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Kenji Ema is set to retire as chief financial officer...
Kenji Ema is set to retire as chief financial officer of Hoya Corporation at this year's general shareholders' meeting, but he will continue to sit on the board of directors. Ema has been on the company\'s board for 20 years.
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Birmingham Optical has extended its distribution contract with Nidek for...
Birmingham Optical has extended its distribution contract with Nidek for the U.K. Motoki Ozawa, president of Nidek, visited Optrafair show in Birmingham for the first time in April to sign the new contract with Christopher Tyler, chief executive of the British firm, which has been representing the Japanese company for ...
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Patrice Pineau has been promoted to managing director of Hoya...
Patrice Pineau has been promoted to managing director of Hoya France. He joined the French subsidiary in 2004 as commercial director. For the past three years, he acted as deputy general manager, working under Hans Werquin, president of Hoya Vision Care Europe. Pineau's stated goal is to attain a 15 ...
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Hoya Vision Care Europe has appointed Olga Prenat as the...
Hoya Vision Care Europe has appointed Olga Prenat as the new dean of its Faculty Education & Experience Center in Budapest, taking the place of Hans Warntjes who is retiring after working for the Japanese company for 24 years, the last five for the Budapest center. Prenat is the director ...
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Essilor International has appointed Maureen Cavanagh as representative of employee...
Essilor International has appointed Maureen Cavanagh as representative of employee shareholders to the company's board of directors. Cavanagh, of American nationality, has been president of two Essilor subsidiaries, Nassau Lens Company and the OOGP buying group, since 2009. She joined Essilor in 2005, following the acquisition of Definity from Johnson ...
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PPG Industries has promoted John Liebenguth to general manager of optical materials,...
PPG Industries has promoted John Liebenguth to general manager of optical materials, with immediate effect. In his new role, he succeeds Christine Camsuzou, who has been promoted to the new position of general manager of consumer electronics, which is a growing part of PPG's larger industrial-coatings business. Liebenguth will be responsible for optical monomers, coatings, ...
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Topcon is now taking care of the distribution of its...
Topcon is now taking care of the distribution of its products in Austria directly from Germany. Since April 1, all of the company's business in Austria, including distribution, service and administration, is managed by Topcon Germany. The contract with the previous Austrian distributor ended on March 31. The company aims ...
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Sauflon has promoted Sue Cockayne to its board of directors,...
Sauflon has promoted Sue Cockayne to its board of directors, making her professional services director. The optometrist joined Sauflon in 2011, after working for Leightons Opticians as professional services director and then, from 2008, as managing director. At Sauflon, she has been instrumental in the successful launch of the Clariti 1-day toric ...
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Jayanth Bhuvaraghan, president of Essilor International's business unit for Southeast...
Jayanth Bhuvaraghan, president of Essilor International's business unit for Southeast Asia and India, has been named chief corporate mission officer within Essilor's executive committee, a newly created position. Bhuvaraghan, who will report to Essilor's chairman and chief executive, Hubert Sagnières, will be in charge of encouraging all initiatives designed to ...
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Thierry Perrin has become the new president and chief executive...
Thierry Perrin has become the new president and chief executive of Alain Mikli International, following the French company's acquisition by Luxottica earlier this year. He takes the place of Antonio Bortuzzo who has moved to the U.S. to run Viva International. Perrin had joined Mikli last June to act as ...
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New Line Optik, the German distribution company based in Berlin,...
New Line Optik, the German distribution company based in Berlin, will be handling the distribution of the Cerruti 1881 eyewear collection in Germany. Negotiations between New Line Optik and TWC-L'Amy, the new licensee of the French brand, started during the last Silmo show. The Cerruti license was previously held by Nigura-Metzler, the Germany ...
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Philipp Greilberger assumed the post of commercial director for Austria at...
Philipp Greilberger assumed the post of commercial director for Austria at Safilo in March. He is working in the Austrian office of the Italian company, handling both the optical and sports retail channels in Austria. The 34-year-old business economist was previously working for Nike in Austria and Switzerland.
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Armin Herdegen is the sales director at Hoya Lens Germany,...
Armin Herdegen is the sales director at Hoya Lens Germany, as from May 1. The 43-year-old has a long experience in the eyewear sector, opening his own optical retail store, managed by his wife, in 2001. At the same time, Herdegen started to work for Hoya Lens Germany, where he ...
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Bausch+Lomb has appointed Donald Gagliano as vice president of global...
Bausch+Lomb has appointed Donald Gagliano as vice president of global development operations. Gagliano is a U.S. military colonel, retinal ophthalmologist and fellow of the American College of Health Care Executives. He had a military career for over 30 years and served since 2008 as executive director of the Vision Center ...
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Gatorz appointed Robert Reynolds as its new chief executive officer...
Gatorz appointed Robert Reynolds as its new chief executive officer effective April 2, 2013. Reynolds is a veteran of the action sports and retail markets. Previously, he served as co-founder and chief executive of Super Heat Games, where he handled three capital increases and signed licensing deals with over 30 ...
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Colors in Optics of New York has announced a new...
Colors in Optics of New York has announced a new licensing deal for ophthalmic and sun eyewear named after Elie Tahari, an American fashion house whose products are sold in more than 40 countries. Separately, Colors in Optics has become the U.S. distributor of Cesare Paciotti Eyewear. Brands O.I., the ...
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Described as an accomplished snowboarder with prior experience in marketing...
Described as an accomplished snowboarder with prior experience in marketing and retail, Kyle Martin has been appointed snow marketing manager at Dragon, the action sports eyewear brand acquired by Marchon last year
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Liz Tontodanati has joined Modo Eyewear in the new position...
Liz Tontodanati has joined Modo Eyewear in the new position of vice president of marketing and licensed brands, after working in management positions at Carrera, Marcolin and Viva International. Reporting to Pierre Fey, chief executive of Modo for North America, she will the company's marketing efforts in the U.S. and ...
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Coopervision has hired Debbie Olive as vice president of marketing...
Coopervision has hired Debbie Olive as vice president of marketing for Europe, along with Dimple Shah as the new professional affairs and relations consultant, with immediate effect. Olive replaces Michael Wilkinson, who has taken up the role of general manager for a new operational region that includes India, Pakistan, the ...
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César Melo is the new chief executive of FGX International,...
César Melo is the new chief executive of FGX International, a subsidiary of Essilor International that designs and markets eyewear. He was previously the vice president for marketing at Colgate-Palmolive, a large consumer products company where he spent the last 23 years. He succeeds Alec Taylor, who is retiring after ...
