Mary Perkins sold for £2 million in 1980, and continue to receive income from. After the sale the couple moved to Guernsey, where Mary's father had retired. Mary and Doug Perkins established Specsavers in Guernsey in 1984. In 2007 it was the largest privately owned opticians in the world, with nearly 900 stores across the UK and Europe. By 2011 the company had an annual turnover of £1.5bn and over 30,000 staff in markets in the UK, Europe and Australasia. Her current title at Specsavers is "founder". Dame Mary sits on the company board, oversees business development and has particular responsibility for
Rodney Perkins of these companies have been taken public. Perkins is the founder of three public companies: Collagen Corporation (collagen-based implant materials), Laserscope (surgical lasers), and ReSound Corporation (high tech signal processing hearing devices). He is also the founder and Chairman of Novacept (women's health), sold to Cytyc Corporation, Sound ID (hearing science), Pulmonx (interventional pulmonology and emphysema treatment), and was Chairman of Surgrx (electrosurgical instrumentation), which was sold to Ethicon Endo-Surgery, a division of Johnson & Johnson, in 2008. Currently, Perkins is founder, Chairman and CMO of Earlens Corporation, which is developing what it hopes will be a new method of