By Marge Axelrad and John Sailer
Monday, September 14, 2015 12:30 AM
NEW YORK—It’s clear that private equity’s interest in the optical and vision care sector is heating up.
As innumerable Vision Monday’s VMail Breaking News headlines can attest, the pace of deals has picked up dramatically over the past two years.
By Marge Axelrad and John Sailer
Monday, August 31, 2015 12:10 AM
Call it ‘Opti-mism.’ The pace of new investment and acquisitions in the retail and optometric side of the U.S. optical business has been intensifying. In 2015, that pace picked up dramatically—and more deals are reportedly on tap for the remainder of this year and into the next—promising to essentially reshape the business in new ways, to realign and restructure the national regional, local optical retail landscape and the presence of vision care in the health care space as well.
By Marge Axelrad and John Sailer
Monday, March 16, 2015 12:00 AM
PITTSBURGH—Today’s competitive environment favors those businesses who connect their brands to their communities and what’s happening around them.
By Marge Axelrad and John Sailer
Monday, March 16, 2015 12:00 AM
PITTSBURGH—Today's competitive environment favors those businesses who connect their brands to their communities and what's happening around them. One case in point is
Eyetique, the 17- location-and-growing eyewear retail group based here with strong ties to its city and patients, ties which it has strengthened via digital and social media in all forms.