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ArticleThe trade-off game behind Ray-Ban Stories
On its website, Meta has laid out the two-year saga behind the development of its joint-product with the EssilorLuxottica brand Ray-Ban: the Stories series of smart glasses. One of the concerns was privacy, which for Meta amounts to protection – for wearers and the people around them – against unwanted ...
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ArticleKering Eyewear speeds over the €1bn mark
Kering Eyewear has reported €1,115 million in annual revenue for 2022, up by 59.7 percent from 2021, with an almost equal contribution to growth from acquisitions and existing portfolio. In the last two years, the subsidiary of French luxury group Kering has more than doubled its topline figure. In more ...
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ArticleACEP looks abroad for growth
ACEP, the French-based supplier of digital tools and services for optical shops, is accelerating its international development with the opening of a subsidiary in Japan on Jan. 1, Jean-Philippe Sayag, CEO of the company told us in an interview. The company has been operating branches in the U.S. and Spain, ...
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ArticleEssilux to launch new AI-powered Varilux lens
After it skipped the 2022 edition of MIDO, EssilorLuxottica came back in force to the Milan trade show this year with a stand surface of over 1,000 square meters to present its range of frames, lenses and instruments. The group presented, for the first time at the show and in ...
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ArticleNew top management structure to steer MAGRABi's expansion plans
MAGRABi Retail Group, a leading eyewear retailer in the Middle East, has reshuffled its top management structure with several key appointments at the start of 2023, after the company strongly accelerated its investments in both network expansion and vertical integration in the course of last year. Effective Jan. 1, Amin ...
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ArticleUnderstanding the GPSR and what it could mean for EU businesses
Have you heard of the GPSR and do you know what it means for businesses in the EU? We explain the main points every brand needs to know
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ArticleMIDO bounces back strongly
MIDO officials expressed their strong satisfaction, tainted with a sense of relief, after the 51st edition of the international eyewear show closed its doors on Feb. 6 with all key metrics on green. The event organizers have announced that 35,000 industry professionals from over 140 countries visited the show this ...
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ArticleHOYA announces mixed Q3 results, global partnership with NIDEK
HOYA CORPORATION revenue inched up by 1 percent year-on-year in Q3 to 173.5 billion Japanese yen (€1.2 bn) as the continuous – albeit slowing – growth in its Life Care segment’s sales and currency tailwinds offset a sharp decline in the IT division business. At constant rates, the group’s topline ...
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ArticleANFAO turns focus to costs after exports jumped in 2022
Just a few days ahead of the 2023 edition of MIDO, Italian eyewear industry association ANFAO released preliminary data for 2022 that broadly confirmed the contrasted picture given last December, between booming exports and a flattish domestic market. Production value of Italian eyewear increased by 24.0 percent year-on-year to €5,171 ...
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ArticleInspecs 2022 revenue up 9%
Inspecs Group has just released a trading update for its business in 2022, in line with the previous update announced in October and showing signs of improvements that sent the group’s share price up by more than 40 percent on the day of the announcement. At 94 pence now, the ...
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ArticleGood 2022 results for Safilo, but Longarone plant’s future uncertain
While showing positive results for 2022, with increases in both revenue and margins, the statement released by the Safilo Group yesterday (Jan. 26) raised concerns about the future of its Longarone plant and its 500 employees. In the opening remarks of its financial announcement, Safilo said that its board of ...
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ArticleBrits cutting back on eye care, surveys show
A new survey by Specsavers among 2,000 U.K. adults showed that, while 73 percent of respondents wanted to prioritize their health in 2023, 11 percent declared that this would be impossible due to the cost-of-living crisis. Researchers also found that eye care was one of the first healthcare priorities to ...
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ArticleJohnson & Johnson Q4 CL sales grow 7.7% at constant fx
Johnson & Johnson’s global sales of contact lenses in the fourth quarter decreased by a reported 0.2 percent to $831 million as currency headwinds hit the top line. Sales at constant currency rates instead jumped by 7.7 percent, as the company highlighted the strong performance of its Acuvue Oasys 1-Day ...
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ArticleSynsam details roadmap to mid-term financial targets
During its Capital Markets Day held on Jan. 30 at one of its flaship store in Stockholm, Nordics’ leading retailer Synsam Group confirmed its medium-term financial targets and disclosed more information and figures on how it would achieve them. The presentation took place as the group’s share price lost about ...
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ArticleTop management changes at Rodenstock Group
The Rodenstock Group successively announced in the last two days the appointment of a new CEO for the group and of a new general manager for its optoVision subsidiary. Following the decision of current CEO Anders Hedegaard to step down, Rodenstock has appointed Marcus Desimoni to replace him, effective Feb. ...
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ArticleInnovative Eyewear and ABG partner in smart audio glasses
Innovative Eyewear, a U.S.-based company specializing on smart eyewear with embedded audio technology, announced at the end of 2022 the signature of a new multi-year global license agreement to develop and market smart glasses under the Eddie Bauer brand. The first range is slated for launch in the course of ...
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ArticleTCL and others unveil new smart glasses at the CES show
According to research company Market Research Future, the market for AR and VR smart glasses is expected to grow at an annual average of 13.5 percent until 2030, reaching $26 billion for the 2022-2030 period. Aside from tech giants such as Google, Apple, and Meta, which recently acquired 3D-printed ophthalmic ...
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ArticleGerman optical associations release new market data at opti
Ahead of the opening of the opti trade show in Munich today, industry association Spectaris announced that, based on its preliminary calculations, sales from German-based suppliers of ophthalmic optics and consumer optics reached a total of €4.87 million for 2022, up by 2.5 percent from 2021. The growth was entirely ...
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ArticleProduct carbon footprint, circularity and 3D print on Ace & Tate sustainability agenda
Dutch-based eyewear brand Ace & Tate will launch its first 3D-printed collection with a short range of sports glasses, we learned in an interview with Femme van Gils, sustainability manager, and Sean Peron, vice president of marketing and brand. The collection will be based on Arkema’s Polyamide 11, a polymer ...
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ArticleThe Vision Council sees a much bigger but flat U.S. market for 2022
The Vision Council has changed its view of the U.S. optical industry, after a revamping of its statistical methods, and has just published a retitled annual survey: the Market inSights Report. Available free of charge to the Council’s members, the report estimates data for product categories, market divisions and the ...
