Essilux and Meta announce long-term partnership | Meta advances Ray-Ban Meta, introduces Orion | Latest Spectacles from Snap not yet a product | SILMO Paris back to cruising speed with an increased focus on new tech | Silmo reports slight attendance increase, celebrates Silmo d’Or 30th anniversary | Italian eyewear exports fall in Q2, sector’s full year showing seen in line with 2023 | Specsavers profitability keeps declining | New alliance in the Middle East optical retail sector | Rodenstock to repurpose main German site as engineering center and transfer lens production to Czech plant | ZEISS invests in light field display technology startup with vision care platform in mind | Innovation, digitization, sustainability and selective retail on 60 year-old Silhouette’s agenda | MYKITA signs unexpected partnership with an LVMH brand | Inspecs topline down 5% in H1, rebound expected in H2 | Hong Kong-based Icare to open eyewear factory in France | Price reductions and Southeast Asian competition pressure Arts Optical ODM business | Japanese upmarket retail group JEH shows no signs of slowing down | The Vision Council reports on ‘Made in the USA’ | Blenders makes it to ‘Prime Time’