Latest News Briefs – Page 202
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Ocuco says that Simon Hirst from Rayner & Keeler has...
Ocuco says that Simon Hirst from Rayner & Keeler has joined its Professional Services team. Hirst has been with Rayner for more than 18 years, occupying various functions including those of product manager and head of its low-vision department. His last main role at Rayner's head office was in systems ...
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Sunoptic, the Spanish-based eyewear company specializing in mid-segment frames and...
Sunoptic, the Spanish-based eyewear company specializing in mid-segment frames and private label for retail chains, has opened a new sales office and showroom in Milan, two months after setting up a new office in Morocco. Established in 1993, Sunoptic now has offices and showrooms in six European countries - Spain, Germany, France, ...
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Tura has announced the opening of a new design studio...
Tura has announced the opening of a new design studio and showroom in Manhattan's Bryant Park neighborhood. The new space, located on the 21st floor of 989 Avenue of the Americas, will house the company's executives as well as the product design and marketing teams. The company's customer service, warehouse, ...
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VSP Vision Care has announced that it is launching its...
VSP Vision Care has announced that it is launching its vision benefits and services business in Ireland. The not-for-profit vision insurance company, which normally provides eyecare plans in the U.S. and Canada, plans to partner with employee benefit companies, health insurers and flexible benefit consultants across Ireland to make the ...
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Hans Anders saw comparable sales jump 25 percent in France...
Hans Anders saw comparable sales jump 25 percent in France in 2013 versus 2012. The Dutch group, which has 35 percent of the domestic market, had never performed so well in France, where it has been present since 2006. To adapt to the French market and accelerate its development, the company ...
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Rudy Project has inaugurated its first Italian concept store. It...
Rudy Project has inaugurated its first Italian concept store. It is a shop-in-shop within a rather futuristic optical retail store in Montebelluna, VisionOttica Duemme. Designed by Rudy Project's own creative team, it shows all the eyewear products of the company and its helmets. Rudy Project already has many mono-brand stores ...
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Fedon, the leading producer of medium and top-end eyewear cases,...
Fedon, the leading producer of medium and top-end eyewear cases, has reported a turnover of €60,433,000 for 2013, practically the same as in the previous year, but in terms of local currencies it was slightly higher. Alongside its traditional business as supplier of the major eyewear producers, Fedon has begun ...
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Mei's sales increased by 10 percent in 2013 to around...
Mei's sales increased by 10 percent in 2013 to around €30 million. The Italian equipment supplier is introducing several new products for small and medium-sized prescription lens laboratories including Ezfit, a compact lens edger that uses the company's milling technology for increased productivity. After Mido in Milan, it is showing ...
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Together with GfK, the research institute based in Germany, Rodenstock...
Together with GfK, the research institute based in Germany, Rodenstock conducted a representative study on progressive lenses. The respondents stated that they are satisfied with their progressive lenses and that they do not want to miss the comfort of progressive lenses in the future. According to the respondents, the reason ...
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Italy's antitrust regulator fined Novartis and Roche €182.5 million for...
Italy's antitrust regulator fined Novartis and Roche €182.5 million for allegedly colluding to prevent the use of Roche's Avastin, a cancer drug, as a treatment for eye macular degeneration. The two pharmaceutical companies blocked distribution of Avastin in favor of a more expensive drug, Lucentis, which they marketed jointly for ...
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Okia made a big fashion statement at this year's Mido...
Okia made a big fashion statement at this year's Mido fair in Milan by presenting a wide variety of three-dimensional decorations for the fronts and the temples of any frames, with multi-layered patterns and a wide range of colors, based on a further evolution of its HDA technology, which obtained ...
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Inspecs has announced a longterm licensing agreement for eyewear with...
Inspecs has announced a longterm licensing agreement for eyewear with O'Neill, the international surf and young lifestyle brand that had been licensed by Spy since 2009. The agreement covers the design, manufacture and distribution of ophthalmic frames, sunglasses and snow goggles under the O'Neill name. The first collections are being ...
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Another international surf brand, Rip Curl, has licensed its eyewear...
Another international surf brand, Rip Curl, has licensed its eyewear to the recently formed Swiss Eyewear Group (SEG) for Europe and some other parts of the world, starting in spring/summer 2015, with ADSL of France acting as a distributor. The Australian surfwear brand had been previously made only in-house. Formed ...
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Lunettes Grasset has presented its first line of eyewear based...
Lunettes Grasset has presented its first line of eyewear based on a global partnership with Skis Lacroix, a French brand of high-end skis named after a famous former French ski champion, Léo Lacroix. The line features eight styles of sunglasses and four styles of prescription frames made with magnesium, titanium ...
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Oliver Peoples, the eyewear firm founded by Larry Leight in...
Oliver Peoples, the eyewear firm founded by Larry Leight in Los Angeles in 1987 and owned by Luxottica, has announced a partnership with a Parisian designer, Isabel Marant. The sunglasses from their collaboration are said to be combining California cool with Parisian chic. They come in two lightweight styles in ...
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Höet presented at the Mido fair a “Couture” frame in...
Höet presented at the Mido fair a “Couture” frame in titanium, “made in Belgium” with an environment-friendly 3D manufacturing process. It consists of about 7,000 layers of titanium, each of which is 0.02 millimeters thick. The front features a subtle honeycomb structure that makes it more comfortable to wear. It ...
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Among other interesting novelties, Opto-Tech has introduced a completely new...
Among other interesting novelties, Opto-Tech has introduced a completely new star-shaped system for the automatic generation of free-form surfaced lenses, called IQ-Star, based on a new tower structure, that takes up less space than a conventional system. The job trays go through the tower for the different tasks and the ...
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Schalcon, has introduced Lipostamin, an innovative liquid that can be...
Schalcon, has introduced Lipostamin, an innovative liquid that can be sprayed on the eyelids to help combat hay fever and other common forms of allergy to plants and to dust, while moistening the eye. The unique spray is based on liposomes obtained from licorice, euphrasy, caper and helichrysum vegetable extracts. ...
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Carl Zeiss Vision Sunlens has launched a special polycarbonate lens...
Carl Zeiss Vision Sunlens has launched a special polycarbonate lens for ski goggles engineered to soften the shock of passing from bright sun on snow to zones of shadow. The lens consequently improves vision in the shadow. The same technology is adapted to sunglasses used for driving. The company is ...
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As reported by the German advertising journal W&V, the Imas...
As reported by the German advertising journal W&V, the Imas institute in Munich tested the efficiency of radio advertisements and found that Apollo Optik has had the most effective radio spot since January. The Blink advertising agency in Vienna developed the radio spot, in which the German retail chain advertised ...
