Delfin considering asset spinoff, shareholding pact for controlling Essilux stake
Delfin, the Del Vecchio family holding company that controls EssilorLuxottica with a 32.4 percent stake, is considering a spinoff of its assets among other possible solutions to an impasse between the heirs of Luxottica founder Leonardo Del Vecchio, according to a report in Il Sole 24 Ore.
SENZ and the bid to bundle AR’s visual stack
On June 17 Applied Materials announced an OEM system for smart glasses, comprising waveguide optics, a light engine, sensing, vision correction and electronic dimming.
Fielmann’s H1 results reflect a widening gap between home and abroad market dynamics
Fielmann Group’s preliminary first-half 2026 results captured increasingly split dynamics between the company’s domestic and international markets. Group sales rose 2 percent year-on-year to €1.25bn, helped by a sharp acceleration in international sales growth (+6 percent versus +1 percent in Q1), even as the German optical retailer’s home market continued ...
JINS reports double-digit revenue growth, lower margins in 9M results
JINS HOLDINGS posted nine-month results showing sales growth holding at double digits, even as profit growth all but stalled, with a sharp domestic margin decline largely counterbalanced by a marked overseas profitability improvement.
Meta tightens camera privacy controls while reportedly exploring always-on recording
Meta seems to be pulling in two directions at once with its smart glasses. The company itself announced on July 7 that it will be making it harder to disable the warning LED on today’s cameras, with their on-demand recording. On the morrow the Financial Times (FT) reported that Meta ...
Xpanceo and JBD tackle the smart contact lens’s toughest circuit
Xpanceo and Jade Bird Display (JBD, Shanghai) are co-developing a micro-display specific to the smart contact lens. According to their joint press release (July 7), they have reached a second phase of their partnership.
Meta (expectedly) adds paywall to smart glasses function
Meta has updated the support documentation for its Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta smart glasses to cap free use of Conversation Focus — a tool that amplifies the voice of whoever is speaking to the wearer — at three hours per month, The Verge and other news outlets have reported. ...
Eyes + More bets on brand building with pan-European ambitions
About one and a half years after being acquired by KKR, Nexeye, the Dutch-based retail group, is accelerating its network expansion across Europe with the ambition of growing its retail footprint from roughly 750 stores today, spread across the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria, and Sweden, to 1,000 doors by 2028. ...
EssilorLuxottica advances medtech roadmap in the US with first LensCrafters Vision & Eye Health
CenterLensCrafters, the EssilorLuxottica-owned optical retail chain, opened its first Vision & Eye Health Center on June 30 in Exton, Pennsylvania, marking the LensCrafters brand’s entry into in-house surgical care in the US.
Essilux owner Delfin approves financial statements as impasse over revamp continues
Shareholders of the Del Vecchio family holding company Delfin, the controlling shareholder of EssilorLuxottica, approved 2025 financial statements in a meeting on June 30, but a deadlock over a planned reorganization to overhaul the ownership structure of the holding company moved no closer to being resolved as a clash between ...
Eyewear companies’ stock prices flat in Q2
The stock prices of the 25 listed eyewear companies composing our quarterly chart were essentially unchanged on a non-weighted average basis in Q2 2026, edging down a slight 0.5 percent. The result marks a striking contrast with the double-digit gains posted by most major stock indices over the same period, ...
Survey finds most US sunglasses non-wearers understand UV risks
Approximately 82 million U.S. adults, around 37 percent of the population, do not wear sunglasses. A new survey by The Vision Council (TVC), the national eyewear industry association, suggests that their primary reasons for not doing so are not linked to a lack of awareness about eye health. Instead, the ...
Afflelou Q3 network sales edge up despite slight decline in France
AFFLELOU’s external sales edged up by 0.6 percent year over year to €243.8 million in Q3 2026 (ended April 30), confirming the deceleration already seen in the previous quarter after a long stretch of steady mid-single-digit growth. For the nine-month period, total store sales rose 2.7 percent to €730 million.
HOYA advocates for more public support after ‘generation leap’ in myopia control science
The ARVO meeting last month in Denver was rich in myopia management presentations by lens manufacturers, as has been the case in recent years. However, HOYA Vision Care’s (HOYA) presentation of its latest MiYOSMART iQ clinical trial data drew particular attention, as the company spoke about “halting” myopia in children—while ...
Meta puts its own name on its AI glasses
Meta launched its first self-branded AI glasses on Tuesday with EssilorLuxottica as manufacturing partner, a narrower role than the co-branding arrangement behind Ray-Ban Meta. The new line, simply called Meta Glasses, comes in three frame styles (the rectangular Adventurer, the boxier Fury and the Starfire, a slim oval design created ...