OPAL
Company-provided description, not an official-source fact. Certifications, capacities, years and market positions stated in it are the company's own claims until a record below confirms them.
Hersteller und Lieferant der Brillenindustrie
OPAL ist in der offiziellen Ausstellerkarte der MIDO 2026 aufgeführt. Das Verzeichnis platziert das Unternehmen im Bereich DESIGN mit den Produktklassifizierungscodes 01;02;03;04;05;06;07;08;09;11 und verlinkt auf seine Unternehmenswebsite.
- Type
- Not established by any record (our catalog import lists it as manufacturer; that is not evidence of the role)
- Role
- Role not established by any record
- Location
- Lyon Cedex 09, France
- Founded
- 1995 (as stated by the company, not confirmed by a state register)
- Current legal entity registered
- 1964 (state register record of the current legal entity)
- Website
- https://opal.fr
- Categories
- Brillen & Sonnenbrillen
Listed in a source registry
What is established and what is not
No researcher review has been written for this company yet. 8 official records from 4 official sources are on file. 4 other entries are not official records: our own technical checks and searches, open directory listings, our inferences or the company's own statements. Everything is listed below with its evidence type: each entry confirms only what it literally says; none of them is a review. Nothing here confirms manufacturing, ownership or trading status beyond what each record literally says.
Facts on file, each with its evidence type
- First recorded on the web archive (record type: web-presence-since) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] The web archive holds a page at this address from 1999. Shows a web archive saw a page at this address on that date. It does not show who ran the site then. checked 2026-08-20. Internet Archive (Wayback)
- Registry ID checks out with the state register (record type: registry-id-verified) [official record; status green] Helps confirm the company on this page is the same legal entity as in the register. checked 2026-08-26. INSEE Sirene (annuaire-entreprises)
- On the company register (record type: registered-since) [official record; status green] On the company register since 1964. Shows how long the company has been on the state register, which is hard to fake and easy to check. checked 2026-08-26. INSEE Sirene (annuaire-entreprises)
- Active legal entity ID (LEI) (record type: lei-active) [official record; status green] A global identifier used in finance; an active one is renewed yearly. checked 2026-08-26. GLEIF
- financials-published (record type: financials-published) [official record; status green] Annual accounts filed for 2025: revenue €42.3M, profit €435.8K. Lets you size the supplier against your own volume: the figure comes from accounts filed with the state, not from a claim on a website. effective since 2025-12-31. INPI/BCE published accounts (data.economie.gouv.fr)
- Registered for trade, not manufacturing (record type: registered-trade-only) [official record; status amber] Indicates the register lists trade, not production. checked 2026-08-26. INSEE Sirene (annuaire-entreprises)
- Business email on the company's own domain (record type: corporate-mail-on-domain) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows the domain runs its own email rather than a free mailbox. It describes the domain, not who owns it. checked 2026-08-26. Mail server of the company domain
- Website domain registered (record type: domain-registered) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows how long this web address has been registered. That is the age of the domain, not of the company: a domain can change owners. checked 2026-08-26. Domain registry record
- No match found in the debarment registers we checked (record type: debarment-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public debarment datasets and found no matching candidate. Absence from these lists is a search result, not a certificate. checked 2026-08-26. OpenSanctions
- Named directors on file (record type: directors-on-file) [official record; status green] 2 directors on file. The register names the people who run the company, so there is someone answerable if something goes wrong. checked 2026-08-26. INSEE Sirene (annuaire-entreprises)
- Legally registered and still active (record type: registry-active-global) [official record; status green] Shows the register lists the registration as active on the date we read it. It does not show how busy the business is. checked 2026-08-26. INSEE Sirene (annuaire-entreprises)
- Places goods on the market (national producer register) (record type: places-goods-on-market; this record does not by itself establish manufacturing) [official record; status green] A state register lists this company as placing these goods on the market, as their maker or importer. By itself it does not show who makes them. checked 2026-10-15. Registre national des producteurs (ADEME/SYDEREP), France
Relationships
2 relationship(s) on file. Each line names the other party, the relationship as its source records it, and the source. A record of a relationship is not a finding about control beyond what it literally says.
Recorded in a source
- 2 more officer(s), not named in the record: Officer in the register. INSEE Sirene (annuaire-entreprises)
Candidates, not confirmed
- opal.fr: Website of this business. Source record
Import rules for these goods
Product-specific import rules not established for the catalog category Brillen & Sonnenbrillen: neither the company's own description nor an official activity code shows that its own goods are of this kind. A catalog category alone is our classification, not proof of what the company makes or sells.
Check independently
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