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Jim McGrann will take over as president of VSP Vision...
Jim McGrann will take over as president of VSP Vision Care as of Jan. 1. Until now he has been the chief technology officer for VSP Global – a role he will continue – and the chief executive of Eyefinity. Before joining VSP in 2008, he was senior vice president ...
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Ogi Eyewear, founded in Minnesota in 1997, is seeking to...
Ogi Eyewear, founded in Minnesota in 1997, is seeking to expand abroad. After discreet success at home in the US and Canada, the company is now exporting 10 percent of its production of prescription sunglasses. Using titanium and acetate – often sourced from Italy – and manufactured in Japan, a ...
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Wagner + Kühner is the new exclusive sales agent for...
Wagner + Kühner is the new exclusive sales agent for Polaroid Eyewear in Germany and Austria, replacing Vistan Brillen and reporting to Polaroid Eyewear's Swiss office since last August. Founded in 1945, Wagner + Kühner represents other brands. The company has a special e-commerce platform, www.brillen-butler.de, where it sells sunglasses ...
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Kaenon is searching for new sales agents in order to...
Kaenon is searching for new sales agents in order to expand further in Europe. Last April, the company opened a European office in France, in cooperation with the company Knitoptic. The Swiss company has been the exclusive distributor of Kaenon in its domestic Swiss market for seven years. Its new ...
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Massimo Barberis, marketing manager of Essilor Italia, is now also...
Massimo Barberis, marketing manager of Essilor Italia, is now also in charge of sales as well
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Safilo has appointed Cristina Andresano to the new position of...
Safilo has appointed Cristina Andresano to the new position of worldwide head of public relations and communication. She will report to Luca Fuso, head of the group's licensed brands division. She will be based in Milan and will coordinate Safilo's 24 press offices wordwide. Andresano previously ran the public ...
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Félix España (sic) has been appointed trade marketing manager of...
Félix España (sic) has been appointed trade marketing manager of Hoya Vision Care Europe, based at the company's head office in Amsterdam. He has been in charge of marketing for Hoya in Spain and Portugal for the past two years. Prior to that, he worked for the Optica 2000 chain ...
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Barry Duncan, the former president of the Association of British...
Barry Duncan, the former president of the Association of British Dispensing Opticians, is rejoining the group in a new role that is designed to help regional members. He will be in the Membership Services department and work with the Local Optical Society Support Unit to help develop the profession. His ...
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Jaime Balasch, former commercial director of Indo and general manager...
Jaime Balasch, former commercial director of Indo and general manager of GrandOptical España, is now the general manager of BBGR Iberia
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Manfred Dahn has been promoted to the top position at...
Manfred Dahn has been promoted to the top position at Polycore Optical Europe, replacing the former general manager, Andreas Linz, who had been with the company for 23 years. Dahn, who had previously run Margrander, a supplier of specialty glasses, joined Polycore four years ago as manager in charge of ...
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Thierry Lepiez has been selected to succeed Marie-Pierre Milovanivic as...
Thierry Lepiez has been selected to succeed Marie-Pierre Milovanivic as president of the technical committee of EDI-Optique, a 13-year-old association in France that groups more than 60 manufacturers, distributors, opticians and service companies for the definition and promotion of electronic data interchange in the eyewear industry. Over 130 experts are ...
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Bjorn Jonsson has joined Gunnar Optiks to be its new...
Bjorn Jonsson has joined Gunnar Optiks to be its new vice president for international sales. He was plucked from academia, having been a marketing professor at Vanguard University. His previous experience includes stints with Oakley and Boost Mobile.
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Licefa will be going through some changes to its executive...
Licefa will be going through some changes to its executive board by the end of the next year. Nothing specific has been decided yet but it is certain that the executive board will be different in 2013. Details will be released sometime at the beginning of the next year. The ...
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Sven Kossyk will be the new chief financial officer at...
Sven Kossyk will be the new chief financial officer at Rodenstock from the beginning of the next month. He formerly worked as commercial director for Merck Sharp Dohme, one of the five biggest pharmaceutical companies worldwide, for the Greek market. He also worked for Altana Pharma and Thomas Cook. He ...
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Frency&Mercury, a Japanese company with a very niche product, is...
Frency&Mercury, a Japanese company with a very niche product, is seeking to enter the European market. After a debut at Mido 2011, the company pursued the experience at Silmo. Founded in 2005 by 32 year old Japanese designer Eque M., the company makes its top-end products by hand in the ...
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Petra Eckhardt has left as managing director of the European...
Petra Eckhardt has left as managing director of the European Sunglass Association, and its board is looking at two-three candidates to succeed her. The board has regularized ESA's accounting, returning to a positive cash position, and legally registered the nonprofit organization in France. It wants to create more benefits for ...
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Tura has named the successor to its retiring president and...
Tura has named the successor to its retiring president and chief executive, John Weir. Scott Sennett took the reins of this American subsidiary of the Eschenbach Group on Oct. 3; Weir will stay on through the end of the year in an advisory capacity. Sennett was formerly the president of ...
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Marcolin has given Vito Varvaro (accented on the first a),...
Marcolin has given Vito Varvaro (accented on the first a), vice chairman on its board of directors, the same powers of attorney that had been previously assigned to Massimo Saracchi, the company's chief executive, who resigned a few weeks ago. Varvaro, who has been on the board since November 2007, ...
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Michael Ferrara has been named executive chairman of Adlens, the...
Michael Ferrara has been named executive chairman of Adlens, the optical manufacturers and developer of self-adjustable eyeglasses based in Oxford, England. Ferrara, whose position is a new one in the company, will help the company grow, which includes its debut on the Japanese market in spring 2012. He was most ...
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Safilo has appointed Nicola Giorgi global head of house brands....
Safilo has appointed Nicola Giorgi global head of house brands. The company said the position is one of the most strategic for its future development because the house brands offer significant growth opportunities. The group's house brands are Carrera, Safilo, Smith, Oxydo and Blue Bay. The Carrera brand has been ...
