Latest News Briefs – Page 204
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Silhouette has announced collaboration with the Felder sisters. Annette and...
Silhouette has announced collaboration with the Felder sisters. Annette and Daniela Felder, the German twins behind the Felder Felder fashion label, have collaborated with the Austrian eyewear brand on a selection of glasses they created especially for their autumn/winter fashion show in London. The glasses were revealed last February during ...
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Visionix has announced the release of a new automatic lensmeter....
Visionix has announced the release of a new automatic lensmeter. The VX35, built with patented Visionix Power Map technology, is a wavefront-based lensmeter featuring a 130-point simultaneous measurement, for rapid and accurate measurements. This new instrument saves time by using the same method for measuring both prescription and UV transmission. ...
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Samsung is believed to be preparing its own “smart glasses”...
Samsung is believed to be preparing its own “smart glasses” to rival Google's. The South Korean firm is expected to launch the gadget at the IFA trade show in Berlin on Sept. 5-10, according to reports. Google has so far refused to reveal when it will put Glass on general ...
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Employees of the Virgin Atlantic airline will be equipped with...
Employees of the Virgin Atlantic airline will be equipped with Google glasses from now on. According to the airline, the aim is to enhance the information service for first-class passengers and to make flying more glamorous. In the framework of a six-week testing phase, Virgin Atlantic has equipped its employees ...
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Oakley unveiled details of its new global marketing campaign at...
Oakley unveiled details of its new global marketing campaign at a special dinner at its fortress-like headquarters in Foothill Ranch, California on Feb. 24. For the launch of its “Disruptive by Design” campaign, Oakley invited guests from five continents, including a group of Olympians who flew in straight from the ...
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Fleye, a recent successful start-up in Danish eyewear design that...
Fleye, a recent successful start-up in Danish eyewear design that we have already reported about at length, has been honored with the iF Product Design Award 2014 for its handmade eyewear model “Ori 925.” The awarded design will be presented at the next eyewear trade shows in Italy, Britain, the ...
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Rudy Project has announced a long-term partnership with World Triathlon...
Rudy Project has announced a long-term partnership with World Triathlon Corporation and an expanded presence at Ironman events around the globe. The agreement, designating the Italian company as the official helmet supplier to Ironman for North America, originated at the 2013 GoPro Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii and has ...
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Carl Zeiss has launched a new application for consumers to...
Carl Zeiss has launched a new application for consumers to test whether their eyes suffer from digital vision stress. The app, which is available free of charge, calculates how long the eyes need to focus when looking alternately at an object in the distance and a digital device. According to ...
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Götti, the Swiss eyewear brand that owns the Swiss lens...
Götti, the Swiss eyewear brand that owns the Swiss lens manufacturer Eyetech, has won the 2014 German Design Award 2014 in the lifestyle category for a new style of sunglasses, Xanadu, from its Spin & Stow collection. The patented Spin & Stow functionality allows the sunglasses to be folded flat ...
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The organizers of the new 100% Optical fair in London...
The organizers of the new 100% Optical fair in London say that it is “here to stay” after it welcomed a total of 5,483 professional visitors including 250 buyers from major retail accounts including Specsavers and Vision Express. More than 3,200 attended its education sessions. A 3D Frame Factory was ...
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Ital-Lenti has announced that this year's theme for its participation...
Ital-Lenti has announced that this year's theme for its participation at Mido will be “Colors&Co – Conversazioni tra i sensi.” The concept embodies the idea of the dominance of vision over the other senses, combined with an emphasis on the key role of the color, which enables us to create ...
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International Vision Expo East will welcome more than 100 affiliate...
International Vision Expo East will welcome more than 100 affiliate partners and alumni groups at its new Education & Partner Pavilion, which will open for the first time at this year's edition of the trade show, to be held on March 26-30 at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New ...
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The projected “Look Istanbul - Design Optics Order Show” will...
The projected “Look Istanbul - Design Optics Order Show” will not take place this year. GHM, organizer of the Opti trade show in Munich since 2009, had planned to organize a new eyewear event in Istanbul on May, 5. Although frame manufacturers from Germany expressed their desire for a trade ...
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Silhouette International is mourning the loss of its co-founder, Arnold...
Silhouette International is mourning the loss of its co-founder, Arnold Schmied, Sr., who passed away on Jan. 31 following a long illness. He was 89. Schmied and his wife, Anneliese, founded the company in 1964 with the objective of turning what were once considered medical, visual aids into fashion accessories. ...
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CORRECTION: Oliver Goldsmith Spectacles is not changing the distribution of...
CORRECTION: Oliver Goldsmith Spectacles is not changing the distribution of its products in Europe, as reported in our last issue. It's Oliver Godsmith Sunglasses, the British company run by Oliver Goldsmith's niece Claire, that is selling directly to the opticians.
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Lenstore, the online contact lens retailer, has been acquired by...
Lenstore, the online contact lens retailer, has been acquired by GrandVision for an undisclosed amount. Mitesh and Olga Patel, who founded Lenstore in 2008, will remain with the Guernsey-registered business. Lenstore, which offers its customers a same-day delivery service, saw sales grow beyond £5 million (€6.1m-$8.2m) in 2012.
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Menicon, the contact lens manufacturer from Japan, has opened a...
Menicon, the contact lens manufacturer from Japan, has opened a multi-purpose center for contact lenses in Emmen, the Netherlands, in collaboration with NKL Contactlenzen, Menicon's strategic partner in the Netherlands, in which it has a financial stake. A facility measuring 4,675 square meters has been established for the production of ...
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A new German company, Primus Optik, acquired MDA, a bankrupt German...
A new German company, Primus Optik, acquired MDA, a bankrupt German marketing group for opticians, on Jan. 1 this year. The headquarters of the company remain in Lorch, keeping 18 of the former 22 jobs. The acquisition was implemented through a management-buy-out by Gabi Rothgerber, product development director of the MDA, ...
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For the fourth consecutive year, Zeiss is giving a share...
For the fourth consecutive year, Zeiss is giving a share of profits to all employees under a collectively agreed scheme. Each of them received a bonus of more than €1,000 pre-tax based on the results for the business year ended on Sept. 30.
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Coburn Technologies has announced the construction of a new express...
Coburn Technologies has announced the construction of a new express logistics center at its headquarters in South Windsor, Connecticut, to replace the current distribution warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky. The new facility should provide customers with faster delivery times, improved on-time deliveries and, in some cases, lower overall freight costs, the ...
