By Staff
Friday, May 21, 2021 12:15 AM
NEW YORK—After an extraordinary year of business challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020,
Vision Monday will be publishing its signature
Annual Top 50 U.S. Optical Retailers Report in its upcoming June print/digital edition this year. The deadline to take part in the survey has been extended to May 26. The industry's leading news platform is kicking off its annual survey among regional and national retailers today for the signature report, which collates and presents sales and operations data for the calendar year ending Dec. 31, 2020. "We felt the survey this year had to be designed to reflect and account for the impact of the COVID-19 health crisis that began in March 2020 and continues to reverberate," said Marge Axelrad,
VM's SVP and editorial director. A link to the survey is posted
HERE.
By Staff
Friday, May 14, 2021 12:15 AM
NEW YORK—After an extraordinary year of business challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020,
Vision Monday will be publishing its signature
Annual Top 50 U.S. Optical Retailers Report in its upcoming June print/digital edition this year. The industry's leading news platform is kicking off its annual survey among regional and national retailers today for the signature report, which collates and presents sales and operations data for the calendar year ending Dec. 31, 2020. "We felt the survey this year had to be designed to reflect and account for the impact of the COVID-19 health crisis that began in March 2020 and continues to reverberate," said Marge Axelrad,
VM's SVP and editorial director. A link to the survey is posted
HERE.
By Staff
Wednesday, May 5, 2021 12:12 AM
NEW YORK—After an extraordinary year of business challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020,
Vision Monday will be publishing its signature
Annual Top 50 U.S. Optical Retailers Report in its upcoming June print/digital edition this year. The industry's leading news platform is kicking off its annual survey among regional and national retailers today for the signature report, which collates and presents sales and operations data for the calendar year ending Dec. 31, 2020.
By Staff
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 12:27 AM
NEW YORK—After an extraordinary year of business challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020,
Vision Monday will be publishing its signature
Annual Top 50 U.S. Optical Retailers Report in its upcoming June print/digital edition this year. The industry's leading news platform is kicking off its annual survey among regional and national retailers today for the signature report, which collates and presents sales and operations data for the calendar year ending Dec. 31, 2020.
By Marge Axelrad and Mark Tosh
Thursday, May 21, 2020 12:30 AM
How does a leader prepare for a never-known-before challenge? Pause. Breathe. Rely on colleagues. Get the real facts. Make a plan. Be prepared to change it. Do the right thing for your team, your employees, your company, your patients. As we examine the 2019 year past, VM asked a few of our Top 2020 U.S. Optical Retailer executive leaders about the pandemic and what it could mean for the future.
- The Editors
By Marge Axelrad and Mark Tosh
Monday, May 18, 2020 12:29 AM
NEW YORK— Calendar sales of optical services and products at retail were healthy. In a market that grew to nearly $37.5 billion in the U.S., according to The Vision Council’s VisionWatch tracking, sales grew at a nice pace over the prior year, for all ECPs, regional and national companies. Business was solid, for companies large and small.
By Marge Axelrad and Mark Tosh
Monday, May 18, 2020 12:28 AM
NEW YORK—Comparable to prior VM Top 50 reports, there was a concentration of sales among the 2020 VM Top 50 U.S. Optical Retailers, accounting for an estimated $15.7 billion of a $37.5 billion total U.S. market for the 12 months ending Dec. 2019. The Top 10 optical retailers collectively comprise 85.4 percent of the Top 50’s collective U.S. optical retail sales, meaning that retail groups ranked numbers 11 through 50 comprise just under 15 percent of that remaining Top 50 group.
By Staff
Monday, May 18, 2020 12:25 AM
NEW YORK—It was a good year in 2019 for the mass market retailer segment of the optical business, and one that might be hard to match in 2020 as shopping in big-box stores work to overcome the fallout and impact of the coronavirus.
By Staff
Monday, May 13, 2019 12:35 AM
NEW YORK—Even as the general retail market was buffeted by disruption in 2018, the U.S. optical retail sector held its own, even managing to show growth of 2 percent to 3 percent for the calendar year. But while the sales story remained fairly constant, there was a reshaping of the business composition of many leading optical retailers, as the run of acquisitions and consolidation that began at the beginning of the decade continued apace.
By Marge Axelrad and Mark Tosh
Monday, May 13, 2019 12:30 AM
NEW YORK—New attitudes among consumers toward purchasing in general and the rise of digital exploration and purchasing may have upended the general retail marketplace last year with many store closures and reorgs. But as the U.S. economy held its own, the optical industry’s total sales rose just slightly and remained stable.
By Marge Axelrad and Mark Tosh
Monday, May 13, 2019 12:29 AM
NEW YORK—New attitudes among consumers toward purchasing in general and the rise of digital exploration and purchasing may have upended the general retail marketplace last year with many store closures and reorgs. But as the U.S. economy held its own, the optical industry’s total sales rose just slightly and remained stable.
By Marge Axelrad and Mark Tosh
Monday, May 13, 2019 12:28 AM
NEW YORK—There was a higher concentration of sales among the 2019 VM Top 50 U.S. Optical Retailers, which assesses estimates of 12 months of calendar sales for the year ending Dec. 2018. The Top 10 optical retailers collectively comprise 87.5 percent of the Top 50 U.S. optical retail sales. That equated to a collective-estimated $12.6 billion out of the market’s total optical retail sales of $35.7 billion, as reported by VisionWatch/The Vision Council.