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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Sarah Butler

Specsavers pays £12m dividend to parent company after jump in earnings

Specsavers store in London with signs including one saying 'Eye tests'
Specsavers shared out a payment of almost £258m to its hundreds of independent partners. Photograph: PjrTravel/Alamy

Specsavers has paid £12m to its parent company controlled by its founders Doug and Dame Mary Perkins after the high street optician’s profits increased by more than a quarter.

The group operates nearly 3,000 optometry, audiology and ophthalmology businesses globally in at least eight countries, including more than 1,200 in the UK, through hundreds of independent partners.

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