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Sunglass Hut International is looking to take the number of...
Sunglass Hut International is looking to take the number of its exclusive outlets in India from five to 30 by the end of 2012 as part of its expansion plans. The existing stores are located in Delhi, Hyerabad and Mumbai. SHI is targeting new locations in Delhi, Kolkata, Amritsar, Ludhiana, ...
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Essilor International and Ginette Dalloz are selling their stakes in...
Essilor International and Ginette Dalloz are selling their stakes in Sperian Protection, the leading company for personal protection equipment, to Honeywell. The $1.4 billion all-cash deal includes assumption of net debt. Honeywell will combine Sperian with its Life Safety business. Essilor holds 15.0 percent of the capital and Ginette Dalloz ...
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American Industries, an investment company, has bought a majority share...
American Industries, an investment company, has bought a majority share of DAC International, a U.S. manufacturer of CNC lathes, milling machines and other production equipment and software for the manufacture of contact lenses and intraocular lenses. The financial details of the acquisition were not released. DAC's management team will remain ...
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Mark'ennovy Personalized Care, the Spanish contact lens producer, has bought...
Mark'ennovy Personalized Care, the Spanish contact lens producer, has bought Visaq Optics of England. Visaq provided Mark'ennovy with the polymers for its Saphir line of contact lenses, marketed as the first monthly personalized silicon hydrogel toric lenses. The founder of Visaq, David Walker, will be on the board of Mark'ennovy's ...
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Hoya Vision Care has started operations at two new laboratories,...
Hoya Vision Care has started operations at two new laboratories, one in Warsaw and the other one in Shanghai. The latter is a joint venture, controlled by Hoya at 51 percent, with a large local player, Tian Hong. The company has also expanded its collaboration with the Dr. Argarwal chain ...
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Bob Main, who used to be a senior vice president...
Bob Main, who used to be a senior vice president at 1800Contacts and GlassesDirect.com, has started his own company in the U.S., Web Vision Centers, with an accompanying website, HalfPriceEyeglasses.com. It offers frames from designer brands as well as house brands and unbranded imports. The company plans to expand to ...
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Eric Plat, a 45-year-old optician, has been elected chairman of...
Eric Plat, a 45-year-old optician, has been elected chairman of Atol, one of the major French cooperatives of independent optical retailers. He has been a member since 1996 and has been on the board since 2000, acting most recently as vice chairman. Plat succeeds Gérard Coulon, who has been at ...
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Brett Craig is no longer the president of Transitions Optical,...
Brett Craig is no longer the president of Transitions Optical, having stepped down. He joined the company in July 1999 and was named president in January 2008. This past March, he additionally took on the job title of vice president at PPG Industries, Transitions' parent company. Richard C. Elias, Transitions' ...
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Larry Rodriguez is the new senior vice president for global...
Larry Rodriguez is the new senior vice president for global sales and marketing at the American company PixelOptics. His past positions include vice president for sales at Southern Optical Group and director of U.S. and European business for Johnson & Johnson Vision Care's ophthalmic lens group.
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Hideyuki Ashikaga is the new president of Bausch & Lomb...
Hideyuki Ashikaga is the new president of Bausch & Lomb Japan. He comes from Nippon Becton Dickinson Company, a medical technology company, where he was most recently president of the Japanese subsidiary.
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Sipao, the association of Italian eyewear producers operating in the...
Sipao, the association of Italian eyewear producers operating in the Cadore region, has a new leadership following the resignation of its chairman, Valter Da Rin, owner of Trenti, and of its vice chairman, Paolo Cannicci of Sover, after a disagreement within the membership about the criteria that are supposed to ...
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Essilor International held its annual meeting last month and elected...
Essilor International held its annual meeting last month and elected two new directors, Mireille Faugère, the adviser to the president of SNCF French national railways; and Yi He, the chief executive of Shanghai Essilor Optical Company. Yi He is the first Chinese board member of a company listed on the ...
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Hal Holding saw a 5.4 percent increase in consolidated revenues...
Hal Holding saw a 5.4 percent increase in consolidated revenues to €867.3 million for the first quarter ended March 31. Without acquisitions, including that of Safilo, or currency effects, this translated to an increase of 1.4 percent in revenues. The group's optical companies had a 7.5 percent rise in sales ...
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Carl Zeiss Vision's revenues fell by 3 percent to €425...
Carl Zeiss Vision's revenues fell by 3 percent to €425 million for the six-month period ended last March 31, compared with the same period one year ago. The number of its employees was reduced to 11,618 from 11,659 at the end of last September. No information has been made available ...
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Shamir Optical Industries of Israel had an 18.2 percent increase...
Shamir Optical Industries of Israel had an 18.2 percent increase in sales to $40.1 million for the first quarter ended March 31. The gross profit margin grew by 1.9 percentage points to 54.5 percent of sales. Operating income rose by 41.3 percent to $5.5 million, and net income jumped by ...
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Sales grew by 12.2 percent at Orange 21 for the...
Sales grew by 12.2 percent at Orange 21 for the quarter ended March 31. Turnover grew in all distribution channels. Sales in the domestic region, comprising the U.S. and Canada, made up 79 percent of total sales, up from 78 percent last year. The net loss was $0.9 million, worse ...
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Allergan's medical devices division had an 18.4 percent increase in...
Allergan's medical devices division had an 18.4 percent increase in net sales in the first quarter ended March 31, and its sales of specialty pharmaceuticals rose by 9.7 percent. These were increases of 13.4 percent and 5.6 percent on a currency-neutral basis, respectively. The Californian company saw overall net sales ...
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Carl Zeiss Vision has taken a global license to a...
Carl Zeiss Vision has taken a global license to a new type of spectacles, called MyoVision, that purports to slow down the onset of short-sightedness in children between the ages of 6 and 12 at an average rate of 30 percent. CZV has been marketing these glasses in China, Singapore, ...
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Transitions has developed an application of its Transitions VI technology...
Transitions has developed an application of its Transitions VI technology for the visors of motorcycle helmets, allowing them to darken within seconds depending on the strength of UV radiation. Akuma will be the first producer of motorcycle helmets to offer these photochromic helmets. The American company already offers visors that ...
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CooperVision and Armed Forces Eyewear have struck a deal for...
CooperVision and Armed Forces Eyewear have struck a deal for a website, www.ArmedForcesEyewear.com, where members of the U.S. military and their families can get information on CooperVision products and order its contact lenses at special prices, with guaranteed delivery anywhere in the world. A percentage of each contact lens purchase ...
