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Opinion Way, a French market research company, has found that...
Opinion Way, a French market research company, has found that a growing number of people in France are getting their eyesight checked. Their proportion has risen to 57 percent of the population from 48 percent last year, largely due to a higher percentage of visits from people who do not ...
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The Vision Council of America's ?Check Yearly. See Clearly? campaign...
The Vision Council of America's ?Check Yearly. See Clearly? campaign has won two bronze awards in the 2007 competition organized by the U.S. National Health Information Awards Program. One of the awards went to a public service advertisement campaign run under the tagline, ?An Eye Doctor Can See Things You ...
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The nine major optical retail banners in France boosted their...
The nine major optical retail banners in France boosted their advertising expenditures by 16.7 percent to a combined total of €65.8 million in the first six months of 2007, according to a periodic survey conducted by Bien Vu, and 64 percent of the money was invested on TV spots. Alain ...
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Alain Afflelou has signed up as the main sponsor of...
Alain Afflelou has signed up as the main sponsor of Aviron Bayonnais, the rugby team from Bayonne in South-West France, for the next three years. Afflelou, which now has about 660 store fronts in France, opened its first door in Bayonne back in 1979, and is well implanted in that ...
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Nico Design's Tornado has won the ?Eyewear of the Year...
Nico Design's Tornado has won the ?Eyewear of the Year 2008' award at the International Optical Fair in Tokyo (IOFT) in the technological innovation category. This is the third time that the Italian company has won an award at the Tokyo show. Protected by a patent, Tornado features soldering-free, layered ...
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As part of its celebrations for the 40th anniversary of...
As part of its celebrations for the 40th anniversary of the fair, SILMO is putting out a 160-page book about the history of eyewear around the world. Published by Editions du Chêne in France, the book features 200 illustrations.
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The China International Optics Fair held in Beijing on Sept....
The China International Optics Fair held in Beijing on Sept. 18-20 attracted 50,000 about visitors, or 8 percent more than in the previous year. The majority were buyers and professionals, but members of the public were also admitted. The number of exhibitors increased to 768, coming from 20 countries, and ...
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Opti München will expand the section on low vision at...
Opti München will expand the section on low vision at its next session on Jan. 11-13. As usual the Munich fair will be preceded by a series of events organized on Jan. 8 and 9 in the football stadia of 11 German cities, called Kick-Off. Charmant, Eschenbach, Luxottica, Marcolin and ...
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Opticlibre, a buying group owned by GrandVision in France, has...
Opticlibre, a buying group owned by GrandVision in France, has made its first acquisition as it moved to buy up Mod, a regional buying group along with its banner Visalis. Situated at the medium-high end of the market Visalis is a well-recognized local brand name in the south of France, ...
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Luxottica has authorized a group of global banks to arrange,...
Luxottica has authorized a group of global banks to arrange, underwrite and provide credit facilities to back its $2 billion acquisition of Oakley. The new package will consist of a 5-year loan of $1.5 billion and a short-term bridge loan of $500 million. Meanwhile the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in ...
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Emerging Vision, an American provider of eye care products and...
Emerging Vision, an American provider of eye care products and services and one of the largest franchised optical chains in the USA, has made its initial moves in global expansion by confirming its US$3.6 million acquisition of The Optical Group, a large Canadian buying group. The deal was made after ...
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Eye Care Centers of America (ECCA) has reported increases in...
Eye Care Centers of America (ECCA) has reported increases in net income in both the second quarter ended June 30, 2007 and the first six months of 2007. In the second quarter, the U.S. optical retail chain's net income reached $4.2 million compared with $3.3 million for the same period ...
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ASDA has made price cuts totalling £2 million across its...
ASDA has made price cuts totalling £2 million across its contact lens product range, claiming that this makes it the cheapest online or retail store selling contact lens products in the UK. The British mass market retailer's website is now selling daily disposable lenses from brands such as Johnson & ...
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The British Contact Lens Association has sent its members a...
The British Contact Lens Association has sent its members a new factsheet on UK regulations governing contact lens sale and supply, reminding practitioners to check whether the lenses that they are supplying must be sold under supervision or general direction, and to understand the differences between each supply route.
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Triple pre-tax profits have been reported by Black & Lizars,...
Triple pre-tax profits have been reported by Black & Lizars, an independent Scottish chain, for the year to the end of September. The company reported a pre-tax profit of £895,020 compared to £301,277 for the previous year. The profits resulted from increased sales, improved margins and the introduction in Scotland ...
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Specsavers Optical Group has promoted John Perkins, son of Specsavers'...
Specsavers Optical Group has promoted John Perkins, son of Specsavers' founders, Doug and Mary Perkins, as joint managing director. Specsavers currently operates 838 stores throughout the UK and Europe. Perkins joined the company in 1998 as shared ventures operations manager and became the youngest-ever member of the board in 2003. ...
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Vecellio, an Italian eyewear producer in the Cadore region with...
Vecellio, an Italian eyewear producer in the Cadore region with annual sales of €7 million that employed 52 people, has closed its production facility, but the factory resumed operations under a new cooperative status. Back in 1997, when the market was booming and skilled workers were thin on the ground ...
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Zerorh+, the high-tech line of sports eyewear marketed by Allison...
Zerorh+, the high-tech line of sports eyewear marketed by Allison in Italy, Greece and Portugal, is now controlled indirectly by that company's new controlling shareholder. The brand is still part of the activities of Zeroindustry, an Italian company that also sells technical sailing, cycling and climbing gear, in which a ...
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Signature Eyewear has arranged a 30-month $4.8 million revolving line...
Signature Eyewear has arranged a 30-month $4.8 million revolving line of credit with Comercica Bank, giving it a borrowing capacity of approximately $900,000 at a current rate of 8.75 percent per year. The line of credit matures on Feb. 28, 2010 and is secured by company assets. The company previously ...
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Swisslens, a Swiss manufacturer of both soft and rigid contact...
Swisslens, a Swiss manufacturer of both soft and rigid contact lens, is opening a French office to be run by Michel Pavillon, an optician and scientist who headed the contact lens department of Bourgeois for 14 years and had a similar position at Precilens. Swisslens aims to have its French ...
