Dublin-headquartered Ocuco has acquired Florida and Toronto based CC Systems which provides the Labzilla lab management software (LMS) for €7.7m.
This brings the total staff of Ocuco to 175 across its retail and lab divisions. Ocuco, provider of the Innovations LMS, said it now had the largest lab software company in the world with 45 staff and an estimated 2,750 labs supported in 50 countries.
The company said that the Labzilla and Innovations businesses would be merged into Ocuco’s Lab Division under the business leadership of CC Systems' former president Stephen Cohen and the technical leadership of Robert Shanbaum.
CC Systems was described by Ocuco as a leading distributor of private-label freeform lenses, in addition to its LMS business and experiencing recent rapid growth driven by the explosion of freeform onto the marketplace.
Innovations and Labzilla were described as integrating with all major freeform lens design software, including IOT, Innovations Digital, Seiko, Shamir, Signet, Essilor, Thin Tech, Optovision, Carl Zeiss Vision, Crossbows, VSP, Scopus and Hoya.
The move was described by Cohen as giving a global reach and the ability to compete for business in all types of lab.
Shanbaum added: ‘Besides a much larger support team, one benefit of the acquisition for our customers will be that it will help us accelerate development of the Ocuco-CC Systems' next generation LMS, which will reflect the expertise of both companies.
Ocuco CEO Leo Mac Canna said the move would bring it closer to its vision of creating an independent software company of scale to service the optical sector.
