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Thélios and Vogue Business partner for series of luxury eyewear talks
Thélios has announced the launch of an international series of industry talks in partnership with Vogue Business, a B2B digital information service and a sister publication of Vogue fashion magazine. Dubbed Vogue Business x Thélios Talks: Framing the future of luxury eyewear, the talks will be held during the Thélios ...
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Menicon hits 30% overseas sales ratio
Menicon Q3 results showed that the Japanese company reached an important milestone in the internationalization of its business as overseas sales reached 30 percent of total revenue. That compares with 12 percent five years ago and a 35 percent target ratio for 2025. International sales of contact lenses jumped by ...
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Tech startup PTTRNS raises €2m in new funds
PTTRNS.ai, a tech company providing AI-based style recommendation software for the fashion and eyewear industry, has raised €2 million in new equity from ECFG, a Dutch-based private equitiy fund. This follows an earlier €2.5 million rund as reported in 2021. Founded in 2019 and also based in the Netherlands, PTTRNS ...
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Bausch + Lomb appoints former CEO as new CEO
Bausch + Lomb has announced the appointment of Brent Saunders to the position of CEO, succeeding Joseph Papa, effective March 3. Saunders, who will also serve as chair of the board of directors, is already familiar with Bausch + Lomb as he was its CEO between 2010 and 2013, prior ...
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News briefsNew online course for myopia treatment focuses on eyeglasses
Myopia Profile, an Australian “information center” for professionals in clinical myopia management, has released an online course detailing the latest in lens design and advise on the prescriptions for children. Called Myopia Management with Spectacles, the two-hour course is interactive and covers all aspects of prescription, “from first corrections in ...
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CECOP reaches 1,000 members in Germany with new acquisition
CECOP, the Spanish-based group, has announced the acquisition of EGS-Optik, one of the largest German buying groups. Based in Bavaria and founded in 2003, EGS-Optik boasts approximately 500 members, making it the sixth largest buying group in the country according to the annual ranking of the German association of opticians ...
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Marchon wins Mido’s green stand award
Marchon Eyewear won the Stand Up for Green Award at MIDO earlier this month, an award launched by the Milan trade show in 2022 to recognize its exhibitors’ commitment to sustainability in the designing and building of their stand. Marchon’s booth key sustainable features include the storage of reusable parts, ...
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Carl Zeiss Meditec reports strong sales growth but lower margins for Q1
Carl Zeiss Meditec revenues increased by 14.6 percent year-on-year in Q1 2022/23 to €470.3 million, or by 12.1 percent in constant currencies, in spite of ongoing supply chain issues for both its business units. At constant exchange rates and compared with Q1 2021/22, sales in the Ophthalmology division went up ...
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MEI presented all-in-one unit at MIDO
MEI, the Italian maker of lens edging machines, presented its new CoreTBA equipment at the recent edition of MIDO in Milan. The company says that, thanks to its capacity to run different operations in parallel, the machine performs seven essential stages of the lens production in one single unit: front ...
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Essilux launches PD measuring app in the U.S.
EssilorLuxottica has announced on its website the launch of Ophty, an Iphone application enabling eyeglasses’ e-shoppers to measure their pupillary distance (PD) by themselves. The new software is currently only available on Apple’s U.S. app store but will be soon rolled out in other markets, the group said.
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New general manager for MYKITA North America
MYKITA has announced the appointment of Michael Cole as general manager of its North American subsidiary. Cole comes from Luxury Optical Holdings, a luxury eyewear retail group operating about 50 stores under several banners in the U.S. where he served as vice president of merchandise planning and allocation for the ...
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Mitsui to expand capacities as vision care sales keep growing
Mitsui Chemicals posted a 17.6 percent year-on-year sales increase to 186.8 billion Japanese yen (€1.3 bn) for its Life & Healthcare Solutions’ business unit in the third quarter of its fiscal year. The division includes the Japanese group’s vision care business among other activities such as agrochemicals or oral care. ...
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Horizons Optical hits 8 million freeform lenses last year
Horizons Optical, the Spanish-based supplier of lens designs and related services, has announced that over 8 million freeform lenses were produced last year using its technology by more than 130 ophthalmic laboratories throughout the world. The company said that the volume increase in its core business and the roll-out of ...
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IOA summit to be held at Silmo Singapore
The International Opticians Association will be holding a clinical conference alongside the first edition of Silmo Singapore, slated for next April 12 to 14 at the Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Center. The association said that one full day will be devoted to myopia management. Sustainability and practice improvement, among ...
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WCO holds second edition of online myopia management event
The World Council of Optometry (WCO) and its partner CooperVision are holding its second global virtual event dedicated to myopia management on Feb. 16. Called ”Advancing the Global Standard of Care”, the online conference will include five presentations by eye care professionals (ECPs) on different myopia management issues and a ...
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News briefsVisionLab going high tech
This year VisionLab will be investing €5 million in its optical shops to bring their services into line with new user demands, according to Look Vision. The optometrics are to include virtual functions for remote measurements, which will reportedly shave about 20 minutes from the average consultation. The Spanish chain ...
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Wagner + Kühner files for insolvency
German-based eyewear supplier Wagner + Kühner filed for insolvency proceedings on Jan. 31. A slowdown in opticians’ orders, added to the company’s high level of debts reportedly triggered the insolvency filing. Jens Lieser, the appointed administrator, said that the business and deliveries were continuing as usual during the proceedings. Wagner ...
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News briefsNew release to Kering Eyewear art collaborative project
Kering Eyewear is releasing the second delivery of its “Kering Eyewear Through Their Eyes”, a two-year collaborative project in which international artists “interpret the company’s DNA”. The new release consists of a collaboration with Greg Guillemin, also known as “Léon”, a Paris-based artist influenced by pop culture. Zero to Hero, ...
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Extended rights for French orthoptists
Following a regulation change published at the end of January, French orthoptists are now allowed to issue initial ophthalmic lenses’ prescriptions for people aged between 16 and 42 years old. Previously, all French patients had to visit an ophthalmologist to receive their first eyeglasses’ prescription while orthoptists could renew them. ...
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Topcon Eye Care sales up 19% in Q3
Japanese-based equipment maker Topcon has reported a 19 percent year-on-year increase in revenue to a record high 49,289 million Japanese yen (€348 m) for its Eye Care division in Q3. Both the screening devices and the digital optometry systems’ categories grew strongly in the quarter. Favorable currency variations against the ...
