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Menicon has announced that its new multipurpose contact lens manufacturingfacility...
Menicon has announced that its new multipurpose contact lens manufacturingfacility in Emmen, Netherlands is now fully operational. At this new 4,675-square-meter plant, the company will produce made-to-order rigid gas permeable and soft lenses. Research and development teams will be working at the site on new lens designs and new support ...
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The Swiss Eyewear Group (SEG), maker of the INVU collection...
The Swiss Eyewear Group (SEG), maker of the INVU collection of ultra-polarized eyewear, has opened a wholly-owned subsidiary in Italy, located in Varese. Ernesto Scotti, former managing director of Polaroid Eyewear Italy, will be the managing director of SEG Italia. Barbara Cocco is also joining the management team as sales ...
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Lenstore, the online contact lens retailer, has been acquired by...
Lenstore, the online contact lens retailer, has been acquired by GrandVision for an undisclosed amount. Mitesh and Olga Patel, who founded Lenstore in 2008, will remain with the Guernsey-registered business. Lenstore, which offers its customers a same-day delivery service, saw sales grow beyond £5 million (€6.1m-$8.2m) in 2012.
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A new German company, Primus Optik, acquired MDA, a bankrupt German...
A new German company, Primus Optik, acquired MDA, a bankrupt German marketing group for opticians, on Jan. 1 this year. The headquarters of the company remain in Lorch, keeping 18 of the former 22 jobs. The acquisition was implemented through a management-buy-out by Gabi Rothgerber, product development director of the MDA, ...
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Coburn Technologies has announced the construction of a new express...
Coburn Technologies has announced the construction of a new express logistics center at its headquarters in South Windsor, Connecticut, to replace the current distribution warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky. The new facility should provide customers with faster delivery times, improved on-time deliveries and, in some cases, lower overall freight costs, the ...
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For the fourth consecutive year, Zeiss is giving a share...
For the fourth consecutive year, Zeiss is giving a share of profits to all employees under a collectively agreed scheme. Each of them received a bonus of more than €1,000 pre-tax based on the results for the business year ended on Sept. 30.
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Menicon, the contact lens manufacturer from Japan, has opened a...
Menicon, the contact lens manufacturer from Japan, has opened a multi-purpose center for contact lenses in Emmen, the Netherlands, in collaboration with NKL Contactlenzen, Menicon's strategic partner in the Netherlands, in which it has a financial stake. A facility measuring 4,675 square meters has been established for the production of ...
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Bausch+Lomb is to retain over 1,000 jobs and create 100...
Bausch+Lomb is to retain over 1,000 jobs and create 100 new roles following a $106-million investment in its manufacturing facility in New York. Around 300 jobs would have been lost if the company had moved this new manufacturing line out of the U.S. Two manufacturing lines will be created and ...
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On Dec. 3, Essilor cancelled 1.5 million treasury shares, representing...
On Dec. 3, Essilor cancelled 1.5 million treasury shares, representing 0.5 percent of the share capital. The company has been buying back shares to offset the diluting effect of its own share option programs. After the latest transaction, Essilor still owned 4,519,926 treasury shares, or 2.1 percent of the equity.
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Pierre Verrier, who ran Logo Eyewear between 2008 and 2011,...
Pierre Verrier, who ran Logo Eyewear between 2008 and 2011, has acquired the French Cemo Group together with two of its managers. Based in the Jura region, the group employs 45 people and is a contractor for several important French eyewear companies and for Atol, a French buying group whose ...
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Acuitis has signed a contract for the acquisition of AcoustiCentre,...
Acuitis has signed a contract for the acquisition of AcoustiCentre, the leading chain of hearing aids shops in the French part of Switzerland. Founded in February 2010 in Geneva by Daniel Abittan, a co-founder of GrandVision, Acuitis will thus have a network of 17 stores in Switzerland selling its special ...
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Marcolin has formally closed the transaction for the acquisition of...
Marcolin has formally closed the transaction for the acquisition of Viva International. The financial terms could not be learnt. According to VMail, Fabrizio Gamberini, chief executive of Marcolin USA, will also take on the role of CEO of Viva, following the previously reported resignation of Antonio Bortuzzo. Further details could ...
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Adlens has opened a new manufacturing facility in Oxford for...
Adlens has opened a new manufacturing facility in Oxford for the production of its new Focuss variable progressive spectacles destined for the U.S. The U.K.-based firm announced at Vision Expo West in October that LensCrafters in the U.S. would be first to trial the Focuss line, which integrates variable near, ...
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Carl Zeiss is shutting down its Australian surfacing laboratory in...
Carl Zeiss is shutting down its Australian surfacing laboratory in Lonsdale, leading to the elimination of 75 jobs. Opticians in Australia and New Zealand will be supplied by Zeiss' labs in Asia and other parts of the world. The company will set up a new lens fitting laboratory at the ...
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Optimax, the British laser eye surgery company that bought Ultralase...
Optimax, the British laser eye surgery company that bought Ultralase a year ago, has placed the latter in administration, a form of bankruptcy protection from creditors, but declared that its patients will continue to be cared for. Ultralase has not been profitable for many years and is likely to be ...
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Sauflon has just inaugurated a new center for innovation next...
Sauflon has just inaugurated a new center for innovation next to its manufacturing plant in Budapest, which was opened in 2007. The new center bolsters the company's ambitions to become the world's third biggest contact lens maker by 2018, as revealed during the opening ceremony. The new white, minimalist building ...
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Loubsol has obtained a formal certificate proving that its goggles...
Loubsol has obtained a formal certificate proving that its goggles are entirely manufactured in France. The French company, which was taken over by the Batteur group at the beginning of 2013, claims to be the only producer of snow goggles that has this kind of label, which seems to be ...
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Carl Zeiss Vision France has announced the layoff of 256...
Carl Zeiss Vision France has announced the layoff of 256 employees at its two laboratories in the country. The decision was attributed to the loss of a major contract with GrandVision, which belongs to the Hal group. The restructuring program involves all the 106 people working at a laboratory at ...
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The Michael Pachleitner Group (MPG) has invested €4 million in...
The Michael Pachleitner Group (MPG) has invested €4 million in a new European logistics center in the Czech Republic. The warehouse, encompassing 450,000 sqm, became operational in October. It is mainly intended for the international distribution of the group's range of stock lenses, but it also includes the worldwide logistics ...
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Cartier is opening a new eyewear factory in France, adding...
Cartier is opening a new eyewear factory in France, adding to the one in Besançon. The new manufacturing facility is located in Sucy-en-Brie, in the southeastern suburbs of Paris. It replaces the historic site in Joinville-les-Ponts, also near Paris, which the Richemond group, the owners of the luxury brand, had ...
