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Charmant has closed its subsidiary in Italy. From Sept. 1,...
Charmant has closed its subsidiary in Italy. From Sept. 1, the distribution of its brands is entrusted to the Muller32, a new company controlled by Vega. Muller32 will maintain the same sales force that in the subsidiary was selling the lines of Charmant to italians opticians. Alessandro Chitotti, the former ...
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Marchon has signed a deal with Snowide to improve the...
Marchon has signed a deal with Snowide to improve the penetration of its Nike Vision range of eyewear in the French sporting goods retail channel. Born in 2010 and based in Geneva, Snowide owns a couple of snowboard brands, APO and White Doctor. It also distributes a variety of action ...
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Visioptis, which has the eyewear license for Banana Moon, is...
Visioptis, which has the eyewear license for Banana Moon, is taking on the distribution of Gloryfy sunglasses in France
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Filao Paris has signed a distribution agreement for spectacles...
Filao Paris has signed a distribution agreement for spectacles with Deflomas Eyewear for the Italian market
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Adlens has entered the Chinese market by opening an office...
Adlens has entered the Chinese market by opening an office in Shanghai. Managed by a new director of the Asia-Pacific region, Florence Cheng, the office will be responsible for developing this brand of variable-focus eyewear in the region, to handle wholesale and general sales, and to manage import and export ...
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Marcus Wecht, distribution manager of the Michael Pachleitner Group (MPG),...
Marcus Wecht, distribution manager of the Michael Pachleitner Group (MPG), has expanded the distribution team of Schulz Optische Fabrik in Glücksburg, Germany. From June 1, Tom Scholl assumed the distribution in Germany and Denmark. The 37-years old Scholl, who has worked for a long time in the eyewear industry, has been ...
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Safilo, the large Italian manufacturer of eyewear and marketer of its...
Safilo, the large Italian manufacturer of eyewear and marketer of its own Carrera and Smith sports brands, appointed Stefan Schmaus as key account manager at its German subsidiary in Cologne. He will be responsible for the management of all key accounts in Germany and Austria. The 38-year old business economist worked previously ...
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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 ...
