Latest News Briefs – Page 247
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Salmoiraghi & Viganò has appointed Francesco Iovine as marketing and...
Salmoiraghi & Viganò has appointed Francesco Iovine as marketing and purchasing manager, a position that didn't previously exist in the Italian retail chain. The 40-year-old business and economics graduate previously worked in sales and purchasing for two other major Italian retail groups, Rinascente and Pam, first as category manager and ...
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Marchon has appointed Tony Klijn, a Dutch executive coming from...
Marchon has appointed Tony Klijn, a Dutch executive coming from Luxottica, as managing director of Marchon Germany, responsible also for the Austrian market. The position had remained vacant for about four months following the move of Micha Siebenhandl to the U.S., where he was named vice president of global house ...
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Ashley McEvoy, worldwide president for Ethicon Products at Johnson &...
Ashley McEvoy, worldwide president for Ethicon Products at Johnson & Johnson, will be starting the new year with a new position. The company has just appointed her group chairman of J&J Vision Care, replacing Michael Sneed, who moves on to become vice president, global corporate affairs for Johnson & Johnson ...
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Pearle Vision, a division of Luxottica Retail in the U.S.,...
Pearle Vision, a division of Luxottica Retail in the U.S., has named Srinivas (Srini) Kumar to be its senior vice president and general manager. He is tasked with expanding Pearle Vision's franchise network, much as he did in his previous position as president and chief operating officer of Baskin-Robbins International. ...
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Gilda Mehraban has been promoted to be director of brand...
Gilda Mehraban has been promoted to be director of brand management at REM Eyewear. She was previously the brand manager of Tumi and Jones New York, having joined REM just six months ago. She will oversee all the brands, which also include John Varvatos and Converse. Her background is in ...
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Having moved to direct distribution in the U.K., the German...
Having moved to direct distribution in the U.K., the German company Heidelberg is working on building up its own team there. It has selected Kenny Boyle and Tosh Vadhia as regional business managers, handling the north and the south, respectively. Phill Ennion is the sales and technical support manager for ...
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Bob Hughes has stepped down suddenly from his position at...
Bob Hughes has stepped down suddenly from his position at the helm the country's Association of Optometrists, but according to Optician, he doesn't want to go into specifics about why. When the British magazine tracked the British industry veteran down for details, all he would say was that his reasons ...
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Orange 21 is bringing Jim Pritts on board to be...
Orange 21 is bringing Jim Pritts on board to be a consultant for its Spy Optic brand. He will help push research and development for lens technologies and also work with Spy Optic on product design and development, sourcing, quality, technology communication, intellectual property, and marketing and training. Pritts has ...
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Jim McGrann will take over as president of VSP Vision...
Jim McGrann will take over as president of VSP Vision Care as of Jan. 1. Until now he has been the chief technology officer for VSP Global – a role he will continue – and the chief executive of Eyefinity. Before joining VSP in 2008, he was senior vice president ...
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Alain Afflelou, the French optician who still owns a large...
Alain Afflelou, the French optician who still owns a large minority stake in the optical retail network named after him, has become president of Aviron Bayonnais, one of the leading rugby teams in France, where he is the major shareholder. He is said to have invested €4 million annually into ...
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REM Eyewear recently signed a new distribution contract for the...
REM Eyewear recently signed a new distribution contract for the promotion of Converse eyewear products in Germany. The new partner, Freudenhaus, produces its own eyewear brands and also distributes brands such as Nine, Gorge, Gina & Lucy and La Loop accessories. Freudenhaus owns four stores in Munich, where it also ...
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Hoet, an eyewear producer from Belgium, will be exhibiting at...
Hoet, an eyewear producer from Belgium, will be exhibiting at Opti in January, presenting new models from its Cabrio sunglasses collection and new accessories for optical stores, following a change in its distribution model. Hoet's business activities fall into three different categories: the Hoet collection of premium eyeglasses, which is ...
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Moscot has signed a deal with its Mexican distributor, Independent...
Moscot has signed a deal with its Mexican distributor, Independent Eyeware, to take its products to several countries in South America. Moscot, the New York-based eyewear retailers and supplier, is the company of The Moscot Originals, Moscot Originals Sun and Moscot Spirit collections. Through the expanded partnership, they will be ...
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Luxottica's latest idea for a pop-up store holds water …...
Luxottica's latest idea for a pop-up store holds water … or rather, water holds it. The company recently set a Sunglass Hut concept store afloat in Sydney Harbor in Australia. In late November, the company located the floating store in three different locations in the harbor, and donated 10 percent ...
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Italia Independent has inaugurated its second Italian concept store in...
Italia Independent has inaugurated its second Italian concept store in Alessandria, in the Piedmont region, in partnership with a retailer called Gruppo Ottica Ottobelli. The first store was opened in nearby Liguria, in the holiday resort of Alassio. The store offers the group's complete product range, from eyewear to clothing, ...
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On Black Friday, the day after the Thanksgiving celebration in...
On Black Friday, the day after the Thanksgiving celebration in the U.S., Luxottica's Sunglass Hut increased year-on-year sales by 20 percent, beating the group's own expectations, Luxottica's chief executive, Andrea Guerra, told the Italian daily Il Sole 24 Ore.
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Independent opticians in the U.S. are enjoying an upward positive...
Independent opticians in the U.S. are enjoying an upward positive moment according to the monthly Optical Business Barometer of Jobson Optical Research. Based on a scale of 1 for very negative to 5 for very positive, the mood in November was better than neutral. The index rose to 3.5 during ...
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Since Dec. 10, cadmium, a bluish-white toxic metallic element related...
Since Dec. 10, cadmium, a bluish-white toxic metallic element related to zinc and sometimes found in zinc ore, will no longer be authorized in jewelry in the European Union above a level of 0.01 percent of the contents. The new regulation, UE 494/2011, does not specifically mention eyewear, but Certottica, ...
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A coalition of British groups including the College of Optometrists,...
A coalition of British groups including the College of Optometrists, the Optical Confederation and the Royal National Institute of Blind People has come up with a strategy designed to improve public eye health. The strategy, available at www.college-optometrists.org/opticalstrategy, includes training more ophthalmic public health experts, improving data and evidence for ...
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The U.K. has closed a loophole in VAT regulations for...
The U.K. has closed a loophole in VAT regulations for products that come from the Channel Islands, which includes a small number of contact lenses destined for Boots Opticians. The chain has said that it will absorb any additional costs, however, keeping the prices for customers the same. Boots will ...
