If you are looking for a pair of safety glasses then you will not doubt have considered Bolle Safety Glasses as one of your options.
Bollé Safety are eye protection specialist with over 130 years of innovation. Bollé Safety has worked alongside the French Army, Navy and Aerospace to develop safety goggles and glasses, so you know you are getting the best protection available. The group now owns the brands Bollé, Bollé Safety, Cébé, H2Optix, Spy Optic and Serengeti.
The Bollé brand was originally established in 1888 in France by Seraphim Bollé. At the forefront of technological advances even then in 1925, the Bollé company first used celluloid glasses as part of its production of their glasses range. It started to use prescription lenses in its range in 1934. Its use of cutting edge technology at the time saw the company grow and in 1936, the company had expanded to the UK and was trading as Thurgar-Bollé.
After the World War II, Bollé began using moulded nylon in the manufacturing process with sunglasses featuring protective lenses. This is turn lead to the development of Bolle Safety – with the first pair of safety goggles and masks added to the Bollé range of products in 1950. There are many frames throughout the years that are synonymous with Bolle and the ‘cat eye sunglasses’ is one of them – in 1956 Georges Bollé created the nylon ‘cat-eye’ sunglass. The company also developed into cycling sunglasses with the Nylon Grand Sport and then in 1960, ski goggles were first marketed by Bollé.
Throughout the 1970s, Bollé continued to invest in and develop protective eyewear, eventually moving into PPE eyewear for industrial work environments with a full range of Bolle Safety Glasses.
In 2001, Bushnell acquired the Bollé and Serengeti Eyewear brands. Bollé, Cébé and Serengeti were part of Vista Outdoor’s acquisition of Bushnell in 2013. A&M Capital Europe, a London based middle-market private equity firm, acquired Bollé Brands from Vista Outdoor Inc. (“Vista”) in 2018. AMCE appointed a new management team headed by Peter Smith as President & CEO of Bollé Brands.
AMCE created the holding company Bollé Brands to bring the Bollé business units under the same umbrella. Following this acquisition Bollé Brands moved its US corporate headquarters into Spy’s California headquarters and now runs its US operations out of Carlsbad.
