Business Segment: CooperVision

CooperVision markets a broad range of contact lenses throughout the world. Recent advances in lens materials and optics have allowed CooperVision to create proprietary lenses that treat both common and more complicated visual defects. With the acquisition of Ocular Sciences, Inc. in January 2005, CooperVision became the world's third leading contact lens manufacturer, with enhanced technology, expanded global distribution and greater manufacturing capabilities.

Trends:

Vision correction is a chronic need

About 50% of the world's population and about 160 million people in the U.S. need vision correction

The incidence of myopia, or nearsightedness, is increasing

About 33 million people wear contact lenses

Teenagers are the fastest growing segment of the worldwide contact lens market

Since 1991, the number of contact lens wearers in the U.S. has increased about 4% per year

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