Hardycapital: Hardy Capital Acquires LD Vision Group, Owner of Three Online Contact Lens Sites

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Hardy Capital, a Canadian investment firm with experience in the online eyewear market via Roger Hardy, founder of the former Coastal.com business, said Wednesday that it has completed the acquisition of LD Vision Group. LD Vision owns three online contact lens sites, OptiContacts.com, LensDiscounters.com and ContactsExpress.ca. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Hardy Capital's Roger Hardy told VMAIL that LD Vision is "quite a material business." The company was founded in 2002 and was one of the first discount online contact lens sellers, and reached Canadian $50 million in sales last year, the announcement noted.