A couple of hours before putting this column together, news that the Hakim Group had welcomed both Barnard Levit Optometrists and Tompkins Knight & Son (TK&S) into its bosom landed in my inbox. I’ll be honest, I was shocked.
In both Barnard Levit and TK&S, you have two businesses that have been at the very forefront of clinical eye care for decades and have the industry accolades to show for it. In Brian Tompkins, you have an optometrist who’s about as high profile as the sector gets and Simon Barnard and Alex Levit are hugely respected around the world. The Hakim Group owns what were, once upon a time, the most unremarkable of optical practices, but the same thing cannot be said of the latest businesses to join the group.
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