Alan Tinger spells out Foresight project in an address to the European Council of Optometry & Optics General Assembly

I am most grateful to the president and the executive committee for the opportunity to make a presentation to the ECOO general assembly on a subject that is very close to my heart – the future of the UK optical market.

I would say at the outset that as the president has mentioned, I am neither an optometrist nor an optician and rather a chartered accountant. You may ask  what right have I to comment on, let alone be involved in forecasting, the future of the UK optical market?

My response is that I was involved in corporate opticians for many years, latterly as managing director and part owner of the company that Tesco Plc outsources to, the majority of the operations of Tesco Opticians, now a nationwide UK chain.