Company profile: 10 out of 10 for Thea UK

In the competitive world of optics staying in business for a decade is cause enough for celebration. So it is no surprise the booming UK wing of Thea Pharmaceuticals threw an open day event to mark its 10th anniversary having started with just two employees at inception to 56 now working in its state-of-the-art new offices and around the country today.

Philip Lewis Williams, UK managing director Thea, is one of the original two and pays tribute to the efforts of his staff in the company’s success.

‘It is going very well and we’ve met a lot of great people along the way,’ he says. ‘Initially it was all about establishing a presence for Thea’s preservative free products in the UK market, which is unique in many ways to the rest of Europe. We’ve made some very good contacts in both the optometry the medical fields. We do not sell to the supermarkets; our products are only for eye care professionals. They are a very loyal group and we support them. As a company we believe in education, professionalism and innovation, these underpin everything we do. That has seen us make a big impact and today is a celebration of the efforts that everyone has put in.’