private subsidiary industry eyewear optical retailing founded 1988 headquarters 175 e. houston street san antonio texas 78205 united states number of locations approx . 699 as of 2015 1 2 operated under various trade names not the ecca name area served united states number of employees 5 600 2 parent highmark inc. website http www.visionworks.com a visionworks location in a strip mall in hillsboro oregon visionworks of america inc. formerly eye care centers of america is an american company which operates or manages 700 optical retail stores in 40 u.s. states and the district of columbia . 1 2 3 the company was incorporated in 1988 . it is based in downtown san antonio texas and has about 5 600 employees . 2 stores operate under eleven different trade names 1 including eyemasters visionworks vision world doctor s visionworks dr. bizer s visionworld dr. bizer s valuvision doctor s valuvision hour eyes stein optical eye drx and binyon s . 4 as of june 2013 the eleven aforementioned different trade names are consolidating into a single entity and will all operate under the visionworks name . visionworks of america is a subsidiary of hvhc a highmark inc. company . 5 its former parent company ecca holdings corp. merged with pittsburgh based hvhc in 2006 resulting in eye care centers of america inc. becoming a wholly owned highmark subsidiary . 4 ecca had 385 stores in 36 states at that time . 4 its largest chains are eyemasters with about 160 stores 6 and visionworks with 140 stores . 5 all stores offer designer and exclusive brand frames lenses sunglasses and accessories along with leading technology in vision correction . comprehensive service offerings include contact lens dispensing in store labs which provide one hour service on many prescriptions at nearly all locations and doctors of optometry at or next to every store . visionworks also sells contact lenses online at visionworkscontacts.com . 7 revenue in 2001 when the company had 360 stores in 32 states was 336 million . 8 references edit a b c eye care centers of america hires new president chief medical officer . san antonio business journal . december 4 2009 . retrieved july 4 2011 . a b c d eye care centers of america inc. . bloomberg businessweek . 2009 . retrieved july 4 2011 . visionworks teams up with abc s the chew to accessorize carla hall . businesswire . 11 march 2015 . retrieved 8 june 2015 . a b c highmark completes merger with eye care centers of america . san antonio business journal . august 6 2006 . retrieved july 4 2011 . a b visionworks plans two store openings . pittsburgh business times . september 23 2010 . retrieved july 4 2011 . eyemasters opens new store at the live oak forum . san antonio business journal . april 1 2005 . retrieved july 4 2011 . visionworks teams up with abc s the chew to accessorize carla hall . businesswire . 11 march 2015 . retrieved 8 june 2015 . eye care center s sales slip slightly in 2001 . san antonio business journal . march 26 2002 . retrieved july 4 2011 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title visionworks of america & oldid 743663151 categories eyewear retailers of the united statescompanies based in san antonioamerican companies established in 1988retail companies established in 1988 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 16 41 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view