McOptic
| McOptic
|
|
|---|---|
 |
|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1998 |
| Seat | Basel , Switzerland |
| Number of employees | 300 |
| Branch | Retail , optician |
| Website | www.mcoptic.ch |
| As of September 22, 2016 | |
Mc Optik (Schweiz) AG is a Swiss eye optics chain based in Basel , which was founded in 1998. Until 2019, the company was owned by Graffiti Holding AG, owned by the Thaler family from Basel. McOptic has 62 specialty stores throughout Switzerland (as of September 2016), with the company expansion into Ticino in 2010, McOptic became the first chain in the optics industry with branches throughout Switzerland. In 2019, Visilab acquired McOptic .
history
In 1998 the first shop was opened in Olten . At that time, the basis of the offer was the sale of corrective glasses at a flat rate ( frame and corrective lenses at a full price). In principle, this concept still applies today. In 2001, McOptic was the optical chain with the largest number of branches in German-speaking Switzerland. After ten years of existence, McOptic had 50 branches in German and French-speaking Switzerland in 2008.
further activities
In 2010 the Swiss Red Cross (SRK) and McOptic started a joint project to combat poverty blindness and the poor eyesight of poor people in need of vision in Mali, Africa . The following was already achieved in the first year:
- Modernization of the eye department in the Timbuktu regional hospital in northern Mali
- 1000 ophthalmic operations
- 850 prevented blindness from cataracts
- 4693 treated patients.
Similar numbers of treatments were achieved in 2011 and a new workshop was also able to be completed to supply the visually impaired with individual new glasses. In addition, the company handed over a number of new glasses frames to the SRC free of charge in 2010. Parallel to the project in Mali , the company also supported other relief activities by the Swiss Red Cross, for example after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mc Optik (Schweiz) AG ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Internet excerpt, Commercial Register of the Canton of Basel-Stadt. Retrieved June 25, 2012.
- ↑ McOptik opens 35th branch in Biel . presseportal.ch. November 28, 2003. Archived from the original on November 4, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Philipp Felber-Eisele: Optical giant makes Swiss eyewear retailers tremble. In: tagesanzeiger.ch . August 2, 2019, accessed August 3, 2019 .
- ↑ McOptik: cheapest optical chain in comparison test . presseportal.ch. June 6, 2005. Archived from the original on November 4, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
- ↑ McOptik and the Swiss Red Cross preserved 850 Malians from blindness . pressetext.com. June 20, 2011. Retrieved June 27, 2012.
