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With its acquisition of nine Black & Lizars shops, the...
With its acquisition of nine Black & Lizars shops, the Duncan and Todd Group has become the largest retail optical chain in Scotland. The deal increases the number of shops by about a third, expanding the staff by about 56 and adding seven locations, notably in the towns of Perth ...
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Allan Comploier has re-established on a new continent the optical...
Allan Comploier has re-established on a new continent the optical firm of his great-great-grandfather, the Prussian engineer August Emil Julius Kohls. The original Kohls, which was founded in 1869 and opened its first laboratory in 1914 in Berlin, ceased production after the First World War. The new one, Óticas Kohls, ...
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Cercle Optique, a ten-year-old French voluntary group of opticians, has...
Cercle Optique, a ten-year-old French voluntary group of opticians, has launched a new investment vehicle to support new initiatives in the area of artificial intelligence, sustainability and innovative store design. The group is inviting its retail members and any other opticians to take part in investments worth €250,000 in four ...
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Frédéric Pons, a former manager for Tag Heuer and Red...
Frédéric Pons, a former manager for Tag Heuer and Red Bull Racing eyewear, is launching Air_Art Eyewear, a brand of luxury glasses and sunglasses for men, inspired by the aeronautics world and technology. The frames incorporate high-end materials such as 21K gold, platinum, ruthenium, Italian acetate and the Diamondblack technology, ...
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After the spin-off of Alcon was approved by Novartis shareholders...
After the spin-off of Alcon was approved by Novartis shareholders with 99.8 percent of the votes at the general annual meeting on Feb. 28, the pharmaceutical giant announced that it had received all necessary authorizations to move ahead. The transaction is now expected to be completed on April 9, 2019, ...
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Luxexcel, the innovative Dutch producer of 3D-printed ophthalmic lenses, said...
Luxexcel, the innovative Dutch producer of 3D-printed ophthalmic lenses, said that its proprietary 3D printing technology has advanced from the pilot phase to printing commercial lenses. Over the past 12 months, 5,000 lenses have been printed on its VisionPlatform equipment installed in the U.S. and Europe.
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Topcon Healthcare Solutions of Oakland, New Jersey, which makes ophthalmic...
Topcon Healthcare Solutions of Oakland, New Jersey, which makes ophthalmic devices and related software, has forged a global partnership with Oculo of Melbourne, Australia, maker of an eponymous, cloud-based network through which health care professionals can share clinical files, referrals and other correspondence. The two companies will combine their respective platforms, ...
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More than 45,000 Essilor employees in 58 countries, or about...
More than 45,000 Essilor employees in 58 countries, or about 65 percent of the company's total staff, owned shares in the newly formed EssilorLuxottica group at the end of last year. Together, they now own a little more than 4 percent of its equity. This compares with about 35,000 employees ...
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CooperVision has acquired Blanchard Contact Lenses, a fast-growing scleral lens...
CooperVision has acquired Blanchard Contact Lenses, a fast-growing scleral lens company. Founded in 1986, Blanchard has operations in Sherbrooke, Quebec, and Manchester, New Hampshire, employing about 70 people. It will retain its name and continue to operate as a separate organization. Blanchard, thanks to a network of distributors, claims to ...
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Eight months after announcing the deal, the Japanese pharmaceutical group...
Eight months after announcing the deal, the Japanese pharmaceutical group Takeda has completed the $62 billion acquisition of its Irish-based peer, Shire, but it's not sure whether it will retain its eyecare business. As it is, the combined group has annual sales of over $30 billion. Takeda said that its ...
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Shopko, a big American retail chain with many optical retail...
Shopko, a big American retail chain with many optical retail chains, has announced a voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition, accompanied by restructuring plans
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Another big American retail chain, Sears, barely avoided liquidation as...
Another big American retail chain, Sears, barely avoided liquidation as a hedge fund, ESL Investments, came to its rescue
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J.P. Morgan Asset Management has made a “substantial” equity investment...
J.P. Morgan Asset Management has made a “substantial” equity investment in the Acuity Eyecare Group to help the U.S. retailer to build up its network to 200-300 locations over a three- to five-year period through the acquisition of regional eyecare firms and optometry practices. For its part, Acuity recently announced ...
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Leonardo Del Vecchio, the founder of Luxottica who is now...
Leonardo Del Vecchio, the founder of Luxottica who is now the main shareholder in EssilorLuxottica and its executive chairman, continues to increase his stake in Generali as part of his policy of diversifying his investments. His stake in the Italian insurance group now stands at 4.34 percent.
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Luxottica is financing the regeneration of a park near its...
Luxottica is financing the regeneration of a park near its head office in Milan. The park is located in Piazzale Cadorna, opposite the Cadorna railway station, which is the terminus of the rail shuttle to Malpensa airport. Work is already underway and is expected to be over in about a ...
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As of Dec. 12, Luxottica's shareholdings had tendered 93.30 percent...
As of Dec. 12, Luxottica's shareholdings had tendered 93.30 percent of their shares to the newly formed EssilorLuxottica group, triggering a squeeze-out procedure under which it will purchase all the remaining shares by Jan. 18, 2019 at the latest. Luxottica's de-listing from the Italian stock exchange is set to become ...
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Safilo is planning to upgrade in 2021 its U.S. distribution...
Safilo is planning to upgrade in 2021 its U.S. distribution center in Denver, Colorado with the automation of the “order-to-cash” procedure, a transition that caused significant disruption at the Padua center at the beginning of 2017. Safilo pointed out that the Denver site is less automated than Padua, reducing execution ...
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Hans Anders has acquired the Eyes + More chain of...
Hans Anders has acquired the Eyes + More chain of optical retail stores for €60 million, expanding its reach in the value-for -money segment in Northern Europe. Eyes + More has 170 stores of which 119 are located in Germany, 33 in the Netherlands, 10 in Belgium and 8 in ...
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L Catterton Asia and Mitsui & Co. Principal Investments (MCPI)...
L Catterton Asia and Mitsui & Co. Principal Investments (MCPI) have jointly acquired a stake in Owndays, a Japanese eyewear manufacturer and retailer with operations all over the Asia-Pacific region. The investment fund is joining other shareholders including members of Owndays' management led by Shuji Tanaka, who took over the ...
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EssilorLuxottica's executive chairman, Leonardo Del Vecchio, said that he calls...
EssilorLuxottica's executive chairman, Leonardo Del Vecchio, said that he calls the new company Essilux to shorten its name. An international trade magazine, Optical World, has been calling it Luxilor, even before its final creation. We like Del Vecchio's abbreviation. Essilor and Luxottica merged on Oct. 1.
