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Mick Kunish has moved up from his position as director...
Mick Kunish has moved up from his position as director of business development to be executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Viva International Group, a part of the HVHC subsidiary of Highmark. Viva has also named Drew Donley to the newly created position of senior vice president, domestic ...
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Bausch & Lomb has a new corporate vice president and...
Bausch & Lomb has a new corporate vice president and global president for vision care in Peter Valenti III. He joined the company in January as president for vision care in North America, coming from Covidien, where he was vice president and general manager for surgical devices. He also held ...
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Norbert Gerling, business unit manager for opththalmic surfacing at Satisloh,...
Norbert Gerling, business unit manager for opththalmic surfacing at Satisloh, based at its German subsidiary in Wetzlar, is leaving the company. His duties are being taken over by Andreas Kunzmann, the Swiss-based chief executive of Satisloh appointed one year ago. Another executive based in Wezlar, Christoph Weber, who was in ...
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Peter Wilkinson, a noted expert in optical coatings, has agreed...
Peter Wilkinson, a noted expert in optical coatings, has agreed to assist Chemalux in sales and marketing for its products in Europe and the Middle East. Chemalux, the ophthalmic unit of Chemat Technology, specializes in lens-coating equipment. Wilkinson came to the company through an agreement with Haixing «Henry» Zheng, its ...
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Laurent Boussion has been promoted to be national sales director...
Laurent Boussion has been promoted to be national sales director of Charmant France. He joined the company as regional sales director for the west of France in August 2006 following 10 years' experience in the food and tobacco industries. In his new role, Boussion is responsible for managing a sales ...
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Euromcontact, the European association of international manufacturers and national associations...
Euromcontact, the European association of international manufacturers and national associations of contact lens related products, has elected a new president to a two-year term. Charles Snelling will replace Helmer Schweizer of CIBA Vision at the head of the group. Snelling is with Alcon's Europe-Middle East-Africa group, where he is area ...
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The optical segment of A.T. Cross Company saw a nice...
The optical segment of A.T. Cross Company saw a nice 24.1 percent increase in sales for the first quarter ended April 4, rising to $12.1 million. The division includes the sunglass brand Costa Del Mar and the recently acquired Native Eyewear. The company as a whole had sales that dropped ...
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Highmark, the insurance company whose subsidiary HVHC is the parent...
Highmark, the insurance company whose subsidiary HVHC is the parent of Davis Vision, Viva International and Eye Care Centers of America, had a 9.2 percent increase in operating revenues to $13 billion in the first quarter, but its net income plunged by 74.9 percent to $94.1 million. Highmark said this ...
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While PPG Industries had a 30 percent drop in sales...
While PPG Industries had a 30 percent drop in sales to $2.8 billion for the first quarter, its optical and specialty materials segment, which includes Transitions Optical and PPG's optical materials business, fell by 17 percent to $245 million. The company attributed the drop to lower sales volumes and foreign ...
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Allergan had a 6.3 percent drop in sales in the...
Allergan had a 6.3 percent drop in sales in the first quarter ended March 31 to $994.6 million. This translated to a 0.4 percent drop in constant currencies. Eye-care pharmaceuticals fell by 3.8 percent (or grew by 2.3 percent at constant currencies) to $473.6 million. Earnings for the three months ...
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Giorgio Armani's eyewear business booked a 10 percent decline in...
Giorgio Armani's eyewear business booked a 10 percent decline in sales in 2008 to about €201 million. The drop narrowed to 8 percent at constant exchange rates. Last year, the business represented 8 percent of the group's wholesale revenues, including licensed products, which totaled €2.517 billion. In 2007, eyewear represented ...
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The Italian company Safilens has a patent for hyaluronic acid...
The Italian company Safilens has a patent for hyaluronic acid release in lenses, four years after it first presented its technology, which eases comfort for wearers of contact lenses. The patent is good in about 30 European countries, including Italy, France, the U.K., Spain, the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany. Safilens' ...
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See20/20 has signed an exclusive partnership deal with Optimed to...
See20/20 has signed an exclusive partnership deal with Optimed to supply an integrated version of Captiv8 3D animations with its clinical notes, dispensing and recall software. This will enable Optimed to perform eye examinations with 3D animations detailing medical conditions and product benefits relevant to the patient's requirements. The animations ...
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Scandinavian Eyewear has found 10 sales agents in the U.S....
Scandinavian Eyewear has found 10 sales agents in the U.S. and Canada, and is looking for perhaps another 10 as it continues to build its distribution network after changing its strategy 18 months ago, when it stopped going through the same single distributor. The company is hoping to post flat ...
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The Association of Practice Management Educators in the U.S. will...
The Association of Practice Management Educators in the U.S. will come up with learning modules to be used by all 17 of the country's optometry colleges to teach about anti-reflective technologies. APME is receiving an education grant from the Vision Council for the modules. The new curriculum will be taught ...
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From April 28 to May 5, Sunglass Hut turned its...
From April 28 to May 5, Sunglass Hut turned its Rockefeller Center location in New York City into a Prada concept store. The products, which include exclusive and special edition Prada sunglasses designed just for Sunglass Hut, are now available on a mini-site at www.sunglasshut.com. The partnership between the two ...
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Seiko has launched its new Synergy X lens, which is...
Seiko has launched its new Synergy X lens, which is the latest generation lens in the company's family of progressive lenses. Its inner surface has been designed to incorporate the latest technology to give wider areas of clear vision. It is being priced similarly to the previous generation. Seiko has ...
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A Specsavers ad that ran last year featuring Edith Piaf...
A Specsavers ad that ran last year featuring Edith Piaf singing «Je Ne Regrette Rien» resulted in 123 complaints to Britain's Advertising Standards Authority, making it the ninth-most-complained about commercial for 2008. The ASA did not investigate, saying the spot probably wouldn't cause widespread offense. Many of those who filed ...
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The actor James Denton, a star of the American television...
The actor James Denton, a star of the American television series ?Desperate Housewives,? is the new face of Serengeti, following in the footsteps of Luke Perry, Val Kilmer and Patrick Dempsey, who have all modeled for the fashionable sunglasses brand. Denton appears in Serengeti's latest campaign, which has been shot ...
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This year's Optrafair drew 6,505 visitors from all over the...
This year's Optrafair drew 6,505 visitors from all over the U.K., a 14 percent drop from 2007. The space rented for the biennial show was 15 percent smaller than in 2007, but the U.K. Federation of Manufacturing Opticians (FMO), organizer of the show, said that 56 new companies exhibited at ...
