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Jackie Chan Brings Second Collection To Market Through Moulin
Jackie Chan, the Chinese movie star, is lending his name to a broad range of lifestyle products including eyewear, which is being developed and manufactured by Moulin International. The first collection, whose offering preceded the decision to embark on a Jackie Chan brand, hit stores in Asia and Japan in ...
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In a way similar to their British colleagues, the major...
In a way similar to their British colleagues, the major French retail chains, including the integrated retailers and the retail cooperatives, have formed a new association, called Syndicat des Opticiens sous Enseigne (SynOpE), to represent their specific demands. The new splinter group was formed because the members of the French ...
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Sylke Camberlein, a former executive of Nike is the new...
Sylke Camberlein, a former executive of Nike is the new German country manager of Alain Mikli, the highly creative French eyewear designer. Responsible also for Austria, she takes the place of Rosita Koch, who continues as a sales representative. In another recent change of management, Thierry Guyot left as Mikli's ...
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Carl Zeiss is planning to set up a network of...
Carl Zeiss is planning to set up a network of 30-35 optical shops in Hungary that would sell exclusively its own lenses and managed by some of its 150 best clients in the country, who already benefit from quantity discounts. Meanwhile, Raphael Scherer has been appointed as marketing and sales ...
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Sola Completes Its Refinancing
SOLA International has successfully completed a previously announced tender offer that has allowed it to redeem €185.0 million worth of 11 percent bonds, which were going to mature in March of 2008, for a total consideration of about €214.5 million or $252.0 million. The tender was financed in part by ...
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De Rigo Launches Mini Sunglasses, Consolidates European Sales
The new line of MINI branded sunglasses will be developed by De Rigo in close cooperation with the design department responsible for the recently re-styled British icon car as part of a new exclusive 2-year licensing agreement with the BMW Group. It will be sold in each of the 80-plus ...
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Coopervision Raises Its Market Shares
CooperVision claims that its share of the global soft contact lens market, estimated at $3.4 billion annually, has doubled from 5 to over 10 percent over the last 3 years, thanks to organic growth and to the company's takeover of Biocompatibles in March of 2002. In the USA, which represents ...
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Safilo Cuts Costs To Return To Profits
Safilo is cutting costs everywhere to get back to its former levels of profitability and regain the confidence of its creditors after posting a consolidated net loss of €6,350,000 for the 9 months ended last Sept. 30, as compared to the profit of €19,760,000 of the same period of 2002. ...
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As it has done in other countries, Viva International has...
As it has done in other countries, Viva International has formed a joint venture with Ferdinand Menrad, the large German supplier who has been distributing some of its lines over the past couple of years. Run by Hermann Müller-Menrad, the new joint venture, Viva Deutschland, will service accounts in Germany, ...
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Petra Eckhardt, who recently left as managing director of Fossil...
Petra Eckhardt, who recently left as managing director of Fossil Europe, has become the new general secretary of the European Sunglass Association (ESA) on Jan. 1. The German-based executive takes over from Daniel Popesco, who resigned from the position, which he had held since 1999, for personal reasons. Popesco was ...
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The Sun Hing group has obtained the distribution rights for...
The Sun Hing group has obtained the distribution rights for Levi's eyewear in Asia. The Chinese group, which is already the licensed distributor for Celine Dion, Hallmark, Cour Carré and Jill Stuart, reports a 1 percent sales decline for the 6 months ended last Sept. 30 to HK$236.6 million (€23.8m?US$30.5m), ...
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Moulin International is setting up a new global marketing division,...
Moulin International is setting up a new global marketing division, based in California, which is in effect taking over the function previously held by Lucio Lozza, the previous manager of Filos Group who left Moulin to go to Marcolin last September. Reporting to Cary Ma, Moulin's CEO, the new division ...
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Elegance Suffers A Temporary Shrinkage
Elegance International is starting a new factory in Shenzhen, China during the 1st half of this year. It will add new machinery and consolidate the production of two of its 3 existing plants, but with no diversification of the product line and no expansion of capacity at this stage. ...
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Marcolin's sales subsidiary in Germany has stopped marketing the group's...
Marcolin's sales subsidiary in Germany has stopped marketing the group's sports eyewear lines, Cébé and The North Face. Starting last Jan. 1, their distribution in Germany has been taken over by Reichel, a specialist in the market that also sells Frank Bollé's Weps brand of sunglasses, Bula winter headwear and ...
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Oakley is talking to strong retailer partners who may want...
Oakley is talking to strong retailer partners who may want to open O stores in major cities like London, Barcelona or Dubai. The first foreign licensed O stores was opened last Dec. 10 by Oakley's successful Chilean distributor in the Alto Las Condes shopping mall of Santiago do Chile. Aside ...
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Inspecs Buys 20 Stores In The Usa, Licenses Speedo And Cat
Following to a small extent the vertical integration policies of Luxottica or De Rigo, this fast-growing British supplier of ophthalmic frames has bought 20 of the 300 US stores previously run by the bankrupt Vista Optical chain in Arizona, Colorado, Washington state, Oregon and Alaska. Inspecs is renaming these outlets ...
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Lissac And Optic 2000 Become Partners
Optic 2000, the large French buying group, has signed an agreement in principle to cooperate in purchasing and marketing with the Frères Lissac optical retail chain and to develop the present network of 30 Lissac franchised stores throughout France, with the goal of expanding it to 300 doors in 5 ...
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Moulin Raises Money To Make Some More Acquisitions
In a private placement due to be completed on Dec. 8, Moulin International is selling 54 million new shares to at least 6 independent investment firms to raise net proceeds of HK$295 million (€31.5m?US$38.0m). Moulin intends to use HK$236 million to expand its business in the USA, possibly through mergers ...
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Safilo Shifts Metal Frame Production From Austria To Italy
The Traun factory of Carrera Optyl, bought by Safilo in 1997, will be closed gradually between January and May, 1994, leading to the layoff of all its 473 workers, but Safilo has agreed to spend a total of €8.65 million, three times more than the amount required under Austrian law, ...
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Brands Are Not So Important For European Sunglass Wearers
A survey carried out by the European Sunglass Association (ESA) on a sample of 4,988 people in France, Germany, the UK, Spain and Italy found that European consumers are not particularly sensitive to the prestige of well-known sunglass brands. In the latest pan-European survey, only 47 percent of those interviewed ...
