Innovative Eyewear has opened 2026 with its strongest start to a year on record, posting preliminary first-quarter sales of around $0.81m.
This is up roughly 78% year-on-year and the eleventh consecutive quarter of growth.
Crucially, the pace of growth is accelerating rather than cooling with the smart eyewear group posting 63% growth across the whole of 2025.
Should the momentum continue, the firm could be on for revenue of $4m+, if the seasonal impact on sales is taken into consideration. Innovative Eyewear, like most consumer facing firms, tends to enjoy an uptick in sales in the fourth quarter.
The leading protagonist in the growth story is Lucyd Armor, the company’s smart safety glasses range, which has just picked up both the 2026 Red Dot Design Award and the NHPA Retailer’s Choice Award.
Innovative Eyewear says Armor now commands around 44% of the smart safety glasses category on Amazon, and says it remains the only product in the segment carrying full safety certification across the US, Canada and the EU.
The group is now setting its sights on the industry for further growth.
On that front, DHL, Do It Best / True Value and Thermo King are all trialling Lucyd products for workforce use. The company is also in talks with big-box retailers, traditional optical chains, and hardware and automotive chains about rolling Armor and the Reebok Powered by Lucyd line onto shelves in the US and Canada through 2026. A newly launched white-label offering has already landed its first committed customer for a smart safety glasses line.
Margins are moving in the right way too, with Q1 gross margins materially ahead of the 2025 full-year level as previously flagged tariff mitigation measures bed in.
CEO Harrison Gross described the quarter as the company’s strongest start to any year, flagging Armor’s workforce connectivity features as having “excellent market fit”. Results remain subject to audit.