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LEOO launches Made in France eyewear tour
As part of its wider campaign to promote Made in France eyewear, LEOO, the association of French optical products’ manufacturers, is inviting professionals of the optical sector to visit a total of 22 French factories producing frames, lenses or contact lenses. A dedicated website, www.manufacture.tours is being launched today, proposing ...
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Optic 2000 appoints new secretary general
The French retail chain Optic 2000 has appointed Benoit Jaubert as its new secretary general starting next September following the departure of Yves Guénin , Acuité reports. Jaubert is new to the optical sector but has been the secretary general of Darty , a French leading retailer ...
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ArticleLuxottica facing €125m penalty from French competition watchdog
L’Autorité de la concurrence , the French market competition regulator, sanctioned Luxottica yesterday with a €125 million penalty for anti-competitive behaviors in France between 2005 and 2014. EssilorLuxottica immediately announced that it would appeal the decision, highlighting that the group had always conducted its business according to the ...
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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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Doctolib opens its platform to French opticians
Doctolib , a private company operating an online platform for booking appointments with healthcare professionals, opened its service to opticians in France last month. In an interview with the French trade magazine L’OL MAG , the company said that the Covid-19 crisis boosted the request for online appointments’ bookings with ...
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Luz partners with two regional chains in France
Luz , a French buying group that boasts more than 1,800 members, is partnering with two of its affiliates, Optik Budget and Benocle , to help them develop their respective store network and concept in France. Optik Budget addresses the entry level segment of the market and currently operates ...
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Afflelou appoints former Adidas manager as CEO
The Afflelou group has appointed Alain Pourcelot as its new CEO in replacement of Tarek Hosni , who had held the position since December last year. An eyewear industry outsider, Pourcelot, comes from the sporting goods sector, where he spent 14 years working for Adidas . He worked ...
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Afflelou refinances its debt
In order to refinance its debt, Alain Afflelou , the French optical retailer has reportedly emitted a new series of high-yield bonds for a total of €485 million, coming for the most part to maturation in 2026 at a rate of 4.25 percent. The company already went through a similar ...
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ArticleFielmann enters Czech market, eyes France
During Fielmann ’s annual press conference, Marc Fielmann , CEO of the company, announced that the German-based retail group was about to enter the Czech Republic, a new step forward in its internationalization strategy. The first shop will be opened in Prague next month and the group ...
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Covid-19 restrictions to be lifted for all French stores
All shops operating in large malls in France should be able to reopen their doors from May 19 onwards, following the recent announcements by French president Emmanuel Macron about the progressive lift of business restrictions in relation to the Covid-19 crisis. According to Acuité , about 1,700 optical shops, ...
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New results of large-scale research on children myopia in France
KRYS GROUP, a leader in the French optical retail sector, and the Poitiers university hospital, started in 2013 a large-scale research on the progression of myopia among French children aged between 4 and 17 years old. The latest results of this ongoing research, which was based on data collected for ...
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French home opticians’ network raises €7.5 m
Founded in 2015, Les Opticiens Mobiles is a French network of opticians providing their services on site, at retirement homes to elderly people, at companies’ offices for employees or at the home of people who need prescription eyewear but are unable or unwilling to visit an optical store. After ...
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Monoprix opens optical corners with Sym Optic
Monoprix, the French chain of upscale supermarkets, is partnering with Sym Optic for the integration of an eyewear offering in its new healthcare corners. Branded “La Santé au quotidien”, the new concept offers a wide range of healthcare-related products and services. It has been launched in two Monoprix shops so ...
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French opticians under scrutiny
Inspectors of the French DGCCRF , a national organization in charge of verifying the respect of business regulations, have recently started a control operation in the country’s optical shops in order to check that opticians fully comply to their obligations, in particular regarding the implementation of the ”100% Santé” eyecare ...
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New MD for De Rigo in France
De Rigo appointed Romain Vanini as its new managing director for France last month, replacing Franck Leclere who had been at the helm of the French subsidiary since 2008 and has left the Italian group. Since 2017, Vanini had been the sales director of Safilo France , ...
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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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French retail heavyweights slightly raised market share in 2020
In the last couple of weeks, the Krys Group , Optic 2000 and Afflelou , three of the main retail players in France totaling more than 3,000 stores and an aggregated market share estimated at between 35 and 40 percent, reported drops in revenues varying from 8.5 percent to ...
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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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French social security expects more impact from its eyecare reform in the future
In a roundtable with a French journalists’ association last week, Frank von Lennep, the country’s social security director said that 14 percent of eyeglasses’ frames and 12 percent of corrective lenses sold had been picked from the Class A products’ list since the implementation of the 100% Santé healthcare reform ...
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ArticleFrench ready to raise their eyewear budget
88 percent of French consumers plan to maintain or raise their budget for their next purchase of prescription eyewear, according to the results of a new survey by Opinion Way, a research company commissioned by Gifo, the French eyewear industry association, and the Silmo trade show. This result represents a ...
