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A tight selection of optical designer frames and a concentration on premium glazing is helping The Eye Company to grow in tough times

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The owner of Soho's The Eye Company, which featured last year in the Financial Times' How to spend it magazine, started out in optics aged 16 as a technician at the John Carrington practice in Towcester, Northamptonshire. After seven years working in dispensing and practice management, he moved to the Optika group in London, working in the then small group's six practices before learning specialist glazing with Japanese company Crystal Cut. 'I decided that I needed to work hard on the area I hated the most and that was rimless glazing, so I became a master in this area before promoting premium glazing with the Essilor company in London,' he explains.

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