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The German opticians' association, ZVA, opened an account for donations...
The German opticians' association, ZVA, opened an account for donations to opticians affected by the recent floods and severe weather conditions in eastern and southern Germany. A contribution from the ZVA of €10,000 was set to be forwarded to affected businesses without any deduction for administrative charges. During the “hundred-year ...
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The Cooper Companies has announced an agreement for the sale...
The Cooper Companies has announced an agreement for the sale by CooperVision (CVI) of Aime, a Japanese supplier of rigid gas permeable contact lenses and solutions, to Nippon Contact Lens Inc. The divestiture, which is subject to numerous conditions, should have a neutral effect on Cooper's earnings per share. CVI ...
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Essilor of America has acquired a majority stake in EyeBuyDirect.com,...
Essilor of America has acquired a majority stake in EyeBuyDirect.com, according to VMail, the American online news service of Jobson Publishing. Founded in 2005 by Roy Hessel, its chief executive, EyeBuyDirect is a leading online optical retailer with operations in the U. S., China, and Hong Kong. Hessel will continue ...
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Eyewear Designs is relocating to a larger space of 50,000...
Eyewear Designs is relocating to a larger space of 50,000 square feet in a recently renovated building on the site of the former Grumman Aerospace Corporation in Bethpage, New York. Phone numbers and email addresses remain the same.
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Hoya Vision Care Europe has appointed Olga Prenat as the...
Hoya Vision Care Europe has appointed Olga Prenat as the new dean of its Faculty Education & Experience Center in Budapest, taking the place of Hans Warntjes who is retiring after working for the Japanese company for 24 years, the last five for the Budapest center. Prenat is the director ...
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Patrice Pineau has been promoted to managing director of Hoya...
Patrice Pineau has been promoted to managing director of Hoya France. He joined the French subsidiary in 2004 as commercial director. For the past three years, he acted as deputy general manager, working under Hans Werquin, president of Hoya Vision Care Europe. Pineau's stated goal is to attain a 15 ...
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Kenji Ema is set to retire as chief financial officer...
Kenji Ema is set to retire as chief financial officer of Hoya Corporation at this year's general shareholders' meeting, but he will continue to sit on the board of directors. Ema has been on the company\'s board for 20 years.
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Safilo, the large Italian manufacturer of eyewear and marketer of its...
Safilo, the large Italian manufacturer of eyewear and marketer of its own Carrera and Smith sports brands, appointed Stefan Schmaus as key account manager at its German subsidiary in Cologne. He will be responsible for the management of all key accounts in Germany and Austria. The 38-year old business economist worked previously ...
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Essilor International has appointed Maureen Cavanagh as representative of employee...
Essilor International has appointed Maureen Cavanagh as representative of employee shareholders to the company's board of directors. Cavanagh, of American nationality, has been president of two Essilor subsidiaries, Nassau Lens Company and the OOGP buying group, since 2009. She joined Essilor in 2005, following the acquisition of Definity from Johnson ...
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Birmingham Optical has extended its distribution contract with Nidek for...
Birmingham Optical has extended its distribution contract with Nidek for the U.K. Motoki Ozawa, president of Nidek, visited Optrafair show in Birmingham for the first time in April to sign the new contract with Christopher Tyler, chief executive of the British firm, which has been representing the Japanese company for ...
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Vision Express in the U.K. has bought 12 out of...
Vision Express in the U.K. has bought 12 out of the 18 British stores of Crown Eyeglass, the optical retailer based in Blackburn. Vision Express, however, is to close eight of those 12 shops, thus bringing its overall store network to 331 units. The remaining four Crown Optical Centre stores ...
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Carl Zeiss reports that its Vision Care segment achieved a...
Carl Zeiss reports that its Vision Care segment achieved a “clearly positive” operating result in the first half of the group's financial year, ended last March 31, although its sales dropped slightly to €419 million from €432 million in the corresponding period of a year earlier. The group, which fully ...
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Atol, a major French cooperative of opticians, posted 3.3 percent...
Atol, a major French cooperative of opticians, posted 3.3 percent growth in retail sales on a same-store basis in 2012, reaching a turnover of €400.4 million at its 806 affiliated shops. The company said that last year two-thirds of its retailers registered a satisfactory performance, attributing it to their quality-oriented ...
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In the U.K. optical sector, the gap between companies making...
In the U.K. optical sector, the gap between companies making profits and those losing money has been widening. Plimsoll, a U.K.-based business intelligence firm providing a range of industry reports, analyzed data from the country's top 735 opticians and found that 304 had recorded losses while 33 had made record ...
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Mister Spex, a leading German online retailer, received an investment...
Mister Spex, a leading German online retailer, received an investment of over €16 million at the end of a third funding round in May this year. The main investor is a new shareholder, the Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) investment fund, but the initial investors, DN Capital and Xange, participated in ...
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VSP Vision Care, the largest vision care insurance company in...
VSP Vision Care, the largest vision care insurance company in the U.S., has announced that it will expand its eyecare offerings to the U.K. by forming a company called VSP Neighborhood Eyecare, in line with its previous expansion into Australia and Canada under the same name. Jeremy Chadwick has been ...
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Thomsons Online Benefits, in alliances aimed at raising awareness of...
Thomsons Online Benefits, in alliances aimed at raising awareness of the importance of eye examinations and corrective eyewear as a program sponsored by employers in behalf of their staff. AOP and VSP will establish a user group to enable members of the VSP Neighbourhood Eyecare network to provide feedback and ...
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Gem Lunetterie, a French company that has been specializing in...
Gem Lunetterie, a French company that has been specializing in children's eyewear, has announced signing a licensing contract for adult glasses with Torrente, a 45-year-old Parisian fashion house. The first collection will be presented at the next Silmo show in Paris.
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Pregiata Eyewear, a new Italian company based in Padua, the city...
Pregiata Eyewear, a new Italian company based in Padua, the city of Safilo, and Tom Rebl, an emerging underground fashion brand, have announced an international license deal, which expires at the end 2020, for the production and distribution worldwide of a line of sunglasses and optical frames. The first collection will be seen at ...
