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EDM Publications launches a new EYEWEAR INTELLIGENCE
After more than 11 years on the market, EYEWEAR INTELLIGENCE remains the only pan-European business publication, delivering at least 15 issues a year to its subscribers, full of exclusive facts and figures in the international language of business, with no pictures and no advertising.After a survey of its readers, EDM ...
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Essilor sees potential for further growth
Showing several interesting slides at the company's annual meeting with financial analysts, Hubert Sagnières, chief executive of Essilor International, sounded optimistic yesterday about the company's ability to capitalize on the considerable potential that remains for further growth in the ophthalmic lens markets, both in the high-growth emerging economies of Asia ...
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Spectaris’ study shows interesting national trends in Europe
Too bad it's only available in German. Put out last September by Spectaris, the German ophthalmic industry association, the report provides the reader with an overview of the European ophthalmic optics market, its consumers and future trends. It shows, among other things, that France was the biggest European importer of ...
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Vision problems wane worldwide
Maybe things aren't as bad as they seemed. The World Health Organization has revised its previous estimates about the number of people worldwide who have severe vision problems. It is now saying that 285 million people are visually impaired, with 39 million being blind and 246 million with moderate to ...
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Opti '11 Was The Site Of Some Firsts
About 22,700 trade and business professionals visited the Opti '11 fair held in Munich Jan. 28-30 on a daily basis, the same as one year ago, and the business climate was very good. An increase was recorded in the number of international guests, with almost one-fourth of the visitors coming ...
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Signature Books 24th Profitable Quarter
Signature Eyewear managed to book net income of $47,000 on sales of $4.9 million in the fourth quarter ending Oct. 31 despite a tough business environment. The period was the company's 24th consecutive profitable quarter in a row. For the full financial year, however, net income fell to ...
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Hoya Vision Care Grows By 8% In Europe
The ophthalmic lens segment of Hoya Corporation's life care division saw its sales decline by 3 percent in the 3rd quarter ended Dec. 31. The company booked higher deliveries of lenses in Japan as well as in the rest of the world, but suffered from lower unit sales prices in ...
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Russian Market Rebounds And Changes After Recession
The Russian eyewear market is slowly starting to rebound. Before the global economic crisis, it was on a fast growth track, but then it was hit with economic woes and the major chains were just worried about controlling expenses. Russian consumers bought cheaper lenses, and bought them less frequently, in ...
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Rodenstock's Management Undergoes Another Reorganization
After settling its debt (see previous issue), Rodenstock Group is restructuring its management in an effort to better integrate its sales and marketing departments so they work better for their relevant markets, and to increase effectiveness and competitiveness. The company's recently appointed chief executive, Oliver Kastalio, will be directly responsible ...
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Companies Come Back To Mido
The recovery of the optical market has brought the major players back to the European shows in a big way. Luxottica, Safilo, Marcolin and Charmant returned to Opti München, and they will also be in Milan for the forthcoming edition of Mido, taking place in Milan on March 4-7. ...
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Vision Council Names Youngest Chairman Ever, Jamie Shyer
At its executive summit in Miami last month, The Vision Council inducted its 2011 officers and board of directors, and announced that James Shyer of Zyloware Eyewear is the new chairman. Heading up eye-care-related groups is in the blood of the 42-year-old ?Jamie? Shyer, the youngest chairman ever of ...
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Coburn Technologies Names New Management Team
Coburn Technologies, formerly Gerber Coburn, has appointed a new management team following the sale in December of the company by the conglomerate Gerber Scientific. As we have previously announced, Gerber Coburn was sold to Coburn Technologies, a new company controlled by Edward Jepsen, a former Gerber Scientic board member, Alex ...
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German Web Stores Expand In Europe
Mister Spex, the German online optical retailer, continues to grow rapidly and to expand internationally. Led by Dirk Graber, who founded in May 2008, the company reached sales of €4.5 million in 2009, and they grew last year by about 150 percent to €11 million. In May 2010, the company ...
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Vision Expo Ready For New York
Visitors can expect to find many new features at the International Vision Expo & Conference scheduled for March 16-20 in New York. New to the fair this year is Vision Mobile technology. Via their smartphones or other mobile devices, Vision Expo visitors will be able to plan their ...
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Eyevit Licenses Fiorucci
Eyevit Distribuzione has signed a three-year agreement to produce and distribute sunglasses and prescription frames for women and children under the Fiorucci name. The deal covers the Italian and foreign markets, with a special focus on Spain, Portugal, France, Greece, Turkey and Russia where Fiorucci has a strong presence and ...
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Vision Service Joins Forces With Vision Is
In 2006, Vision Service, an important Italian buying group, and the big Salmoiraghi & Viganò chain had established a joint entity, Kentral, to increase their buying power. However, their combination, with total retail sales of €120 million in 2010, has failed to produce the expected benefits, in spite an improvement ...
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Positive Trends In The German Market
Thomas Truckenbrod, president of ZVA, the German association of ophthalmic opticians, reported at the Opti '11 trade fair that the German ophthalmic optics market had an increase in sales of about 3 percent last year. As market results are not complete this early in the year, the ZVA conducted a ...
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Improving Randazzo Goes Green
Gruppo Randazzo, which owns the Italian Optissimo chain of optical stores and the related chain of Optic store corners in hypermarkets and supermarkets, closed 2010 with total sales of €120 million, up by 5 percent for the second year in a row. On a same-store basis, last year's growth was ...
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Opti '11 Expects 450 Exhibitors In Munich
Opti '11, the eyewear show opening in Munich tomorrow and running through Jan. 30, will have about 450 exhibitors, compared with 434 a year ago. More than 160 companies are coming this time from 25 countries outside Germany. Turkey, France and Italy are among the nations that will have their ...
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Marcolin Was The Best Performing Italian Stock In 2010
Marcolin was the best performing stock on the main market of the Italian Bourse last year, with the share price rising by 192.5 percent to €4.37 at the end of December from the level it had reached a year earlier. The share price was supported by the group's turnaround and ...
