Article: Sales of sunglasses in the U.S. topped $1.3 billion for 1988.

Article: Record $1.7B in sunglasses sold by retailers in 1989.
WWD;  May 4, 1990 ;     230 words ...RECORD $1.7B IN SUNGLASSES SOLD BY RETAILERS IN 1989 NEW YORK...record with 225 million pairs of sunglasses sold, up from 189 million pairs in...market. Forty percent of the sunglasses sold last year were through primary...

Article: Eyewear a perfect fit for the chain drug mix.(EYEWEAR)(Report)
Chain Drug Review;  October 13, 2008 ;     501 words ......Optical, which markets a variety of nonprescription eyewear, including sunglasses under the...wore glasses before--and made nonprescription eyewear an important front-end category...vision problems, the outlook for nonprescription eyewear has never been better. According...

Article: Sunglass sales in '85 expected to top $1 billion.
WWD;  December 6, 1985 ;     243 words ......Department stores will lead dollar sales with $250 million in sunglasses sold at an average of $9.50. With the same average price, drug...report revealed. Discounters will account for $150 million in sunglasses sold at an average of $5.17. The greatest percentage of sunglasses...

Article: WITH SUNGLASSES, PRICES ARE POLARIZED TOO
The Boston Globe;  July 31, 2005 ;     494 words ......you can still purchase protection, Lane said. Nearly all sunglasses sold at retail outlets have adequate UV protection. Manthorne...customers like Manthorne who wouldn't normally seek out sunglasses sold by fashion designers. This year shoppers will see more fusion...

Article: Edgewater, Colo., Sunglass Company Enjoys Sizeable Growth.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  February 21, 2001 ;     700+ words ......half of the nearly 1 million pairs of sunglasses sold by the company last year. The brand...discount stores, but at lower prices than sunglasses sold in specialty shops, Fox said. We had...What Immedient found is that most sunglasses sold are priced under $30. Since people...

Article: Profits Climb for Foothill Ranch, Calif.-Based Sunglass Maker Oakley.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  February 12, 2004 ;     326 words ......Executives were particularly pleased that the number of sunglasses sold rose 2 percent in the quarter, the first increase since...the year sold below expectations, and the number of Oakley sunglasses sold dropped 10 percent in 2003. Oakley's fall footwear line...

Article: Entrepreneur able to see market for a more-stylish pair of reading glasses.(BUSINESS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  December 11, 1996 ;     700+ words ......the Reading Glass Company to supply the boomers with nonprescription eyewear that offers more styling, better quality - and substantially...estimates are that $500 million worth of mostly low-priced nonprescription eyewear are sold each year in the United States, where there...

Article: Shades not child's play
Honolulu Star - Bulletin;  July 6, 2006 ;     700+ words ......provide the 100 percent UVA and UVB protection required of all sunglasses sold in the United States. Unfortunately, according to Eyes Cream Shades owner Faith Smith, many sunglasses sold by street vendors do not comply with federal law, and that...

Article: Investing in Category Pays Off.(sunglasses and eyewear)(Brief Article)
MMR;  August 21, 2000 ;     700+ words ......have to pay for similar products carried by other outlets. Sunglasses sold in supermarkets, discount stores and drug stores typically...nonprescription sunglasses and almost 28% of prescription sunglasses sold in 1999 featured polarized lenses. For all the changes occurring...

Article: Sunglasses withdrawn after labelling error
The Press;  November 7, 2001 ;     90 words ......driving, have been withdrawn from sale. The society published the error in a newspaper advertisement yesterday. It said some sunglasses sold in K-Mart and Farmers were wrongly labelled suitable for driving. The glasses only let in 6 per cent of light, while the...

Article: Americans have a love affair with sunglasses.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  July 13, 1995 ;     491 words ...pairs in 1994 ($2.5 million worth), accounting for more than half the sunglasses sold around the world. That's 123 million more pairs than were sold a decade ago, says the Sunglass Association of America, a trade...

Article: Myer settles with ACCC over sunglasses.
Australasian Business Intelligence;  February 4, 2008 ;     168 words ...Byline: Bruce Atkinson Feb 04, 2008 (Inside Retailing - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Certain sunglasses sold by the Myer department store chain have been found not to comply with Australian standards. The Square and Mumma style glasses...

Article: NEW SUNGLASSES HAVE IT MADE IN THE SHADE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  July 17, 1995 ;     556 words ......love our sunglasses? Americans snapped up 263 million pairs in 1994 ($2.5 million worth), accounting for more than half the sunglasses sold around the world. That's 123 million more pairs than were sold a decade ago, says the Sunglass Association of America, a...

Article: Skokie firm offering relief for Net surfers; But special glasses may be tough sell.(Barbara Creations)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Crain's Chicago Business;  June 18, 2001 ;     405 words ......staring at computer screens in offices across the country. Barbara Creations Inc., a distributor of reading glasses and sunglasses sold in drugstores and mass market chains, recently rolled out its line of Web iWear glasses, which are designed to combat the...