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Carl Zeiss Vision has made a major investment in its...
Carl Zeiss Vision has made a major investment in its prescription glazing facility in the U.K., installing a new MEI Bisphera all-in-one edger with automatic lens verification and blocking to speed up the process and ensure more accurate and consistent results. Separately, Carl Zeiss has temporarily shut down its museum ...
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Luxottica has finalized the acquisition of a 36.3 percent minority...
Luxottica has finalized the acquisition of a 36.3 percent minority stake in Salmoiraghi & Viganò, the leading Italian optical retail chain. The company said that the €45 million transaction is aimed at re-establishing its financial resources and at supporting its future growth.
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Karavan Production has signed an agreement to buy the Buffard...
Karavan Production has signed an agreement to buy the Buffard group, which includes the Folomi, Axebo and Lun'Art companies. The two French entities represent a combined turnover of about €10 million, with an offer of more than 2,000 designer frames and an overall staff of 80 people. The structure of ...
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Bausch+Lomb has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with...
Bausch+Lomb has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through its holding company, WP Prism, relating to the proposed initial public offering of its common stock. According to the SEC filing, the proposed maximum aggregate offering price is $100 million. The number ...
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Mitsui Chemicals Group, based in Tokyo, has agreed to buy...
Mitsui Chemicals Group, based in Tokyo, has agreed to buy 5 percent of the shares of KOC Solution, a maker and distributor of optical lenses monomers based in Korea. After the acquisition, whose terms were not released, KOC will be a subsidiary of Mitsui. Mitsui expects to boost its portfolio ...
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Poc Sweden, a Swedish brand of ski helmets, protective gear...
Poc Sweden, a Swedish brand of ski helmets, protective gear and ski goggles that was recently bought by Black Diamond Inc., an American group in the outdoor and ski sector, is getting its Poc Eyes collection manufactured for the first time by a production partner in Italy. The first generation ...
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Cecop, the international buying group based in Spain, has announced...
Cecop, the international buying group based in Spain, has announced the appointment of a new U.K. country manager, Dominique Gastaldi, replacing Bernhard van Ommen, who will return to his former role of international development director. Under him, the number of affiliated practices in the U.K. rose from 120 to 470 ...
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Bill Munch, former general sales manager of Viva International's retail...
Bill Munch, former general sales manager of Viva International's retail sun division, has joined Allure Eyewear to occupy the newly created position of vice president of sales for its sunglass division, reporting directly to Steve Clarke, president of the New York-based company. Tom O'Neill remains the company's vice president for ...
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OBE Italia has signed an exclusive agreement with Deco Guss...
OBE Italia has signed an exclusive agreement with Deco Guss for the commercialization of precision casting components in Italy. Deco Guss, with headquarters in Siegsdorf, Germany, has been a specialist in this technology since 1981. OBE Italia is a subsidiary of OBE, a German manufacturer of components for spectacles with ...
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Mark Mischik, who has been with Viva International Group since...
Mark Mischik, who has been with Viva International Group since 2010, has been promoted to director of sales in the retail sun division. He joined the company as business manager for licensed brand stores. In his new position he will report to Jan Cory, Viva's senior vice president for sales ...
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Liz Tontodanati has joined Modo Eyewear in the new position...
Liz Tontodanati has joined Modo Eyewear in the new position of vice president of marketing and licensed brands, after working in management positions at Carrera, Marcolin and Viva International. Reporting to Pierre Fey, chief executive of Modo for North America, she will the company's marketing efforts in the U.S. and ...
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César Melo is the new chief executive of FGX International,...
César Melo is the new chief executive of FGX International, a subsidiary of Essilor International that designs and markets eyewear. He was previously the vice president for marketing at Colgate-Palmolive, a large consumer products company where he spent the last 23 years. He succeeds Alec Taylor, who is retiring after ...
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Coopervision has hired Debbie Olive as vice president of marketing...
Coopervision has hired Debbie Olive as vice president of marketing for Europe, along with Dimple Shah as the new professional affairs and relations consultant, with immediate effect. Olive replaces Michael Wilkinson, who has taken up the role of general manager for a new operational region that includes India, Pakistan, the ...
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Safilo, the big Italian manufacturer of eyewear and marketer of its...
Safilo, the big Italian manufacturer of eyewear and marketer of its own Carrera and Smith sports brands, has appointed Philipp Greilberger commercial director for optics and sports at its Austrian subsidiary. The 34-year-old served on the executive board of Nike's subsidiary in charge of Austria and Switzerland.
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Sport-Fachhandel, the German trade publication, reports that Uvex Austria...
Sport-Fachhandel, the German trade publication, reports that Uvex Austria has appointed Alexander “Sandy” Grau to be the new sales and marketing director. The 40-year-old is the son of Werner Grau, the longtime chief executive of the eyewear and helmet manufacturer. He already served the company in the field of sports ...
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Alain Afflelou is investing heavily in the hearing aid sector,...
Alain Afflelou is investing heavily in the hearing aid sector, feeling that it is at a similar stage of development as optical retailing 30 years ago, with challenges in terms of recruitment and consumer awareness. In an interview with Bien Vu, the French entrepreneur said he plans to add about ...
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Krys reports a relatively stable turnover of €934 million for...
Krys reports a relatively stable turnover of €934 million for 2012, compared with €928 million in the previous year, for its network of 1,346 optical retail shaps, trading under various banners. The French buying and franchising group says that their sales grew by 1.1 percent on a same-store basis in ...
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Thai Optical Group came unscathed last year from the floods...
Thai Optical Group came unscathed last year from the floods that paralized its facilities for a short while at the end of 2011, but company officials indicate that it has been struggling lately against low-cost casters in China and other parts of Asia. The company's revenues grew to a total ...
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Last March 20, police in Punta Cana, in the Dominican...
Last March 20, police in Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, found cocaine worth more than €20 million aboard a private Falcon jet owned by Alain Afflelou. Officials reportedly seized 26 suitcases packed with nearly 700 kg of the drug when they boarded the jet minutes before it was due ...
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PPG Industries announced the launch of its new Tribrid lenses...
PPG Industries announced the launch of its new Tribrid lenses on the North American market, in partnership with Thai Optical and X-Cel Optical Company, a major American distributor in which Essilor recently acquired a controlling stake. The 76-year-old lab has already been working with another PPG monomze, Trivex, for the ...
