Long-sighted China view

HONG Kong spectacle maker Swank International Manufacturing is benefitting from the soaring yen, as Japanese manufacturers become less price competitive.

The company's factory output was at its highest level ever, according to director and company secretary Samuel Tong.

He said the surge in orders was because of the rise in the yen.

'I believe some of the orders were originally given to Japanese suppliers,' he said.

Swank manufactures, retails, distributes and exports frames, lenses and sunglasses.

Mr Tong said sales began increasing in the first two months of the year.