Latest News Briefs – Page 273
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Marchon is extending its direct sales network in Italy, taking...
Marchon is extending its direct sales network in Italy, taking the number of agents on the domestic market up from 40 to a total of 60. On the international scene, the group will inaugurate new offices in Dubai in January, following on from Portugal, where it recently opened a new ...
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Revert, an Italian manufacturer that produces the Polar brand of...
Revert, an Italian manufacturer that produces the Polar brand of eyewear, is changing the way it is operating on the domestic market where it has been working mainly with the major buying groups while concentrating on its development in other markets in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The ...
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Puma has renewed its 4-year-old global license with Charmant Group...
Puma has renewed its 4-year-old global license with Charmant Group for sunglasses and optical eyewear. It is not sure whether the negotiations were aided by the fact that Charmant is no longer licensing the Lacoste brand, which is now part of Marchon's portfolio. According to a press report, Charmant's sales ...
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The Uvex Group raised its revenues by 3 percent to...
The Uvex Group raised its revenues by 3 percent to €304 million in the financial year ended last July 31, and it is anticipating a turnover of €310 million for this year. The Uvex Safety Group represented 61 percent of last year's sales. The Uvex Sports Group, which includes Uvex ...
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Alain Mikli is the latest brand to get into 3D...
Alain Mikli is the latest brand to get into 3D glasses through a partnership with LG Electronics of South Korea. The ergonomic glasses reflect Mikli's sleek style and were designed to be light enough that they don't start to feel heavy to the wearer after a while. Mikli ...
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Panasonic Healthcare Company of Japan is going to be manufacturing...
Panasonic Healthcare Company of Japan is going to be manufacturing the electronic lenses for PixelOptics' emPower! electronic focusing eyeglasses which the two companies have been working on for more than two years. Panasonic will be making the semi-finished lens blanks from optical grade plastic material that features a very thin ...
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Mazzucchelli has signed a joint venture agreement with Eastman Chemical...
Mazzucchelli has signed a joint venture agreement with Eastman Chemical Company in China for the production of a cellulose acetate compound, a biopolymer used in various injection printing applications including eyewear frames. Mazzucchelli says it is convinced that the partnership will benefit from combining the quality of the cellulose acetate ...
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The American health care provider Humana is expanding its seven-year...
The American health care provider Humana is expanding its seven-year agreement with the EyeMed Vision Care managed care plan by Luxottica. This means that members of HumanaVision, the company's vision care plan, will be able to get their eye care and eyewear at Luxottica retail stores. The arrangement will be ...
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Luxottica has launched a customizable collection of Prada eyewear called...
Luxottica has launched a customizable collection of Prada eyewear called Prada Private. The sunglasses are available in black, white and tortoiseshell and have removable arms that can be personalized by inserting two letters or symbols in each arm. The sunglasses are sold for €310 a pair exclusively in Sunglass Hut ...
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Ma Bo-Kee, former chief executive of Moulin International, and his...
Ma Bo-Kee, former chief executive of Moulin International, and his son, Cary Ma, have been sentenced to 12 and 10 years in prison, respectively, according to two Hong Kong newspapers. Four other persons including Moulin's former treasurer have been ordered prison terms of four months to nine years in the ...
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Johnson & Johnson Vision Care's voluntary recall of 1-Day Acuvue...
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care's voluntary recall of 1-Day Acuvue TruEye contact lenses, reported in August, has been extended. The company said that it continued the recall in late October, including almost 500,000 boxes of the lenses that had residual traces of a product in the manufacturing process that can ...
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Jim Ganforth, the new executive director of the American Board...
Jim Ganforth, the new executive director of the American Board of Opticianry and the National Contact Lens Examiners, and other top executive of the two groups, which certify about 38,000 ophthalmic dispensers in the U.S. every year, will have to get extra prior approval before they can spend the groups' ...
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Children are at the center of an Italian initiative to...
Children are at the center of an Italian initiative to protect and foster eyesight. From the beginning of the current school year, Federottica and Albo, members of the Italian Optometric Opticians' Association, have launched a campaign to help parents and primary school teachers to provide the best possible conditions to ...
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Rodenstock has won the 2010 Red Dot Award for Communication...
Rodenstock has won the 2010 Red Dot Award for Communication Design for its road show Rodenstock Partner Events 2008. The focus of the event was oversized glasses ? a detailed reproduction of the R 5220 spectacle frame from Rodenstock on a scale of 1:100. The giant glasses were used to ...
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Rodenstock has developed a unique application on the iPad that...
Rodenstock has developed a unique application on the iPad that allows a quick comparising among its various lens models. The German company says it has sold well more than 10 million Impressum progressive lenses since it launched its innovative Individual Lens Technology ten years ago. Its plant in Regen has ...
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Gucci has introduced the ?Eye Want You? application on its...
Gucci has introduced the ?Eye Want You? application on its page created on the social network Facebook. The application enables users to send personalized messages to friends by choosing from 36 videos featuring models wearing the eyewear collection Gucci Eyeweb. The videos cover six moods and can be posted on ...
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A Danish designer, Mads Sudkhdev Hindhede, has developed the prototype...
A Danish designer, Mads Sudkhdev Hindhede, has developed the prototype of a spectacle that allows hearing-impaired people to read the text of a speech or a conversation displayed on its lenses. Called Babelfisk, it also allows the wearer to get that text automatically translated into his or her own language. ...
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The equity research team of the U.S. bank Citigroup believes...
The equity research team of the U.S. bank Citigroup believes that Safilo has a 60 percent chance of retaining the licenses of the Armani group expiring at the end of 2012 and a 40 percent probability of losing them. Meanwhile, it reckons that Luxottica has a 30 percent of regaining ...
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The Air Optix Aqua Multifocal monthly contact lenses by Ciba...
The Air Optix Aqua Multifocal monthly contact lenses by Ciba Vision were deemed the most innovative product among contact lenses by about 800 French opticians. The eye care providers could vote for the best products in the biennial contest held by the magazine Inform'Optique.
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Opti München, the German trade fair scheduled to run from...
Opti München, the German trade fair scheduled to run from Jan. 28-30, will have Safilo among its exhibitors for the next edition, after a long absence. One of the factors that have influenced the Italian group's decision may be the fact that some of its biggest rivals, such as Luxottica ...
