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Face à Face, the highly creative 10-year-old French eyewear company,...
Face à Face, the highly creative 10-year-old French eyewear company, has put out a line of jewelry for Valentine's Day that uses materials such as silver, PVC, leather, glass, plexiglass. The models include classy collars that can be used to hang a pair of glasses.
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Norville lays off 10 employees while consolidating its business...
Norville lays off 10 employees while consolidating its business
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For its full year ended Jan. 2, 2005, the Acuvue...
For its full year ended Jan. 2, 2005, the Acuvue contact lens division of Johnson & Johnson raised its sales by 11 percent to $1.7 billion, holding the #1 spot in the global contact lens market. The growth was driven by its core product range of spherical, specialty and cosmetic ...
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Vecellio Occhiali has struck a 5-year licensing deal for a...
Vecellio Occhiali has struck a 5-year licensing deal for a line of sun and prescription frames under the Braccialini brand name that should generate minimum sales of €5 million over the period. Braccialini is a leathergoods brand of Italy's Mariella Burani Fashion Group whose sales reached €33 million in 2005.
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No less than 89.8 percent of the visitors who attended...
No less than 89.8 percent of the visitors who attended last month's Opti München show in Munich said they would come back next year, when the show will be held on Jan. 26-28. The fair booked a 4 percent increase in attendance last month, with further gains from Eastern Europe. ...
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Permira Makes Another Optical-related Acquisition
Permira is the European-based private equity firm that has gradually bought an 85 percent stake in Rodenstock. The same fund has now agreed to acquire Aearo Technologies, a U.S. company based in Indianapolis that designs and produces personal protective products and energy-absorbing composites. Aearo's holdings include a prescription safety eyewear ...
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Andrew Actman, the British eyewear designer, recently finished second in...
Andrew Actman, the British eyewear designer, recently finished second in his class in the Lombard Revival Rally 2005, a 1,200-mile off-road race through England and Wales
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French Tax Authorities Go After Afflelou, Margins Improve
Alain Afflelou is under investigation by the French tax authorities, which are claiming payment of some €34 million in back taxes related to the results of an international trading company of the country's largest franchising group in the sector, which is registered in Luxembourg. Like some other purchasing organizations in ...
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A French magazine, Entreprendre, has named Alain Afflelou as ?Entrepreneur...
A French magazine, Entreprendre, has named Alain Afflelou as ?Entrepreneur of the Year?
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Gerber Coburn puts out an affordable and robust finer/polisher, the...
Gerber Coburn puts out an affordable and robust finer/polisher, the CMX50, with two spindles that can process all kinds of materials
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Agatha Ruiz de la Prada has a new eyewear collection...
Agatha Ruiz de la Prada has a new eyewear collection named after her that will be manufactured and distributed by Optim
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Rudy Project has agreed to sponsor the Australian Open as...
Rudy Project has agreed to sponsor the Australian Open as the official eyewear for the event for three more years
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F. Michael Ball has been promoted as president of Allergan...
F. Michael Ball has been promoted as president of Allergan after 10 years with the company. As executive vice president and president of its pharmaceuticals division since 2003, he has been instrumental in the reorganization of global commercial operations. David E.I. Pyott remains as chairman and chief executive of the ...
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Allison is the new licensee for Iceberg eyewear, replacing Visibilia...
Allison is the new licensee for Iceberg eyewear, replacing Visibilia since the beginning of 2006. The 5-year renewable license between Gilmar, the brand's owner, and the Italian manufacturer, will start with the men's and women's collections to be showcased at this year's MIDO for the prescription models and at SILMO ...
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AMA, the German buying group, has obtained a license from...
AMA, the German buying group, has obtained a license from Karl Lagerfeld, the well-known German fashion designer, for distribution in its 1,500 affiliated optical stores, starting last Jan. 1. The Karl Lagerfeld line will be added to another exclusive brand of AMA, St. Moritz. AMA has also signed a deal ...
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PPG Industries recently announced that sales of lenses made with...
PPG Industries recently announced that sales of lenses made with Trivex have reached one million pairs in Europe and that this new material now holds a 3 percent world market share. Companies that are using Trivex to manufacture ophthalmic lenses include: Augen Optics, Hoya Vision Care, Thai Optical Group, Younger ...
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British Buying Group Appoints A Development Manager
Philip Mullins recently joined National Eyecare Group, the UK's largest purchasing organization for independent opticians, in the new role of business development manager. The goal is to develop new programs and services for the group's 900-odd members, which have more than 1,100 stores, representing about 10 percent of the highly ...
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A free symposium titled ?Women Ask for Directions? will take...
A free symposium titled ?Women Ask for Directions? will take place at the Vision Expo East fair in New York in March, focusing on key issues facing women in the optical industry. It is being organized by the Vision Council of America (VCA). The dynamic U.S. association, which is trying ...
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Shamir Insight is switching to an automated casting system at...
Shamir Insight is switching to an automated casting system at its production facility in Israel for lenses made from PPG's CR-39 monomer
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While opening a store in Bangkok for his fancy glasses,...
While opening a store in Bangkok for his fancy glasses, Alain Mikli has lunched a highly creative and expensive collection of men's shirts under his own name for the Fall/Winter 2006/07 season. Called ?Ma Première Chemise,? (=My First Shirt), the line features an ingenious buttoning system that allows the wearer ...
