By Staff
Thursday, July 7, 2022 12:27 AM
NEW YORK—In many ways, the year 2021 was a good year for the optical retail community, with the large eyecare organizations and even regional retail groups showing significant sales gains in the period even as the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic forced changes in operations and patients’ expectations. This general recovery across the sector came after the shock of the 2020 pandemic, and it was achieved through a slow build back to some semblance of stability.
By Marge Axelrad and Mark Tosh
Wednesday, June 29, 2022 1:00 AM
NEW YORK—After the shock of the 2020 pandemic and the slow build back to some semblance of stability by the end of that year, the leading U.S. optical retailers and companies, both national and regional groups, came back in 2021 with a solid mid-to-high double digit performance overall. While the 2020 year was characterized as working past store and office closures to “craft a comeback,” as
VM noted in our 2021 Top 50, the 12 months of 2021 were marked by tightening up operations, accelerating new digital technologies to power operations and to demonstrate new ideas to consumers and patients. Companies reconsidered initiatives like more online sales choices or remote eyecare.
By Marge Axelrad and Mark Tosh
Wednesday, June 29, 2022 12:59 AM
NEW YORK—In contrast to the harrowing year that was 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic shook the world and forced many stores to close in the U.S for many weeks, the 2021 business year saw a comeback for the U.S.’s Top 50 Optical Retailers and groups, Vision Monday has learned. Based on submissions from companies as well as VM’s own estimates, the collective Top 50 Retailers’ sales for the 12 months ending 2021 ended up higher by some 21 percent from the previous year.
By Marge Axelrad and Mark Tosh
Wednesday, June 29, 2022 12:56 AM
NEW YORK—Mirroring their overall companies’ sales performance in 2021, which saw the U.S.’ mass merchants and warehouse clubs reflect strong consumer buying activity and a healthy return to business after the initial pandemic year of 2020, those operations with optical departments experienced healthy gains as well. Collective revenues from this sector of the market rose some 16 percent for the year, reaching $3.86 billion in calendar year 2021, according to their reports and VM estimates.
By Staff
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 12:18 AM
NEW YORK—
Vision Monday will be publishing its signature
Annual Top 50 U.S. Optical Retailers Report in its upcoming June print/digital edition. A link to the survey is posted
here. The current deadline to submit to be considered for inclusion in the Special Report ihas been extended through Tuesday, May 31. The optical industry's leading news platform's annual survey collates and presents sales and operations data for regional and national retailers for the calendar year ending Dec. 31, 2021.
By Staff
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 12:18 AM
NEW YORK—
Vision Monday will be publishing its signature
Annual Top 50 U.S. Optical Retailers Report in its upcoming June print/digital edition. A link to the survey is posted
here. The current deadline to submit to be considered for inclusion in the Special Report is no later than Wednesday, May 25. The optical industry's leading news platform has kicked off this annual survey among regional and national retailers for the signature report, which collates and presents sales and operations data for the calendar year ending Dec. 31, 2021.
By Staff
Monday, May 2, 2022 12:30 AM
NEW YORK—The year 2021 for the optical sector was not unlike a rollercoaster ride in some ways, with a series of ups and downs and quick turns, as the nation experienced an uneven recovery from COVID-19. But the optical business did bounce back in 2021, and after this second consecutive extraordinary business year,
Vision Monday will be publishing its signature
Annual Top 50 U.S. Optical Retailers Report in its upcoming June print/digital edition. A link to the survey is posted
here.
By Staff
Monday, December 13, 2021 12:15 AM
NEW YORK—Jobson Research has issued a new report called "10 Years of Top U.S. Optical Retailer Trends." The special edition pulls together the last 10 years of Vision Monday's Top 50 U.S Optical Retailers Reports.
By Staff
Thursday, September 23, 2021 12:15 AM
NEW YORK—Jobson Research has issued a new report called "10 Years of Top U.S. Optical Retailer Trends." The special edition pulls together the last 10 years of Vision Monday's Top 50 U.S Optical Retailers Reports and gauges the performance, expansion activity and estimated sales of the U.S.'s leading optical retailers and ECP groups over a 10-year period. It is designed to be a valuable resource and offer perspective on key trends and sales metrics. Derived from one of Vision Monday's signature features, the VM Annual Top 50 U.S. Optical Retailers report, this new report has been compiled through a
Vision Monday/Jobson Research collaboration.
By Staff
Monday, August 23, 2021 9:00 AM
Read the last 10 years of Top 50 Retailers Reports.
By Marge Axelrad and Mark Tosh
Wednesday, June 23, 2021 12:30 AM
The year 2020 was remarkable, presenting an almost unimagined range of challenges unheard of before COVID-19 became part of the lexicon. The result has been a wave of changes for everyone, whether at work or at home. Like many businesses, the optical/eyecare sector was significantly impacted by the long-running and continuing pandemic. Practices closed or operated with reduced hours over various time periods. Resiliency became the watchword.