Fielmann AG


Fielmann Group AG is a German eyewear company.
Fielmann stock is listed in the German MDAX index. With 6% of all optical stores, Fielmann has achieved a 24% sales market share and a 56% market share in terms of units sold. Fielmann is the market leader in Germany and Europe's largest optician.

History

In 1972 Günther Fielmann established the first Fielmann store in Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony. In 1981, Fielmann negotiated an agreement with the Esens statutory health insurance company, which allowed a larger selection of frames to be added to the portfolio for patients with insurance coverage.
Fielmann has been listed on the German stock exchange since 1994. Its stock indexing advanced from a listing in the SDAX to MDAX on 6 January 2009, but was relegated to SDAX in December 2019.
The non-profit Fielmann-Akademie was established by the company in 2001. Located in Plön Castle, Schleswig-Holstein it is a training centre for optometrists since 2002.
Since 2019, Marc Fielmann has been the sole CEO of the company, succeeding his father Günther Fielmann.
After almost 40 years on Weidestrasse, the Fielmann Group opened its new Head Office at Fuhlsbuettler Strasse in Hamburg's Barmbek-Nord district on September 1, 2025.

Corporate affairs

The key trends of Fielmann are :
YearRevenue Net income Employees
20171,38616818,522
20181,42816919,379
20191,52117220,397
20201,42911621,853
20211,67813722,028
20221,75910422,631
20231,97012823,412
20242,26415424,363

Other activities

Fielmann plants a tree for every employee every year. In 2009, chancellor Angela Merkel, minister-president Peter Harry Carstensen and Günther Fielmann planted the one-millionth tree in Büdelsdorf.