All Corporate articles – Page 17
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Vision Ease will be moving the production of polycarbonate lenses,...
Vision Ease will be moving the production of polycarbonate lenses, which represent a large portion of its business, from its plant in Ramsey, Minnesota to its Jakarta, Indonesia factory, according to its parent company, Hoya Corp., and as reported by VMail. The transition will be completed over time in about ...
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Italy's Pramaor has launched an app for its optical retail...
Italy's Pramaor has launched an app for its optical retail clients, Blackfin Airstream Clients, to provide them with product information and share it with end consumers. It also gives the possibility to personalize the product before it's ordered. A Blackfin Academy section contains snippets of information to keep retailers informed ...
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We have been patiently waiting for China's anti-trust authorities to...
We have been patiently waiting for China's anti-trust authorities to bless the planned merger between Essilor and Luxottica in order to make it happen, but nothing has been announced yet on this score. Nevertheless, Essilor says in a news release that its board of directors had decided to convene the ...
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Luxottica is raising the annual bonus that it is giving...
Luxottica is raising the annual bonus that it is giving to its 8,800 employees to a record level in July, ahead of its merger with Essilor International. All the employees will get a basic gross bonus of €2,200, or about €200 more than in 2017. The bonus will be increased ...
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Modo Eyewear announced that Rebecca Giefer, chief operating officer, has...
Modo Eyewear announced that Rebecca Giefer, chief operating officer, has been made a financial partner in the company, based in New York. Giefer joined Modo 14 years ago as a temporary customer service employee, shortly after her university graduation. She then held various positions in customer service, sales and operations. ...
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Zeiss held the groundbreaking ceremony last month for its new...
Zeiss held the groundbreaking ceremony last month for its new Zeiss Innovation Hub @ Kit in the north campus of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Besides expanding its collaboration with KIT, which has been in place for more than ten years, giving bright graduates room to develop new ideas ...
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Contact Lens Precision Laboratories (CLPL), a British contact lens maker,...
Contact Lens Precision Laboratories (CLPL), a British contact lens maker, has been taken over by the Japanese contact lens company SEED. CLPL, which has been in the U.K. market for 50 years, make specialty and custom lenses under the UltraVision and Kerasoft brands with business in 40 countries, as reported ...
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Hans Anders, the Dutch low-cost optical retailer has divested its...
Hans Anders, the Dutch low-cost optical retailer has divested its French branch after twelve years of business in the country. Its 59 stores, including 33 franchises, have been taken over by Acuitis, the French optical chain that was established in 2010 by Daniel Abittan, one of GrandVision's founders. According to ...
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After its acquisition of the Dutch B&F Group last year...
After its acquisition of the Dutch B&F Group last year (see Eyewear Intelligence Vol. 18 n°1), Ocuco, the Irish eyecare software company, has also acquired OptiCommerce, a provider of websites and e-commerce solutions for the independent U.K. opticians with about 170 customers and £500,000 (€568,882-$684,248) worth of annual revenues. The company, ...
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According to the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Luxottica will...
According to the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Luxottica will be opening a “digital hub” in Milan in 2019. The site would host a showroom and some manufacturing activity. The digital hub would be located at 35, via Tortona, in an area that has become one of the hearts of ...
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Warby Parker, the American eyewear retailer has just raised $75...
Warby Parker, the American eyewear retailer has just raised $75 million in a new financing round from T. Rowe Price, a mutual fund, and other investors. Launched eight years ago by a group of students as a pure online player, the company had already raised $100 million in 2015, which ...
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DAC Vision is changing its name to DAC Technologies as...
DAC Vision is changing its name to DAC Technologies as the U.S. company broadens its product portfolio to provide full solutions for ophthalmic lens manufacturing. The newly named company is being led by Joe Ciochetto, a former executive of Essilor of America, replacing David Meisenheimer, who has been running the ...
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Pramaor has launched an innovative digital platform and a high-tech...
Pramaor has launched an innovative digital platform and a high-tech app to create a community around its award-winning Blackfin brand to interact with its agents and clients. Pramaor broke last year the target of €10 million in sales last year. They grew by 30 percent to €10.1 million, with increases ...
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Frameri, an American startup known for its interchangeable lenses and...
Frameri, an American startup known for its interchangeable lenses and frames, has closed down. The co-founders of the Cincinnati-based firm, Konrad Billetz and Kevin Habich, started the company in 2012 but famously turned down an offer from an investor on the television program “Shark Tank,” opting for a partnership in ...
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Zeiss has formed a 50-50 joint venture with Deutsche Telekom,...
Zeiss has formed a 50-50 joint venture with Deutsche Telekom, called Tooz Technologies, to pursue its previously reported project to develop “smart glasses” (Eyewear Intelligence Vol. 18 N° 4+5 of March 29, 2017). They can be integrated into normal prescription frames and used for sport, shopping, surgery, logistics or other ...
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Optica's 16 specialty eyewear boutiques have been sold by Luxury...
Optica's 16 specialty eyewear boutiques have been sold by Luxury Optical Holdings (LOH) to Emerging Vision (EVI), according to reports by VMail. The purchase price for the transaction, which took effect on Feb. 16, has remained undisclosed. Optica operates ten stores in Las Vegas as well as three locations in ...
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Luxexcel, the Belgium-based company that has developed a 3D printing...
Luxexcel, the Belgium-based company that has developed a 3D printing technology for the production of ophthalmic lenses has announced the creation of its U.S. headquarters in Alpharetta, GA, near Atlanta. The European company that started on this project in 2009 and raised close to €15 million last year from various ...
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Oculis, a Swiss biotech company, has raised nearly $21 million...
Oculis, a Swiss biotech company, has raised nearly $21 million in a Series B financing round backed by investors including Novartis, Bay City Capital and Pivotal bioVenture Partners. Existing investors, including Silfurberg and Brunnur Ventures, have also participated in the round, according to Oculis' announcement. In addition, two former executives ...
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Hoya Corp. has decided to grant 101 share subscription rights...
Hoya Corp. has decided to grant 101 share subscription rights to key directors and employees of the group, allowing them to exercise options to buy 20,400 shares of the company at special conditions between next Oct. 1 and Sept. 30, 2027. The total amount that is subject to be turned ...
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Opal, the French eyewear company mostly known for its kids...
Opal, the French eyewear company mostly known for its kids eyewear brand licenses – Star Wars, Hello Kitty, Tartine et Chocolat among others - has taken a sharehodling in another French company, Visioptis. Created in 1979 and based in the south of France, Visioptis has been developing optical and sunglass ...
