There’s a lot of acquisition speculation swirling around UK-based eyewear business Inspecs at present. Italian eyewear giant Safilo has confirmed that it’s made a non-binding offer to the business. It doesn’t want to take over the whole company but is interested in Inspecs’ Eschenbach Group and BoDe businesses.

Safilo said this is part of its activities “to explore new investment opportunities” but added that there’s “no certainty regarding the outcome of any such offer”.

Meanwhile Inspecs had said last week that it had “received two separate, unsolicited proposals from H2 Equity Partners Ltd, and Risk Capital Partners and Ian Livingstone (the ‘Consortium’), each setting out non-binding possible cash offers alongside the possibility of an alternative offer including unlisted securities

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