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The European Council of Optometry and Optics (ECOO) will hold...
The European Council of Optometry and Optics (ECOO) will hold its next practical examination in Cologne next June 8-10. A multiple-choice written test will follow in St. Etienne, France on Sept. 28-30. The deadline for applications is March 10. The German opticians' association, ZVA, continues to organize the project. ...
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Shamir Insight is switching to an automated casting system at...
Shamir Insight is switching to an automated casting system at its production facility in Israel for lenses made from PPG's CR-39 monomer
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Mondottica, which recently dropped the Jiigsaw license, is the new...
Mondottica, which recently dropped the Jiigsaw license, is the new licensee of Lulu Guinness, the British designer of fashion accessories, but the agreement will not cover the USA where Tura holds the license for the brand
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Agatha Ruiz de la Prada has a new eyewear collection...
Agatha Ruiz de la Prada has a new eyewear collection named after her that will be manufactured and distributed by Optim
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Depending on the status of an investigation into a Korean...
Depending on the status of an investigation into a Korean subsidiary for questionable revenue reporting, Bausch & Lomb plans to release its 4th quarter and full-year results for 2005 in early March
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Charles Lee, formerly with Marine Optical and Nouveau Eyewear, gets...
Charles Lee, formerly with Marine Optical and Nouveau Eyewear, gets appointed as director of sales at The McGee Group
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Seiko's frames will be distributed by Vega in Italy...
Seiko's frames will be distributed by Vega in Italy
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Norville lays off 10 employees while consolidating its business...
Norville lays off 10 employees while consolidating its business
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Gerber Coburn puts out an affordable and robust finer/polisher, the...
Gerber Coburn puts out an affordable and robust finer/polisher, the CMX50, with two spindles that can process all kinds of materials
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A French magazine, Entreprendre, has named Alain Afflelou as ?Entrepreneur...
A French magazine, Entreprendre, has named Alain Afflelou as ?Entrepreneur of the Year?
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Andrew Actman, the British eyewear designer, recently finished second in...
Andrew Actman, the British eyewear designer, recently finished second in his class in the Lombard Revival Rally 2005, a 1,200-mile off-road race through England and Wales
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Rudy Project has agreed to sponsor the Australian Open as...
Rudy Project has agreed to sponsor the Australian Open as the official eyewear for the event for three more years
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VidiVici is sponsoring a basketball team in Bologna....
VidiVici is sponsoring a basketball team in Bologna.
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Hal Makes New Acquisitions
Exercising an option, HAL Holding has increased from 68 to 100 percent its shareholding in GrandVision, the large Paris-based holding company of GrandOptical, Générale d'Optique, Solaris, Vision Express and Visual. It has also signed a deal to acquire 94.7 percent of the shares in F-O Optika-Fotò, a large Hungarian-based chain, ...
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Essilor Reshuffles Management In Europe And The Americas
Bertrand De Limé and Hubert Sagnière, two top executives of Essilor International who have been in charge of the group's operations and development in Europe and the USA lately, are being reassigned to new functions within the group, triggering some changes in the lower management. Sagnière, a Frenchman who ...
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Safilo's Ipo Makes No Big Waves
Safilo's share value went beyond €5.00 on the first day of trading on Milan's stock exchange last Dec. 8, reaching the level of €5.10, but it closed at €4.92 on the same day, slightly above the original offer price of €4.90. Since then the share price has remained below €4.90, ...
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Leonardo Del Vecchio's Children See Their Luxottica Shares Re-distributed
The merger of two of the family holding companies that control Luxottica has allowed the company's observers to shed light on the complex web of their interests. The notification of the transaction to the watchdog of the Milan Bourse shows that Leonardo Del Vecchio himself, founder and chairman of the ...
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Leclerc Moves Into Eyewear
E. Leclerc, one of France's largest mass merchants, has opened its first optical retail outlet on 100 square meters at Franconville, just north of Paris. It should be followed by 20 others in 2006 and grow into a network of 100 stores by 2010, located for the most part ...
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F&O Emerges As The Second-largest Buying Group In Italy
The concentration process goes on in Italy's highly fragmented optical retailing sector, where more than 70 small buying groups, some of which have only about 20 affiliated independent stores, split a small portion of the pie with a handful of integrated chains. A few days ago, two relatively large entities ...
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Salmoiraghi & Vigano Turns Around
Italy's largest integrated optical retailing chain is back in the black, with net profit of €1 million for the fiscal year ended last Sept. 30, compared with a loss of €1.4 million year in the previous year. It was good score, considering that the group also invested €11.5 million during ...
