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Big Changes In Equity At Swank
Swank International Manufacturing, which has been in a tight cash flow situation lately, removed Eddy Lau as chief operating officer and executive director on Dec. 15. It seems likely that his ouster was related to changes in ownership that resulted in Swank's public float's being restored on Dec. 16. Swank ...
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Elegance Suffers A Temporary Shrinkage
Elegance International is starting a new factory in Shenzhen, China during the 1st half of this year. It will add new machinery and consolidate the production of two of its 3 existing plants, but with no diversification of the product line and no expansion of capacity at this stage. ...
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Jackie Chan Brings Second Collection To Market Through Moulin
Jackie Chan, the Chinese movie star, is lending his name to a broad range of lifestyle products including eyewear, which is being developed and manufactured by Moulin International. The first collection, whose offering preceded the decision to embark on a Jackie Chan brand, hit stores in Asia and Japan in ...
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Carl Zeiss is planning to set up a network of...
Carl Zeiss is planning to set up a network of 30-35 optical shops in Hungary that would sell exclusively its own lenses and managed by some of its 150 best clients in the country, who already benefit from quantity discounts. Meanwhile, Raphael Scherer has been appointed as marketing and sales ...
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Boots announced last week a reorganization plan that would reduce...
Boots announced last week a reorganization plan that would reduce by 900 the headcount at its head office in Nottingham and in regional support functions by cutting down come layers of management, while adding 290 new jobs in the group's stores. Store managers have been given more flexibility in opening ...
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In a way similar to their British colleagues, the major...
In a way similar to their British colleagues, the major French retail chains, including the integrated retailers and the retail cooperatives, have formed a new association, called Syndicat des Opticiens sous Enseigne (SynOpE), to represent their specific demands. The new splinter group was formed because the members of the French ...
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Oakley is talking to strong retailer partners who may want...
Oakley is talking to strong retailer partners who may want to open O stores in major cities like London, Barcelona or Dubai. The first foreign licensed O stores was opened last Dec. 10 by Oakley's successful Chilean distributor in the Alto Las Condes shopping mall of Santiago do Chile. Aside ...
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AAi FosterGrant, the large US-based supplier of branded and unbranded...
AAi FosterGrant, the large US-based supplier of branded and unbranded eyewear and jewelry, is moving upmarket with the acquisition of Gargoyles, a premium 20-year-old American brand of sports eyewear and its Anarchy, Angel, GForce and Idol-Eyez brands. Led by John Ranelli, a former executive of Timberland, Teva and Sperry, FosterGrant ...
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Thomas Zettler, European manager of Marchon, has left after a...
Thomas Zettler, European manager of Marchon, has left after a little more than one year in the job. Andy Skidmore, who had been running the UK subsidiary until 18 months ago to move to Marchon's headquarters in New York, is taking over Zettler's responsibilities, at least for the moment. No ...
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Marcolin's sales subsidiary in Germany has stopped marketing the group's...
Marcolin's sales subsidiary in Germany has stopped marketing the group's sports eyewear lines, Cébé and The North Face. Starting last Jan. 1, their distribution in Germany has been taken over by Reichel, a specialist in the market that also sells Frank Bollé's Weps brand of sunglasses, Bula winter headwear and ...
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As it has done in other countries, Viva International has...
As it has done in other countries, Viva International has formed a joint venture with Ferdinand Menrad, the large German supplier who has been distributing some of its lines over the past couple of years. Run by Hermann Müller-Menrad, the new joint venture, Viva Deutschland, will service accounts in Germany, ...
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Petra Eckhardt, who recently left as managing director of Fossil...
Petra Eckhardt, who recently left as managing director of Fossil Europe, has become the new general secretary of the European Sunglass Association (ESA) on Jan. 1. The German-based executive takes over from Daniel Popesco, who resigned from the position, which he had held since 1999, for personal reasons. Popesco was ...
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Sylke Camberlein, a former executive of Nike is the new...
Sylke Camberlein, a former executive of Nike is the new German country manager of Alain Mikli, the highly creative French eyewear designer. Responsible also for Austria, she takes the place of Rosita Koch, who continues as a sales representative. In another recent change of management, Thierry Guyot left as Mikli's ...
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Moulin International is setting up a new global marketing division,...
Moulin International is setting up a new global marketing division, based in California, which is in effect taking over the function previously held by Lucio Lozza, the previous manager of Filos Group who left Moulin to go to Marcolin last September. Reporting to Cary Ma, Moulin's CEO, the new division ...
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The Sun Hing group has obtained the distribution rights for...
The Sun Hing group has obtained the distribution rights for Levi's eyewear in Asia. The Chinese group, which is already the licensed distributor for Celine Dion, Hallmark, Cour Carré and Jill Stuart, reports a 1 percent sales decline for the 6 months ended last Sept. 30 to HK$236.6 million (€23.8m?US$30.5m), ...
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Average lens prices are going up in the USA, according...
Average lens prices are going up in the USA, according to a survey by Vision Council of America among its members. They are currently up by nearly 20 percent from 3 years ago, particularly in the single-vision category. The price of polycarbonate lenses has risen by 31 percent and their ...
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ANFAO, the Italian eyewear industry association, will shortly hold a...
ANFAO, the Italian eyewear industry association, will shortly hold a high-level meeting of key members to disuss the future role of the trade fairs in the market. The general sentiment is that two or three major international shows are sufficient for some international companies to cover most of the European ...
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A spreadsheet supplied by SILMO details the 11.84 percent in...
A spreadsheet supplied by SILMO details the 11.84 percent in the number of non-French visitors who attended last October's session, reaching a total of 19,159 persons. The biggest contingent came from Belgium, with 1,665 people or 16.87 percent more than in the previous year, followed by Germany with 1,565 persons ...
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Next Jan. 24-27, ten small and medium-sized eyewear producers from...
Next Jan. 24-27, ten small and medium-sized eyewear producers from the Cadore region of Italy will take part in a trade mission to Dubai in the Arab Emirates, to meet local importers, wholesalers and distributors. Italy's annual exports to the region have topped €18 million. The mission is organized by ...
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Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the International Fair of Eye Optics...
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the International Fair of Eye Optics and Ophthalmology (OPTA) due to be held in Brno next Feb. 20-22, has given a 10 percent discount to all the exhibitors who have taken part in all its previous sessions. All visitors will have visible tags that will give ...
