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Marchon renews with Nike, signs with Shinola
Marchon Eyewear has signed two licensing deals. First, as Vision Monday reports, the VSP Vision-owned manufacturer and distributor has renewed its multi-year global deal with Nike to design, develop, produce and distribute ophthalmic eyewear and sunglasses under the Nike Vision brand. The original deal dates to 1999, and Marchon has ...
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ArticleEssilux supports Ukraine’s 1,700 staff, restricts Russian operations
Reacting to the war in Ukraine, EssilorLuxottica, announced on its social media last week that the group’s immediate priority was the safety of its 1,700 collaborators in Ukraine and that it had taken steps to provide them with secured shelter, financial assistance and help crossing borders. According to the same ...
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Italia Independent pauses Russian distribution
The Italia Independent Group announced the immediate suspension of the distribution in Russia of its house brands Italia Independent and Laps and licensed brands Hublot and CR7 in a “sign of full and total solidarity with the Ukrainian people.” Just this January, Italia Independent signed an exclusive distribution agreement in ...
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Essilor to distribute Stellest lenses and myopia tools in Canada
Essilor is expanding its distribution of Stellest lenses in Canada and launching an accompanying suite of tools to help eyecare professionals manage myopia treatment, especially in children. Canada is the first North American country to receive the suite, according to the president of Essilor Canada, Christophe Perreault. Essilor’s Stellest lenses ...
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Julbo takes over its distribution in Spain, hires an international sales manager
Julbo is severing ties with Esportiva Aksa, its partner of many years in the Spanish market, and taking charge of its own distribution in the country. To this end, the French optical brand has hired two executives: Brian Sánchez Vigara and Roger Puig Ventura. Julbo is in addition looking to ...
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Lunor goes direct in France
Lunor is switching to a direct distribution mode in France, where its collections had been distributed by Beausoleil for many years, Acuité reports. French opticians will now order directly from the German upscale brand’s headquarters and be serviced by a team of French native speakers. Lunor has been distributing its ...
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Safilo to open subsidiary in Poland
Safilo has announced the opening of a new subsidiary in Poland, from Jan. 1, 2022. The company said the decision was based on the potential of the Polish market, with an interesting customer base in the premium, contemporary and lifestyle segments, and that it would focus on optical products. A ...
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Julbo reinforces direct distribution in Europe
Julbo is pursuing the expansion of its direct distribution strategy in Europe with the switch to a direct model in the Nordics. The French company has recruited several managers in Norway, Sweden and Finland, and said that the new teams were now fully operational. Julbo is already distributing its products ...
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Charmant Europe moves into new logistics center
The European subsidiary of the Charmant Group has moved to a new central warehouse in the German-French border region in Willstätt near Strasbourg. The new logistics center, run with 17 employees, is intended to create synergies in the region as a central warehouse for Europe and the U.K. to enable ...
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ArticleFirst launch and 2-year trial results announced for SightGlass Vision
In conjunction with the commercial launch of the product in the Netherlands, CooperVision released last week the results of the ongoing clinical trial on the performance of its SightGlass Vision lenses in terms of myopia progression reduction after two years of research. The CYPRESS clinical study, as it is called, ...
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ArticleHOYA and Haag-Streit partner in myopia management
HOYA Vision Care and Haag-Streit Diagnostics, a leading manufacturer of ophthalmic instruments and medical equipment, have announced a global partnership in the area of myopia management. Both companies said that the global sales and marketing agreement created a preferred partnership between them to help eye care professionals (ECP) in the ...
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Mega Optic to produce and distribute Kodak lenses in France
Mega Optic, a French subsidiary of the EssilorLuxottica group, will produce and distribute in France Kodak-branded lenses from January 2022. The company said that the Kodak lenses will receive the Origine France Garantie certification, a label guaranteeing that at least 50 percent of the product’s added value is acquired in ...
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Revo builds up its golf business in Europe
Revo Sunglasses has announced the expansion of its Revo Golf division to the U.K. and the European mainland under the leadership of Grahame Jenkins, a 35-year veteran of the golf industry who owns Tee to Green, a monthly golf magazine distributed in all the 400 golf clubs in Ireland. He ...
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Leica Eyecare partners with Cottet in Spain
The Eyency , Novacel ’s distributor in Spain for Leica Eyecare , has signed an exclusive distribution partnership with Cottet Óptica y Audiologia for the retailing of the famous German brand’s licensed lenses in the region of Catalunya. The Barcelona-based retail chain will also have a semi-exclusivity for the ...
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Electric partners with Volcom in Europe
Liberated Brands Europe , an entity affiliated with Volcom Europe , is partnering with Electric for the distribution of the Californian sport and lifestyle eyewear brand in Europe. The agreement includes the wholesale distribution of Electric’s goggles and sunglasses as well as its e-commerce and marketing operations. The eyewear ...
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Marcolin opens fully-owned branch in China
After seven years of presence in China through a joint-venture company with the Ginko Group , Marcolin has just opened a new and fully-owned subsidiary in the country. The investment is part of the Italian eyewear maker’s larger strategic plan that calls for a direct presence in its key ...
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CECOP extends international footprint with French acquisition
Spanish-based CECOP Group is entering the French independent optical market through the full acquisition of CERCLE OPTIQUE , a national buying group created in 2009 that boasts about 600 members in the country. This brings the number of countries in which CECOP Group is operating to ten, adding France ...
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CECOP and KIMERvisión join forces in Spain
CECOP Group , the Spanish-based international buying group, and KIMERvisión , a distributor of optical products with more than 600 associated member opticians in Spain, have agreed to form a strategic alliance in the country. According to the terms of this agreement, both companies will be operating independently but under ...
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New Canadian distributor for Rodenstock
Rodenstock has announced the signature of a new agreement for the distribution of its lenses in Canada by Centennial Optical , starting May 1, 2021. Founded in 1967 and based in Toronto, Centennial Optical is a national distributor of lenses, eyewear and optical supplies to Canadian eye care professionnals ...
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J&J Vision partners with Menicon in ortho-k lenses
Johnson Johnson Vision Care and Menicon , the Japanese contact lens specialist, announced on April 7 the signature of a global partnership in the field of orthokeratology contact lenses designed to slow the progression of myopia among children. According to the joint statement, Menicon will keep developing ...
