Eighty percent of the information we receive from the world around us reaches us via our eyes. Good eyesight is essential, especially given modern-day lifestyles: in industrialized countries, four to six out of ten people wear some form of vision corrections. All women and men today are corrected-or will be tomorrow. These consumers, who are increasingly well informed, expect corrective lenses that are more effective, more comfortable, more attractive, and best adapted to their style of living.

Essilor, world leader in its field, is active in all sectors of the ophthalmic optics market. Essilor is a truly international group, maintaining production facilities and distribution subsidiaries throughout the world, and generating four-fifths of its business outside France, its home-base country.