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De Rigo has recovered the rights to the Police trademark...
De Rigo has recovered the rights to the Police trademark for Spain, where it has been forced until now to market its international collection by this name under the Bogart brand though its local sales joint venture with Indo. The Italian company paid off a Spanish firm that had registered ...
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Intercast Europe has introduced a new line of sun prescription...
Intercast Europe has introduced a new line of sun prescription lenses made with its sturdy NXT material. The new program, call NXT Rx Sun, features blanks that can be surfaced and strip coated by a laboratory without any change in color or in photochromic properties. Thanks to a patent-pending «dyes ...
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Bausch & Lomb informed the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission...
Bausch & Lomb informed the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission on Oct. 16 that it had been hit by a total of 573 lawsuits in the USA and abroad for product liability in relation to its ReNu with MoistureLoc solution. Out of these court actions, 550 were filed by individuals ...
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Advanced Medical Optics, which had made an offer to acquire...
Advanced Medical Optics, which had made an offer to acquire Bausch & Lomb before its definitive agreement with Warburg Pincus, continued to suffer from the recall of its own controversial contact lens solution, Complete MoisturePlus, in its 3rd quarter ended Sept. 29. AMO's sales of eye care products fell by ...
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Alcon reports a sales increase of 11 percent to $1.3...
Alcon reports a sales increase of 11 percent to $1.3 billion for the third quarter, including growth of 7.9 percent in local currencies. Net profit rose by 78.9 percent to $415 million in spite of charges related to a reduction in the staff of its refractive laser business following the ...
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OcucoRelcon has bought the business unit of SAS, a software...
OcucoRelcon has bought the business unit of SAS, a software system developed in the UK for the management of optical practices, from Integrity Software for an undisclosed sum. SAS is described as a pioneer in PC-based systems in the UK for the optical industry. The combination with OcucoRelcon's own FOCUS ...
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Allergan, the California-based pharmaceutical and medical device company, reported a...
Allergan, the California-based pharmaceutical and medical device company, reported a leap in earnings in the third quarter ended on Sept. 28, prompting it to increase guidance figures for the full year. Consolidated net sales for the group rose by 23.6 percent to $978.7 million for the quarter. Revenues from eye ...
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China's imports of optical products grew by 18.7 percent to...
China's imports of optical products grew by 18.7 percent to US$94 million in the first half of 2007, while its exports rose by 26.6 percent to $931 million, based on figures provided by the organizers of the Chinese International Optics Fair (CIOF) in Beijing. The number of visitors at its ...
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Essilor International donated 11,000 lenses and participated in a program...
Essilor International donated 11,000 lenses and participated in a program to test the eyesight of 3,571 special needs athletes at the Special Olympics World Summer Games held in Shanghai last summer. Twenty percent of these athletes received new eyewear. Essilor is the official supplier of ophthalmic lenses for the Lion's ...
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Dollond & Aitchison, the British optical retail chain, has been...
Dollond & Aitchison, the British optical retail chain, has been forced to cancel a recent offer to provide consumers with free eye tests as it could not cope with the resulting surge in demand. The offer, promoted via D&A's website, received wide coverage in the media because an average eye ...
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Randazzo, the second-largest optical retailing group in Italy after Salmoiraghi...
Randazzo, the second-largest optical retailing group in Italy after Salmoiraghi & Viganò, has been recording annual growth of around 5 percent on a same-store basis so far this year. The company now has a total of 104 free-standing stores, equally distributed over the north, center and south of the country. ...
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Logo Group has signed a new licensing deal with Land...
Logo Group has signed a new licensing deal with Land Rover to market its eyewear as of next year. The French company will bring out a line of glasses and sunglasses for Range Rover in January 2008, designed for the male segment of the population at the high-end of the ...
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Allison has taken over the Byblos licence from the market...
Allison has taken over the Byblos licence from the market leader, Luxottica, which is pruning its portfolio to focus on key brands. The new contract is for five years and the first collection will comprise 20 sunglasses and 20 prescription frames with an average price of about €140 each. The ...
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Alain Mikli will showcase a new collection of prescription frames...
Alain Mikli will showcase a new collection of prescription frames at SILMO, called Vanessa&Mehdi after two designers who work for his design studio since 2003, Vanessa Di Giovani and Mehdi Gaurat. The various styles in the collection have been designed to soften asymmetries in the wearer's facial features through unexpected ...
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Pouilloux, the company behind Vuarnet eyewear, has acquired a new...
Pouilloux, the company behind Vuarnet eyewear, has acquired a new site for the manufacture of its acetate and nylon frames, at Arbent, part of the French «plastic valley» region near the French Alps like its original factory at Oyonnax nearby. Ten permanent employees will work at the new 800-square-meter factory ...
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FGX International Holdings, the parent company of FosterGrant, Quantum Optics...
FGX International Holdings, the parent company of FosterGrant, Quantum Optics and Magnivision, has given more details about its planned initial public offering, indicating that the transaction is expected to raise around $91 million after expenses. According to a filing made by the company at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, ...
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Essilor of America has acquired a majority stake in KBco,...
Essilor of America has acquired a majority stake in KBco, one of the largest distributors of polarized lenses in the USA. The acquisition adds to Essilor's portfolio of value-added corrective sun lenses and extends its presence in the expanding polarized segment. Founded in 1987, KBco moved last year from Aspen, ...
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Alcon has gained control of WaveLight by purchasing 76.9 percent...
Alcon has gained control of WaveLight by purchasing 76.9 percent of its 6.6 million outstanding shares. After launching a two-week acceptance period at the end of September, it has received approvals from competition authorities in Germany and Austria and is awaiting cartel clearances in China, Cyprus and Spain prior to ...
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Vision-Ease Lens has licensed the Coppertone brand for polarized sun...
Vision-Ease Lens has licensed the Coppertone brand for polarized sun lenses. According to Vision-Ease, its Coppertone polarized lenses block 100 percent of harmful UV light, eliminate 97 percent of reflected glare and protect against high-energy visible light. The use of this brand name of Schering-Plough, well known internationally for its ...
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Wiley X Eyewear, a Californian provider of protective eyewear systems...
Wiley X Eyewear, a Californian provider of protective eyewear systems for military and outdoor enthusiasts, has signed a licensing deal that allows Bushnell Outdoor Products to use its own patented ?Climate Control Technology with Facial Cavity Seals' in certain sunglass models. The first of Bushnell's models with the technology will ...
