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Marcolin adds new licenses, markets
Every month, the Marcolin Group is getting, on average, two inquiries about new licensing agreements, giving the company many choices to pick the most compatible and rewarding deals, said Massimo Renon, who became the company's chief executive a year ago. At the end of 2018, a year in which the ...
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Another CEO for loss-making Italia Independent
Italia Independent has appointed Marco Cordeddu as its new chief executive to replace Mario Pietribiasi, who resigned unexpectedly after six months in office over a divergence of views with the board on the company's strategy. His departure was effective on Oct. 9.Cordeddu has served as chairman of Stalam, an Italian ...
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Italy’s eyewear exports rise by 7.4%
Italy’s eyewear exports rose by 7.4 percent in value during the first half of 2019, with sales of prescription frames up by 10.3 percent and sunglasses up by 5.7 percent. They benefited in particular from the weakness of the euro against the dollar and new commercial initiatives by some companies ...
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Silhouette launches Evil Eye
Evil Eye is the brand name that Silhouette International has chosen for its new highly functional line of sports eyewear, which it has just started to introduce in selected European markets, simultaneously with the end of its long-standing licensing deal with Adidas, which has moved to the Marcolin Group.The new ...
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Bollé Brands reorganizes
Bollé Brands is rationalizing the operations of Bollé, Cébé, Serengeti and H2 Optics taken over by A&M Capital from Vista Outdoor last year and investing in new managers and new systems and processes to improve products and services. It is centralizing operations in Europe and the U.S., where it taking ...
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Smith wins a Silmo d’Or Award
Safilo's house brand of sports eyewear won the Silmo d'Or in the sports category last week with its Attack MTB sunglasses, which retail in Europe at a recommended price of €229. The model can be fitted with two different proprietary ChromaPop lenses, “Black ChromaPop” for high sun exposure and “Light ...
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Leica Eyecare hopes Silmo d’Or will put it on the map
Novacel, a French company that operates one of the largest lens laboratories in Europe, hopes that the Silmo d'Or it won in September for Leica Eyecare's Variovid Volterra progressive lens will help bolster its international sales for the licensed line, which shared one of the largest stands at the recent ...
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Siview, a speedy refraction system
Besides hosting a live music concert and offering beer to everybody at the end of each day of work at the show, Novacel's huge stand at Silmo this time hosted an interesting new automatic refraction system, called Siview, that can calculate or adjust the prescription for a pair of lenses ...
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New management for Optiswiss
Optiswiss, the large Swiss-based independent lens laboratory, appointed Samuel Frei as its new general manager on Aug. 1. Frei taking the place of Denis-André Zaugg, who had been running the company for 22 years. Zaugg plans to continue to be involved for the next five to seven years as chairman ...
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Working with Silmo, the IOA wants to expand its presence
The International Opticians Association (IOA) is “aiming high,” says Fiona Anderson, the current president of this organization, whose membership represents opticians in 30 different countries. Anderson, who was previously the president of the Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO), was re-elected to a new two-year term in her current position ...
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Eastman’s new sustainable acetate recycling process
Starting around 2021, eyewear manufacturers will be able to make use of fully sustainable acetate in their frames for eyeglasses and sunglasses, thanks to a new recycling technology developed by Eastman Chemical Company. The new raw material will be made in part from recycled plastic waste, contributing to a circular ...
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Essilux outlines progress in its integration
The management of EssilorLuxottica, or Essilux as many call it now for short, shared with financial analysts some aspects of the progress that the group is making in the integration of Essilor with Luxottica at a Capital Market Day in London yesterday.The first steps being undertaken in this process include, ...
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Essilux reportedly has a smart glass partnership with Facebook
The big U.S.-based social network has turned to EssilorLuxottica to help it develop smart glasses, according to the U.S. broadcaster CNBC, which cited people familiar with the matter. According to CNCB, Facebook has been seeking to develop augmented-reality glasses for the past couple of years. Internally codenamed Orion, the glasses ...
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Bollé Brands acquires Spy Optic
Bollé Brands has acquired the Spy Optic brand of action sports eyewear. The financial terms of the takeover were not disclosed, but it is apparently an asset deal. The international infrastructure of Bollé Brands is expected to help Spy to grow outside its core North American market, capitalizing on its ...
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New management for Silhouette
Silhouette International Schmied, the Austrian manufacturer of ophthalmic lenses, corrective frames and sunglasses, has announced a change in the structure of its executive board, making two new key appointments.From Nov. 1, Reinhard Mahr takes over the position of chief financial officer. Mahr has 30 years of management experience in national ...
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Fielmann enters Slovenia
A few days ago, Fielmann announced its acquisition of a 70 percent stake in Optika Clarus, a chain of 26 optical retail stores that claims a 30 percent market share in Slovenia. The takeover was described as an important step in the Vision 2025 program outlined by the group's new ...
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Fielmann’s results continue to improve
Fielmann confirmed its positive performance in the first half of 2019, reporting a pre-tax profit of €127.6 million and net income of €88.3 million for the period on 6.6 percent higher consolidated sales of €386.4 million. Including VAT, external sales rose by 7.5 percent to €884.4 million, but the actual ...
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New financing round for expanding Mister Spex
Mister Spex, which claims to be Europe's leading online optician, completed a round of financing for over €65 million at the end of August. The Büll Family Office, based in Hamburg, led the equity financing round with the participation of existing investors, among them Grazia Equity, Stephan Schambach and Ehssan ...
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Essilux relaunches Brille24
After acquiring a 100 percent stake in Brille24 – one of Germany's major online retailers, with annual revenues of almost €25 million – Essilor International, now a subsidiary of EssilorLuxottica, launched a common omni-channel concept in Germany in August. Sixty opticians participated in the kick-off event in Düsseldorf.The concept was ...
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Cecop gets involved in training
Cecop, the international voluntary group of independent opticians, has launched a new management training program, called Evolution, to support affiliated opticians in Spain, Italy and Portugal in maximizing sales and profits.One of its modules is a unique consulting service whereby experts in the field, called “Optical Business Developers,” work with ...
