Contact lens consolidation
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Essilor subsidiary BBGR has signed an agreement to make an outright purchase of all Rupp & Hubrach capital. Rupp & Hubrach, which is BBGR's German ocular products distributor, is Germany's fifth-ranked corrective lens manufacturer, generating approximately $54 mil. in revenue last year, according to BBGR. France-based Essilor is owned by Ocular Sciences (1"The Gray Sheet" Feb. 19, 2001, p. 16)...