Glimpses
ESSILOR – 3rd most innovative French company
in Forbes magazine’s list of World Top 100
For four consecutive years,
Essilor has been listed in Forbes
magazine's world's most innovative companies. Essilor is France's
third most innovative company,
just behind Hermès (13th) and
Iliad (29th). This continuing
acknowledgement is recognition
of the Group's strategy – a Group
that invests more than €150million
per year in research and innovation. Products launched less than
four years ago account for 40% of
Essilor's sales and more than 100
patents in 2013. On a global level,
the Group ranks 49th on Forbes’
ranking – a list that also includes
companies such as Unilever,
Amazon, and Netflix.
To support this strategy, Essilor
continues to invest throughout
the world. In 2014, for example,
the Group added to its existing
centres for innovation and
technologies (Ci&T) in Dallas and
Singapore, opening a third in Créteil. The Créteil Ci&T is the largest
private ophthalmic optics campus
in the world. Every day, the Group's
500 researchers throughout
the world develop innovative solutions designed to help Essilor fulfil
its mission of improving lives by
improving sight. Today, 4.3 billion
people throughout the world need
vision correction, and that poor
vision leads to a loss in productivity
calculated to be worth as much as
$275 billion per year.
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