Topcon Healthcare launches EMEA innovation center
Topcon Healthcare has launched the Topcon Healthcare Innovation Center EMEA (THINC EMEA) in London’s Knowledge Quarter, modeled from its first THINC facility in La Jolla, California. The new London center will serve as a collaborative platform between eye‑care specialists, healthcare professionals, academics, industry partners, and patient associations across Europe, the ...
Warby Parker gears up for launch of AI glasses, expects 10-12% sales growth in 2026
Warby Parker said it was gearing up to launch its first AI glasses through a partnership with Google and Samsung later in 2026, when it looks to grow its top line by 10-12 percent even before any sales from the new glasses are considered.
TOG ends difficult FY2025 with solid Q4
Thai Optical Group (TOG) revenue nicely rebounded in the last quarter of fiscal 2025, growing by 10 percent to 892 million Thai baht (€24m), following two negative quarters in Q2 and Q3. The end-of-year recovery enabled the lens manufacturer to report a 2.1 percent year-on-year revenue increase to THB 3,591 ...
Reported Meta-Essilux arm-wrestling on AI glasses pricing highlights diverging priorities
Meta and EssilorLuxottica are working through disagreements over the pricing and promotion strategy of their Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses, with the tech giant pushing for lower prices and the eyewear group pushing in the opposite direction, according to “people familiar with the matter” quoted by Bloomberg News earlier this week.
Alcon reports 7% CL sales uptick in Q4, underlines price resistance outside North America
Alcon reported contact lenses of $683 million in the fourth quarter of 2025, up by 7 percent compared to the year earlier, as growth continued to be driven by demand for innovative products and price increases, partly offset by a decline in sales of legacy products. On a constant-currency basis, ...
Vision Group CEO sees ‘a lot of white space’ to expand store fleet
Vision Group has made expansion through acquisitions a key part of its growth strategy, and there’s no sign that will change anytime soon. Marco Procacciante, the CEO and founder of the eyewear retailer that boasts Italy’s largest network of optical stores Eyewear Intelligence that he sees “a lot of white ...
Del Vecchio heir looks to increase stake in controlling shareholder
Leonardo Maria del Vecchio, Chief Strategy Officer at EssilorLuxottica and one of the heirs of Luxottica founder Leonardo del Vecchio, is looking to increase his stake in Delfin, the Del Vecchio holding company that controls the eyewear group with a 32.2 percent stake, according to media reports. Delfin has not ...
Fast topline growth, slightly squeezed margins for Synsam in FY 2025
Synsam Group ended fiscal 2025 on a strong note with Q4 revenue growing by 9.4 percent year on year to 1,784 million Swedish crowns (€167m), roughly in line with its pace in the preceding quarter. Q4 sales were up by 11.4 percent organically and by 9.1 percent on a like-for-like ...
Bidco is set to acquire INSPECS but may have to compose with Safilo
Bidco, the consortium led by British entrepreneurs Luke Johnson and Ian Livingstone, is changing tactics for its planned acquisition of INSPECS Group, which appears to be contested by Safilo Group. On Friday last week, INSPECS officially said that Bidco was switching from the court-sanctioned scheme announced in December last year ...
Trump’s tariffs – a timeline
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Bausch + Lomb Q4 contact lens sales rise 10%
Bausch + Lomb generated contact lens sales of $271 million in the fourth quarter of 2025, up by 10 percent compared to the year earlier and 8 percent higher at constant currency rates. Growth continued to be underpinned by the sales of the company’s daily disposable silicon hydrogen lenses, which ...
Leaked 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 ...
Zoff 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 ...
Italy-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 ...
Lenskart 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.