 5.1 percent at current exchange rates, as customers in the group’s core markets turned more cautious. First-half net sales totaled €512.0 million, down 1.9 percent at constant exchange rates, with a resilient first quarter ...
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ArticleZEISS bets on eye-tracking as smart glasses learn to look inward too
ZEISS Ventures has led a €2.2 million investment round in SeeTrue Technologies, a Finnish tech company developing miniaturized eye-tracking technology, the group announced on August 5. Superhero Capital and North Karelia Growth Fund also participated, alongside other investors. The funding is aimed at accelerating the commercialization of SeeTrue’s low-power eye-sensing ...
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