The private equity owners of opticians chain Hans Anders are considering selling the company, the Financieele Dagblad says on Tuesday.

The paper says investment groups Alpha and Alpinvest are looking at three options to realise the chain’s future growth: a sale, an IPO or refinancing. ING bank has been brought in to advise on the next step, the FD says.

‘We are at the very early stages and all options are open,’ Hans Anders chief executive Remco Boerefijn said. ‘We are not in a hurry and currently benefiting from healthy growth.’

The high street group, founded in 1982, currently has 390 outlets, of which 250 are in the Netherlands and 90 in Belgium. It also has operations in Sweden and France.

The current Dutch market leader is GrandVision, which is largely owned by private equity group HAL and operates the Pearle and Eyewish chains. Britain’s Specsavers has around 200 outlets in the Netherlands.