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Organizers of OptiFinland have decided not to hold this optical...
Organizers of OptiFinland have decided not to hold this optical trade fair for the Finnish market in 2011. On the other hand, SOAT, the association of Finnish optical wholesalers, has decided to organize a different event, parallel to training days, on Nov. 6-7, 2010. Called Optometria 2010, it will be ...
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Roger Cottereau has passed away at the age of 81...
Roger Cottereau has passed away at the age of 81 years. He co-founded Hydroflex, a French producer of soft contact lenses in the 1970s. Menicon of Japan acquired a stake in Hydroflex in 1977 and then turned it into its European subsidiary. Cottereau ran Menicon Europe from its start in ...
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Krys Groupe is the name of a new entity grouping...
Krys Groupe is the name of a new entity grouping Guildinvest and La Guilde des Lunetiers. The latter was the original name of the French cooperative of independent opticians that was born in 1966 to group and guarantee their purchases. La Guilde immediately launched Krys, a banner that was adopted ...
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Emerging Vision, parent company of the Sterling Optical retail chain,...
Emerging Vision, parent company of the Sterling Optical retail chain, had a 13.5 percent drop in sales in 2009 to $62.1 million, and its net loss worsened to $2.5 million, against a loss of $88,000 in 2008. The U.S. company also owns two buying groups, Combine and The Optical Group, ...
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Sunglass Hut has opened a 6,000-square-foot, two-story flagship store on...
Sunglass Hut has opened a 6,000-square-foot, two-story flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York. While 1,200 square feet are for retail space, the flagship also includes room for a new SocialSun fitting stations and laboratories for the introduction of new technologies. A flagship has also been opened in London. ...
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Vision Express has a plan to build up a network...
Vision Express has a plan to build up a network of 100 new stores in India this year through Pearle Europe's joint venture with Reliance Retail. It currently has just over 50 stores in the country. The first store was opened in Bangalore in December 2008. The project was launched ...
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The ownership of the British laser surgery provider Ultralase has...
The ownership of the British laser surgery provider Ultralase has switched from 3i, the British investment fund, to a consortium of banks that include Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays. The company's chief executive, Tony Veverka, told the Mail on Sunday that it was a ?debt for equity swap,? necessitated ...
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Marcolin's shareholders have authorised the group to continue buying back...
Marcolin's shareholders have authorised the group to continue buying back shares up to a maximum of 10 percent of the company's capital. Marcolin already owns 681,000 treasury shares, representing 1.1 percent of its capital.
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The Liechtenstein-based company Optics Balzers has bought Mso Jena Mikroschichtoptik,...
The Liechtenstein-based company Optics Balzers has bought Mso Jena Mikroschichtoptik, a German company, and has renamed it Optics Balzers Jena. The acquisition helps Optics Balzers gives it a production site in the EU. The new company is headed by Stefan Jakobs, with Uwe Schallenberg in charge of research and development. ...
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Gatorz, an American maker of performance eyewear, has signed a...
Gatorz, an American maker of performance eyewear, has signed a plan to merge with Simo Holdings, the parent company of No Fear retail stores that were previously owned by Orange 21, the parent company of Spy Optic. Simo will sell all of the stock it holds in No Fear to ...
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Carl Zeiss Vision has appointed Egmont Foth as its new...
Carl Zeiss Vision has appointed Egmont Foth as its new chief information technology officer, overseeing a department filled by about 200 people. He reports to Michael Hoffmann, the new chief executive of CZV appointed at the end of last year, who comes from the data processing industry and who believes ...
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Pierre Fay is going to be the new president for...
Pierre Fay is going to be the new president for global e-commerce at Essilor. The job involves heading up the newly bought FramesDirect operation with its co-founders, David Cooper and Guy Hodgson, and working on the launch of MyOnlineOptical to eye care professionals in the U.S. Fay comes from Luxottica ...
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REM Eyewear has named Jordan Goodman to be the brand...
REM Eyewear has named Jordan Goodman to be the brand manager for Converse Eyewear. He was previously the president of Clear World Productions, an entertainment marketing company in Canada.
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Allison has signed up a new agent to sell its...
Allison has signed up a new agent to sell its Iceberg and John Richmond lines all over France. The agent, Eyes People, already markets two of its own lines, Dicit and Leo & Lea. The Italian company had previously worked with other agents for these lines in specific territories of ...
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Sales in the Electric eyewear segment of Volcom grew by...
Sales in the Electric eyewear segment of Volcom grew by a third to $5.6 million for the first quarter ended March 31. Overall, the American action sports company had a 13.3 percent increase in sales to $77.4 million.
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De Rigo has signed a two-year dual branding agreement with...
De Rigo has signed a two-year dual branding agreement with the Disney group for its home brands Lozza and String. Sting will launch a collection of prescription frames co-branded with the Jonas Brothers, a pop band broadcast for teenagers on the Disney Channel network. Meanwhile, Lozza will issue models featuring ...
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The Vision Council of the U.S. has obtained an exemption...
The Vision Council of the U.S. has obtained an exemption for eyeglasses from a new 2.3 percent tax that will be collected on sales of medical devices to U.S. retailers from 2014. The tax had been voted on by the U.S. Congress as part of a new comprehensive health care ...
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The Cooper Companies, parent company of CooperVision, announces that it...
The Cooper Companies, parent company of CooperVision, announces that it has reached an agreement in principle to settle all the claims in a class action suit brought on behalf of a group of stockholders who purchased shares in the company between July 2004 and November 2005. Cooper said it will ...
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Revert, the Italian company that makes Polar branded sunglasses since...
Revert, the Italian company that makes Polar branded sunglasses since 1993, credits customs officers in Milan with confiscating ?Polar 1 One? and ?Polarone? glasses and related advertising materials at the last Mido trade show. Revert says the counterfeits products were made by a Chinese company and were clear copies of ...
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Eschenbach Optik has obtained a public retraction by Channel 5...
Eschenbach Optik has obtained a public retraction by Channel 5 of the Italian television network of a statement indicating that Italy's Optigen was the only company to have developed a viable technology for the manufacture of flexible memory-metal titanium frames (see the previous issue of EWI). The retraction was made ...
