Latest News Briefs – Page 299
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Signature Eyewear saw sales fall by 7.8 percent to $5.9...
Signature Eyewear saw sales fall by 7.8 percent to $5.9 million for the third quarter ended July 31, and net income decreased by 11.9 percent to $155,000. For the first nine months of the year, sales went down by 3.2 percent to $18.0 million, but net profit increased by 5.9 ...
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Maria Sharapova, the 21-year-old tennis player, has become a testimonial...
Maria Sharapova, the 21-year-old tennis player, has become a testimonial for Tag Heuer Eyewear. She has also signed a women's eyewear collection inspired by her tastes that is being presented at the next edition of Silmo. In its Avant-Garde Eyewear collection, Tag Heuer is launching a new model called Spring. ...
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The U.K. Federation of Manufacturing Opticians is launching an overseas...
The U.K. Federation of Manufacturing Opticians is launching an overseas membership category in order to expand its membership internationally. The decision comes after FMO received requests from foreign companies keen to know more about developments in the British market. Malcolm Polley, FMO's chief executive, said that manufacturing and frame distribution ...
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The Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO) held a meeting...
The Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO) held a meeting on Sept. 8 to discuss a proposal by Richard Harsant's of Optima Opticians to change the name of the association and drop the word «dispensing.» The board decided not to change the name. The key resolution put forward by Harsant ...
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Transitions Optical has launched a British schools program called Eye...
Transitions Optical has launched a British schools program called Eye Know Eye Care, targeting 150,000 primary school children aged 7 to 11 and their parents in conjunction with the Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO) and the Association of Optometrists (AOP). The company has teamed up with the National Schools ...
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Les Opticiens Mutualistes, France's fourth-largest optical retail group, which has...
Les Opticiens Mutualistes, France's fourth-largest optical retail group, which has 670 retail doors through its members, has signed an agreement to be the official supplier of contact lenses for the French national rugby league for the next four seasons. Les Opticiens Mutualistes made a turnover of €539 million in 2008 ...
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The organizers of the China International Optics Fair in Beijing...
The organizers of the China International Optics Fair in Beijing were expecting around 700 exhibitors from 19 countries at its 22nd edition, although its dates of Sept. 16-18 conflict with those of the big international Silmo fair in Paris. They said that buyers from big chains such as Specsavers, Hans ...
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Chief executives from top international companies, independent practitioners and even...
Chief executives from top international companies, independent practitioners and even Irish government figures were among the 50-odd guests who attended «rOCkUCO,» a special event organized by Ocuco in Dublin in July. The 2-day event included a trip to the Guinness Storehouse, a museum that was the first Guinness brewery in ...
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Fielmann's preliminary figures for the first half of 2009 show...
Fielmann's preliminary figures for the first half of 2009 show unit sales up by 3.2 percent to 3.1 million pairs of glasses and external revenues up by 2.8 percent to €547 million. Consolidated sales grew by 2.8 percent to €464 million. Pre-tax profit was down by 10 percent to €72 ...
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As Alliance Boots continues integrating Dolland & Aitchison into its...
As Alliance Boots continues integrating Dolland & Aitchison into its business, it has announced that it will close D&A's support office in Birmingham, England, affecting about a hundred employees. All support operations will be based out of Nottingham by March 2011.
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Oakley has launched OakleyVault.com, a website that sells vintage and...
Oakley has launched OakleyVault.com, a website that sells vintage and discontinued apparel, footwear and bags at reduced prices. Eyewear is expected to be added to the offerings this autumn. Shipping is currently available only to U.S. residents.
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Joint Project has acquired Qeyes in a merger intended to...
Joint Project has acquired Qeyes in a merger intended to simplify and improve sales and assistance for all eyewear models produced by the two Italian companies, and to extend Joint Project's area of production to other types of frames. Present on the market with Click 12 frames that can be ...
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Pal Zileri and Fiorucci, two brands that belong to the...
Pal Zileri and Fiorucci, two brands that belong to the respective Italian apparel companies, are both looking for a new licensee for their eyewear collections as Sichel & Sichel, a Padua-based producer of eyewear frames, has gone into liquidation. Giorgio Sichel, the 82-year-old entrepreneur who established the company in 1996, ...
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Sweet Years, one of the eyewear brands licensed to Vidivici,...
Sweet Years, one of the eyewear brands licensed to Vidivici, which is in receivership, is seeking a new licensee for its eyewear collections. Mario Russo, chief executive of Gold'50, which owns the Sweet Years brand, is currently looking at the profile of four potential candidates to take over the license, ...
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Marcolin has announced a five-year licensing agreement with the Swarovski...
Marcolin has announced a five-year licensing agreement with the Swarovski brand for sunglasses and prescription frames, starting with the spring/summer 2011 collection and with an option to renew the deal for another five years. Marcolin's products will be available for at high-end specialist opticians, department stores, sunglasses stores and Swarovski ...
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Nigura Metzler will create an eyewear collection for Cerruti 1881...
Nigura Metzler will create an eyewear collection for Cerruti 1881 under a new licensing agreement. The two companies, which had a similar partnership from 1993 to 2003, will present the first collection at retail in January.
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Spy Optic has come out with a new line of...
Spy Optic has come out with a new line of sunglasses called Dirty Mo, signed by the Nascar driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. The collection has metal inserts, eight fixing pins, full UVA, UVB and UVC protection, and unbreakable polycarbonate lenses. They come in five colors and sell for €100 for ...
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Colin Baden has taken over as Oakley's chief executive, replacing...
Colin Baden has taken over as Oakley's chief executive, replacing Scott Olivet, who becomes the company's chairman. Baden joined Oakley in February 1996 as director of design and served as vice president for design from February 1997 to February 1999, when he was appointed president. In the second quarter of ...
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Marc Higgins is REM Eyewear's new global brand manager for...
Marc Higgins is REM Eyewear's new global brand manager for Converse Eyewear. As such, he will work on strategies and initiatives to promote the brand across all key optical and sun retail markets and oversee all business aspects of the brand, especially its intent to expand outside the U.S. Higgins ...
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Modo has named Kristen Aronsson its new creative director, working...
Modo has named Kristen Aronsson its new creative director, working on the Modo, Derek Lam, 3.1 Phillip Lim and 7 for All Mankind collections. Aronsson was most recently the design director for Kata Eyewear at B. Robinson.
