New Market Report: Spectacles in Italy
Spectacles registered another year of severe volume and value declines in 2013. As the tough economic situation continued to hamper consumer confidence and spending, Italians displayed a strong tendency to cut back on non-essential purchases. Given the fairly high cost involved in the purchase of new spectacles, eyewear users showed a growing preference to hold on to their existing spectacles for longer. This particularly applied to spectacle frames, spectacle lenses and sunglasses, which all...
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