New Professional Golf Tour launches
Today, Optical Express announced a new professional golf tour for male and female golfers and invited elite Scottish Amateurs. The first of the six Scottish events begin at Stranraer on 5 May 2011, with the events continuing until the December international final at the prestigious Son Gual course in Mallorca. The tour is the brain […]
Under the microscope with Daley Thompson
This article originally appeared in The Daily Mail on Tuesday 22nd March, 2011. ARE YOU AS FIT AS YOU WERE IN YOUR HEYDAY? YES-ISH. Obviously my reference points are different than most people’s, but I go to the gym most days. But it’s messing about with the kids that I most like. The youngest is […]
“I won laser eye surgery, and it’s changed my life.”
In November 2010, Margaret McFadden of Kilbride Grove in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland won the possibility of having free laser eye surgery to correct her sight from Optical Express. The monthly competition is open to everyone who has enquired about laser eye surgery with Optical Express. Four weeks since having the procedure, Margaret McFadden comments; […]
The price is right when it’s free for your TV!
Throughout December 2010, Optical Express, Europe’s leading laser eye surgery provider, ran a competition for four lucky customers to win 46″ state of the art Samsung televisions. The results are in. Drum roll please, the winners are: Mrs. Frances Ross from Worchester, Mr. David Tomlinson of Stonehaven, Ms. Patricia Carvill from Cambridge and Miss. Susan Twin […]
Paisley residents see a new Optical Express
Paisley town centre will be given a boost this weekend as Optical Express unveil their new look store as part of their nationwide refurbishment programme that will ensure Paisley locals benefit from the very latest eye care technology, local customers are being awarded a range of exclusive offers to help celebrate. Optical Express has been […]
Optical Express Sports Vision Clinic opens on the High Street
On Thursday 20 January 2011 Optical Express will open their flagship Sports Vision clinic in Renfield Street, Glasgow City Centre giving everyone the chance to improve their sporting skills and increase awareness of sports specific eye care. Olympic Gold Medalist 1980 and 1984 and 4-time world record holder, decathlete Daley Thompson CBE: “As an athlete […]
Glasgow Eye Students Make it a First
Optometry and Dispensing Optician students at Glasgow Caledonian University received a massive boost becoming the first in Scotland to benefit from state of the art eye diagnostic technology following a donation from Optical Express. The Oculus Pentacam which offers a precise analysis of the eye was given to the University Eye Clinic by Optical Express, […]
Optical Express Leads Eye-Opening Mission to Improve Syrian Eye Care
London, October 13 2010 – Four eye care volunteers journey to Syria to help those whose lives have been blighted by poor eye sight. Optical Express employees Amy McLaughlin, Jill Young, Jaymeet Patel and Scott Mackie travelled from the UK to Western Asia to help treat patients as part of Dr. Morhaf and the Red […]
Jack Duckworth drops by Optical Express Trafford Clinic for new frames
This month, Coronation Street actor Bill Tarmey dropped by Optical Express in the Trafford Centre, Manchester, for an eye test and new frames. Famed for his role as Jack Duckworth in the long-running soap, Bill purchased two frames and updated the lenses in a third pair, a big move for a man whose television persona […]
Optical Express invests in overhaul of Leicester and Derby clinics
As part of their ongoing multi million pound investment programme, Optical Express has recently spent almost £500,000 on two refits of its prime locations in the Highcross Shopping Centre in Leicester and the Westfield Shopping Centre in Derby. The Leicester refit, which includes new flooring, air conditioning, and frame bays, enables the location to better […]
Eye-catching changes at Optical Express in Cardiff
Optical Express has recently invested more than £250,000 refitting of one of its flagship stores in the UK. The Cardiff location offers eye tests, contact lens fittings, free laser eye surgery and intraocular lens treatment consultations, as well as laser eye surgery on-site. The refit includes the outfitting of new testing and pre-screening rooms designed […]
Double Olympic champion jumps the tape as he opens new Optical Express store
Olympic legend Daley Thompson will take an unconventional approach when he unveils a new optical store in Bearsden today (30 June). The decathlete, double Olympic gold medallist, world and Commonwealth champion will swap the conventional silver scissors for the scissors jump as he leaps the red ribbon to launch the new Optical Express store. The […]
Optical Express Cumbernauld supports injured soldier
Optical Express Cumbernauld has given a much needed confidence boost to a heroic Scots soldier injured in Afghanistan ahead of being awarded the Queen’s Gallantry Medal next month. The store has donated a pair of Oakley sunglasses and a pair of transition frames to Lance Corporal David Timmins, 29, who was seriously injured while working […]
Bridgewater Hospital launches revamped website
The Bridgewater Hospital has just launched its new website, designed to better highlight the full range of services offered, as well as to communicate the hospital’s major points of difference. One of the new features of the site is an interactive body map, whereby individuals can search for a treatment or condition by clicking on […]
Optical Express invests $12 million to enhance patient care
Optical Express, the world leader in refractive surgery, has today (26 May) announced a $12 million investment in next generation laser eye surgery technology, enhancing patient care and improving vision beyond 20/20. This latest investment will see all 44 Optical Express laser treatment clinics across the UK and Europe installing state-of-the-art iFSTM 150 femtosecond laser […]