Latest News Briefs – Page 199
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The Italian government is seeking €1.2 billion in damages from...
The Italian government is seeking €1.2 billion in damages from Novartis and Roche for losses after allegations the two drugmakers colluded to direct patients with an eye disorder to a more expensive medicine. That resulted in damages to the Italian health system of €45 million in 2012, €540 million last ...
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Oliver Peoples has announced a new collaboration with Amanda R....
Oliver Peoples has announced a new collaboration with Amanda R. Hearst, philanthropist, journalist and the face of the brand in 2014. The collaboration has led to a new model of eyewear inspired by Hearst Castle, the historical landmark mansion located on the central coast of California and designed between 1919 ...
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Camper, a big and highly creative Spanish brand of casual...
Camper, a big and highly creative Spanish brand of casual footwear, has come out with its first eyewear line. Developed and produced by a Chinese company, Innui Lens Eyewear, it has been designed by Nendo, the 12-year-old Japanese design studio of Oki Sato, which is known for its designs of ...
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Etnia Barcelona continues to team up with international artists. This...
Etnia Barcelona continues to team up with international artists. This time, the Spanish eyewear company is cooperating with a talented American photoreporter, Steve McCurry, on a new line of acertate sunglasses called “Wild Love in Africa,” which is inspired by wood colors, zebras' furs and similar images. Produced by Mazzucchelli, ...
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Oakley unveiled its new line of Scuderia Ferrari Carbon Blade...
Oakley unveiled its new line of Scuderia Ferrari Carbon Blade eyewear, part of its Oakley Scuderia Ferrari collection, at a special event in Barcelona a few days ago. Scuderia Ferrari stands for Ferrari's automotive racing team. The special-edition eyewear was presented by Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari's driver and former Formula 1 ...
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Sauflon has announced a new private label partnership with Vision...
Sauflon has announced a new private label partnership with Vision Source for the launch of Fresh Daily, a silicone hydrogel family of contact lenses. The launch came at The Exchange 2014, Vision Source's annual member's meeting, running from April 9-12 in Boston. Vision Source is the biggest optical alliance in ...
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Loewe has prolonged its partnership with De Rigo Vision for...
Loewe has prolonged its partnership with De Rigo Vision for the design, production and worldwide distribution of its eyewear. The collaboration of the Spanish fashion house, part of the LVMH group, with Italy-based De Rigo started 14 years ago and will now continue under the supervision of Loewe's new ...
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Vishion, a Swiss start-up company, has developed a pillow for...
Vishion, a Swiss start-up company, has developed a pillow for eyewear, which allows the wearer to relax and lay down on their side without the frame of the glasses pressing into their temples or nose. The product is called “eyePad” and it is currently only sold in Switzerland.
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Transitions Optical has launched a European ad campaign featuring successful...
Transitions Optical has launched a European ad campaign featuring successful eye-care professionals talking about their experiences and the reasons why they recommend Transitions lenses to their customers. For the new campaign the company, best known for its photochromic lenses, asked 24 eye-care professionals from ten different countries to talk about ...
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The organizers of Mido are launching a new project, called...
The organizers of Mido are launching a new project, called Pop-Eye, in connection with the Pitti Uomo show in Florence on June 17-20. It will be a dedicated eyewear section of the menswear fair, intended to persuade the more sophisticated buyers to add eyewear to their lifestyle offerings. Carolin Abram, ...
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The first congress for contact lenses in Germany, named DCC,...
The first congress for contact lenses in Germany, named DCC, welcomed a total of 542 participants from Austria, Switzerland and Germany. The event was organized by Spectaris, the German optical industry association, in cooperation with ten companies from the German contact lens industry on May 25-26 in Munich. It was ...
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More than 50 vision industry professionals from 11 countries attended...
More than 50 vision industry professionals from 11 countries attended the first convention of the new European Sunglass Committee of the Vision Council in Budapest last month. The convention had been previously organized directly by the former European Sunglass Association, which merged into the Vision Council in October 2012. Besides ...
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David Challinor, who was news editor of Optician for 10...
David Challinor, who was news editor of Optician for 10 years and a former editor of Optometry Today, died of a heart attack on May 29 at the age of 50. After studying English and media at Bournemouth University in the U.K., he worked for five years at the publisher ...
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Thailand's military coup, on May 22, has not interrupted ophthalmic...
Thailand's military coup, on May 22, has not interrupted ophthalmic lens production in that country, according to industry sources and as reported by VMail. The situation is being monitored closely but day-to-day operations in the industry have not been impacted by the political instability thus far. A spokesperson for Essilor ...
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The Italian section of the Christoffel Blindenmission (CBM) the international...
The Italian section of the Christoffel Blindenmission (CBM) the international non-profit organization for the blind, has presented “Unlimited Love,” a campaign intended to raise awareness and funds whose objective is to completely cover the costs of surgery that will restore sight to 1,000 women in Africa. For the launch of ...
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Optoms Cycling for Sight, the annual cycling initiative organized by...
Optoms Cycling for Sight, the annual cycling initiative organized by Optometry Giving Sight to raise funds for vision correction in developing countries, has been nominated for an award as “Charity Initiative of the Year” by the Association of Optometrists (AOP) in the U.K. The initiative, on which we have reported ...
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Luxottica's board of directors has approved the attribution of up...
Luxottica's board of directors has approved the attribution of up to 1,205,280 shares to 614 beneficiaries this year as part of the group's “Performance Shares Plan 2013-2017.” The total cost of the scheme for the company is estimated at €49.5 million. Luxottica's chief executive, Andrea Guerra, received 42,000 shares with ...
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Neil Barrett, a British fashion designer who launched his own...
Neil Barrett, a British fashion designer who launched his own label after years of experience with Prada and Gucci, is launching a first collection of unisex sunglasses, to be sold from next September alongside his fashion collections in some of the 300 stores that carry his brand worldwide. They are ...
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Zeiss Vision Care invested more than €10 million in the...
Zeiss Vision Care invested more than €10 million in the modernization and improvement in efficiency of its site in Aalen during 2014-15. With this investment, Zeiss Vision Care aims to prepare the company's research and development, customer service, and lens production departments in Germany for the future. In the framework ...
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Alcon has inaugurated a new manufacturing plant in Singapore to...
Alcon has inaugurated a new manufacturing plant in Singapore to produce ophthalmic pharmaceutical products. Construction on this 330,000-square-foot facility, located in the Tuas Biomedical Park, began in 2009, and represents an investment of around S$200 million (€114.85m-$159.27m). The location was strategically chosen to be closer and able to respond quickly ...
