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Wolfgang Messerschmidt has been appointed to the new position of...
Wolfgang Messerschmidt has been appointed to the new position of vice president of Essilor for the Eastern Region of Europe, based at Essilor Austria. He will oversee a number of countries where Essilor owns the distribution, in some cases since recently: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania and ...
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Hoya Lens Italia has a new president. From Oct. 15,...
Hoya Lens Italia has a new president. From Oct. 15, 2007 Maurizio Veroli, who has been sales director of the company since 2003, will take over the reins from Kazuo Tokuda, who has spent 25 years running the Italian subsidiary. A business graduate of Milan's Bocconi University, Veroli has 20 ...
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Mauro Schena, former chief executive of Kata Europe, has been...
Mauro Schena, former chief executive of Kata Europe, has been appointed sales, marketing and logistics manager of REM Eyewear for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. The American company has been distributing its eyewear in these markets for almost twenty years, partly through Indo of Spain and L'Amy of ...
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Indo has appointed David Ferran as the new general manager...
Indo has appointed David Ferran as the new general manager of its Schulz subsidiary in Germany. The executive, who ran Indo's Portuguese subsidiary from 2003 to 2005 before analyzing different business models in the USA, replaces Ulrike Hagelschuer after three years in the job. This 39-year-old optician has become marketing ...
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Indo has signed an agreement with Digital Eye Lab of...
Indo has signed an agreement with Digital Eye Lab of New York for the distribution of the Spanish company's LifeMade progressive lenses, which use free-form technology. Digital Eye is the first independent prescription lab in the USA to offer these lenses on a national basis. Indo has reached a similar ...
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CooperVision is promoting Thomas Shane, currently senior vice president of...
CooperVision is promoting Thomas Shane, currently senior vice president of strategic marketing, to become president of CooperVision U.S. from Nov. 1. Jeff McLean will continue as president of the Americas and will also oversee distribution and packaging throughout the USA, Canada, Latin America, Mexico and South America. Reporting to Shane ...
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Bausch & Lomb has promoted Dipankar Bhattacharjee as corporate vice...
Bausch & Lomb has promoted Dipankar Bhattacharjee as corporate vice president and as president of its Asia-Pacific region. Bhattacharjee has acted as the company's vice president of commercial operations for Greece, Italy, South Africa and Turkey, and then as head of distributor operations for the Europe, Middle East and Africa ...
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Vision Service Plan (VSP) has promoted Steve Baker from vice...
Vision Service Plan (VSP) has promoted Steve Baker from vice president of technology to president of Eyefinity, its internet portal. He succeeds Don Yee, who left as chief executive of VSP at the end of July to pursue other business opportunities. Baker joined Eyefinity seven years ago from Gtech Corp., ...
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Andy Huthoefer has joined Satisloh North America as its vice...
Andy Huthoefer has joined Satisloh North America as its vice president of business development. He will be responsible for key accounts, strategy and marketing development. Huthoefer, who has 15 years' experience in North America and Germany, was previously director of strategic planning for Carl Zeiss Vision International, marketing vice president ...
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In a wave of management changes, Advanced Medical Optics (AMO)...
In a wave of management changes, Advanced Medical Optics (AMO) has promoted Michael Lambert as its new chief financial officer and executive vice president. Previously Lambert was senior vice president and chief financial officer of Quest Software. Richard ?Randy? Meier, who was AMO's CFO and chief operating officer up until ...
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Advanced Medical Optics has launched an initiative called ?Elevate Your...
Advanced Medical Optics has launched an initiative called ?Elevate Your Eye' (EYE) Care and described as a global education campaign to raise awareness about proper lens cleaning techniques. The aim is to help contact lens wearers to minimize the possibilities of infection. Featuring Lauren Conrad, the MTV reality TV star, ...
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Novacel, the big prescription laboratory bought by Essilor at the...
Novacel, the big prescription laboratory bought by Essilor at the beginning of this year, will open an agency in Brussels next February to service the Belgian market. Novacel, which already processes 17 percent of the ophthalmic lenses sold in France, inaugurated a few weeks ago a modern new €10 million ...
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Unilens Vision has appointed Eschenbach Optik as exclusive worldwide distributor...
Unilens Vision has appointed Eschenbach Optik as exclusive worldwide distributor of its UniVision Low Vision Lens. Eschenbach Optik of America in Connecticut is responsible for North and South America while Eschenbach Optik GmbH + Co. in Germany is responsible for the rest of the world. The UniVision Low Vision Lens ...
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After the bankruptcy of its Swiss importer, New Sunsport Goods,...
After the bankruptcy of its Swiss importer, New Sunsport Goods, Safilo has appointed a new distributor for its two sports brands, Carrera and Smith. It is Bus Sport, a wholesaler which already imports the sports products of Fjällräven, Hanwag, Drake, Level and Northwave.
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Delamare Sovra, a French supplier of machinery and instruments for...
Delamare Sovra, a French supplier of machinery and instruments for lens producers and large lens laboratories, is transferring its head office to larger premises, hiring additional staff and investing in new high-tech equipment. The company will not reveal its turnover but says it grew by 20 percent in the first ...
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Giovanni Coffen Marcolin, chairman and chief executive of Marcolin, and...
Giovanni Coffen Marcolin, chairman and chief executive of Marcolin, and his wife Maria Giovanna Zandegiacomo agreed on Sept. 21 to pay €30,000 each, plus legal costs, to settle a case of alleged insider trading. The agreement was reached, at the spouses' request, in a preliminary court hearing. Meanwhile, Giorgio Drago, ...
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Marcolin has redesigned its website to align it with the...
Marcolin has redesigned its website to align it with the image revamp that the company unveiled at last May's MIDO fair. The user-friendly website offers information in Italian and English and has a link to the Marcolin USA site. The company has a specific website for the USA because some ...
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Signature Eyewear has confirmed an apparent financial turnaround by delivering...
Signature Eyewear has confirmed an apparent financial turnaround by delivering net income of $256,000 for the 3rd quarter ended July 31, up from $230,000 in the same period a year ago. It was the 13th consecutive profitable quarter and it contributed to an increase in net profit to $924,000 for ...
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Sperian Protection, the global leader in personal protection formerly called...
Sperian Protection, the global leader in personal protection formerly called Bacou-Dalloz and partly owned by Essilor, has decided to buy back up to 10 percent of its own shares by November 2008 to help support its share price, which has fallen by 11 percent since the beginning of 2007, in ...
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Sales of contact lenses went up by 5.1 percent in...
Sales of contact lenses went up by 5.1 percent in France for the first half of 2007 compared with the same period last year. SYFFOC, the French association of manufacturers and distributors of contact lenses, recorded a turnover of €120 million during the period for its members, which include Bausch ...
