Comment: June 29

This year is shaping up to be one of the most active in optical company buyouts, with Rodenstock, then Bausch & Lomb, to be superseded in shock value by Oakley joining Ray-Ban as a stable-mate thanks to Luxottica's $2.1bn move last week.

There is seemingly no stopping the Luxottica purchasing machine. Fancy a brand, it will get it. Fancy a company, it will follow. Oakley prided itself on doing things its own way and became acquisitive itself last year on buying Oliver Peoples. Earlier this year it announced it was focusing on the optics side to its business, perhaps in a move to make itself more appealing.