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Pearle Vision to relicense 40 to 45 corporate-owned centers in 2014
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According to a press release from the company, Pearle Vision relicensed 27 eye care centers from company-owned to licensee-owned in 2013.
The eye care company also announced that it will continue relicensing centers in 2014 with a goal of 40 to 45 additional centers.
“Converting 27 of Pearle Vision’s corporate locations to local optometrists and investors was quite an accomplishment for the brand last year,” Pete Bridgman, senior vice president and general manager of Pearle Vision, said in the release. "We owe our progress and success to the 10 new and 17 existing licensees who see the growth potential with Pearle and have a desire to serve their communities and provide the best possible eye care to their patients.”
As detailed in the release, new licensees licensed 10 centers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, Tennessee, Illinois and Iowa; existing licensees licensed 17 centers in Texas, New Jersey, Georgia, Florida, Ohio, New York, Wisconsin, Nevada, Illinois and Puerto Rico.
“Pearle Vision offers optometrists like myself the autonomy to practice in a way that meets patients’ needs, but gives us the valuable marketing and buying power of a larger group," Ted Brink, OD, who assumed ownership of four Pearle Vision eye care centers in 2013, said in the release. "Pearle Vision’s support team is unmatched, and that is why I chose to expand my business this past year.”