All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 14
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Invu, the young Swiss brand based in Zurich, partnered with...
Invu, the young Swiss brand based in Zurich, partnered with Sightsavers last month for a new line of polarized sunglasses, I Wear Red, which retail for €60 per pair. It has pledged to donate €1.50 from the sale of each pair to the non-profit association to help a child in ...
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Bausch + Lomb has made a donation of $50,000 to...
Bausch + Lomb has made a donation of $50,000 to Optometry Giving Sight. The funds will support sustainable training and education programs that improve eye health for people in developing and under-served communities.
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PFO Global has announced an agreement with GB Pharma Holdings...
PFO Global has announced an agreement with GB Pharma Holdings to bring high quality prescription lenses to Africa. The continent is a grossly underserved market, said PFO, and has nearly 153 million people with visual impairment due to uncorrected refractive errors, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Walter & Herbert has partnered with Momentum, a children's cancer...
Walter & Herbert has partnered with Momentum, a children's cancer charity based in West London, to make a donation from every pair of ophthalmic and sun frames sold over the coming year. Optoplast Actman Eyewear, the company behind the brand, will donate 50p for every frame it sells. Optoplast Actman ...
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Optic 2000's foundation has signed a new partnership agreement with...
Optic 2000's foundation has signed a new partnership agreement with Antropia, a France-based catalyst of social enterprises, to accompany innovative start-ups in the fields of vision and hearing. The most interesting projects aiming to improve the daily lives of the visually and hearing impaired will receive €5,000. The winning start-ups ...
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Johnson & Johnson is one of 36 global businesses that...
Johnson & Johnson is one of 36 global businesses that have pledged to use 100 percent renewable energies by 2025, as part of the RE100 initiative of the non-profit Climate Group. Goldman Sachs, Nike, Procter & Gamble, Starbucks and Walmart are among the others.
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Adlens has announced a new partnership with Fight for Sight,...
Adlens has announced a new partnership with Fight for Sight, the British eye research charity, to raise funds for research into the detection, treatment and prevention of sight loss and eye diseases. The partnership is part of Adlens' wider social mission program, a series of initiative to help transform vision ...
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Nearly 95 percent of Americans spend two or more hours...
Nearly 95 percent of Americans spend two or more hours per day on digital devices and this often results in digital eye strain. This emerges in The Vision Council's recent report on the impact of digital media on vision health, which was released at the International Consumer Electronic Show in ...
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Satisloh won the German Ecodesign award for its innovative procedure...
Satisloh won the German Ecodesign award for its innovative procedure to manufacture lenses without the use of lead, cadmium and noble earths. Satisloh uses an eco-friendly synthetic glue and a block made from synthetic material. The German ministry of the environment and German Federal Environmental Agency were the judges for ...
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Zoobug launched the first of a series of collaborative initiatives...
Zoobug launched the first of a series of collaborative initiatives with Orbis, the global eye health charity, in the U.K. last month. The British producer of children's sunglasses has decided to donate a treatment for trachoma for each optical frame sold to opticians in the U.K. during the three weeks ...
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Essilor launched a global campaign on social media to raise...
Essilor launched a global campaign on social media to raise awareness of the impact that vision has on people's quality of life in the month leading up to World Sight Day on Oct. 9. The campaign uses the #bettersightbetterlife hashtag. The French group said that an estimated 2.5 billion people ...
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Fred Friedfield has passed away at the age of 87....
Fred Friedfield has passed away at the age of 87. A former U.S. Navy officer, he founded Clearvision in 1949. He started importing frames from China in 1972 and signed the company's first licensing deal with Head in 1981. He was subsequently joined by his sons Peter and David in ...
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Optoms Cycling for Sight, the annual cycling initiative organized by...
Optoms Cycling for Sight, the annual cycling initiative organized by Optometry Giving Sight to raise funds for vision correction in developing countries, has been nominated for an award as “Charity Initiative of the Year” by the Association of Optometrists (AOP) in the U.K. The initiative, on which we have reported ...
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Maui Jim is more than even involved in charities. The...
Maui Jim is more than even involved in charities. The American brand raised £3,270 (€4,112-$5,609) for Optometry Giving Sight a few days ago by sponsoring a tennis coaching clinic with former champion Martina Hingis at the Wimbledon Club
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Uvex will be changing to 100 percent renewable energies for...
Uvex will be changing to 100 percent renewable energies for all of its locations in Germany. The company has signed a contract with Infra Fürth, a supplier of green energy that is certified by German Technical Control Board (TÜV), in order to secure a more sustainable production. The contract runs ...
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Optometry Giving Sight has made a £20,000 (€23,700-$32,139) donation to fund...
Optometry Giving Sight has made a £20,000 (€23,700-$32,139) donation to fund a new Vision Care for Homeless People (VCHP) center in Manchester, U.K. for three years. VCHP already has centers in central, west and east London, as well as in Brighton and Birmingham. Optometry Giving Sight, whose global head office is ...
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Essilor International has announced the creation of a new board...
Essilor International has announced the creation of a new board committee to supervise the company's corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy. The new committee is chaired by Louise Fréchette, an independent director. Fréchette, of Canadian nationality, was deputy secretary general to the United Nations from 1998 to 2006. The other committee ...
