Eyewear Intelligence
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Eyewear Intelligence is one of the leading international publications for executives and professionals in the eyewear industry. It is published by EDM Publications GmbH, an independently-owned company based in Munich. Get eyewear news, analysis, and business intelligence from the leading digital authority on the global eyewear and optical industry.
Eyewear Intelligence
1w ago
The average stock price of public eyewear companies inched up by 1.6 percent on a non-weighted basis during the first quarter of 2024, slowing down from the 8.4 percent growth calculated for Q4 2023. The Q1 2024 performance also fell short of the 8.1 percent quarter-on-quarter growth of the MSCI ..read more
Eyewear Intelligence
1w ago
Wholesale sales of soft contact lenses rose by 5.2 percent year-on-year to €2,157 million in 2023 for a group of 32 countries including 25 in Europe and a few others (Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, South Africa and United Arab Emirates), according to the new annual report by Euromcontact, the ..read more
Eyewear Intelligence
2w ago
Following the death at the end of 2023 of Dr. Michael Pachleitner, its founder and CEO, the eponymous MPG (Michael Pachleitner Group) is entering a new era of its history with a new management structure and a strategic focus on the development of its retail business unit. We sat down ..read more
Eyewear Intelligence
1M ago
Mazzucchelli 1849 is building a new factory in its hometown of Castiglione Olona in northern Italy, set to be opened in the second half of this year. Giampietro Pedrazzini, CEO, spoke to us recently about how that facility fits into Mazzucchelli’s plans to reduce its environmental footprint, along with other ..read more
Eyewear Intelligence
2M ago
Like all well-established Japan retailers across all sectors, Paris Miki is facing an apparently unsolvable equation: finding sustainable growth in a country where the population is forecast to decline by approximately five percent every ten years. While many of these companies are heavily investing to develop their business abroad, particularly ..read more
Eyewear Intelligence
2M ago
Announcing the release of its Market inSights 2023, the Vision Council has estimated the total value of the US optical market for last year at $65.6 billion. The organization explains that it changed it has changed research methodology again this year, adding advanced analytics, updating its sources to include consumer ..read more
Eyewear Intelligence
2M ago
The Italian eyewear industry association ANFAO said it remains cautious on sector prospects this year as it released preliminary figures for 2023 showing that Italian eyewear exports grew by 7.6 percent to €5,256 million. The total value of Italian eyewear production rose by 8.4 percent in 2023 to €5,515 million ..read more
Eyewear Intelligence
3M ago
German eyewear industry association Spectaris has released preliminary data for the sales of its members on both the domestic and export markets at the recent opti trade fair in Munich, based on figures for the January to September 2023 period ..read more
Eyewear Intelligence
3M ago
During our previous interview with Giovanni Vitolani in December, the president of Mido also shared some thoughts on the state of affairs in the Italian eyewear district and at ANFAO, the Italian eyewear industry association which he led for six years until December last year ..read more
Eyewear Intelligence
3M ago
Along with our usual quarterly update on public eyewear companies’ stock price variations, we are also publishing in the table below the year-on-year changes to provide a longer-term perspective, as well as our annual market capitalization ranking further down on this page ..read more