Latest News Briefs – Page 261
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Immagine Eyewear of Italy is expanding in Turkey and South...
Immagine Eyewear of Italy is expanding in Turkey and South Africa with new distributors for its X-ide and Rye&Lye brands. Delta Optik will handle the company's brands in Turkey, a potentially lucrative market as its economy expands. GM Optical Fashion Group is in charge of the South African market, the ...
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The Walman Optical Group in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has signed on...
The Walman Optical Group in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has signed on to be part of PixelOptics' emPower lab network in the U.S. Walman, the largest independent wholesale laboratory network in the U.S., comprises Walman Optical, Soderberg Optical and Harbor Optical, and has a total of more than 40 branch offices in ...
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VM has released its listing of the top 50 optical...
VM has released its listing of the top 50 optical retailers in the U.S. in 2010, and for the 12th year in a row, Luxottica Retail placed first with sales of $2,470 million. Wal-Mart came in second with $1,375.5 million in sales from the vision centers it has in Wal-Mart ...
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Sunglass Hut has opened a second flagship store in London....
Sunglass Hut has opened a second flagship store in London. The shop is situated in Covent Garden, while the first store was opened last year on Oxford Street. The big international retail chain owned by Luxottica also opened its first store in Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro, and two in ...
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Cecop has made public its intention to double its membership...
Cecop has made public its intention to double its membership in the U.K. by the end of this year. After signing up 160 British opticians, the international buying group took a stand at last month's Optrafair in Birmingham, where Boots and Specsavers were also wooing new retail franchisees and partners. ...
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Mister Spex got the fourth prize as the fastest-growing company...
Mister Spex got the fourth prize as the fastest-growing company in the European digital media economy at the Media Momentum CEO Summit in Barcelona earlier this month. Founded in 2007, Mister Spex enjoyed growth of nearly 400 percent between 2008 and 2010. It reached a turnover of €11 million in ...
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ClearVision Optical has signed a global licensing deal with Marc...
ClearVision Optical has signed a global licensing deal with Marc Ecko Enterprises that will have the U.S. company designing and selling eyewear under the brands Marc Ecko Cut & Sew, Ecko Unltd and Marc Ecko Red. The Cut & Sew label will be the first released under the new, multi-year ...
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Pro Fit Optix has launched its Upgrade premium single-vision free-form...
Pro Fit Optix has launched its Upgrade premium single-vision free-form lens. The custom-made lens is touted as optimizing vision in every situation with its backside aspheric HD technology that makes for a flat, slim lens. It is calculated according to the patient's eye movement, and the backside of the lens ...
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A British software company, See20/20, showed an interesting system at...
A British software company, See20/20, showed an interesting system at last month's Optrafair in Birmingham, described as the world's first internet-based practice management system that integrates an application for insurance covering the spectacles. The system is already used by more than 300 organizations and stores across the U.K. Based on ...
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The London Eye Hospital has performed the first-ever bifocal light...
The London Eye Hospital has performed the first-ever bifocal light adjustable lens surgery, where a light adjustable lens is implanted after a clear lens extraction or cataract surgery. The new lens can be adjusted according to each patient, and corrects for both hyperopia and myopia with one lens. It is ...
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A Spanish study confirms the need for better vision correction...
A Spanish study confirms the need for better vision correction for safer driving, which has been expressed to European authorities by Eurom 1, the European optical industry association. The study found out that 24 percent of the people who drive a car, or a total of 6 million Spaniards, have ...
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Ciba Vision has settled a complaint from Bausch + Lomb...
Ciba Vision has settled a complaint from Bausch + Lomb that its advertisements claimed, incorrectly, that its solutions were better at fighting Acanthamoeba than ReNu MultiPlus by Bausch + Lomb. Ciba Vision will stop running the ads, which were based on research that was published in the Journal of Clinical ...
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Maui Jim announced the sponsorship of Gaël Monfils, currently ranking...
Maui Jim announced the sponsorship of Gaël Monfils, currently ranking as the best French professional tennis player, just before the Roland Garros tennis tournament in Paris. The American brand of sunglasses will announce another tennis sponsorship in the next days. Two other ambassadors of the brand are a famous tennis ...
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The new website of the German company Mykita is now...
The new website of the German company Mykita is now available in Japanese as well as in German and English. Consumers can get information on the company's new collections, stores and its new campaign by Mark Borthwick. A blog will be frequently updated.
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Specsavers' latest television ads feature a myopic astronaut preparing to...
Specsavers' latest television ads feature a myopic astronaut preparing to return to earth. What he thinks is a Florida runway, however, turns out to be Luton Airport.
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Vision Aid Overseas is putting out a special issue of...
Vision Aid Overseas is putting out a special issue of its publication Sight for Sore Eyes in honor of the group's 25th anniversary. It includes the history of Vision Aid Overseas, written by Brian Ellis, the founding chairman. It is downloadable from www.vao.org.uk. The group has also signed a deal ...
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More than 2,000 children in South Africa got vision screenings...
More than 2,000 children in South Africa got vision screenings in the last year through the Bona Bolo campaign promoted by Nouveau Eyewear. The campaign was launched in conjunction with last year's Fifa World Cup; “Bona Bolo” means “see the ball.” It screened 2,020 children, and those with refractive errors ...
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Davis Vision has updated its website and mobile site with...
Davis Vision has updated its website and mobile site with more information that is easier to find, while reflecting the company's branding strategy. The site includes an explanation of laser vision correction, and companies can choose the vision plan enrollments best suited for their employees. Davis Vision's Facebook page is ...
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Anfao, the Italian Association of Optical Goods Manufacturers, had a...
Anfao, the Italian Association of Optical Goods Manufacturers, had a presence at the Vision X show held May 24-26 in Dubai. Thirteen Italian companies exhibited at the show, considered the most important eyewear event in the Middle East. Anfao is working to boost the presence of Italian companies in the ...
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There will be no national eyewear show in Denmark this...
There will be no national eyewear show in Denmark this year. The Drommesyn trade show has been postponed to a still-unspecified date in March 2012. At its last edition in Copenhagen in March 2010, it hosted 48 exhibitors and welcomed about 1,500 visitors.
