How far can a founder's vision take a business? For Optica, arguably Kenya's biggest eye wear retailer, it has been 65 years, which makes it one of the oldest businesses in the country.
It all started with the late Bharat Bhardwaj, an optometrist working at the King George VI Hospital (today Kenyatta National Hospital). It troubled him that his patients had very limited options in terms of affordable eye care. They would get prescriptions from him but struggled to buy decent spectacles.
