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FGX International, the parent of Foster Grant and Magnivision, has...
FGX International, the parent of Foster Grant and Magnivision, has bought Dioptics Medical Products in exchange for 952,380 FGX ordinary shares and $35 million in cash. Dioptics provides sunglasses and optical accessories at retail and wholesale, including SolarShield sunglasses, described as the No. 1 brand given by doctors in the ...
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Qioptiq Group has sold its Qioptiq Coatings business along with...
Qioptiq Group has sold its Qioptiq Coatings business along with its production facility at Plymouth, England to the management of this business unit, led by Ian Moyes. The cost of the management buy-out was not revealed. The operation will be renamed as Artemis Optical and will continue to make coatings. ...
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Unilens Vision has bought selected assets of Aero Contact Lens,...
Unilens Vision has bought selected assets of Aero Contact Lens, the Michigan-based maker of contact lenses. The assets comprise various brands of gas permeable contact lenses including V/X Multifocal, Aspirations Multifocal and the R-2000 keratoconus lens. Unilens now owns those brands, which it will make at its own facility in ...
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Viva International Group will begin producing and distributing eyewear for...
Viva International Group will begin producing and distributing eyewear for the Rampage brand of Iconix Brand Group. Rampage's apparel, footwear and accessories are sold in more than 12 countries, and its new 20-style eyewear collection will be unveiled at the 2009 Vision Expo East. Bongo and Candie's, two other Iconix ...
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BBGR has taken several new product initiatives in the last...
BBGR has taken several new product initiatives in the last few months, taking advantage of double-side lens technology. It has applied it to its Anateo progressive designs to enhance the performance of two digitally surfaced lenses ? Evolis and its smaller Singulus version. It has also introduced internationally a brand-new ...
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Alain Mikli is putting out next month a limited edition...
Alain Mikli is putting out next month a limited edition of numbered vintage frames to celebrate the company's 30th anniversary, including a re-designed version of its provocative asymmetrical AL0930 style. The company has just opened its first Italian Mikli concept store in Milan, as planned. It is located on Corso ...
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Gijs van Leeuwen has been appointed as the new director...
Gijs van Leeuwen has been appointed as the new director of Polaroid Eyewear in the Netherlands, a subsidiary of StyleMark's Polaroid Eyewear division. He replaces Jan Pieterman who is retiring after 38 years. Van Leeuwen comes from Crystal Trading, where Chile Durang has taken over his position in charge of ...
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Three top executives will be leaving Advanced Medical Optics, which...
Three top executives will be leaving Advanced Medical Optics, which has announced a cost-cutting plan that will eliminate about 190 jobs, or 5 percent of its workforce. Douglas Post, executive vice president and president of AMO's corneal refractive group, will leave the company, as will Russell Trenary, executive vice president ...
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George Schott, a founder of Native Eyewear and currently the...
George Schott, a founder of Native Eyewear and currently the vice president for sales, is leaving the company next month to start up a new consulting firm. His new enterprise, 3*2*1, will help start-up companies make a name for themselves in the market. He also announced that Native Eyewear, which ...
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Susan A. Roberts, chief compliance officer of Bausch & Lomb...
Susan A. Roberts, chief compliance officer of Bausch & Lomb has been promoted as corporate vice president. As CCO, she has been heading up since 2006 the company's global pharma-covigilance and safety surveillance activities. She has been with the group since 1995.
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Wolfgang Cagnolati of Duisburg, Germany has been elected as the...
Wolfgang Cagnolati of Duisburg, Germany has been elected as the new president of the European Council of Optometry and Optics (ECOO), taking over from Feike Grit of the Netherlands. Cagnolati has been teaching in Germany and the USA. He has been the president of the German Association of Contact Lens ...
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Buchmann UK has a new managing director in Andrew Brandi,...
Buchmann UK has a new managing director in Andrew Brandi, who has an engineering education and spent 17 years in sales at Topcon. He replaces Barry Dibble in the wake of Buchmann's acquisition last year of Briot's distribution in the UK from Mainline through WECO UK. Brandi is expected to ...
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INDO says it has obtained a loan from Spain's Center...
INDO says it has obtained a loan from Spain's Center for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI) to help finance its Free-Form Solutions project, which started three years ago. The funding is meant to help the Spanish company to extend the product range, to develop the compatibility of its products ...
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Sauflon is introducing Clariti, a third-generation silicone hydrogel lens that...
Sauflon is introducing Clariti, a third-generation silicone hydrogel lens that it has been working on for five years. With the lens, which will be available only to optical practices, the privately owned British companies hope to compete with the leaders of the industry. It said that trial wearers compared the ...
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Starting in March, you, too, can look like a former...
Starting in March, you, too, can look like a former first lady, as the sunglass and frames manufacturer and distributor L'Amy America relaunches the Nina Ricci sunglasses worn by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis at a tennis tournament in 1978. L'Amy America, which is partnering with Nina Ricci Paris, has even obtained ...
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Bausch & Lomb and some of its top executives avoided...
Bausch & Lomb and some of its top executives avoided a class-action lawsuit when a judge threw out the complaint. It alleged that they misled the public about certain business operations, downplayed the dangers of its MoistureLoc contact lens solution, which has since been discontinued, and cashed in on stock ...
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Essilor cancelled 1,600,000 of its own shares on Nov. 28,...
Essilor cancelled 1,600,000 of its own shares on Nov. 28, reducing the capital to 210,445,678 shares. The move was in line with the company's commitment to reduce the dilutive impact on shareholders of the scheduled redemption in 2010 of its Oceane bonds through a share buy-back program. Essilor has already ...
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As it supplies Essilor, Hoya, Zeiss, Rodenstock, Nikon and Signet-Armorlite,...
As it supplies Essilor, Hoya, Zeiss, Rodenstock, Nikon and Signet-Armorlite, Schneider finds estimates that Satisloh has a market share of about 40 percent in digital surfacing as too high. Our last issue misspelled the name of its new blocking device, which is called CB Fusion. It uses a blocking material ...
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The growth in the French market for contact lenses and...
The growth in the French market for contact lenses and solutions declined to 3.4 percent in the first half of 2008, compared with a growth rate of 6.4 percent in the same period of 2007, according to SYFFOC, the association of contact lens suppliers. Sales of contact lenses rose by ...
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Prescription glasses cannot be sold online under Italian law. After...
Prescription glasses cannot be sold online under Italian law. After a complaint by Assogruppi, the association for organized distribution of optical products, regarding unfair competition, the Ministry of Health responded, quoting a decree dated July 23, 1998. The decree states that sales of customized lenses and glasses prescribed to correct ...
