Latest News Briefs – Page 205
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Safilo Group has appointed Henri Blomqvist to the newly established...
Safilo Group has appointed Henri Blomqvist to the newly established role of global commercial director. He will report to the group chief executive, Luisa Delgado, and will oversee all commercial wholesale operations worldwide. Blomqvist spent the last 10 years at Procter & Gamble, where he held a variety of roles ...
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Safilo USA has announced the retirement of Dick Russo, executive...
Safilo USA has announced the retirement of Dick Russo, executive vice president in charge of the commercial activities for North America, after 42 years of service. Glenn Rusk, who previously led Safilo's Canadian business, has been named the new commercial senior vice president of Safilo North America and has become ...
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Marchon Eyewear has set up a new management team for...
Marchon Eyewear has set up a new management team for Europe, the Middle East and Africa that will report to Nicola Zotta, managing director of the EMEA region. The former country manager for Spain and Portugal, Marco De Davide, is now regional business director for Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain and ...
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Nicola Brandolese has become the new president of Retail Optical...
Nicola Brandolese has become the new president of Retail Optical of Americas, a new position at Luxottica where he will supervise all the group's retail operations in North and South America. A former project director for the Boston Consulting Group and a former manager of Sky Italy at News Corporation, ...
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Jim Stepanek has been promoted to the position of executive...
Jim Stepanek has been promoted to the position of executive vice president of Spy. He was previously vice president in charge of its optical division, responsible for its RX business. Stepanek brings nearly 20 years of experience in the optical industry, including stations at Rem Eyewear, Revo and Signature Eyewear. ...
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Alessandro Lanaro, owner and global chief executive of Modo North...
Alessandro Lanaro, owner and global chief executive of Modo North America, has been taking care of its North American operations directly since Jan. 1. The move follows the departure of Pierre Fay, who had been running the company in North America since 2011. He has become CEO of a new ...
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The German opticians' association, ZVA, has a new chief executive...
The German opticians' association, ZVA, has a new chief executive from this month. Jan Wetzel succeeds Joachim Goerdt, who retires after working for 31 years at ZVA. Goerdt become managing director of ZVA in March 1983 and became chief executive in April 1990. Wetzel, who has been legal adviser to ...
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Hans Gottfried Schmidt, owner of Licefa, left the executive board...
Hans Gottfried Schmidt, owner of Licefa, left the executive board of the company in autumn last year. He is now a member of the supervisory board. Frank Alraun, former sales director at Licefa, and Thomas Lange, former technical director, form the new management of the company and started to act ...
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Sheetal Patel is the new manager of the Johnson &...
Sheetal Patel is the new manager of the Johnson & Johnson's Vision Care Institute in the U.K. She will be responsible for delivering education strategies that improve the way ECPs provide care to their patients, the institute said. Prior to her new role, Patel was an associate optometrist at a ...
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Jason Kirk, founder of Kirk & Kirk, has been appointed...
Jason Kirk, founder of Kirk & Kirk, has been appointed business development director at Inspecs. In his new role, he will concentrate on developing acetate production at the Inspecs-owned Algha Works factory in East London, which produces the Savile Row eyewear collection. Besides developing the Savile Row brand, the Algha ...
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Adlens has announced a distribution partnership with a new London-based...
Adlens has announced a distribution partnership with a new London-based company, Rassin E&F Eyewear and Fashion, for the sale of its variable focus eyewear in Israel. The new company is owned and managed by Efrat Rassin, who has 15 years of experience in the eyewear sector. His family founded and ...
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iC! Berlin has taken over the distribution of its products...
iC! Berlin has taken over the distribution of its products in the U.K. While sales in Russia and the Ukraine are still carried out by a distributor, Luxury House, sales in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary are handled directly by representatives of the German company since the ...
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Oliver Goldsmith Spectacles, the company owned by the senior Oliver...
Oliver Goldsmith Spectacles, the company owned by the senior Oliver Goldsmith, took over the distribution of its products in Europe in mid-2013, working through sales representatives employed by the company in all markets. The British eyewear brand exhibited for the first time at the Opti show in Munich in order ...
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Gloryfy, the young eyewear brand from Austria known for its...
Gloryfy, the young eyewear brand from Austria known for its unbreakable sunglasses and ski goggles, took over its distribution in Italy on Jan. 1 this year. In France, the company has hired a distributor, Visi Optis, who started to sell Gloryfy products last October. In Sweden and Norway, Gloryfy is ...
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Seiko will start to sell in South Africa from 2014...
Seiko will start to sell in South Africa from 2014 by setting up its own subsidiary in Johannesburg in February. Seiko has also acquired its Italian distributor and will be setting up a subsidiary in Italy by April 2014. After buying Seiko's lens development and manufacturing business in February 2013, ...
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Mykita opened its second store in Switzerland in December in...
Mykita opened its second store in Switzerland in December in Zermatt. The store has a focus on Mykita's Mylon collection. A franchise partner, who also partly owns and runs the German brand's store in Zürich, will manage the unit in Zermatt. Mykita already has stores in Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Tokyo ...
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TD Tom Davies, the British eyewear brand, has established a...
TD Tom Davies, the British eyewear brand, has established a system whereby opticians get frames on consignment, provided that they order at least 200 units. If the sales target is achieved during the first year, the process continues free-of-charge in the following year. The company will open its first mono-brand ...
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Claiming to have become the largest European online retailer, Mister...
Claiming to have become the largest European online retailer, Mister Spex reports that it reached sales of €47 million in 2013, but they were apparently lower on a consolidated basis. Company officials said the figure refers to the annualized turnover of the company, comprising the sales for the whole year ...
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Etnia Barcelona, the Spanish eyewear brand, reached a total sales...
Etnia Barcelona, the Spanish eyewear brand, reached a total sales volume of 580,000 frames in 2013, representing an increase of 26 percent as compared to the previous year. The biggest increases in Europe in terms of volume were recorded in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. In France, the company sold ...
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Cazal raised its sales by 16 percent in volume and...
Cazal raised its sales by 16 percent in volume and value last year, thanks especially to its new vintage styles, which sold very well in the U.S., France and the U.K. While sales declined in Germany by 3 percent, they rose in France by 53 percent and in the U.S. ...
