OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss.—Essilor has strengthened its wholesale laboratory with the acquisition of Superior Optical, a mid-sized lab in Ocean Springs, Miss. that services customers throughout the Southeast. An Essilor spokesperson told VMail that the lens maker previously had an ownership stake in the lab, and recently acquired the remaining portion of the business. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Superior Optical was founded in 1990 by industry veterans Hal Walker, who served as president and Jon Jacobs, who served as vice president. Both have retired from the lab following the completion of the acquisition. Longtime employee Morgan Braley now heads the lab’s management team.

Vision Monday ranked Superior Optical as the 11th largest independent U.S. wholesale lab in its 2015 Top Labs Report, with Rx sales of $14.7 million and production of 850 Rx jobs per day. The lab had 123 employees as of August, 2015.