Scrivens acquires Owl Optical

Scrivens Opticians & Hearing Care has acquired Owl Optical to expand its branch network in the Midlands area.

The acquisition took the Scrivens group to 178 branches across England and Wales and ‘increased its ability to take advantage of the rapidly changing optical and hearing care market’, a statement said.

Owl, an independent owned by brothers Simon and David Harrison, has eight branches in Stratford upon Avon, Newquay, Weston-Super-Mare, Penzance, Royston, Shirley, Radcliffe and Ashton-in-Makerfield.

Scrivens chairman Nicholas Georgevic said: ‘We are very much a family company and our success, since my grandfather founded the business in 1938, has been built on a philosophy of making the customer our one and only focus. The Owl business has also been built on the same values, providing high quality professional eye care over many years.