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Pearle Vision plans to expand in the U.S. this year,...
Pearle Vision plans to expand in the U.S. this year, while converting some stores from corporate owned shops to franchises. VMail reports that Pearle, a Luxottica Retail company, is looking at converting 34 of its stores out of its 622 locations in the U.S., 266 of which are company-run. Among ...
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Christian Dehn is leaving the laboratory of Schulz Optische Fabrik in...
Christian Dehn is leaving the laboratory of Schulz Optische Fabrik in Glücksburg, Germany. After three years of restructuring the company, Dehn will be assuming a new post in the management of a company outside the optical industry. The Michael Pachleitner Group (MPG), which owns the German laboratory, has seized the opportunity to ...
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Johnson & Johnson has plans to invest more than €100...
Johnson & Johnson has plans to invest more than €100 million in the expansion of its Vistakon Ireland manufacturing operations in Limerick, creating 100 permanent production jobs in the process. The announcement was made by IDA Ireland, the national investment promotion agency, and was later confirmed by Richard Burton, the ...
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Essilor has bought X-Cel Optical, an ophthalmic lens maker based...
Essilor has bought X-Cel Optical, an ophthalmic lens maker based in Minnesota, for an undisclosed price. VMail reports that Joe Doescher, X-Cel's chief executive and president, and Wayne Gottwalt, the chief financial officer, will keep a 20 percent stake in the company. It had been privately held by Doescher's family ...
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Essilor has acquired 68.3 percent of the capital of Interactif...
Essilor has acquired 68.3 percent of the capital of Interactif Visuel Système, a French company that provides technological sales support solutions for opticians. Its range of sales support and ophthalmic measurement solutions are marketed under the brand name Activisu. One of these is Visioffice, a measuring column designed jointly with ...
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Marchon Eyewear has set up a new sales division that...
Marchon Eyewear has set up a new sales division that will be focusing only on servicing the sporting goods sector in the Europe,Middle Eastand Africa (EMEA) region. It will notably handle sales of performance sunglasses and snow goggles for its long-standing Nike Vision license, as well as action sports sunglasses ...
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Massimo Stefanello has been appointed chief financial officer and chief...
Massimo Stefanello has been appointed chief financial officer and chief operating officer of Marcolin. He held various positions at Geox and its parent company from 2005, including corporate manager and financial manager of LIR, the holding company that controls Geox. Valerio Giacobbi has been appointed general manager for sales, marketing ...
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Borsalino Eyewear will be distributed in Korea and “Big China”...
Borsalino Eyewear will be distributed in Korea and “Big China” – the Republic of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan - by a Korean company, Miottica. The exclusive distribution agreement for these markets was signed by Brands O.I., which produces Borsalino and Miottica Korea eyewear. Under the terms of the five-year ...
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The Italian eyewear manufacturer Immagine 98 started selling its products...
The Italian eyewear manufacturer Immagine 98 started selling its products directly in Germany and Switzerland this month. The objective is to support the collections X-Ide and Rye & Lye in these markets. Through the end of 2012, Immagine 98's products were distribued by BBM Brillenfaszination. With the decision to distribute ...
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Zeiss' board of directors has extended the contracts of Dr....
Zeiss' board of directors has extended the contracts of Dr. Michael Kaschke, chief executive, and Thomas Spitzenpfeil, chief financial officer, for an additional five years, from Oct. 1, 2013, to Oct. 1, 2018. Kaschke has been on the company's executive board since October 2000. He was named Zeiss' chief executive ...
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Jim Greenwood has been named the president and chief operating...
Jim Greenwood has been named the president and chief operating officer of Vision Source, an optometric alliance based in Texas. He will report to Glenn Ellisor, the company's chief executive and founder. He comes from Concentra, where he was CEO for the last five years. He joined that company in ...
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Safilens will use the Opti fair in Munich to launch Ottiko, a...
Safilens will use the Opti fair in Munich to launch Ottiko, a new website for the German-speaking countries that was launched first in Switzerland on Jan. 1. It allows its registered dealers in the region to visualize and select online any of the lenses in the Italian company's range, and to order them with a ...
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Smarteyes, a Sweden-based optical retail chain with 40 stores in...
Smarteyes, a Sweden-based optical retail chain with 40 stores in Sweden and Germany, continues its expansion on the German market. On Jan. 15, Smarteyes opened a new store in Stuttgart, encompassing 125 square meters. The German headquarters of the company will be moved into that same building from its current ...
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Delfin, the holding company of Leonardo Del Vecchio and his...
Delfin, the holding company of Leonardo Del Vecchio and his family, which is registered in Luxembourg, reportedly had a net profit of €436 million back in 2011, or 17.9 percent less than in 2010, although its operating profit improved by €109 million to €802 million. The company closed the financial year ...
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Sales rose by 2.9 percent in French optical stores during...
Sales rose by 2.9 percent in French optical stores during the last quarter of 2012 as compared to the previous three months, says the Bank of France. The optical sector performed much better than the rest of the retail sector, which declined by 1 percent. Only pharmacies did better, with sales ...
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A.T. Cross has said that it expects to meet its...
A.T. Cross has said that it expects to meet its guidance of earnings per share of 70 cents for 2012, against 64 cents in 2011, mainly due to strong sales of its Native and Costa eyewear. Both Costa and Native are designed, produced and marketed by the Cross Optical Group, a wholly ...
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All of Specsavers' joint venture companies (JVCs) must register with...
All of Specsavers' joint venture companies (JVCs) must register with the General Optical Council (GOC). As reported by Optician, the GOC in the U.K. opened an investigation after receiving a complaint about unregistered Specsavers' JVCs and subsequently made its policy on registration of corporate bodies clear to the multiple, triggering ...
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Alain Afflelou, the 64-year-old founder of the eponymous French-based chain...
Alain Afflelou, the 64-year-old founder of the eponymous French-based chain of franchised opticians, will be leaving France for Britain in a move that might be connected with the announcement by the French government of a 75 percent super-tax on revenues beyond €1 million. Other famous French millionaires and personalities announced ...
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REM Eyewear has extended its licensing agreement with John Varvatos...
REM Eyewear has extended its licensing agreement with John Varvatos through 2018. Born in Detroit, Varvatos launched his collection of tailored menswear and sportswear in 2000. He has since developed his namesake line into a lifestyle brand applied also to shoes, bags, belts, watches and fragrances, in addition to eyewear. ...
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Luxottica has expanded its collection of Dolce & Gabbana eyewear...
Luxottica has expanded its collection of Dolce & Gabbana eyewear by adding a line of prescription frames and sunglasses for children. They are generally downsized version of the adult models in the line, but some of them have a fairy-tale inspiration.
