Rangiora store in New Zealand.
UK, Republic of Ireland and Spain
• Consistently smashing record sales in the UK,
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Australia and New Zealand
• Announcing an unprecedented collaboration with
achieving another record sales week of £27m at the the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of
end of February 2017. Ophthalmologists, bringing together the expertise of
ophthalmologists and optometrists to provide more
Republic of Ireland seeing 6% more customers than
effective and efficient patient care and improve eye
the previous year.
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Providing eyecare for 100,000+ UK Healthcall
customers who would otherwise be unable to benefit
from Specsavers’ clinical care, and achieving 30% sales
growth in this part of the business.
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health for people across the region.
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the customer experience and increase in-store efficiency.
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Relocating Lens-Online and International Glazing
Services into a new, purpose-built facility in
Australia and New Zealand, and setting a phenomenal
daily dispatch record of 28,258 jobs in December.
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Specsavers contact lenses wearers, and online contact
glasses each week and providing both businesses with
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Welcoming more than 900 store partners on a new
lens sales reaching over AUD 43 million.
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into the area after the devastation of the earthquake
supporting them in continuing to be brilliant every
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Announcing our partnership in the UK with RNIB,
that rocked Christchurch in 2011.
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our ‘Beach Volleyball’ marketing campaign. This award
Nation: Eye Health 2016’ report at the House of Lords,
came just two months after we won the Retail Store
heralding the most significant and comprehensive insight
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Joining forces with the International Glaucoma
Shopfit award at the 2016 Australian Retail Awards.
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encourage people to have regular eye examinations.
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Celebrating 10 years since we opened the doors of our
first store in Spain – in Javea on the Costa Blanca.
Donating more than AUD 1 million to charitable and
good causes across Australia and New Zealand as part
Association (IGA) to deliver a £1m health information
campaign to raise awareness of glaucoma and
Winning the coveted Excellence in Marketing award at
the 2016 Franchise Council Awards in Canberra with
and the following month unveiling our joint ‘State of the
into the health of the nation’s eyes in recent years.
Opening a store in Rangiora, on the outskirts of
Christchurch, New Zealand, helping to breathe new life
partner development programme, Partner 2020, and
single day.
Seeing healthy growth in our contact lens business,
with a 17% sales increase, more than 100,000 new
Kidderminster, enabling IGS to produce 75,000 pairs of
additional capacity to support the next 10 years of growth.
Delivering a massive 4.4 million jobs through
Melbourne Glazing Services to customers across
Enjoying a record year in Hearcare, with sales growth
up 19% on the previous year.
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Launching a streamlined collections system to improve
of our community programme.
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Continuing the legacy of Langaliki Langaliki by
embarking on a new collaboration with Aboriginal artist
Peter Datjing Burarrwanga – see page 27.
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