Specialist lenses key to Cantor and Nissel's success

David Cantor founded the original company back in 1964, with the Cantor & Silver Partnership being created in 1973. In August 2000, the company acquired Nissel. The Brackley, Northants-based company is now jointly run by managing directors David Cantor and Garth Barnard and I was lucky enough recently to be shown around their state-of-the-art headquarters.

Barnard tells me that Cantor and Nissel is the largest independent contact lens manufacturing company in Europe and has distributors in most European countries. Its finished lenses and artificial eyes are being prescribed by eye care professionals in more than 60 countries worldwide.

He adds: ‘Our independence enables us to respond promptly to the specific needs and expectations of customers.’ I was reminded of the company’s pedigree by a display of some of the prosthetic shells that have been produced over the decades.