Company type | Private |
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Industry | Contact lens retail |
Founded | February 1995 |
Founders | Jonathan C. Coon John F. Nichols |
Headquarters | Draper, Utah, U.S. |
Key people | John Graham, CEO Phil Bienert, President, CMO Brett Gappmayer, CFO Douglas Harris, COO Amy Larson, President, New Business Roy Montclair, General Counsel |
Products | Contact lenses |
Revenue | $237 million (2005)[1] |
$5.7 million (2005)[1] | |
$2.6 million (2005)[1] | |
Owners | KKR |
Website | 1800contacts |
1-800 Contacts Inc. is an American contact lens retailer based in Draper, Utah. The brands that 1-800 Contacts use includes Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Alcon, Bausch & Lomb and CooperVision. The company was founded as the industry's first way to buy contacts online and has since expanded to provide online prescription renewals, glasses, lens replacements, and the in-house AquaSoft Daily contact lenses brand. In 2006, its last year as a public company, the company reported net sales of US$247 million.[2]