Latest News Briefs – Page 195
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New Look Eyewear, an optical retailer in eastern Canada, has...
New Look Eyewear, an optical retailer in eastern Canada, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire certain optical assets and businesses of Optic Direct, carrying on doing business under the Greiche & Scaff banner in Quebec. The assets and businesses to be acquired include 49 corporately owned stores in ...
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Olivier Ciaravino is cumulating his existing role of global president...
Olivier Ciaravino is cumulating his existing role of global president of Bushnell Outdoor Products' eyewear division with that of managing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), following the departure of Didier Hamm. He will work in Europe with two sales management teams for general eyewear and sports ...
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Hoya Vision Care has signed a multiple-year contract with i-Optics,...
Hoya Vision Care has signed a multiple-year contract with i-Optics, the inventor of the Easyscan retinal imaging device, to offer opticians the Easyscan 3-minute eye-care test services. Easyscan is a zero-dilation retinal imaging system that uses scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (SLO) technology to diagnose retinal diseases including diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular ...
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Nau !, the largest Italian chain of franchised optical retail...
Nau !, the largest Italian chain of franchised optical retail shops, has opened a new store at Parco Leonardo, a shopping mall near Rome's Fiumicino Airport. This is the third opening in Rome after two others in the historic center of the capital. The chain has grown to about 70 ...
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Luxottica is to open permanent display areas for Ray-Ban collections...
Luxottica is to open permanent display areas for Ray-Ban collections in certain Italian optical stores. The group's country manager for Italy, Paolo Pezzuto, explained to B2eyes Today that the operation is part of a larger Ray-Ban marketing operation and that some 50 to 60 stores have been identified to date ...
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Italia Independent has opened its first concept store outside Italy,...
Italia Independent has opened its first concept store outside Italy, in Paris's St Germain des Prés, and has three U.S. openings in the pipeline for later this year, in New York, Los Angeles and Miami. The Italian company will also have a pop-up store in a fashion floor of the ...
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CooperVision is launching an e-commerce service for contact lens orders....
CooperVision is launching an e-commerce service for contact lens orders. Now in its U.S. beta release, the service, called LensFerry, allows wearers to order replacement contact lenses from any manufacturer via their mobile devices, tablets or computers. The prescribing practice gets the sales revenue as if the lenses had been ...
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Vision care sales of $262 million in the U.S. for...
Vision care sales of $262 million in the U.S. for the second quarter at Johnson & Johnson were flat as compared to the year-ago period. In the rest of the world, they were down by 5 percent to $445 million. This brought the total turnover of J&J's vision care division ...
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The Brazilian eyewear market grew by 11 percent in the...
The Brazilian eyewear market grew by 11 percent in the first six months of this year according to the country's optical industry association, Abióptica. This rate of growth is expected to continue for the balance of the year, leading to total sales of 24.7 billion reais (€8.2bn-$24.7bn), in spite of ...
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Jobson Optical Research has released a new report entitled “Selling...
Jobson Optical Research has released a new report entitled “Selling Eyewear to Children,” which explores the under-18 age group's eyewear market from the eyecare professional's perspective. Combining data from two separate studies, the report outlines consumer buying patterns for distinct age categories within the children's segment. It reveals information on ...
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Renewing a collective agreement, workers in Italian eyewear manufacturing workshops...
Renewing a collective agreement, workers in Italian eyewear manufacturing workshops and other fashion related firms that employ between 12 and 22 people have seen their monthly salaries raised by €65 between 2013 and 2015. The previous agreement had expired at the end of 2012, and the new one takes effect ...
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The Japanese Patent Office has granted Zeiss two patents related...
The Japanese Patent Office has granted Zeiss two patents related to its freeform progressive technology. These include the types of progressive lenses whose front surfaces are rotationally symmetric with the back-surface progressive design determined by the individual prescriptions alone or in combination with other customization options. The back-surface freeform progressive ...
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Optometry Giving Sight has set a goal to raise $1...
Optometry Giving Sight has set a goal to raise $1 million this year to aid people who need vision correction with eye exams and a pair of glasses. It is encouraging potential participants to be as creative as possible in engaging employees, patients and customers to donate in the period ...
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The World Council of Optometry (WCO) has announced the launch...
The World Council of Optometry (WCO) has announced the launch of two new membership categories. The two categories are “individual” and “corporate” membership. Individual membership will be open to individual optometrists, vision scientists, faculty, researchers and eyecare industry professionals. The cost of individual membership is US$100, or US$50 if the ...
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Brazilian police seized about 80,000 pieces of counterfeit eyewear hidden...
Brazilian police seized about 80,000 pieces of counterfeit eyewear hidden in a truck in São Paulo a few days ago. They were apparently bought in Paraguay. National and state authorities seized a total of 70.2 million units of counterfeit or otherwise illegally sold eyewear in Brazil between 2006 and 2013, ...
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Liebeskind, a German fashion brand, is adding a line of...
Liebeskind, a German fashion brand, is adding a line of eyeglasses for spring/summer 2015 to its wide range of accessories, which already includes shoes and handbags. The glasses are being distributed in Germany by the Wagner+Kühne agency.
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Safilo has renewed its license agreement with Tommy Hilfiger for...
Safilo has renewed its license agreement with Tommy Hilfiger for five years. The deal with the American fashion group now runs until Dec. 31, 2020, with the option to renew it for a further five years. The parties will focus on expanding the distribution of Tommy Hilfiger eyewear in Asia ...
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Luxottica has renewed its license agreement with Chanel until Dec....
Luxottica has renewed its license agreement with Chanel until Dec. 31, 2018, with the possibility to renew it until Dec 31, 2020. The partnership between the two groups started in 1999 with the launch of Chanel's first eyewear collection. Luxottica pointed out that it is the third time it renews ...
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Italia Independent continues its co-branding strategy with trendy fashion brands,...
Italia Independent continues its co-branding strategy with trendy fashion brands, working together on marketing, design and distribution. Last year it began working with the Italian sports brand, Colmar, and this year the group has signed a new agreement with MC2 Saint Barth, a strong beachwear brand that gets its name ...
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MEI has released Shape Finder 2.0, an optical scanner addition...
MEI has released Shape Finder 2.0, an optical scanner addition for its new EzFit edger. Shape Finder 2.0 is designed to be integrated into the MEI Tecnocam programming platform and to avoid the common errors of standard camera-based units. The camera lens set and the lighting system have been designed ...
