Big changes are under way at Anglo Italian following the takeover of the Suffolk lens supplier. Optician asks managing director Bob Forgan what the future for the firm holds.
The sleepy Suffolk town of Haverhill is a long way from Ensenada in Mexico, but if Bob Forgan has anything to do with it, the two will become inextricably linked.
Most opticians view Anglo Italian as a commodity supplier of basic lenses but, since buying the firm a year ago, Forgan has been hard at work updating its product portfolio.
‘AI was set up in 1987, originally in Bishops Stortford as a cooperative venture between an English individual and an Italian company, hence the name. My understanding is that it was set up to satisfy a demand from Specsavers but quickly moved to supply others,’ says Forgan.
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