Latest News Briefs – Page 318
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AIO, Italy's association of professional opticians, is organizing a convention...
AIO, Italy's association of professional opticians, is organizing a convention next Oct. 9 in Milan about communication in the sunglass sector, with the collaboration of Ogilvy & Mather. The participants will be asked to vote for the best advertising campaign made for sunglasses between 2006 and 2008. They winners will ...
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Oakley plans to set up sales offices and showrooms for...
Oakley plans to set up sales offices and showrooms for its sports eyewear in Rome, Barcelona, Annecy (France), Munich and Stockholm to service the European sports trade, working through dedicated sales reps for all the non-prescription products in the company's range. The new sales network, which is going to cover ...
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Aigle, a French producer of lifestyle-oriented outdoor clothing and footwear,...
Aigle, a French producer of lifestyle-oriented outdoor clothing and footwear, has signed a 5-year European eyewear licensing contract for prescription frames with Aoyama, the large Japanese eyewear manufacturer specializing in titanium frames. The collection will be presented at the next SILMO fair in Paris. Currently licensed to a French firm, ...
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Bellinger, an up-and-coming Danish eyewear design company, launched a new...
Bellinger, an up-and-coming Danish eyewear design company, launched a new line of eyewear under the name Blac at the recent MIDO trade show. Two years of complex development were needed to bring out this collection, which is 100 percent hand-made from carbon and glass fiber in Denmark. The new line ...
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Optim of Spain introduced its first collection of Guy Laroche...
Optim of Spain introduced its first collection of Guy Laroche eyewear at MIDO, based on a new licensing agreement signed for all the regions of the world except for Asia. The Spanish company also showed an expanded line of 18 frames for men and women under its Gaudi Concept. The ...
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Sover's stand at MIDO presented a new line of sunglasses...
Sover's stand at MIDO presented a new line of sunglasses and prescription frames that will be worn the Italian delegation to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Accompanied by specific POS fixtures, it has been developed for Freddy, the leading Italian supplier of fitness and dance clothing, which is the ...
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Carl Zeiss Vision has gone one step further in the...
Carl Zeiss Vision has gone one step further in the integration process in Europe with the acquisition of Winter Optica Distribuciones, the former distributor of Zeiss' ophthalmic products in Spain and Portugal. Its Spanish operation and its staff are being integrated with the team of SOLA Optical España, creating a ...
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Thai Optical Group posted net income of 135.0 million baht...
Thai Optical Group posted net income of 135.0 million baht (€2.7m-$4.2m) for 2007, up by 49.3 percent the previous year. Operating income rose by 43.9 percent to 193.8 million baht (€3.8m-$5.9m), while total revenues increased by 8.3 percent to 1,354.8 million baht (€26.9m-$41.8m).
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Metal frames represented last year near 73 percent of all...
Metal frames represented last year near 73 percent of all the eyewear frames sold in Germany last year, according to ZVA, the country's optical retailers' association. With 10.6 million glasses sold in 2007, German opticians registered a total turnover of €3.76 billion in 2007, up by 2.8 percent from the ...
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Nouveau Eyewear, based in Texas, has hired Jim Slattery as...
Nouveau Eyewear, based in Texas, has hired Jim Slattery as its vice president for Umbro Eyewear. Slatterly is a former vice president for marketing and sales at Liberty Optical. He will be responsible for helping the company explore global opportunities for distribution as it prepares for dramatic expansion of Umbro ...
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Jeffrey A. McLean has been promoted to executive vice president...
Jeffrey A. McLean has been promoted to executive vice president for commercial strategies of CooperVision, where he had been president of the Americas region. The position involves coordinating marketing, product development, manufacturing and sales. Meanwhile, Juan Carlos Aragon, a former vice president of international marketing and business operations at CVI ...
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Bausch & Lomb has made a wave of executive appointments....
Bausch & Lomb has made a wave of executive appointments. It has hired Stuart Heap, a former CIBA Vision executive, as corporate vice president and global president for vision care. Heap worked for CIBA Vision for 20 years, rising through the ranks to become a group vice president and then ...
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Allergan's eye care pharmaceutical products generated a 22.1 percent sales...
Allergan's eye care pharmaceutical products generated a 22.1 percent sales increase to $492.2 million for the first quarter, with a 17.4 percent rise in local currencies. Total revenues went up by 23 percent to $1,061 million and net income more than doubled to $111 million, compared with $44 million in ...
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Net sales rose by 20.7 percent for Advanced Medical Optics...
Net sales rose by 20.7 percent for Advanced Medical Optics in the first quarter ended March 28, reaching $303.7 million, although net earnings declined to $6.9 million from $12.1 million in the same period in 2007. The net sales result included a 6.5 percent rise related to foreign currency exchange ...
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CIBA Vision is switching back to its ?rub and rinse?...
CIBA Vision is switching back to its ?rub and rinse? recommendation for lens care and is updating its in-pack instructions and packaging across its range of lens solutions accordingly. The decision has the unanimous support from professionals eager for the company to remove its ?no rub? recommendation. CIBA Vision said ...
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Chemoptics and Acomon have struck a marketing deal whereby Acomon,...
Chemoptics and Acomon have struck a marketing deal whereby Acomon, maker of the RAV 7 polymer and a leading supplier to the industry, will use its sales and marketing team on Chemoptics' new Chemopcoat products. The two companies will also work together on innovations for the industry. Chemoptics, based in ...
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Sales of silicone hydrogel contact lenses grew in France by...
Sales of silicone hydrogel contact lenses grew in France by 44 percent to €37 million in 2007, according to SYFFOC, the country's contact lens manufacturers' association, helping the overall contact lens market to grow by 5.1 percent to €205 million. Sales of contact lens solutions rose by 12.6 percent to ...
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Certottica, the Italian certification institute for optical and other industrial...
Certottica, the Italian certification institute for optical and other industrial products, has announced positive results for the year 2007, with turnover up by 13 percent year-on-year to €2,409,750 and net profit of €71,453. Among the institute's activities, product testing and certification were among the best performers, generating revenues of €836,426, ...
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The French government is considering proposals for a health reform...
The French government is considering proposals for a health reform similar to the German one, eliminating subsidies for the purchase of eyeglasses and other benefits. Such a measure would lead to annual savings of €227 million for the state. Complementary insurance policies could absorb these charges by requesting an average ...
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Optical Express is planning to double the number of its...
Optical Express is planning to double the number of its stores and is launching a huge recruitment campaign to employ 1,000 optometrists, dispensing opticians, optical assistants and laser counselors. Quoting David Moulsdale, Optical Express's chairman and chief executive, Optician said the pace of growth within the company's laser and intraocular ...
