Latest News Briefs – Page 327
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A new U.S. sales subsidiary has been established by Neostyle,...
A new U.S. sales subsidiary has been established by Neostyle, the German eyewear manufacturer. The new company will be managed by Bob Lawson who will ensure the transfer of business from the base of its previous U.S. distributor in California to its new headquarters in Florida. The distribution company was ...
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REM Eyewear has opened a showroom and customer service center...
REM Eyewear has opened a showroom and customer service center in Hong Kong which will serve as headquarters for Southern and Eastern Asia. Daniel Lai has been appointed manager of the center, heading up REM's activities in the region. The American eyewear company has a portfolio that includes Converse, John ...
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Abbas Sotoudeh has been appointed managing director for Keeler, the...
Abbas Sotoudeh has been appointed managing director for Keeler, the British manufacturing group for ophtalmic magnification and illumination instruments. Keeler recently opened sales offices in China and South America. Sotoudeh worked with the company as R&D manager since 2003, and will replace Mark Lavelle who had held the position of ...
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After signing a 10-year licensing agreement last year with Elite...
After signing a 10-year licensing agreement last year with Elite Group for the production and distribution of its first eyewear collection, Pollini, a company belonging to Italy's Aeffe group, has now announced the launch for Spring-Summer 2008 of a secondary line, called Studio Pollini, licensed to Elite under the same ...
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Columbia Sportswear has signed a licensing agreement with Kruger Optical...
Columbia Sportswear has signed a licensing agreement with Kruger Optical for binoculars, spotting scopes, high-performance riflescopes and other sports optics products addressing hikers, bird watchers, hunters and other outdoor enthusiasts. The deal is initially for the North American market Columbia already has a separate agreement for sunglasses with L'Amy (see ...
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OSA International, the high-end American eyewear company run by Larry...
OSA International, the high-end American eyewear company run by Larry Sands, has launched a co-branding effort with Carl Zeiss Vision Group, using exclusive lens colors that will only be available in its own Chrome Hearts sunglasses. The lenses of this luxury line, which also feature components such as ebony, mahogany, ...
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Bushnell has developed two models of binoculars especially designed for...
Bushnell has developed two models of binoculars especially designed for rugby fans, which it is marketing in connection with the Rugby World Cup taking place in France from Sept. 7 to Oct. 20. The Perma Focus model has a magnification capacity of 8 times and is pre-regulated in terms of ...
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Norville, the eyewear company based in Gloucester, UK, has developed...
Norville, the eyewear company based in Gloucester, UK, has developed a mini ear lock that will make it easier and more comfortable to keep eyewear in a fixed position on the ears. The rubber accessory, to be sold in pairs, was finalized in June of this year and will feature ...
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Latest developments in the Neva® range by BBGR will enable...
Latest developments in the Neva® range by BBGR will enable lens wearers to benefit from new coatings featuring scratch-resistant, color-free and anti-reflective properties. Neva® Secret is described as the first truly color-free anti-reflective coating. Another new product, Neva®+, goes one step further by integrating an anti-static layer that prevents the ...
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Novacel, the French manufacturer of optical lenses recently bought by...
Novacel, the French manufacturer of optical lenses recently bought by Essilor (see article further up in this issue), opened a new 9,000-square-meter site for its laboratory at Chateau Thierry in northwestern France in mid September. The company's founder Roger Düning threw a big party for the event inviting opticians from ...
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Certottica, the Italian institute responsible for certifying optical products, has...
Certottica, the Italian institute responsible for certifying optical products, has developed a machine that uses a mathematical model to produce eyewear prototypes. The institute puts this state-of-the-art scientific facility at the disposal of eyewear manufacturers to increase efficiency and save costs. The physical prototype is obtained in a matter of ...
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Advanced Medical Optics (AMO), the Californian-based laboratory for technological development...
Advanced Medical Optics (AMO), the Californian-based laboratory for technological development in eyewear, has introduced a new solution called Easy Rub for optical lenses. The product is intended to replace Complete Moisture Plus, which the laboratory took off the market in May after receiving several complaints of eye infections from consumers. ...
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CIBA Vision has recalled thousands of bottles of its Solo-Care...
CIBA Vision has recalled thousands of bottles of its Solo-Care Aqua solution from selected opticians in France and thousands of its antiseptic cream Savlon from selected stores in the UK after animal rights activists claimed to have contaminated some of these products. CIBA Vision has asked all French customers who ...
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The Ocuco Group's total sales rose by 4 percent to...
The Ocuco Group's total sales rose by 4 percent to £2.8 million in its recent financial year but its profits fell by 30 percent to £384,048. The UK-based group includes Ocuco, a specialist in optical retail management software; OcucoRelcon and DRS Computing, a lab software business. The company attributes the ...
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Johnson & Johnson has decided to set its second European...
Johnson & Johnson has decided to set its second European Vision Care Institute in Milan, joining the one already operating in Prague. The company's vision care operations increased their sales by 16.3 percent to reach $553 million for its second quarter ended July 1. The growth was led by sales ...
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Allergan has opened its fourth R&D center in Bangalore, India....
Allergan has opened its fourth R&D center in Bangalore, India. The Allergan Pharmaceutical Development Center will focus it activities on therapies concerning inflammatory and infective conditions of the eye, especially in the retina, as well as movement disorders. Research will be carried out in collaboration with other doctors and researchers ...
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The Spectacle Makers' Company (SMC), the accredited training body for...
The Spectacle Makers' Company (SMC), the accredited training body for optical assistants and laboratory staff in the UK, has launched a series of distance-learning courses aimed at optical assistants and receptionists. The introduction of these courses are a response to a concern that an estimated 7 percent of 20,000 ancillary ...
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A new Interprofessional Optical Council has been formed by four...
A new Interprofessional Optical Council has been formed by four French associations of opticians and manufacturers from the ophthalmic lens, frame and contact lens industries. It has started a round of negotiations with insurance companies to standardize the supply of data required for reimbursement. It will also tackle the issue ...
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The latest trends in the sale of ophthalmic lenses in...
The latest trends in the sale of ophthalmic lenses in the UK reveal a steady increase in the popularity of high-index lenses during the first quarter of 2007, based on the monthly data collected by the country's Federation of Manufacturing Opticians (FMO) through Business Benchmarks. Earlier data show that 14 ...
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Progressive lenses are gaining ground on the Italian market. In...
Progressive lenses are gaining ground on the Italian market. In the first six months of 2007 their sales were 9 percent higher than in the same period the previous year. A Vision Communication Consortium made up of trade associations and almost all the lens manufacturers and distributors in Italy, believes ...
