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Dieter Kurz has become the new chairman of the Carl...
Dieter Kurz has become the new chairman of the Carl Zeiss Foundation, which controls Carl Zeiss and Schott. He takes the place of Theo Spettmann, who resigned as of March 15 for health reasons.
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Renato Cappuccitti has been named director of sales for Costa...
Renato Cappuccitti has been named director of sales for Costa Sunglasses' RX sun lens division. He has worked most recently as director of professional and business development for For Eyes Optical, one of the major American optical retail chains. He previously held management positions at Hoya, Rodenstock and Vision Systems, ...
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Steve Holden has left his position as the president of...
Steve Holden has left his position as the president of Davis Vision, an HVHC company. The company told VMail that the reasons were unknown. Davis Vision is searching nationally for a successor. Also within HVHC companies, Bob Cox has been named senior vice president for HVHC's human resources shared services. ...
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Bud Doyle has been appointed U.S. national sales director of...
Bud Doyle has been appointed U.S. national sales director of Desert Sunglass of Scottsdale, an American importer and wholesale of unbranded sunglasses, readers, accessories and displays. Doyle has been licensing product manager for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. He subsequently served as marketing manager for the ...
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Oko Eyewear Paris has reported on a distribution agreement for...
Oko Eyewear Paris has reported on a distribution agreement for France, Spain, Portugal, the Benelux countries and Canada with an Australian company, Sunshades Eyewear, for its brands Specs, Henry Holland for Le Specs, Ksubi, Karen Walker and Flint Handcrafted. A press release points out that Le Specs is a brand ...
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The Sun on Sunday, a new U.K. tabloid, recently ran...
The Sun on Sunday, a new U.K. tabloid, recently ran a consumer finance article that predicted that glasses and contact lenses would be the center of the next big supermarket price war. The article found that prices could be four times cheaper in supermarkets than in standalone opticians' practices. It ...
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Italians are largely unaware of how they can prevent and...
Italians are largely unaware of how they can prevent and diagnose glaucoma as well as the harm the disease can cause if not cured, according to a recent survey. It was carried out in Milan over a five-day period in March by Commissione Difesa Vista, an Italian eye care promotion ...
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Johnson & Johnson has conducted research in the U.K. that...
Johnson & Johnson has conducted research in the U.K. that reportedly found a widespread lack of knowledge about astigmatism and ways to correct it. Two-thirds of people surveyed didn't know or didn't think they could wear contact lenses to correct astigmatism, and 80 percent of people with the condition said ...
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A survey by Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, a...
A survey by Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, a U.S. health insurance company, has found that 85 percent of Americans know that managing their vision health now is important for their future, 20 percent of them were too busy for their annual eye exam. Fifty-two percent of the respondents ...
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Independent eye care professionals in the U.S. are still optimistic...
Independent eye care professionals in the U.S. are still optimistic about the industry, according to the February Optical Business Barometer by Jobson Optical Research. The rating hit 3.9, the highest rating the Barometer has seen since it was started in January 2010 and matched only once, in March 2011. The ...
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TWC-L'Amy Group can't stop adding new licensing contracts. Under its...
TWC-L'Amy Group can't stop adding new licensing contracts. Under its latest deal, the French company is replacing Nigura Metzler as the licensee of Cerruti 1881 for prescription frames and sunglasses. The collection includes 35 models of prescription glasses and 25 models of sunglasses. It was unveiled at Mido.
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Stone Island, an Italian men's apparel brand, is diversifying into...
Stone Island, an Italian men's apparel brand, is diversifying into eyewear with a collection of sunglasses, developed in collaboration with a newly established firm backed up by financial investors. The first collections, showcased at Mido, include a limited edition of 400 pieces with a scratch-resistant carbon frame just 3 mm ...
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Through a new global licensing deal, the McGee Group will...
Through a new global licensing deal, the McGee Group will begin designing, manufacturing and distributing Badgley Mischka eyewear and sunwear. The new collections will be available worldwide starting in January 2013. The McGee Group also handles eyewear under the brands Vera Bradley, Orvis, Argyleculture by Russell Simmons, Totally Rimless and ...
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Aspex showcased a collection of sun eyewear at Mido called...
Aspex showcased a collection of sun eyewear at Mido called Turbosun, using a technology called Turboflex with a unique hinge construction that allows the temple to rotate around the end-piece with 360-degree movement in all directions. The company is relatively satisfied with the Greg Norman license – named after the ...
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PFO Global has launched its new SmartEyePix HD dispensing technology,...
PFO Global has launched its new SmartEyePix HD dispensing technology, which gives opticians marketing support, verifies benefits and helps in order management, and also allows for eye and face measurement, and frame and contact lens “try on.” The new generation of the program is a desktop device that can be ...
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Lindberg, the Danish eyewear company, has racked up four new...
Lindberg, the Danish eyewear company, has racked up four new design awards for 2012. It won two prestigious Red Dot awards, one for its 1800 Horn and one for its Acetanium Teen. In addition, the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design honored the company with Good Design awards for ...
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Besides Lindberg and POC (separate story in this issue), Eschenbach...
Besides Lindberg and POC (separate story in this issue), Eschenbach Optik has also won a Red Dot Award for product design. Accompanied by an “honorable mention,” the award has gone to the company's Titanflex 820605 model, which uses Titanflex plate material on the nose bridge instead of memory metal wire. ...
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At the last edition of Optom, the Spanish Optometry Congress,...
At the last edition of Optom, the Spanish Optometry Congress, Spain's General Council of Optometry honored Enrique Orellana, an optometrist who is client services and logistics manager at Carl Zeiss Vision Spain. He was praised for an article he wrote for the General Council's official magazine about the impact of ...
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International Vision Expo East wrapped up its four-day run on...
International Vision Expo East wrapped up its four-day run on March 25, reporting a record crowd at the Javits Center in New York. Preliminary figures show that 16,317 eye care professionals attended, 10 percent more than last year. Final numbers will be available in May. For the first time the ...
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The organizers of the Expooptica fair in Madrid earlier this...
The organizers of the Expooptica fair in Madrid earlier this month report a total of 5,580 visitors and a total of 41 exhibitors presenting 314 brands. The figures are much lower than the 9,200 visitors and nearly 100 exhibitors reported one year ago. As in the previous year, an International ...
