All Corporate articles – Page 42
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Alcon, the branch of Novartis that has included Ciba Vision...
Alcon, the branch of Novartis that has included Ciba Vision since May 2012, has taken over the ophthalmological branch of SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI), based in Berlin. The acquisition offers Alcon access to assistance technologies for eye surgery, such as the positioning of the IOL and real-time eye tracking solutions. The ...
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Face à Face recently awarded the winners of its photo...
Face à Face recently awarded the winners of its photo contest on Instagram, an online photo-sharing and social networking service. The theme of the contest was architecture, true to the founding spirit of the French designer brand, whose collections of eyewear and jewelry are conceived along the themes of architecture, ...
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Maison Bonnet, the luxury eyewear company in France, was recently...
Maison Bonnet, the luxury eyewear company in France, was recently at the center of a controversy over the price of the glasses that it made for Audrey Pulvar, a popular journalist and the ex-girlfriend of Arnaud Montebourg, presently French minister of industrial recovery. Speaking with Agence France-Presse, Franck Bonnet said ...
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Bausch+Lomb has exercised an option to purchase all the outstanding...
Bausch+Lomb has exercised an option to purchase all the outstanding shares of Technolas Perfect Vision GmbH that it does not own yet. The deal is scheduled to be finalized at the end of January 2013. Based in Munich, Technolas Perfect Vision was established in 2009 through a joint venture between ...
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Coastal Contacts has withdrawn a tentative offering of new shares,...
Coastal Contacts has withdrawn a tentative offering of new shares, concluding that current market conditions would not permit it to raise additional funds on acceptable terms. The international online retailer of contact lenses and eyeglasses, which is based in Canada, had previously indicated that it wanted to raise about US$40 ...
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Tom Davies has invested €60,000 in the renovation of its...
Tom Davies has invested €60,000 in the renovation of its factory in Shenzhen, which lead to an increase in production capacity by 30 percent. A new IT system allows the company to produce much faster with the same number of staff. Opticians have the choice to use the new ...
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As of Oct. 16, the U.S. company Ophthnoix ceased its...
As of Oct. 16, the U.S. company Ophthnoix ceased its operations. The economic situation put the company in the position of not being able to find the capital needed to continue its operations. The company shipped back all customer frames last week at no charge. Accounts will need to restart ...
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Luxottica is allowing retiring employees to join its company pension...
Luxottica is allowing retiring employees to join its company pension fund, set up in 1996, the year of the major reform of Italy's national insurance system. The fund provides employees with a pension that combines the minimum state pension with their company pension depending on the number of years of ...
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Happyview, a pure French e-tailer of spectacles, has announced the...
Happyview, a pure French e-tailer of spectacles, has announced the takeover of a pure French e-tailer of contact lenses, Malentille.com, which has been in the market since 2006, offering discounts of up to 60 percent on its products. It will keep the company's name.
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The biggest German online retailer, Mister Spex, is expanding its...
The biggest German online retailer, Mister Spex, is expanding its logistics center in Berlin by an additional 1,250 square meters in tune with the envisaged growth in terms of capacities and turnover. The company plans to increase the number of its operative staff in logistics, customer service and repairs by ...
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Essilor is closing down its Irish plant in Limerick, consolidating...
Essilor is closing down its Irish plant in Limerick, consolidating operations at Athlone, according to the Optician magazine
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Coopervision is shuttering its Marleston factory for rigid gas-permeable contact...
Coopervision is shuttering its Marleston factory for rigid gas-permeable contact lenses in Australia, according to Insight magazine, and relocating the production to its main factory in the U.K.
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On Oct. 1, the leading Swiss lens manufacturer Optiswiss took...
On Oct. 1, the leading Swiss lens manufacturer Optiswiss took over the German lens manufacturer Swiss Optic, formerly known as Trans Optik Express or Uniopt Trans Optik. Swiss Optic has belonged to the Michael Pachleitner Group (MPG) since 2005. Optiswiss takes over all activities and employees of Swiss Optic and ...
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Uvex, the German brand of eyewear, helmets and safety products,...
Uvex, the German brand of eyewear, helmets and safety products, has recorded positive results from the flexible worktime programs which the company began to introduce ten years ago. Since then, Uvex has developed no less than 150 different types of alternative work schedules that it is offering to its employees ...
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Visionix and its Briot USA subsidiary have struck a partnership...
Visionix and its Briot USA subsidiary have struck a partnership with the Block Buying Group in the U.S., entitling its members to special pricing on their equipment. Named after its president, Michael Block, Block Buying Group describes itself as the largest optical buying group in the U.S., handling purchases for ...
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Satisloh has opened its third site in China, right in...
Satisloh has opened its third site in China, right in the center of the ophthalmic lens industry in the country. Located in Danyang, where more than 100 national and international companies are based, the new structure of more than 2,000 square meters features a fully equipped testing facility. It has ...
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Six strategic and institutional investors have reportedly expressed interest in...
Six strategic and institutional investors have reportedly expressed interest in acquiring a stake in Salmoiraghi & Viganò, the largest optical retailing group in Italy. Their names could not be obtained. According to the report, Dino Tabacchi, the former shareholder of Safilo who owns the group, may decide to accept an ...
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Following in Hoya's footsteps, Rodenstock has acquired its Brazilian distributor,...
Following in Hoya's footsteps, Rodenstock has acquired its Brazilian distributor, the IGAL Group of Rio de Janeiro, with which it has had an exclusive relationship since 1930
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Hoya Corporation has announced a partnership with Jacques Denis, which...
Hoya Corporation has announced a partnership with Jacques Denis, which claims to be the biggest independent lens fitting laboratory in France and in all of Europe, specializing in rimless frames, with more than 15,000 optional shapes in its system for the optician to choose from. Opticians can place orders for ...
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Atol, one of the major French cooperatives of opticians, has...
Atol, one of the major French cooperatives of opticians, has expanded its center for logistics and supply in Beaune, in the French region of Burgundy, to include a quality-testing laboratory. The new 1,500-square-meter space brings the total surface of the plant, which was originally set up in 2007, to 3,500 ...
