Clearlab returns to the UK market

Optrafair London was a notable even for a number of reasons for Dominique Gastaldi, Clearlab’s sales manager for Europe. For him, it marked a return to the world of contact lenses and a return of Clearlab to the UK market.

As a brand, Clearlab will be well known by many UK independents. It had been owned by 1-800 Contacts, with a manufacturing plant in Plymouth, and wowed the world with its flat-pack technology.

That was all to change. In 2006, the firm withdrew from UK manufacturing, the flat-pack technology would be sold to Menicon. The remainder of the business was sold to Korean Dr Park Jong Gu in 2008 and became a private Singaporean firm.