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National Vision Holdings acquisitions, on the record

The businesses National Vision Holdings bought and sold, as its annual reports describe them, with the cash it reported paying for acquisitions each year and every deal filing since 2016.

Deals its annual reports describe

BusinessDealWhenValue
Eyeglass World store chain
Word for word“We acquired the Eyeglass World store chain in 2009 and, after a multi-year partnership, we acquired Arlington Contact Lens Service, Inc. (“AC Lens”) in 2011 to bolster our e-commerce platform.” 10-K for 2023
acquisition2009—
Arlington Contact Lens Service, Inc. (AC Lens)
Word for word“We acquired the Eyeglass World store chain in 2009 and, after a multi-year partnership, we acquired Arlington Contact Lens Service, Inc. (“AC Lens”) in 2011 to bolster our e-commerce platform.” 10-K for 2023
acquisition2011—
private start-up company whose principal business is licensing software to eyeglass retailers
Word for word“During fiscal year 2021, the Company’s equity method investee was acquired by a third party and in connection therewith the Company sold all of its ownership interests and received $ 2.4 million upon the consummation of the sale.” 10-K for 2023
divestiturefiscal year 2021$ 2.4 million
an entity (equity method investment)
Word for word“We previously had an investment in an entity that was acquired by a third party in fiscal year 2021.” 10-K for 2024
divestiturefiscal year 2021—

Deal filings since 2016

Read from National Vision Holdings’s annual reports (10-K for 2026, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-03-04. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.