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Bernhard Nuesser joins Acuitis’ group as general manager
Héron Optique & Audition, the retail group operating Acuitis and other retail banners in the optical and hearing aids’ sectors, has announced the appointment of Bernhard Nuesser as its managing director. The Swiss executive has held a number of senior management positions at Essilor since 2013, including president Europe, global ...
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ArticleLeading French buying group evaluates lens suppliers
Along with Galileo Business Consulting, the Centrale des Opticiens (CDO) – which purports to France’s largest buying group for independent opticians – has conducted a survey of its membership to map the lay of the land between opticians and their lens suppliers. The results were released on the occasion of ...
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Essilor settles false claims allegations in the U.S.
Essilor International, Essilor of America Inc., Essilor Laboratories of America Inc. and Essilor Instruments USA have agreed to pay $16.4 million to resolve allegations that the companies caused false claims to be submitted to Medicare and Medicaid by violating the Anti-Kickback Statute, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a ...
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Bertrand Roy has passed away
Bertrand Roy, a key figure of the Essilor group and the French optical sector for several decades, passed away just a few days ago at the age of 67, Acuité and other French websites report. After an initial 10-year stint at Renault, Roy joined the Essilor Group in 1987 where ...
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ArticleMyopia management research updates presented at ARVO
Three recent studies by the three main players that have developed myopia management eyeglass lenses were presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) conference earlier this month. Hoya Vision Care has announced results from a six-year study of its MiYoSmart lens, which is based on the ...
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ArticleEssilux launches new sales program in France
After the launch of a similar initiative in the U.S. and Canada, respectively in 2020 and 2021, EssilorLuxottica is rolling out its EssilorLuxottica 360 program in Europe, starting with France. The objective is to “enrich” Essilor’s Experts program and various existing Luxottica programs and thereby to expedite the expansion of ...
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Essilor to present 2-year results of Stellest research
Essilor will be presenting the results from a clinical trial of its Stellest lens at this year’s congress of the World Society of Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (WSPOS), scheduled for Sept. 25. Drs. Damien Paillé, Guillaume Giraudet and Björn Drobe, from Essilor International’s research and development team, will be on ...
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Essilor signs partnership with the organizers of Le Mans
Essilor has signed a three-year partnership deal with the Automobile Club de l’Ouest ( ACO) , organizer of the 24 Hours of Le Mans , scheduled this year for Aug. 21-22. Together they will be conducting trackside initiatives and public-awareness campaigns to urge drivers professional and casual to ...
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New VP Northern Europe for Essilor
After six years at BBGR-Nikon France , and most recently as the company’s president, Prûne Marre has been appointed to Essilor Europe’ s board of directors and to the position of vice president North Europe for the group. Replacing Olivier Chupin , who had been in charge of the ...
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Essilor sees growth opportunities in Russia
The Covid-19 pandemic has hit the Russian eyewear market hard, but the long-term outlook remains mostly bright, said Vadim Korol, chairman of Essilor Russia, in the Russian magazine Invest Forsait at the end of April. Last year has been marked with a slump in sales caused by a number of ...
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Essilor to complete Lenstec’s takeover
The Essilor Group in the U.K. announced a few days ago the completion of the acquisition of the Lenstec Optical Group , in which it had taken a minority shareholding through Shamir in 2016. Lenstec operates three sites in the U.K. and reported annual revenues of £22 million ...
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Essilor France benchmarks the performance of its partner opticians vs. others
According to a report commissioned by Essilor France to the research company Galileo Business Consulting every year since 2011, opticians partnering with the lens maker in France have been performing better on average than the other optical shops in terms of revenues and gross margin progression since 2007. ...
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Essilor to present new clinical results in myopia progression slow-down
After two years of clinical trials on 167 myopic children in collaboration with the Wenzhou Medical University in China, Essilor will present next month new results for its Essilor Stellest lens’ performance in the reduction of myopia progression among children. According to preliminary information communicated by the ...
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ArticleNovacel extends Leica footprint, increases French market share
The French-based lens maker Novacel almost put a final touch to its European distribution network for the German licensed brand Leica Eyecare , with the implementation of a network of regional distributors in Italy. Leica lenses are now available throughout Europe except for Denmark, Norway, Slovenia, ...
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EMNUK restructures after withdrawing Kodak lenses
EMNUK , a U.K.-based lens manufacturer that is part of the Essilor group of companies, has entered a restructuring process for its Quedgeley site, the Optician reports. The move follows the EMNUK’s decision to remove the Kodak lenses from its portfolio and is said to impact ...
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Essilor R&D acquires another 3D printer
Prodways Group , a French-based supplier of industrial 3D printing solutions including machines, software and materials, announced earlier this week the delivery of a second 3D printer to the research and development division of Essilor . The two companies started collaborating in 2018 with the aim of applying Prodways’ patented ...
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Bernard Maitenaz, Varilux’ inventor, passes away
Essilor announced this week the passing of Bernard Maitenaz , the inventor of the first Varilux progressive lens. Born in 1926, Maitenaz graduated from the Arts et Métiers engineering school in 1946 and the École Supérieure d’Optique the following year, before starting a career at the Société des ...
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ArticleEssilor restructures its French sites
Essilor , the ophthalmic lens unit of the Franco-Italian group EssilorLuxottic a, is grouping four existing French sites into a new laboratory that will be located in the Paris region. From the end of 2023, the company will transfer the ophthalmic lens business of the sites of Antony, Vaulx-en-Velin ...
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Essilor partners with Tencent to publicize eyecare
Essilor has established a three-year partnership with Tencent of Shenzhen, China, to publicize corrective vision. According to Essilor’s press release, somewhat less than half of the people in China’s vast population have impaired vision and are largely unaware of both the problem and the solutions. In addition, says ...
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Essilor Italia donates extra 3,000 protective goggles to hospitals in Lombardy
Essilor ’s Italian unit has donated an additional 3,000 protective goggles to about 10 hospitals in the Italian region of Lombardy as part of the effort to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. In March, the lens manufacturer had already distributed more than 700 goggles it had in stock to health facilities ...
