Like for Safilo and Luxottica, for Essilor the first quarter of this year was rather successful. Sales increased with 13,4% to 1.027,6 million euro. Acquisitions, increase of sales in emerging markets, a better product mix with more premium products in existing markets and last but not least a strong performance of the instruments division, all contributed to the good results. Essilor confirms it expects to meet the full year expectations of an autonomous growth (without the results of acquisitions) of 6 to 8% this year.
