Built inside a real practice.
Boro Eyewear wasn’t created to add one more frame line to the board. It was built to give Dr. Spencer DuBro's Total Vision Centers a brand his patients couldn’t find everywhere else—while giving his practice more control, stronger margins, and a more distinctive optical.
The turning point
Like many independent practices, Dr. DuBro faced the same pressure most owners feel: patients comparing frames, shrinking margins, low managed care reimbursements, and very little true differentiation between one optical and the next.
Carrying more brands wasn’t the answer. It only made the wall look more familiar. The smarter move was to create something patients would associate with his practice—not someone else’s logo.
That decision became Boro Eyewear: a private-label collection built to look elevated, feel intentional, and give the practice something far more powerful than another vendor line.
Why it worked
- No direct online price comparison
- More control over margins (managed care) and product mix
- A stronger brand identity inside the practice
- A more memorable optical experience for patients
- A collection the team could stand behind as their own
What changed
This is where private label becomes more than a nice idea. When a practice builds a frame line around its own identity, the optical starts working harder. The product becomes more defensible. The story becomes clearer. And the patient experience becomes more ownable.
Private labeling with Your Brand Eyewear has been one of the best investments we've made for our practice. Boro Eyewear has given us an exclusive product that truly differentiates us from other opticals while strengthening our brand within the community. The collection has generated so much local interest that we've had new patients schedule appointments specifically to purchase Boro frames after seeing them featured on the local Springboro news. Beyond improving our capture rate and profitability, private labeling has become a powerful marketing tool that continues to drive awareness and bring new patients into our practice.
— Spencer DuBro, O.D.
Optometric Advisor • Practice Owner
More than a customer. A practitioner-led brand.
Private branding represents a better model for independent practices: not simply carrying frames, but building a brand inside the practice itself. That is what makes this different. It’s not a rep pitch. It’s not theory. It’s a real owner, in a real practice, using private label to create stronger identity, better economics, and a more modern optical strategy.
How the partnership developed
Dr. DuBro began looking for a way to create more distinction in his optical without sacrificing quality or ending up with a collection that felt generic. After working through style direction, fit, pricing, and positioning, Boro launched as a true private-label extension of the practice.
Why this matters to other ECPs
Practices relate to other practices. That’s what makes this page valuable. It shows what can happen when an independent owner stops relying completely on other brands and starts building an optical identity of their own.
This is the future of independent optical: practitioner-led, margin-aware, and harder to compare.
Could your practice do the same?
If you’re thinking about building your own private-label frame line, start with a few sample styles and a short conversation. We’ll walk through positioning, price points, and the fastest path to launch.
Not every practice wants to build from scratch
Private label is powerful, but not every ECP is ready to go through the full process of creating a brand name, refining the look, and launching a collection of their own.
Some practices are simply too busy. Others want to test the concept first before investing time and energy into building their own brand.
- Too busy to develop a private brand right now
- Want to try the concept before committing
- Need a faster path to better margins and differentiation
A proven collection, already working
That is what makes this section different.
Dr. Cox has already done the work. He built a private-label collection inside a real practice, and it is already performing in the real world.
For ECPs who want a simpler starting point, he is open to allowing a select group of colleagues to carry Cielo rather than starting from zero.
- No brand development required
- No waiting to launch
- A lower-friction way to step into private label
A smarter starting point
Carrying Cielo Eyewear does not replace the value of building your own brand. For some practices, it is simply the easiest way to begin—an opportunity to experience the benefits of private label with a collection that is already proven, already refined, and already working inside an independent practice.