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LensCrafters has appointed Giorgio Candido as its new general manager...
LensCrafters has appointed Giorgio Candido as its new general manager with immediate effect. He replaces Pete Bridgman, who joined the brand in February 2016 to implement its expansion and digital transformation. According to reports in VMail, Bridgman will be leaving the company, after a period in which he will work ...
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Rossana Loperfido has been appointed country manager for Luxottica Italia....
Rossana Loperfido has been appointed country manager for Luxottica Italia. Now aged 40, she joined Luxottica as finance director in 2016, after ten years with Hilti Italia.
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Galifa, the Swiss contact lens manufacturer, appointed Joachim Penn to...
Galifa, the Swiss contact lens manufacturer, appointed Joachim Penn to the position of chief marketing officer and as a new member of the management board at the beginning of this month. He will be responsible for Galifa's sales and marketing in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. Penn has worked since 2012 ...
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Jasper D'Hooge has been appointed joint chief executive at Komono,...
Jasper D'Hooge has been appointed joint chief executive at Komono, the Belgian supplier of eyewear and watches. Aged 34 and previously a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group, he will share the leadership of the Antwerp-based company with Maes Raf. Founded in 2009, Komono launched its first optical glasses collection ...
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The Design Eyewear Group has bought the assets of Kilsgaard...
The Design Eyewear Group has bought the assets of Kilsgaard Eyewear, a Danish company founded by Jacob Kilsgaard, who will continue to be involved as a consultant. His company was founded in 2008, but its products have been sold for the most part in the Scandinavian market due to its ...
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Enrico Ferrario is back at the helm of Cecop Italia,...
Enrico Ferrario is back at the helm of Cecop Italia, after being replaced just two years ago by Paolo Schieppati at the head of the Italian subsidiary of the international buying group. Aged 60, Ferrario had other responsibilities within Cecop during this two-year period. In the ‘nineties he had a ...
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Frank Rescigna, a former president of Viva International, has been...
Frank Rescigna, a former president of Viva International, has been appointed senior vice president of sales at Wiley X
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Luxottica is believed to be close to selling its former...
Luxottica is believed to be close to selling its former headquarters in Milan to a U.S.-based fund, Hines, for about €100 million, according to media reports. Luxottica moved out of its former offices in via Cantù, which is a stone throw away from the city's cathedral, in the summer of 2014 ...
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Brillen-Profi, a Germany voluntary group of independent opticians, has enrolled...
Brillen-Profi, a Germany voluntary group of independent opticians, has enrolled Jürgen Maderer as a new marketing consultant. The 56-year old optician has worked as the country manager for Germany, Austria and Switzerland at Marcolin for the past 15 years. He began his career in a traditional optical store. Maderer will ...
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A group of investors led by an Italian company, Italglobal...
A group of investors led by an Italian company, Italglobal Partners, has bought a 60 percent stake in Ideal, an Italian producer of eyewear components. The stake was acquired through a reserved capital increase, estimated at €2 million by an Italian financial daily, MF. Founded in 1983 in Quero, near ...
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Mister Spex, Germany's biggest online eyewear retailer, acquired a majority...
Mister Spex, Germany's biggest online eyewear retailer, acquired a majority stake in Lensstore, the Swedish online retailer, to speed up its international expansion in 2012. Now, after four years of cooperation, both companies have decided to go for a uniform brand presence under the Mister Spex umbrella. Lensstore sells contact ...
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Hilco Vision has announced the acquisition of Croakies, an American...
Hilco Vision has announced the acquisition of Croakies, an American specialist in rather cool eyewear retainers and related accessories for outdoor lifestyle pursuits. Hilco, which has made many other acquisitions lately, will keep Croakies' manufacturing unit in Bozeman, Montana, and will try to expand the brand's presence internationally. The details ...
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Victor Gros Distribution, the French company behind the Traction Productions...
Victor Gros Distribution, the French company behind the Traction Productions brand, has taken over Fidela, another eyewear company with its own production unit in the Jura region. A new entity named Fidela 1820 will be created, in reference to the year the company was founded. Fidela had revenues of about ...
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See Concept, a French eyewear brand, has changed its name...
See Concept, a French eyewear brand, has changed its name and is now called Izipizi. See Concept was launched in 2010 by Charles Brun, Xavier Aguera and Quentin Couturier. The new playful name is meant to convey a dynamic and innovative image for the brand. Izipizi realizes 70 percent of ...
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Zeiss is investing €1 million on innovative research projects in...
Zeiss is investing €1 million on innovative research projects in the fields of biomedical research, medical diagnostics, visualization and optical metrology at EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
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Baljo has sold its contact lens operation, 2M Contact Europtic,...
Baljo has sold its contact lens operation, 2M Contact Europtic, to Dencott, the leading maker and distributor of ocular prothetic products in France, which aims to strengthen its position in the market for made-to-measure contact lenses. In addition to 2M, Dencott is acquiring the distribution rights for Rose K contact ...
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Jeffrey and Patricia Cole have donated $31 million to the...
Jeffrey and Patricia Cole have donated $31 million to the Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute. The donation will help the institute expand its surgical and clinical capabilities and enhance its research mission. The Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute employs more than 100 professional staff physicians and researchers who diagnose, treat, ...
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Luxottica is said to be in line to acquire Oticas...
Luxottica is said to be in line to acquire Oticas Carol, one of the major optical retail chains in Brazil. Luxottica, which has been busy developing its Sunglass Hut chain in the country, already five years ago bought Tecnol, a major eyewear manufacturer in the country, which held a 50 ...
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Optoplast has acquired JB Fashions, a small British supplier of...
Optoplast has acquired JB Fashions, a small British supplier of eyewear frames and accessories that has also a good lens edging laboratory. Optoplast, which is also working on a new acquisition, will expand JB Fashions' sales team in the U.K. and internationally.
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Hilco Vision has made one more acquisition, taking over Jonathan...
Hilco Vision has made one more acquisition, taking over Jonathan Paul Eyewear and its Jonathan Paul Fitover brand. Regarded as a pioneer in fitover sunwear, it was founded in Texas in 1993 by Paul Stables, who will remain with the company. Hilco plans to leverage its increasingly global footprint to ...
