Ron Hamilton news about daysoft contact lenses

I was indeed delighted to receive a CBE in today's Queen's Honours List.

Credit for this recognition belongs to very many friends and family-members but, I believe, to the many Daysoft customers from around the world who purchase from us.  Many thanks and very best wishes for a wonderful 2012.   Kind regards   Ron 

It was wonderful to stand in the station recently and to see the Daysoft advertisement towering above the WHSmiths kiosk/shop.  Many times when I was a lot younger I used to travel through to the station to train spot and never ever thought that I would see a big poster by a company I would one day set-up.

September saw another important mile-stone in the development of Daysoft with the building of a new Despatch Building.  Always trying to keep costs down, this new building links directly into the Production Area of the Laboratory to keep handling to a minimum.

We now are planning ahead for 2 new production lines scheduled for October and November.  At a time when we hear a lot from the politicians about debt-fuled recession we are proud to be increasing production in our UK based facilities.  Our thanks to everyone on our ever increasing customer base.  

Regards,  Ron, Founder & Chairman, Daysoft Group.

There are many ways of measuing business success.  The one measure we in the Daysoft Group take greatest satisfaction from is our increasing headcount.  By end May we will have added 30 new employees to the daysoft team mainly at our Lab in Scotland this year.  Our continued thanks to all daysoft wearers ... now increasing at over 1250 each week ... for supporting our business and comunity.

Kind regards,     Ron.

I attended Mossend Primary school, starting there 64 years ago.  Every year class P7 from my old school come to our Lens Laboratory to study some aspect of manufacturing business.  They are great children and I am very proud to be able to relate what we do at Daysoft to their school interest in 'enterprise'.  Ron.

NEWS RELEASE[

Dr Mark Hegarty and Enterprise Teacher Jean Murray explained the plan for the day for the visit to the Daysoft contact lens factory in Blantyre by 50 children and 5 members of staff from Mossend Primary School on Tuesday 23rd November.  The visits to Daysoft by the children in P7 is now an eagerly awaited annual event by the employees at Daysoft and an exciting outing by the children and teachers at the school.

 The visit last year was about how COMPUTERS are used in the design, manufacture and sale of contact lenses by Daysoft but this year the emphasis will be on PEOPLE; how Daysoft organises various business tasks, the skills that they need to do this and, of course, to see how business can be successful and fun when people cooperate to achieve exciting goals.

 The children, in groups of 10 were introduced to five different activities, from precision optical moulding, right through to how orders are received from around the world and despatched, often the same day.  The children were especially interested to learn how an order for 273,000 lenses was being sent to China.

 Engineers and Team Leaders shared their experiences and the tour demonstrated how a combination of individuals doing many different tasks, which, when properly organised in an open, honest and helpful way, can achieve great things.             

  Ms Murray says; "I thank the Daysoft staff for the time and effort in preparing for our visit. It has inspired the children and they certainly got the message that everyone has to work individually and together as a team which is what we have also been encouraging the children at school to do." 

This month our first bulk sales for China were despatched ... a total of 273,000 contact lenses.  Daysoft sells many millions of lenses to over 25 countries for onward sale via Opticians whilst also selling to on-line suppliers in a number of other countries.  The impression that UK manufacturing is old-hat is not correct.  Daysoft is a UK privately owned company which designs its own lenses, the equipment used to make them and then sells them around the world.

Frugal website of the week

Check out Daysoftglasses.com for specs costing from only £17.50 (plus £3.95) – half the price of Specsavers! This is the same brand that makes and sells mega cheap contact lenses (which I happen to wear and love) so it’s great to see them branching out into glasses.  

All pairs include single vision lenses for prescriptions from -8.00D to +8.00D and prices cover frames and lenses, scratch resistant, anti reflection, thin profile lenses, UV absorbing and a case and cloth

Daysoft has a rapid growth rate.  6,000 NEW wearers buy daysoft contact lenses every month.  The offer of high specification and really affordable contact lenses delivered to ones door in letter-box friendly packs is now a well proven and very popular business strategy.  Now I can offer the same format applied to GLASSES on www.daysoftglasses.com   Lots of contact lens wearers also use glasses so we see these as complementary, non-competing products.  Now, top specification glasses with frames and lenses having all the most desirable features AND NO HIDDEN extra charges at less than half the price of Specsavers ... an on-line reality from August 2010.

Daysoft profits up 188%

Daysoft Group had a 188% rise in pre-tax profits for the year ending December 2009 to £860,000.

During 2009 sales rose by 38% to over £6.24m and we are attracting attracting over 3,000 new online customers each month.

My thanks to all those customers who made this possible.  Read more on  Profits increase bt 188%

Kind regards

Ron

2010 has started well for us with a record month.  We continue to work hard at providing great value contact lenses with first-class customer-care.  Thank you for your support and trusting that 2010 has also started well for you.  A French language website  www.daysoftlentilles.fr  is performing well and gets some "What our Wearers Say" in French which test our language skills a little.  Kind regards

Ron

As the year rapidly draws to a close it is a good time to thank all those who are customers, suppliers or employees of the Daysoft Group.  Sales grew by 40% and PBT has doubled ... we expect our Audited Accounts to be released in February or March 2010 and will publish details soon afterwards.  In 2009 we saw our data-base of wearers jump as continued to offer good product at remarkably low prices to cutsomers arounf the world.  Daysoft Limited paid cash to buy its Laboratory and invested in new technology equipment for Contact Lens Manufacture ... a combined spend of over £2.5 Million.  Headcount in Scotland increased by 70 new employees and Daysoft enters 2010 confident of sustained growth in sales, profit and new daysoft contact lens wearers.  So, thank you to all who helped during 2009 and very best wishes to everyone for a peaceful New Year.  Kind regards, Ron.

Week beginning 5th October is Guide Dog week and Daysoft is sponsoring the training of Daysie.  We have given her her own web site  where you can read about her in Pup-Dates www.DaysieDaysoft.com   Thank you for supporting Daysoft by being a customer which helps us finance projects like Daysie.

Kind regards, Ron and all at Daysoft.

Daysoft contact lenses reaches another mile stone by investing £2.5 Million in creating more capacity and buying its building for cash.

Thanks to everyone who has supported us during our rapid growth. We are a profitable, UK based manufacturing company. We design our own contact lenses and the equipment we make them on. It is wonderful to be able to recruit more people ... 35 since January and to work hard to give comfortable contact lenses at great value-for-money. Thank you for ordering daysoft contact lenses. Kind regards, Ron. Founder.

To read our full News Release plese click:  http://ronhamilton.squarespace.com/daysoft-25-million-inves/

The success of our daysoft lenses continues to grow very strongly ... thanks to all who order on us.  We sell millions of lenses every month via opticians around the world (over 200 million sold this way).  daysoft lenses are also available on-line with 22 million lenses having been sold online using the Switch and Save option www.daysoftlenses.com

Thank you for ordering.  We have recruited another 15 employees (30 since Christmas).

Now over 720 new wearers per week order daysoft lenses!

It is a great growth rate and everyone is delighted to see the business prosper ... the Daysoft Group now have tens of thousands of internet customers and are working hard to provide a great product at an unbeatable price.  We have recruited 15 new employees since January which always gives us great satisfaction, especially so in these times of recessions. Thank you for ordering our lenses for the first time and thank you to the others for their repeat purchases and Wearer Feedback.  Regards, Ron

daysoft is embarking on its biggest advertising initiative in the first 3 months of 2009.  It will continue to appear in most UK in-flight magazines plus Google, Yahoo and FOR THE FIRST TIME ... RADIO!   daysoft consumer advertising initiatives now exceed any other contact lens manufacturer  Look-out and Listen-in.  What next?  Yes there is more including a unique NHS initiative as a follow-on to our appearance in the NHS60 Book in 2008. Regards Ron

In December 2008 Daysoft sales were over 3 times those of December 2007 thereby rounding off a great year for daysoft contact lens sales.  In 2009 we will continue to offer a superb range of lenses at unbeatable prices and, with your help make 2009 another great year ... recession or not.  Thank you for being a customer.  Regards Ron

Thanks are due again to all those buying daysoft contact lenses ... November 2008 has set another record for sales.  Best wishes for Christmas.

On Friday, 28 November 2008, I was at Mossend Primary School.  This is the school my sisters and I attended 55 years ago and it was wonderful to be invited back to talk to the staff and pupils about business.  This week is Enterprise Week so the pupils had researched great inventors and gave a series of presentation with wonderfully prepared colour posters on the life and work of Sir Robert Watson-Watt, James Young Simpson, James Goodfellow, Charles Macintosh, Sir Alexander Fleming, John Boyd Dunlop, William Murdoch, Alexander Graham Bell, John Logie Baird, James watt and Kirkpatrick Macmillan.  Now, the observant reader will have noticed that these were all Scottish and the fact that this weekend is St Andrew's day gave an extra significance to the life story of these great inventors.  My talk on the development of my career and creation of daysoft contact lenses hardly came up to the shoulders of these world famous names but I had something of an edge over them in one respect ... I am still alive and have a little time to do some catch-up!

Among the 300 children quietly sitting on the hall floor I am convinced there will be the inventors of tomorrow and if my talk has encouraged just one of them to "dream of better and better ways to do things" I will have made a small contribution to the economics development of our great country.

The dedication of the Enterprise Teacher, Jean Murray, and the Head Teacher, Sharon McPherson, gave me great confidence that the pupils leaving my 'old' school, Mossend Primary, will have the education and the ambition to do great things for themselves and for others in the proud tradition of the inventors whose life stories they so ably presented today.  Many thanks for inviting me and best wishes to the inventors of tomorrow.

Moneymagpie is promoting daysoft.

Get cheaper contact lenses at Daysoft. You pay just £59.88 for a six month supply (with 32 pairs of daily disposable lenses every month).

In comparison, a six month supply of the cheapest daily lenses (with only 30 pairs a month) at Specsavers online costs £109.80 - so you could cut your costs by £49.92 or even more when you switch to Daysoft.

Some of the Moneymagpies tried out the Daysoft lenses for themselves and found that they were really comfortable to wear and simple to use. They also come in much smaller packaging, so you’re doing your bit for the environment as well as your pocket!

Thank you Moneymagpies from everyone at daysoft.