Latest News Briefs – Page 306
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Specsavers has to remove an advertisement for one of its...
Specsavers has to remove an advertisement for one of its promotions after the British Advertising Standards Authority ruled that it was misleading. The ad was for a free trial of contact lenses, though it noted that the customer would need a valid prescription and that colored lenses were excluded from ...
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Chopard Eyewear, produced by De Rigo, will show giant billboards...
Chopard Eyewear, produced by De Rigo, will show giant billboards on the Doge's Palace in Venice during the month of April as part of an outdoor advertising campaign that started in Rome and was held in Milan as well. The posters face the lagoon and the Bridge of Sighs and ...
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More than 400 Chopard and Givenchy frames were stolen on...
More than 400 Chopard and Givenchy frames were stolen on March 18 from the car of a De Rigo sales representative in an activity zone near Marseille in the south of France. Hervé Perrot, the sales director of De Rigo France, said the trunk of the agent's vehicle had been ...
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Final numbers won't be in for several weeks, but organizers...
Final numbers won't be in for several weeks, but organizers of Vision Expo East held last weekend say they were content with the show. Attendance fell by about 12 percent, but more people were said to be buying as opposed to browsing. Some exhibitors reported good orders and strong traffic ...
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Some interesting developments are in the works for Optrafair, the...
Some interesting developments are in the works for Optrafair, the British fair due to be held next Saturday through Monday at the NEC in Birmingham. Students from the Royal College of Art, a postgraduate university of art and design, are coming up with their own designs for eyewear in five ...
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Eyesway.com has declared its new website a success based on...
Eyesway.com has declared its new website a success based on its performance since it began three months ago. In fall 2008, the site had about 10,000 visitors per month; that number is now 21,000. Most of the hits ? 70 percent ? came directly, not via external links. Each visitor ...
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A lawsuit filed by Luxottica against Specsavers has been dismissed...
A lawsuit filed by Luxottica against Specsavers has been dismissed in an Australian court. Luxottica, parent of the chains OPSM and Laubman & Pank, sued Specsavers last year, claiming that the British company had received proprietary information from two former Luxottica employees who now work for Specsavers. Allegedly, a woman ...
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Polycore Optical Group is shutting down its polycarbonate lens plant...
Polycore Optical Group is shutting down its polycarbonate lens plant in Reno, Nevada. The closing is part of a reorganization by Singapore company that will concentrate all polycarbonate manufacturing in Indonesia. The U.S. plant is expected to be shut down by July. The company's sales and marketing offices will remain ...
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Bausch & Lomb is seeking the voluntary departure of 195...
Bausch & Lomb is seeking the voluntary departure of 195 employees at its facilities in Waterford, Ireland. The company, which has a total of 1,400 employees in the city and is one of Waterford's largest employers, said that a new product mix had required changes to help balance manufacturing capacity ...
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David Holmberg has added the position of president of Eye...
David Holmberg has added the position of president of Eye Care Centers of America to his resume, a position that he will hold along with those of chairman and chief executive officer of ECCA and president and CEO of ECCA's parent, HVHC. Holmberg was named CEO of ECCA from Jan. ...
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Luxottica Retail's senior management organization has undergone some changes. Valerio...
Luxottica Retail's senior management organization has undergone some changes. Valerio Giacobbi, executive vice president of Luxottica Group, is leaving his slot as head of the North American retail division to return to Italy to run the group's global business development. He will be based in Milan, still reporting to the ...
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REM Eyewear's executive vice president, Steve Horowitz, has been promoted...
REM Eyewear's executive vice president, Steve Horowitz, has been promoted to president of the company, based in California. He joined REM in his previous position in 1995, after stints at Wilshire Designs, Styl-Rite and Rosin Optical. The company's chief executive and co-owner, Mike Hundert, will focus on global expansion, including ...
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Pierluigi Marinelli is the new sales manager for Visibilia's international...
Pierluigi Marinelli is the new sales manager for Visibilia's international markets. The 35-year-old manager takes over a responsibility formerly held by the chairman, Dan Levi. He was previously with Allison, where he was managing director of Allison UK and subsequently chairman and chief executive of Allison USA.
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Jean Christophe Godfrin is the new international director for the...
Jean Christophe Godfrin is the new international director for the lenses and eyewear business unit of Indo, the Spanish ophthalmic company. He will oversee foreign sales of lenses and eyewear and the company's subsidiaries in France, Italy, Portugal, Chile and Morocco. He has been with Indo since 2000. His business ...
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Indo has introduced a new and more sophisticated line of...
Indo has introduced a new and more sophisticated line of LifeMade progressive lenses that are based on six additional measurement parameters, making them more customized. The Spanish company's new LifeMade Metrics line takes into account the usual reading distance of the user as well as his or her monocular papillary ...
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Gerber Coburn, which pioneered wax blocking 13 years ago, has...
Gerber Coburn, which pioneered wax blocking 13 years ago, has introduced a new lens blocking system, the E2G, that uses a new proprietary environmentally safe material. Called Onyx-Bond, the new material is neither wax or alloy, and it is not toxic. Based on low-melting plastics, it is reusable and biodegradable. ...
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Corning Ophthalmic is pursuing a new ?photochromic diversity? strategy with...
Corning Ophthalmic is pursuing a new ?photochromic diversity? strategy with the launch of its Sunsensors PHC (High Performance Coating) technology, aimed at the polycarbonate and high-index markets. The new coating is being offered as a superior alternative to two in-mass technologies, Sunsensors and Sunsensors+.
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Lorenz, a well-known Italian watchmaker, is launching an eyewear line...
Lorenz, a well-known Italian watchmaker, is launching an eyewear line produced and distributed by Opticaldesign. The worldwide licensing agreement with the Berra family, owners of the Italian eyewear company in Treviso, was signed recently for a three-year period, renewable for a further three years. Opticaldesign guarantees relatively targeted distribution through ...
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De Rigo Vision and an Italian lingerie company, Inticom, have...
De Rigo Vision and an Italian lingerie company, Inticom, have gotten together to launch a new line of sunglasses, Yamamay for Sting. Sting is one of De Rigo's three house brands. De Rigo will design and produce the glasses with input from the style office of Yamamay, Inticom's lingerie brand. ...
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Andrew Actman has launched a new line of innovative and...
Andrew Actman has launched a new line of innovative and comfortable eyewear called Reykjavik Eyes. Made from a single sheet of lightweight titanium, they are based on a complex screwless and hingeless patent-pending design invented by an optician who has several stores in Iceland, Gunnar Gunnarsson.
