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Brett H. Craig has been named president and chief executive...
Brett H. Craig has been named president and chief executive of PixelOptics, effective immediately. He was the president of Transitions Optical from January 2008 through June 2010, having started with that company in 1999. Ronald Blum, who previously held those titles at PixelOptics, is taking instead the resounding role of ...
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David Borbon is the new director of sales for Zeal...
David Borbon is the new director of sales for Zeal Optics. He has held various positions with companies including O'Neill, Hurley International and Oakley.
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Spy Optic has a new distributor for Switzerland, Bucher +...
Spy Optic has a new distributor for Switzerland, Bucher + Walt S.A. It will sell the Spy brand in all channels, and use its dedicated Action Sports branch to handle MX and performance categories.
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Transitions Optical is reorganizing its European structure to be closer...
Transitions Optical is reorganizing its European structure to be closer to its partners. Stéphane Haendler has been named director of key accounts in the EMEA region. He will also be in charge of commercial relations with Essilor International at the European level. Haendler was previously business director for France. He ...
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Coastal Contacts, the international online retailer of contact lenses of...
Coastal Contacts, the international online retailer of contact lenses of eyeglasses based in Vancouver, has named Greg Lechner to be its new vice president for business development. His goal will be to expand the company's presence in the U.S. He worked for Luxottica Group for more than 18 years, including ...
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Zyloware Eyewear is starting to distribute the Nascar Optical collection...
Zyloware Eyewear is starting to distribute the Nascar Optical collection of Inspecs USA in the U.S., Canada and Latin America
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Zyloware Eyewear has promoted Jennifer Derryberry, the company's vice president...
Zyloware Eyewear has promoted Jennifer Derryberry, the company's vice president for corporate accounts, to be its new senior vice president for corporate accounts. She has been with the U.S. company since 2002.
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The Essilor Vision Foundation has two new top executives. The...
The Essilor Vision Foundation has two new top executives. The nonprofit group has named Bob Colucci as its new chairman, replacing Jacques Stoerr, and Stephen Shawler succeeds Ed Fjordbak in the role of president. Colucci has been with Essilor International for 22 years, currently as president of its Independent Distributor ...
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Two new executives have joined the sales team of Revolution...
Two new executives have joined the sales team of Revolution Eyewear: Robert Henshillwood III is key account manager, and Peter Klinovsky is director of national (U.S.) sales. Revolution produces eyewear brands such as True Religion, Affliction, the Beatles and Ed Hardy. Henshillwood was formerly with L'Amy America, where he was ...
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Giovanni Pesce is joining Viva International Group as senior vice...
Giovanni Pesce is joining Viva International Group as senior vice president-international, a new position, working on strategy and results on the company's business outside the U.S. and Canada. The Italian was formerly with Safilo, where he was EMEA wholesale director. He also spent 15 years with Luxottica Group. In his ...
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Orange 21 is bringing Jim Pritts on board to be...
Orange 21 is bringing Jim Pritts on board to be a consultant for its Spy Optic brand. He will help push research and development for lens technologies and also work with Spy Optic on product design and development, sourcing, quality, technology communication, intellectual property, and marketing and training. Pritts has ...
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In an interview with the Italian daily Il Sole 24...
In an interview with the Italian daily Il Sole 24 Ore, Luxottica's chief executive, Andrea Guerra, admitted that he had been approached to become chief executive of Italy's largest bank, Intesa Sanpaolo. He said he was flattered to have been considered for such an important job. But he informed Luxottica's ...
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Alain Afflelou, the French optician who still owns a large...
Alain Afflelou, the French optician who still owns a large minority stake in the optical retail network named after him, has become president of Aviron Bayonnais, one of the leading rugby teams in France, where he is the major shareholder. He is said to have invested €4 million annually into ...
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Salmoiraghi & Viganò has appointed Francesco Iovine as marketing and...
Salmoiraghi & Viganò has appointed Francesco Iovine as marketing and purchasing manager, a position that didn't previously exist in the Italian retail chain. The 40-year-old business and economics graduate previously worked in sales and purchasing for two other major Italian retail groups, Rinascente and Pam, first as category manager and ...
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Ashley McEvoy, worldwide president for Ethicon Products at Johnson &...
Ashley McEvoy, worldwide president for Ethicon Products at Johnson & Johnson, will be starting the new year with a new position. The company has just appointed her group chairman of J&J Vision Care, replacing Michael Sneed, who moves on to become vice president, global corporate affairs for Johnson & Johnson ...
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Marcolin has appointed Giovanni Zoppas as its new chief executive...
Marcolin has appointed Giovanni Zoppas as its new chief executive and general manager, effective on Feb. 1, 2012. He will replace Vito Varvaro, who has held the position on a temporary basis since the end of September after the resignation of Massimo Saracchi. Varvaro will retain his job as ...
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Marchon has appointed Tony Klijn, a Dutch executive coming from...
Marchon has appointed Tony Klijn, a Dutch executive coming from Luxottica, as managing director of Marchon Germany, responsible also for the Austrian market. The position had remained vacant for about four months following the move of Micha Siebenhandl to the U.S., where he was named vice president of global house ...
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Gilda Mehraban has been promoted to be director of brand...
Gilda Mehraban has been promoted to be director of brand management at REM Eyewear. She was previously the brand manager of Tumi and Jones New York, having joined REM just six months ago. She will oversee all the brands, which also include John Varvatos and Converse. Her background is in ...
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Hoet, an eyewear producer from Belgium, will be exhibiting at...
Hoet, an eyewear producer from Belgium, will be exhibiting at Opti in January, presenting new models from its Cabrio sunglasses collection and new accessories for optical stores, following a change in its distribution model. Hoet's business activities fall into three different categories: the Hoet collection of premium eyeglasses, which is ...
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Bob Hughes has stepped down suddenly from his position at...
Bob Hughes has stepped down suddenly from his position at the helm the country's Association of Optometrists, but according to Optician, he doesn't want to go into specifics about why. When the British magazine tracked the British industry veteran down for details, all he would say was that his reasons ...
