Latest News Briefs – Page 214
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Schneider has acquired Team Heinrich & Krall, a German manufacturer...
Schneider has acquired Team Heinrich & Krall, a German manufacturer of optical equipment, founded in1992 by Dieter Heinrich and Jürgen Krall, that has developed innovative automated solutions for deblocking, cleaning and tinting ophthalmic lenses. It has around 300 machines installed around the world. Heinrich and Krall will continue as joint ...
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Hoya has decided to invest in InnFocus, a company that...
Hoya has decided to invest in InnFocus, a company that has developed a small tube used to treat open angle glaucoma. The tube is made of a soft biocompatible material and is designed to significantly reduce operation time. Test trials with the tube have already received the CE mark in ...
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The owners of Bushnell have apparently made some progress in...
The owners of Bushnell have apparently made some progress in their efforts to sell the company with a high capital gain. According to various reports, ATK is in advanced discussions over the acquisition of the American optics company in a deal that would value it at around $1 billion. The ...
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Creating a new position, Marchon has appointed a new executive,...
Creating a new position, Marchon has appointed a new executive, Manlio Ciralli, to the position of vice president of international brands, responsible for all the European licenses of the company. Pierre Bessez, former executive vice president of European designer brands, will take on the new role of senior vice president ...
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CooperVision has appointed Juan Carlos Aragon to the newly created...
CooperVision has appointed Juan Carlos Aragon to the newly created position of senior vice president in charge of global professional and clinical affairs, covering both developed and emerging markets. He has been in the sector for nearly three decades. Aragon joined CVI in 2000 after working for Bausch & Lomb ...
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Coburn Technologies has promoted Jason Smith to director of marketing...
Coburn Technologies has promoted Jason Smith to director of marketing communications. He replaces Curt Brey, who has left the Connecticut-based company to pursue opportunities outside of the industry. In his new role, Smith will be in charge of the development of all the marketing strategies for the company and will ...
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Marchon has signed a deal with Snowide to improve the...
Marchon has signed a deal with Snowide to improve the penetration of its Nike Vision range of eyewear in the French sporting goods retail channel. Born in 2010 and based in Geneva, Snowide owns a couple of snowboard brands, APO and White Doctor. It also distributes a variety of action ...
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Adlens has entered the Chinese market by opening an office...
Adlens has entered the Chinese market by opening an office in Shanghai. Managed by a new director of the Asia-Pacific region, Florence Cheng, the office will be responsible for developing this brand of variable-focus eyewear in the region, to handle wholesale and general sales, and to manage import and export ...
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Pearle Vision, a division of Luxottica Retail, has agreed to...
Pearle Vision, a division of Luxottica Retail, has agreed to convert 13 company-owned stores in the U.S. to licensed operations. According to VMail, this is part of its plans to license out 34 stores to independent opticians in ten different states and to enlist other licensees. In the longer term, ...
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Fielmann continued to post a sales increase on a comparable...
Fielmann continued to post a sales increase on a comparable store basis in the second quarter end June 30, according to company officials. The German optical retailer released preliminary figures for the second quarter last month showing that its unit sales were up by 4.0 percent to 1.83 million pairs ...
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Optiker Bode, the German chain of optical shops, reports that...
Optiker Bode, the German chain of optical shops, reports that its sales increased by 11 percent to €24.8 million in the first half of this year, as compared to the same period of 2012. Optiker Bode is one of the four biggest German chains of optical shops. With its 73 ...
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Conad, the Italian cooperative of hypermarket stores, says its sales...
Conad, the Italian cooperative of hypermarket stores, says its sales of optical products grew by 10 percent on a comparable store basis in the first half of this year, performing better than food and other types of products. In the last three years, Conad has opened eight optical counters in ...
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Allergan reported double-digit sales and earnings growth for the second...
Allergan reported double-digit sales and earnings growth for the second quarter ended June 30. The diversified health care company reported net earnings of $359.9 million for the quarter, compared with $295.4 million for the second quarter of 2012. Product sales were $1,577.0 million for the quarter, representing a 10.6 percent ...
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The French Senate passed new guidelines on July 24 for...
The French Senate passed new guidelines on July 24 for the reimbursement of eye care expenses by the mutual insurance funds as a complement to those of the social security system, authorizing them to choose the opticians that they want to work with. Some of the guidelines must still be ...
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Vittorio Tabacchi, former president of Safilo, was reappointed president of...
Vittorio Tabacchi, former president of Safilo, was reappointed president of Eurom 1, the European federation of optical industries, for one more year. The decision was made at the annual meeting of the organization, which took place this time in the Berlin offices of Spectaris, the German optical industry association.
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The American Optometric Society (AOS) has been ordered to cease...
The American Optometric Society (AOS) has been ordered to cease operations and liquidate its assets following the conversion on July 18 by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Central District of California of its bankruptcy case from one under Chapter 11 to one under Chapter 7, as requested by a ...
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Ocuco reports that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has...
Ocuco reports that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted its request to re-examine Seiko-Epson's U.S. Patent 6,019,470, which covers the invention of back-surface, freeform progressive lenses. The government body said on July 1 that Ocuco's request raises “a substantial new question of patentability” for the claims #1 to ...
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Google has started an administrative procedure against Glass Up, an...
Google has started an administrative procedure against Glass Up, an Italian start-up based in Modena, over the use of the “Glass Up” brand name, which the American giant considers to be too similar to the name of its own Google Glass product. The Glass Up device, created in 2011 by ...
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Safilo Group and Fossil Group have renewed their licensing agreement...
Safilo Group and Fossil Group have renewed their licensing agreement for Fossil branded prescription frames through December 2018. The scope of the agreement has also been extended to include Fossil sunglasses and to give Safilo the right to distribute Fossil eyewear worldwide. The deal was previously limited to the U.S. ...
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Marchon and Italia Independent, which has just made a much-publicized...
Marchon and Italia Independent, which has just made a much-publicized initial public offering on the Italian Bourse, have announced a two-year collaboration agreement for a co-branded capsule collection of Karl Lagerfeld eyewear. Italia Independent will distribute the line exclusively in its domestic market. Marchon, which has been Lagerfeld's eyewear licensee ...
