Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-024813
Chunk: 146

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
Chunk 146
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7 million. 

Total ICL sales for 2024 decreased 2% from 2023, with units down 6%. The sales decrease was driven by the APAC region, which decreased 6% with units down 9%. The decrease in the APAC region was driven by decreased sales in China, primarily related to the $27.5 million order in December 2024 for which we did not recognize revenue discussed above, partially offset by sales growth in India, other APAC Distributors, Japan and Korea. The Europe, Middle East and Africa region sales increased 10% with unit growth up 17%, due primarily to sales increases in our distributor markets. The Americas region sales increased 16%, with unit increase of 17%, due primarily to sales growth in the U.S. Changes in foreign currency unfavorably impacted ICL sales by $2.7 million, which impacted our Japan and Europe, Middle East and Africa markets. ICL sales represented 99.6% of our total sales for fiscal year 2024. 

Total ICL sales for 2023 increased 18% from 2022, with unit growth up 19%. The sales increase was driven by the APAC region, which grew 21% with unit growth of 22%, primarily due to sales growth in China, other APAC Distributors, India, Japan and Korea. The Europe, Middle East and Africa region sales increased 7% with units similar to prior year, due to sales growth in our distributor markets and direct markets. The Americas region sales increased 

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11%, with unit increase of 9%, due primarily to sales growth in the U.S. Changes in foreign currency unfavorably impacted ICL sales by $1.8 million, which impacted our Japan and Europe, Middle East and Africa markets.  ICL sales represented 99.1% of our total sales for fiscal year 2023.

Other product sales include cataract IOLs, delivery systems and normal recurring sales adjustments such as sales return allowances. As a result of third-party materials and supply chain challenges that affected our cataract IOLs and associated delivery devices, we have phased out sales of our cataract IOLs as we focus on growing our ICL business. During 2023, we stopped manufacturing cataract IOLs, and we did not sell any cataract IOLs in 2024.  Other product sales for 2024 decreased 55% from 2023, mainly