It excludes sales to other contact lens manufacturers (OEM sales), royalties, freight charges passed on to customers, and sales of discontinued products and low volume hard contact lens products.
Contact lens preparations advanced 13 % , with the gas permeable segment for hard contact lens advancing 45 % , well above soft lens solutions' gain of 12 % .
The big losers were the meal replacement category, one which showed signs of revitalization as the year wound down; hard contact lens care products, which have apparently seen their best days, and mouthwash, a category without much activity in 1992.