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Marchon Boosts Its Management Team And Its Own Output In China
Marchon Eyewear continues to boost its management and to fine-tune internal processes. Mark Ginsberg, who previously worked at Fossil for Armani, Burberry and other designer watches, has recently joined Marchon's team in the new position of managing director of designer brands. Another company executive, David Chute, will be in charge ...
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Menrad Moves More Output To China
Menrad has closed the tool room of its manufacturing facility in Malta, whose staff had been reduced to about 28 people, and transferred most of the equipment to its 6-year-old factory in China, whose production is being gradually expanded as the quality level continues to improve to satisfactory levels. The ...
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Yet Fielmann Continues To Do Well
The overall market situation in Germany is apparently a bit better with the inclusion of Fielmann, the country's largest optical retailer, which now claims increased national market shares of about 43 percent in volume and 23 percent in value, followed at a distance by Apollo-Optik, whose market share in value ...
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Trivex Drills Its Way Into Europe
Younger, one of the three companies that are using PPG Industries' new Trivex material for lenses, is beginning to introduce it in Europe gradually. The US company, which manufactures semi-finished blanks in the new material under the Trilogy brand name at its large facility in California, has signed up two ...
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Viva International Forms A Joint Venture In Scandinavia With Ego
EGO claims to be the largest supplier of ophthalmic eyewear frames in the region, excluding sunglasses, ahead of Scaga, Safilo and Luxottica. Established since 1961, it will have total sales of about 100 million Swedish kronor (e11m-$11.1m) this year, of which 80 percent are limited to the Nordic countries. The ...
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Safilo Reinforces Its Links With Gucci Group Through Two New Licenses
Safilo and Gucci Group announced today that they had signed new sunglass licensing deals for two brands recently acquired by the Florentine fashion house. Both lines will be developed very rapidly. One will become available as from next February under the name of Bottega Veneta, an Italian manufacturer of leathergoods ...
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Rodenstock Launches Some New Merchandising Techniques
Rodenstock reports strong interest by French retailers in a new package of 4 high-end spectacles being merchandised as ?Must" products for demanding customers who look for turnkey solutions and the best possible characteristics in frames and lenses. The package comprises 4 frames with 1.74-index ultrathin organic lenses using Rodenstock's Individual ...
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Alain Afflelou Launches "Ephemeral" Contact Lenses At One Euro A Piece
All the 500-odd optical shops owned or franchised by Alain Afflelou in France have started to carry a private label collection of one-day disposable soft contact lenses, manufactured by Optical Sciences with its cost-effective moulded edge technology and retailing for a maximum of only e1 per pair. As shown by ...
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Airess Gets The Dunhill License
While negotiating the possible sale of its Solistyle mass market operations, the French company has signed a global licensing agreement for the Alfred Dunhill eyewear line, with the exception of Japan, and it's about to set up a sales subsidiary in the UK. Like its other subsidiaries in Germany, Switzerland, ...
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Ciba Vision Attacks Ocular Sciences, Whose Results Are Improving
Shortly after settling a long-standing patent dispute over its cosmetic lenses with CooperVision (see previous issue), CIBA Vision has now filed a patent infringement suit against Ocular Sciences in a federal court in California in behalf of its Wesley Jessen subsidiary. OC says it will vigorously defend itself against the ...
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The Silmo Fair Was Well Attended
At 37,716, the total number of visitors to the latest session of the SILMO fair marked increases of 6.7 percent from the level of October 2000 and 28.5 percent from that of October 2001, when many buyers decided to stay at home in the aftermath of the tragic Sept. 11 ...
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Berthet-bondet Is In Receivership
The family of Pierre Berthet-Bondet, which owns 80 percent of the French company, is looking for one or more new strategic partners to take over all or part of its business, which is divided into two different segments. Berthet-Bondet is one of France's leading suppliers of sunglasses for the mass ...
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Boots Opticians Improves Sales
Boots' revenues from its Boots Opticians stores and from its growing network of 8 LASIK clinics rose by 12.4 percent in the 6 months ended Sept. 30, with an 8.8 percent boost on a comparable basis. Their suddenly improved performance contributed to a 22.1 percent sales increase to £130.4 million ...
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Bouvret Goes Into Liquidation
The number of manufacturers of eyeglass frames in the Jura region of France has fallen from more than 70 to only about 15 over the last 20 years, and it continues to decline. A medium-sized company who had some nice fashion licenses, Bouvret, is now being shut down, reportedly after ...
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Vision-ease Gets Iso Certification But Suffers An Operating Loss
Vision-Ease Lens, the optical products division of BMC Industries, reports a negative operating margin of 0.5 percent for the the 3rd quarter ended Sept. 30, as compared to a positive margin of 6.7 percent in the same period a year ago, as the division's sales declined by 24 percent to ...
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Rodenstock Changes Status
Randolf Rodenstock and his family have put up a large 6-digit amount of equity capital to transform their family-owned company from a KG with personal liability into a GmbH with limited liability. The move follows the divestiture of several non-core operations in the last few years, notably in the machinery ...
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De Rigo's Reorganization Slows Down Its Growth
The sale last June of the group's interest in Ranieri, its distribution subsidiary for Argentina, weighed negatively on the group's revenues for the first 9 months of 2002, as Ranieri represented some 3.5 percent of DR's wholesale & manufacturing revenues. Due to the difficult UK market and to changes in ...
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Indo Forms Italian Subsidiary, Exchanges Services With L'amy, Viva And De Rigo
Indo, Spain's largest eyewear manufacturer, has been using its strength on its home market to negotiate reciprocal agreements with major players in other markets. De Rigo is distributing in Italy Indo's licensed brand of children's eyewear, Chupa Chups, while Indo will distribute Givenchy and Sting in Spain. Similarly, L'Amy ...
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Fedon Recovers And Hopes To End The Year On An Even Keel
After the 22 percent drop in turnover in the first quarter, the outlook looks a little brighter for the world's leading eyewear case producer. By the end of the first half Fedon's sales decline had been reduced to 18 percent, and third quarter sales of e12.74 million signaled a 7 ...
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Marcolin Improves Results, Enters Japan
The Marcolin Group's pre-tax profit more than doubled to e3,309,000 in the 9-month period ended Sept. 30, as compared to e1,426,000 in the same period a year ago, thanks in part to higher sales of high-margin products. The licensed lines of D&G Dolce e Gabbana Occhiali and Roberto Cavalli Eyewear ...
