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Optic 2000 has opened a new low-vision center in Paris,...
Optic 2000 has opened a new low-vision center in Paris, providing free advice to visually impaired people on the equipment and on the state and private insurance programs that they can use to help solve their problems. The experts at the center show the low-vision devices available from suppliers such ...
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Hoya inaugurated last week its Hoya Faculty, a new international...
Hoya inaugurated last week its Hoya Faculty, a new international training center in Budapest that is designed to train clients from all over Europe about the benefits of Hoya lenses, keeping opticians updated about new products and technologies and helping them to improve the value-added mix of the products they ...
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Luxottica successfully sold €500 million worth of bonds to institutional...
Luxottica successfully sold €500 million worth of bonds to institutional investors in its first public placement. Demand totaled about €1.8 billion, more than three times the offer, and the bond was priced at 99.468 percent of its nominal value. The bond expires on Nov. 10, 2015, and bears an annual ...
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Two experienced managers have been appointed to run Rodenstock jointly...
Two experienced managers have been appointed to run Rodenstock jointly following the resignation of Olaf Goettgens at the end of September. In addition to Peter Korfer-Schun, who was already appointed last month as an advisor (see previous issue of EWI), Bridgepoint has delegated the management to Oliver Kastalio, a 46-year-old ...
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Tobias Weiler, deputy general manager of Spectaris, will replace Sven...
Tobias Weiler, deputy general manager of Spectaris, will replace Sven Behrens as general manager of Spectaris, the German optical industry association, after the end of this year. The 42-year-old Behrens is leaving Spectaris after 10 years to set up his own business in the optical sector in Ireland, home country ...
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Blake Lipham, the president of Bushnell Outdoor Products, now additionally...
Blake Lipham, the president of Bushnell Outdoor Products, now additionally has the tital of chief executive beside his name. He started at the American optical group in 2007 as chief financial officer and became president in 2008. Before joining the company he was chief operating officer and chief financial officer ...
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Giacomo Toscani has left his position as vice president of...
Giacomo Toscani has left his position as vice president of business development at Luxottica to act as executive vice president of retail operations at Geox, the big Italian footwear company. Toscani had been with Luxottica since 1998, at first taking care of some of its retail operations in the U.S. ...
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Mark Ginsburg has been named senior vice president for global...
Mark Ginsburg has been named senior vice president for global marketing at Marchon, adding on to his current position as senior vice president for fashion brands, design and product development for the New York portfolio. He will report to Claudio Gottardi, the president of Marchon and the chief executive of ...
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J.C. Clenet has been promoted as international business director of...
J.C. Clenet has been promoted as international business director of Dragon, the American producer of sunglasses, goggles and accessories. He spent the last five years as international marketing manager for the company. Jane Emerick, formerly the South Pacific marketing manager for Dragon, will be moving into Clenet's old position. Ashley ...
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Alcon's board of directors has elected Daniel Vasella to be...
Alcon's board of directors has elected Daniel Vasella to be its new chairman. He steps in for Cary Rayment, who will stay on the board as its vice chairman. Vasella is also chairman at Novartis, which bought a majority of Alcon in August.
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Click Company BV and Mondottica International have created a new...
Click Company BV and Mondottica International have created a new joint venture, Mondottica Nederlands BV, to be based at Click's offices in Alphen aan den Rijn in the Netherlands. The new company will distribute Mondottica's eyewear brands in the country, including Anna Sui, Christian Lacroix, Hackett London, Lulu Guinness, Pepe ...
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A.T. Cross, maker of Costa Del Mar and Native Eyewear...
A.T. Cross, maker of Costa Del Mar and Native Eyewear sunglasses, saw an 11.8 percent increase in consolidated sales to $38.2 million for the third quarter ended Oct. 2. The optical segment alone had a jump of 16.9 percent to $15.1 million. For the first nine months of the year, ...
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Despite a 5.7 percent increase in sales to $1,192 million...
Despite a 5.7 percent increase in sales to $1,192 million in the third quarter, Allergan reported a net loss of $670.5 million compared with profits of $239.2 million last year. The overall sales increase was 6.3 percent on a currency-neutral basis. Revenues from eye care pharmaceuticals grew by 6.3 percent ...
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After being hard hit by the recession in January 2009,...
After being hard hit by the recession in January 2009, Oko has started climbing back this year, with particularly good results from Mido in March. For the Paris-based firm, the difficulties began in 2008, but last September's Silmo marked a real return to growth, with sales up by 20 percent, ...
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Maison Martin Margiela, the Paris fashion house, will have its...
Maison Martin Margiela, the Paris fashion house, will have its own line of eyewear after signing a licensing deal with the British company Cutler and Gross. Maison Martin Margiela will handle design and art direction, while Cutler and Gross will take care of product development. The eyewear will be produced ...
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Marcolin Group and Diesel have finalized an exclusive licensing agreement...
Marcolin Group and Diesel have finalized an exclusive licensing agreement for the production and distribution of Diesel sunglasses and spectacles worldwide, replacing the previous contract first struck in 1994 between Diesel and Safilo after next Dec. 31. The new five-year deal will see its first sunglasses collection out for autumn ...
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The Optoplast Actman Eyewear Company has launched a new e-commerce...
The Optoplast Actman Eyewear Company has launched a new e-commerce site, making it one of the first British eyewear companies to make its products available online. The site, www.oaeyewear.com, features the company's whole catalogue available for ordering, including frames, spare parts and marketing materials. Searching for frames has been made ...
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A report by Which? magazine has found that reading glasses...
A report by Which? magazine has found that reading glasses bought off the rack could cause eye strain, blurred vision, headaches or double vision. The magazine asked an optometrist to look at the quality and prescription of 14 pairs of so-called ready readers at seven main street stores in the ...
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A French appeals court is the latest to weigh in...
A French appeals court is the latest to weigh in on the legal action between Novartis' Ciba Vision and Johnson & Johnson. The dispute is over Novartis' Nicholson patent, used for its breathable Air Optix and Night&Day contact lenses. The French court upheld the intellectual property protection for the patent, ...
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Allergan, the maker of Botox, will plead guilty to one...
Allergan, the maker of Botox, will plead guilty to one count of «misbranding» the drug and pay $600 million in fines over its marketing. Botox is used to treat two eye muscle disorders, strabismus and blepharospasm, in addition to several other ailments. However, an investigation by the U.S. Justice Department ...
