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New anti-Covid measures in Germany
In concert with the governments of the individual Länder, the federal government of Germany has ordered the lockdown of all the brick-and-mortar stores that sell non-essential products, starting on Wednesday, Dec. 16. Opticians are mentioned among the few exceptions. The new restrictions came after a spike in new contaminations ...
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Shopko Optical reopening throughout May
The U.S. optical retailer and eyecare provider Shopko Optical will be reopening its 80 plus locations throughout the month of May. The chain had decided to temporarily close its centers from mid-March because of the Covid-19 pandemic. In the wake of the pandemic, and the changes it has ...
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New York City lockdown extended to June 13
Andrew Cuomo , governor of the state of New York, has extended to June 13 the lockdown of most of the state, including the city of New York, where more than 20,000 residents have died due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The lockdown was due to expire today. Only five ...
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ClearVision issues e-book on business reopening
ClearVision Optical of Hauppauge, New York, has released a digital guidebook providing eyecare professionals with information on how to successfully reopen their businesses after the Covid-19 lockdown. The e-book is available on the company’s website, in the well-documented Covid-19 resource center, and is composed of four sections: Plan, Prepare, ...
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Shamir France donates protective eyewear to health agencies
Shamir ’s French unit gave 1,600 pairs of safety eyewear to regional health agencies located in the Paris region and in the east of France. The donated items are three models with an anti-fog treatment from the Eyres collection. They are going to the staff of nursing homes and ...
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Vuarnet donates 20% of April revenues to healthcare personnel
Vuarnet will donate 20% of its April revenues to healthcare personnel involved in the struggle against Covid-19. The French sunglass manufacturer will give the money to the fund All United Against the Virus, which brings together the Pasteur Institute , the Fondation de France and the Assistance-Publique Hôpitaux de ...
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Safilo creates an umbrella initiative for all its Covid-19 response actions
Safilo has launched #united4eyecare , a global corporate initiative that embraces all the actions taken by the company in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Optical Express postpones Eyes on the World awards
Because of the Covid-19 pandemic , Optical Express has postponed its Eyes on the World environmental awards, which were due to take place in November coinciding with the United Nations’ climate change conference in Glasgow. The British retail chain will announce a new date for the awards in ...
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Mirage produces and gives away protective glasses
Mirage, an eyewear company based north of Milan , has converted part of its production to manufacture protective glasses. It has also given more than 1,000 of them away to various non-profit and assistance organizations during the Covid-19 crisis, 800 of which were supplied to the Milan chapter of the ...
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Japan extends state of emergency to May 31
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that the country’s state of emergency will be extended to May 31, after government officials judged that it was premature to lift it given the progression of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country. The state of emergency was gradually introduced nationwide from April ...
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National Vision plans to open all stores by early June
National Vision Holdings , one the largest optical retailers in the U.S., aims to have reopened all its physical stores by early June. They were closed following a nationwide lockdown applied in certain states to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.
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ArticleAnalysis: Mandatory and voluntary actions in Europe to stem Covid-19
Many companies have had to close their retail and manufacturing activities in Europe over the past few weeks because of national lockdowns intended to mitigate the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Many others, especially in the ophthalmic optics sector, have shut down voluntarily, as a service to their communities. ...
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Germany faces up to the disease differently
Governments around the world have stepped up restrictions on the movement of their citizens to reduce the spread of Covid-19, which, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) , has infected over 780,000 and killed more than 37,000 people globally. As of March 31, more than 67,000 cases were ...
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Eyewear stores are temporarily closed in Russia
The Russian government is no longer recognizing corrective eyewear as essential products that should not fall under a nationwide retail lockdown. It has ordered all eyewear stores in the country to be shut down at least for one week from Monday, March 30. While they were excluded from a ...
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EssilorLuxottica starts to cope with Covid-19
On March 27, EssilorLuxottica said it had stopped a share buyback program that it had announced only 10 days earlier, due to the growing uncertainty being created by the rapidly expanding Covid-19 pandemic. It’s one of the measures that the group is implementing to improve its liquidity in view of ...
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GrandVision issues profit warning due to Covid-19
Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, GrandVision (GV) no longer expects this year to achieve its medium-term objectives of an annual growth of at least 5 percent in revenue and Ebita. It noted that the business environment remains uncertain but the company is confident that it will complete its takeover by ...
