Private company
Who owns 1-800 Contacts Inc.
One company in the researched set discloses a stake in 1-800 Contacts Inc., none of it sized by anyone who discloses it. 1-800 Contacts Inc. is private, so no 13F reports it: a 13F covers exchange listed positions only. These figures exist because each holder disclosed the stake in its own filings.
1-800 Contacts Inc. - Profile
- Type
- private company
- Based in
- United States
- Founded
- 1995
1-800 Contacts is a direct to consumer retailer of contact lenses in the United States, selling lenses made by Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Alcon, Bausch & Lomb and CooperVision alongside its own AquaSoft Daily line. Founded in Utah in February 1995 by Jonathan Coon and John Nichols, it built its business on mail order and then online reordering, and is described by its acquirers as the largest contact lens retailer in the country. The company has since extended into adjacent vision services and eyewear, running an app based prescription renewal exam and owning the Liingo Eyewear, 6over6, Boomerang and Premium Vision brands. It operates from Draper, Utah.
Source
1-800 Contacts Inc. files nothing with the SEC, so none of this comes from a filer record. The description was written for this site in August 2026 from Wikipedia: 1-800 Contacts, KKR to Acquire DTC Pioneer 1-800 Contacts from AEA Investors (PR Newswire) and Investment firm KKR buys 1-800 Contacts (Digital Commerce 360). The ownership figures below come from the holders' filings instead, and are sourced row by row.
The disclosed stakes
One row per position. Where a holder reports the same company in two share classes, both rows are shown rather than summed, because the class is part of a position's identity.
Where each figure comes from
A private stake has no ownership form behind it, so the source is always the holder's own filing or disclosure. Anything modelled says so, with the arithmetic.
- KKR & Co. Inc.. FY2025 10-K: 'During the year ended December 31, 2025, dividend income was primarily from (i) our investments in 1-800 Contacts Inc., Exact Holdings B.V. and April SA, all held through our consolidated core vehicles.' Also cited among FY2025 mark-to-market gains (healthcare sector) in the Strategic Holdings segment. Not separately mentioned in the Q2 2026 10-Q's Strategic Holdings note (which names only USI and Viridor), so continued current ownership as of mid-2026 is not confirmed, only ownership as of FY2025. No ownership percentage or fair value disclosed for this position specifically. source
What this page is not
It is not a complete register. It lists the holders who happen to be inside the researched set and disclosed the stake themselves. A private company can have many other shareholders, and nothing here rules them out: venture investors, founders and employees usually appear in no public filing at all. Percentages are of 1-800 Contacts Inc. where a holder stated one, and are missing where no holder did.