Contact Lenses and Solutions

Contact lenses in South Africa had already started to experience a slowdown in volume growth pre-COVID-19 due to increasing economic instability and price sensitivity amongst mid- and even higher-income consumers, although demand continued to be ...

Contact lenses was a strong growth area, enjoying healthy volume growth in Germany up to 2020. Germany is still very much a “spectacles” country with contact lens penetration behind many of the other Western European countries, so contact lens ...

Contact lenses and solutions suffered from disruption to the supply chain in 2020. Indeed, factories in Asia Pacific were amongst the first to be affected by the pandemic, closing early in the year, while supply was also impacted by restrictions on ...

Previously enjoying steady demand in Switzerland due to the convenience and perceived hygienic options offered by daily disposable lenses, the dominant volume category, contact lenses and solutions was notably impacted by the emergence of COVID-19 ...

As e-commerce is still very weak in eyewear in Brazil, contact lenses are predominantly sold through physical optical shops. Thus, the categories that require more visits to stores were being most affected by the quarantine periods in 2020. This ...

Contact lenses are considered to be essential products, purchased regularly and replaced much more often than spectacles. The category is therefore usually resistant to economic slowdowns and reduced purchasing power among consumers. The COVID-19 ...

Social distancing and work-from-home regulations were seeing people wear contact lenses less in terms of both cosmetic lenses and clear lenses. Restrictions on socialising were also reducing the usage of cosmetic lenses, while people were most likely...

Contact lenses, specifically daily disposable lenses, continues its lead in retail value sales growth despite the COVID-19 pandemic and consumers staying indoors. But since the early stages of the pandemic, there has been an upswing of media reports ...

In Malaysia, Coronavirus (COVID-19) has had less of an impact on contact lenses, compared with sunglasses and other fmcg. While retail volume and current value sales were hindered, many consumers continued to buy contact lenses. As a result, contact ...

Before COVID-19, the absence of reform and more difficult access dragged on the performance of the contact lenses category. 2020 had to be a key year for contact lenses, but the promised healthcare reform implemented in 2020 concerned only spectacle ...

Pre-COVID-19, contact lenses had recorded a dynamic growth performance, driven by demand for daily disposable lenses, as an increasing number of Mexicans appreciated their convenience in terms of limited maintenance, and the fact that an increasing ...

Thanks to their essential nature, ease of replenishment through e-commerce, and rising popularity in recent years, contact lenses and solutions have been faring best among the major eyewear product categories since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Following a sustained period of positive current value growth, sales of contact lenses and solutions are expected to fall over 2020 as a whole due to the impact of COVID-19. Many consumers were unable to go to work and engage in social activities ...

The steady growth enjoyed by contact lenses and solutions in 2019 was decimated by the onset of the global pandemic with sales at constant 2020 prices set to fall dramatically in 2020 as a whole. Demand for these products was annihilated by home ...

Like most fast moving consumer goods in China, contact lenses and solutions is set to see a decline in current value terms in 2020. There are several factors behind this. Firstly, the nationwide lockdown has limited access to these products through ...

Contact lenses and solutions is being negatively impacted by COVID-19, as consumers are more likely to choose spectacles than contact lenses during this time. This is for both health reasons, as spectacles are seen as more hygienic than contact ...

After seeing slow but stable current value growth throughout the review period, contact lenses and solutions is expected to see a strong decline in 2020 as a whole. Growth fell in the first half of the year due to COVID-19. Although the government ...

The need to wear and purchase contact lenses in Canada was seriously undermined in Q2 2020 due to the response to COVID-19 on a number of levels. Due to various lockdown measures introduced by the government from mid-March including physical ...

The contact lenses category has experienced a strong decline as a result of COVID-19, the resultant lockdown restrictions, and the high number of people working from home. This situation has considerably reduced the need for consumers to wear contact...

Although optical shops are performing extremely strongly in sales of contact lenses and solutions during the COVID-19 epidemic, taking significant share from chemists/pharmacies, they have had to offer attractive deals to consumers in order to ...