At last, the US sees the Light

Extended wear ... the truth is out, at long last.

2012-02-16T13:45:06Z

After more than a decade on the market, extended wear (EW) contact lenses still haven’t caught on among patients and eyecare professionals, reports Optometry and Vision Science. EW contact lenses account for less than eight per cent of contact lens prescriptions, according to the study based on an analysis of worldwide prescribing data, led by Professor Nathan Efron of Queensland University of Technology, Australia. “Extended wear prescribing has failed to break through the ‘glass ceiling’ of 15 per cent and is unlikely to become a mainstream lens wearing modality until the already low risks of ocular complications can be reduced to be equivalent to that for daily wear,” the authors concluded

CBE for services to the contact lens industry

2011-12-31T15:23:18Z

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

Waverly Station Edinburgh meets Daysoft

2011-11-03T17:22:58Z

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.

New Building Expansion

2011-09-26T16:32:01Z

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.

Success

2011-04-03T13:28:05Z

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.

School visit to Daysoft

2010-11-24T19:49:33Z

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.

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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."

NEW Sales to China

2010-11-24T19:41:56Z

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.

Great value never goes un-noticed

2010-09-26T15:33:23Z

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

Now daysoft glasses!

2010-07-31T09:34:58Z

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.

Thank you for 2009 performance

2010-03-24T14:01:16Z

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