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Kirk Originals has closed down its store on Conduit Street...
Kirk Originals has closed down its store on Conduit Street in London and signed a license for the U.K. market with Optoplast Actman Eyewear. These moves follow the appointment of David Wilkinson, one of the numerous shareholders of Kirk Originals, as the latter's chief executive. The founder and former managing ...
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Hoya has decided to invest in InnFocus, a company that...
Hoya has decided to invest in InnFocus, a company that has developed a small tube used to treat open angle glaucoma. The tube is made of a soft biocompatible material and is designed to significantly reduce operation time. Test trials with the tube have already received the CE mark in ...
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Essilor Germany announced on June 11 that it would stop...
Essilor Germany announced on June 11 that it would stop producing mineral glasses at its production site in Rathenow, from Dec. 31. However, Essilor will continue to manufacture high-value organic glasses in Rathenow. During the past couple of years, mineral glasses have increasingly become a niche product. Therefore, the company ...
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Essilor has carried out the private placement of $300 million...
Essilor has carried out the private placement of $300 million worth of notes with 18 investors in the U.S. The senior unsecured notes will help refinance a bank loan due in 2014, while extending the maturity of its debt and broadening its base of investors. The maturities of the notes ...
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Zeiss has announced the planned acquisition of Xradia, a medium-sized...
Zeiss has announced the planned acquisition of Xradia, a medium-sized U.S. company that has developed innovative 3D X-ray microscopes for industrial and academic research applications
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The shareholders of Bushnell Outdoor Products, the American company that...
The shareholders of Bushnell Outdoor Products, the American company that produces binoculars and owns important brands of sunglasses and sports eyewear such as Bollé, Cébé and Serengeti, reportedly accepted bids until the end of this week for the takeover of the company. Shareholders were reportedly seeking a valuation of as ...
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Knecht & Müller, exclusive distributor of Hoya in Switzerland and...
Knecht & Müller, exclusive distributor of Hoya in Switzerland and one of Switzerland's leading lens manufacturers, announced at the beginning of June that the operational and financial control of the company is again 100 percent in the hands of the Müller-Knecht family. This follows the recent departure of the company's ...
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Essilor has announced a proposal to turn its traditional surfacing...
Essilor has announced a proposal to turn its traditional surfacing laboratory at Thornbury near Bristol in the U.K. into a digital surfacing platform that will focus on the manufacturer's high-end brands and lens products such as the Varilux S Series. The company stated that discussions are under way with staff ...
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Essilor International and the Wenzhou Medical University in China have...
Essilor International and the Wenzhou Medical University in China have joined forces to establish the Wenzhou Medical University-Essilor International Research Center (WEIRC), a research platform with a focus on myopia. As a first step, the platform will concentrate on myopia in children, and specifically on its etiology, epidemiology and the ...
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Eyewear Designs is relocating to a larger space of 50,000...
Eyewear Designs is relocating to a larger space of 50,000 square feet in a recently renovated building on the site of the former Grumman Aerospace Corporation in Bethpage, New York. Phone numbers and email addresses remain the same.
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Essilor of America has acquired a majority stake in EyeBuyDirect.com,...
Essilor of America has acquired a majority stake in EyeBuyDirect.com, according to VMail, the American online news service of Jobson Publishing. Founded in 2005 by Roy Hessel, its chief executive, EyeBuyDirect is a leading online optical retailer with operations in the U. S., China, and Hong Kong. Hessel will continue ...
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The Cooper Companies has announced an agreement for the sale...
The Cooper Companies has announced an agreement for the sale by CooperVision (CVI) of Aime, a Japanese supplier of rigid gas permeable contact lenses and solutions, to Nippon Contact Lens Inc. The divestiture, which is subject to numerous conditions, should have a neutral effect on Cooper's earnings per share. CVI ...
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Essilor will open a new 170,000-square-foot distribution facility in Lewisville,...
Essilor will open a new 170,000-square-foot distribution facility in Lewisville, Texas, according to VMail, complementing its three-year-old distribution center in Columbus, Ohio
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Alain Afflelou is reportedly negotiating the acquisition of a company...
Alain Afflelou is reportedly negotiating the acquisition of a company that would launch its retail franchising program in the U.K. by next September
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Carl Zeiss AG has been granted clearance by the European...
Carl Zeiss AG has been granted clearance by the European Commission, under Article 6(1)(b) of the EU Merger Regulations, to acquire full control of Carl Zeiss Vision. Both companies are based in Germany. Carl Zeiss AG previously shared control of Carl Zeiss Vision jointly with the EQT III Fund. Carl ...
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Signet Armorlite, which is now a property of Luxottica, has...
Signet Armorlite, which is now a property of Luxottica, has moved to a new and smaller facility in Carlsbad, California
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Luxottica launched a new buying program at Optrafair in Birmingham called...
Luxottica launched a new buying program at Optrafair in Birmingham called Luxboutique, exclusively for independent retailers. The program offers practitioners the opportunity to stock upto four of the manufacturer's “niche luxury” brands, namely Persol, Burberry, Miu Miu and Tiffany & Co., in a selection of frames that Luxottica has chosen for ...
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Google Ventures, the venture capital fund of the internet giant,...
Google Ventures, the venture capital fund of the internet giant, has announced the creation of an investment syndicate, called the Glass Collective, together with two venture capital firms, Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The group will provide funding and support to the entrepreneurs who will develop apps ...
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Coastal Contacts has opened its first production and distribution facility...
Coastal Contacts has opened its first production and distribution facility in the U.S., which has become the fastest-growing market for the Vancouver-based online retailer of contact lenses and eyeglasses. The investment is expected to accelerate the company's growth in the U.S. The facility, whose location was not given, is starting ...
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Bausch+Lomb has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with...
Bausch+Lomb has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through its holding company, WP Prism, relating to the proposed initial public offering of its common stock. According to the SEC filing, the proposed maximum aggregate offering price is $100 million. The number ...
