Latest VisionWatch Consumer Barometer Reflects 4.3 Percent Increase in Total Vision Care Market Revenues

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The latest VisionWatch Consumer Barometer, covering the 12-month period ending March 2013, reflects a 4.3 percent overall increase in revenues for vision care products and services in the U.S. compared to the prior year period. The total vision care market, as defined by The Vision Council's VisionWatch survey, reached $35.15 billion in the 12-month period, and includes dollars spent at retail at all retail types at any retail location and spent on the sale of either spectacle lenses (including Rx Sun), frames, contact lenses, plano sunglasses, OTC readers or revenue earned by refractive surgery or eye examinations.   The number does not include sunglass clips and reflects the dollars spent by U.S. adults ages 18 and over.   Read the article on VMail