VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Coastal Contacts Inc. (TSX: COA; NASDAQ OMX: COA) announced that for the second fiscal quarter ending April 30, 2011, worldwide eyeglasses sales exceeded $10 million, an increase of 117 percent over Q2 2010, and a sequential increase of 62 percent over Q1 2011.

“Coastal continues to experience robust growth in its eyeglasses category,” stated Roger Hardy, the company’s founder and CEO. “Most encouraging is the large number of returning customers who are driving growth. The value proposition is resonating with customers and beginning to create a strong annuity of repeat order business that will help fund our growth and investment in this very exciting category. ”

The company reported that in its North American business unit, sales of individual frames grew to approximately 162,000 units in the second quarter of 2011 compared with approximately 48,000 units in the same period in 2010, an increase of 238 percent. Of the 162,000 units shipped, approximately 28,000 were to returning eyeglasses customers and 134,000 were to new eyeglasses customers, Coastal Contacts said, adding that it expects to provide full unaudited financials for fiscal Q2, 2011 in early June.