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Two of David Clulow's London stores, in Soho and Hampstead,...
Two of David Clulow's London stores, in Soho and Hampstead, were burglarized in the same week in April, marking the latest in a series of raids targeting the high-street British chain. The latest was on Apr. 17, when 58 Prada and Chanel frames were stolen from the Soho store. The ...
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CECOP, the Spanish optical buying group that has 1,700 members...
CECOP, the Spanish optical buying group that has 1,700 members in Italy, Portugal, Spain and the U.K., has signed new agreements with three Portuguese suppliers: Vladi Iberica for frames; Prooptica for eyewear from Portuguese fashion brands; and F3M, a software supplier. Agreements with major German producers are about to be ...
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Emerging Vision's purchases in 2006 and 2007 of Combine Optical...
Emerging Vision's purchases in 2006 and 2007 of Combine Optical Management and The Optical Group paid off, delivering combined retail revenues of $33.85 million for 2007. This meant that these buying groups brought in 68.2 percent of Emerging Vision's total revenues, which were $49.6 million for the year ended Dec. ...
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Nouveau Eyewear and Umbro International have signed an agreement to...
Nouveau Eyewear and Umbro International have signed an agreement to make a line of Umbro brand eyewear and sports sunglasses. The collection, expected to come out in January 2009, will be sold in the Americas, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The eyewear will be modeled after street-ready athletic wear, and ...
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While Luxottica is disbanding Oakley Europe, two of its former...
While Luxottica is disbanding Oakley Europe, two of its former sales managers, Stéphane Devort and Nicolas Saumur, have formed a new company, the Caste(e), to handle the marketing and distribution of eyewear products in the optical retail circuit in France and neighboring countries. They have signed a deal to represent ...
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Meade Instruments Corp., the American maker of optical products such...
Meade Instruments Corp., the American maker of optical products such as telescopes, microscopes, binoculars and riflescopes, has sold its Weaver and Redfield sports optics brands. It will keep its Simmons sports optics brand. Steve Muellner, the company's president and chief executive, noted that the two brands being sold accounted for ...
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Marcel Pohl, who has been sales director of Essilor Deutschland...
Marcel Pohl, who has been sales director of Essilor Deutschland for more than 20 years, has been promoted as European business development manager. He is being succeeded by Harald Feld, who has been working in leading roles with other types of branded goods. Frank Hauerken is ...
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Chris Hunt is returning to Rodenstock UK in the position...
Chris Hunt is returning to Rodenstock UK in the position of regional development director for the U.K. market. Hunt, who had acted as managing director of Rodenstock UK for many years, was named a consultant to the company last year. His appointment to the new role follows the departure of ...
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Net sales for Orange 21 grew by 10 percent to...
Net sales for Orange 21 grew by 10 percent to $46.5 million in the fiscal year ended Dec. 31, but that didn't save the company from a net loss of $7,994,000, worse than the $7,185,000 loss booked for 2006. In fact, pre-tax losses declined to $6,542,000 from $7,185,000, but ...
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Led by its Costa del Mar sunglass business, A.T. Cross...
Led by its Costa del Mar sunglass business, A.T. Cross saw an 11.3 percent increase in consolidated sales for the first quarter of 2008, to $36.3 million. Sales for the period, ended March 29, were up by 23.5 percent to $9.7 million. This time frame included five days of sales ...
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Demenego has signed an international licensing agreement with FG Sport,...
Demenego has signed an international licensing agreement with FG Sport, based in Rome, organizer and worldwide promoter of the World Superbike Championship. The contract is for the development of a line of Superbike branded sports eyewear. Superbike, also known as SBK, is a category of motorbike racing on bikes from ...
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An Italian watchdog on publicity, IAP, has issued a ban...
An Italian watchdog on publicity, IAP, has issued a ban on an advertisement depicting a finger entering the mouth of a woman wearing a pair of Tom Ford sunglasses by Marcolin. The institute judged the ad as being vulgar and sexually implicit. The American designer has had a reputation for ...
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Stuart Mackenzie's 6-year-old U.K.-based international eyewear consultancy, Strategy With Vision...
Stuart Mackenzie's 6-year-old U.K.-based international eyewear consultancy, Strategy With Vision (SWV) has opened a new office in Germany. Mackenzie, former regional director of SOLA and international business development director of Carl Zeiss' ophthalmic division, is set to deliver an interesting speech at a conference organized by MAFO on the eve ...
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On April 9, ANFAO, the association of the Italian optical...
On April 9, ANFAO, the association of the Italian optical industry, signed a new collective labor agreement with the 18,000 employees in the Italian eyewear industry, 15,000 of whom are concentrated in the Belluno district. The agreement was reached without any labor unrest and is valid until Dec. 31, 2009. ...
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SIOF, the Chinese eyewear fair in Shanghai, closed its eighth...
SIOF, the Chinese eyewear fair in Shanghai, closed its eighth edition at the end of February with 41,200 visitors, up by 3 percent over 2007. Some 775 exhibitors from 22 countries, including 40 percent from outside China, occupied 38,000 square meters of exhibition space. This number was up from 700 ...
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The Federation of Manufacturing Opticians of the U.K. will be...
The Federation of Manufacturing Opticians of the U.K. will be the host of a seminar of EUROM1, the European optical industry association led since last June by Antoni Olivella of INDO. The meeting is going to allow industry leaders to discuss such concerns as counterfeiting, eye exams for European drivers ...
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The Vision Council of America is no more: The American...
The Vision Council of America is no more: The American industry association, which recently merged with the Sunglass Manufacturers Association of America to form a group representing more than 300 companies, has rebranded itself as The Vision Council, complete with a new website, www.thevisioncouncil.org.
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Rudy Project says the Spanish sailing team Ribon has chosen...
Rudy Project says the Spanish sailing team Ribon has chosen the Italian company to outfit its members with its Zylon sunglasses for its regattas. They will be customized with the yellow and red flag and the crown of the Spanish king. As usual, Rudy Project will also be a major ...
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After working at Marchon for five years, Andrew Cockayne has...
After working at Marchon for five years, Andrew Cockayne has joined De Rigo UK as sales manager, responsible for its wholesale business in the country.
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Area has hired Prooptica of Lisbon to market its Coco...
Area has hired Prooptica of Lisbon to market its Coco Song collection in Portugal.
