Specsavers a new range from Kylie Minogue launched in 2017. The co-founder of Specsavers, Mary Perkins, was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2007, in recognition of her services to business and the community in Guernsey. In April 2004, Specsavers acquired Swedish Blic Optik franchise from its owner Optimum Optik AB. In 2007, finance director John Perkins became joint managing director, with his father Doug Perkins. In The Sunday Times Rich List 2011, published in the United Kingdom on 8 May 2011, Douglas and Dame Mary Perkins and family
Samuel Perkins Pick Samuel Perkins Pick Samuel Perkins Pick (1858 – 23 May 1919) was an English architect strongly associated with Leicestershire, and co-founder of the architecture and civil engineering firm Pick Everard. The son of a veterinary surgeon, Pick was born in Kettering and educated at Kibworth Grammar School, where he was introduced to two artists (Harry Ward and John Fulleylove) who encouraged him to produce drawings of buildings, some of which were published in "The Builder". In 1884, when he was awarded a medal by the Worshipful Company of Plaisterers, he was described as an architectural apprentice of John Breedon Everard