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Silmo Will Offer New Services And Fewer Awards
The organizers of the Silmo show, which will be held at its new and more modern Villepinte location near Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport from Sept. 23-26, have decided to introduce some important changes and to introduce new services and events including the first Silmo Academy, which will provide symposiums ...
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European Court Backs Internet Sales Of Contact Lenses
The conditional backing of the European Court of Justice came indirectly a few weeks ago with the publication of an opinion expressed by its attorney general, Paolo Mengozzi, on a number of questions raised by a Hungarian court in reference to a foreign e-commerce operation, Ker-Optika, trading in the country. ...
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Bad Eyesight Makes Italians A Danger At The Wheel
A third of the Italians who have a driver's license do not have the minimum standards of eyesight that would be required to drive safely. This and other extremely worrying findings came out of a study promoted by Comitato Difesa Vista (Vision Defense Committee), an Italian industry body for the ...
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Price Is Becoming More Important Than The Brand In Sunglass Purchases
The fashion logo has become less important than before in the European sunglass market, according to an ongoing research project whose latest results were released by the European Sunglass Association (ESA) at its annual convention in Barcelona a few days ago. The latest data also indicate that average selling prices ...
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Cecop Enters The Brazilian Market
The Spanish buying group, which has been expanding in Europe, is about to make its entrance on the South American market, starting with Brazil. Cecop is in the process of setting up its own Brazilian organization, and is already open for opticians to join. As one of the major emerging ...
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Huvits Wants To Consolidate Its European Business
Huvitz, a fast-growing Korean supplier of equipment for the optical industry that is increasingly regarded as a serious challenger in the market, is considering several options to improve its penetration of the European market, including the establishment of a subsidiary to support the existing distributors of its products. Company ...
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Where And Why Do Italians Buy Sunglasses?
The repression of the widespread pattern of counterfeiting still going on in the broad fashion market, sunglasses included, has led Italian authorities to discover a curious abbreviation adopted for products distributed in Italian market stalls. To reassure the consumer, the sunglasses are stamped with the letters «CE,» the same as ...
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Signature Eyewear Makes A Profit And Trims Debt Even As Sales Fall
California-based Signature Eyewear had a 3.3 percent drop in turnover to $5.9 million for the second quarter ended April 30, as net sales continued to be hurt by the recession, but the company was able to report its 18th consecutive profitable quarter. The volume of sales was fairly stable ...
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The European Market Suffered From The Recession, Especially Where Opticians Earn Less
European consumers have reacted to the economic crisis by delaying sight tests and purchases of new eyewear, and also by driving down the average price of frames and lenses, said Antoni Olivella, president of Indo and of Eurom 1, at the Vision Business Forum in Rome a few days ago. ...
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Still A Few Hurdles In The Way Of A Global Sunglass Standard
Industry officials gave an update on the progress being made in setting a single international ISO standard for plano sunglass lenses, still with on objective to get it implemented by March 2012, at the annual convention of the European Sunglass Association in Barcelona a few days ago. After two ...
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German Lens Giants Fined For Price-fixing
At the end of a lengthy investigation, reportedly triggered by an individual's inquiry about different price quotations from different suppliers, five ophthalmic lens makers in Germany have been socked with €115 million in fines for participating in a price-fixing scheme. Rodenstock, Carl Zeiss Vision, Essilor, Rupp + Hubrach Optik and ...
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The Second Vision Business Forum Will Run In Rome On June 18-20
As we have already reported, the dates of the Italian Vision Business Forum, held for the first time in Rome in 2009, have been brought forward from September to June, running from Friday the 18th through to Sunday the 20th. The forum's 51 exhibitors will occupy small booths in the ...
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Record Sales In 2009 For Top U.S. Retail Companies
The 50 largest optical retailers in the U.S. managed to squeeze out record sales of about $7,289 million last year despite the ongoing economic problems. According to Vision Monday's Top 50 U.S. Optical Retailers report, available now, many of the companies benefitted from the addition of new stores. Together they ...
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Vision Loss Is Estimated To Cost $3 Trillion Worldwide
AMD Alliance International has a presented a report showing an annual cost to the world community of $2,955 billion from health care expenditures, informal care-giver time, lost productivity and inefficiencies in the tax system because of low vision and blindness, which affect 733 million people around the world. With the ...
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Chinese Polarone Hits Back, But Italian Polar Pursues Its Legal Action
A Chinese eyewear company, PolarOne Eyewear, has hit back at allegations that it copied the designs of a rival Italian company, which resulted in frames being confiscated from its show during the Mido exhibition in Milan last March (see previous issue). The claims were made by an Italian frame manufacturer, ...
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Grasset Becomes Independent Again
Kappa 26, the holding company of the French L'Amy eyewear group, has sold Lunettes Grasset back to the family that founded the company in 1895. Backed by Actem Partners, an investment fund controlled by Natexis, the management buyout sees the brothers Henri and Pierre-Elie Grasset taker over the financially sound ...
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J.F. Rey Launches A Skyeyes Web Shop For Sunglasses, Among Other Initiatives
Jean-François Rey, the well-known French eyewear designer, continues to launch new initiatives and to explore new markets. This follows the acquisition last year by his company, BLI DBP, of a 50 percent stake in its major producer in the Jura region of France, Ellaps, and its move into a larger ...
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Australian Retailer Assesses Attitudes Toward Eyewear
OPSM, the Australian optical retailing group owned by Luxottica, recently commissioned a survey on people's opinions on those who wear glasses. More than 800 people surveyed by Stellar Research Company answered several questions about how they perceive people with eyewear. Among men, 82.7 percent said that glasses can ...
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Design Awards For Logo And Zeiss
Tag-Heuer Avant-Garde Eyewear, one of the major licenses of the French Logo group, has won a Red Dot Design Award for the latest version of its night driving goggle, called Squadra Night Vision. Developed on an exclusive basis and jointly patented with BNL, its light yellow lenses are said to ...
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Ruedi Suter Becomes Chairman And Ceo Of Pro Fit Optix
Rudolf Suter is the well-known industry veteran who built up the former Satis Vacuum into the world's biggest supplier of anti-reflective lens coating equipment and then sold it in 1998 to Schweiter, which merged the business with Loh in 2004 to form Satisloh, the company that was acquired by Essilor ...
