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Johnson & Johnson Vision Care has reshuffled some important regional...
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care has reshuffled some important regional management functions. The company's manager for Southern Europe, Mahesh Samat, is taking over the management of the French subsidiary, replacing Thibault Mongon who is moving to Sao Paulo to take charge of the Latin American continent. Jean Accad, another Frenchman ...
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CIBA Vision has implemented a new Customer Development Group to...
CIBA Vision has implemented a new Customer Development Group to better meet the needs of its business clients. To run this new division the company has named Karen Gough, former president of the Americas region for CIBA, as chief customer officer. Backing her up as vice president of global head ...
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Ma Bo-kee has been declared personally bankrupt, nearly a year...
Ma Bo-kee has been declared personally bankrupt, nearly a year and a half after Moulin Global Eyecare Holdings, a company he founded some 46 years ago, was placed under the control of a liquidator to pay off $HK2 billion (€0.2b-$0.3b) worth of debt. Bo-kee was reportedly forced into bankruptcy after ...
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Mary Perkins, co-founder of SpecSavers, has received the Spirit of...
Mary Perkins, co-founder of SpecSavers, has received the Spirit of Everywoman Award from NatWest in recognition for the work that she had done to promote the participation of women in her company. About 9,500 of the 13,000 people working at SpecSavers and its joint ventures are women. At the head ...
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Women are overtaking the optometrist profession in the UK and...
Women are overtaking the optometrist profession in the UK and improving it, according to statistics from the General Optical Council's yearly registration review. The review shows that in 2005 there were 5,163 male and 5,256 female optometrists, as compared to 2001 when there were 4,818 male and 4,170 female optometrists. ...
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Signet Armorlite is the latest company to join PPG's new...
Signet Armorlite is the latest company to join PPG's new CR-39 Licensed Lens Caster Program, which was created earlier this year to honor the 60th anniversary of its patent for the CR-39 monomer. The company was named to PPG's new club at the recent Optical Laboratories Association's (OLA) exhibition and ...
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Certottica, the Italian certification laboratory specializing in the eyewear sector,...
Certottica, the Italian certification laboratory specializing in the eyewear sector, is opening a branch in the Shenzhen province of China to help control the quality of products made in the area for export to the USA, Europe and other destinations around the world. Run in cooperation with the Shenzen Chamber ...
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CIOF, the international optical fair held in Beijing last September,...
CIOF, the international optical fair held in Beijing last September, welcomed a total of about 49,000 visitors, up from 45,000 a year ago. The number of exhibitors grew to 790 from 750. Organized by Orient International Exhibitions, the next shows in Mainland China will take place on March 8-10 in ...
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Guildinvest's 1-year-old partnership with Cione, the largest Spanish buying group...
Guildinvest's 1-year-old partnership with Cione, the largest Spanish buying group in the optical industry, has brought a reduction of one percentage points in the French group's buying prices and a drop of 1.5 percentage points in those of the Spanish one. Their partnership is open to other buying groups across ...
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Atol will transfer its buying office and its logistic platform...
Atol will transfer its buying office and its logistic platform to new 3,300-square-meter location in Beaune next May or June. The French buying group reports growth of 4.49 percent on a same-store basis since the beginning of this year, or 2 percentage points better than the French optical market. Nearly ...
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BNL-Eurolens, the sun lens subsidiary of Essilor known for its...
BNL-Eurolens, the sun lens subsidiary of Essilor known for its Melanin filters, is starting up a new organization to service manufacturers in Greater China that are working for European and American companies. It will be housed in Essilor's premises in Hong Kong, where the lens stock will be kept. Pam ...
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An American subsidiary of Polo Ralph Lauren, Club Monaco, has...
An American subsidiary of Polo Ralph Lauren, Club Monaco, has entered into a long-term licensing agreement with Luxottica for the design, production and distribution of a new line of prescription frames and sunglasses under the Club Monaco brand. The new collection will be available for summer 2007 in the USA ...
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Oakley has opened its first German store in the Europa-Passage...
Oakley has opened its first German store in the Europa-Passage shopping center of Hamburg, measuring 120 square meters. Oakley's 6-year-old German subsidiary at Ismaning near Munich, which is also responsible for Austria and Poland, is taking over the distribution in Switzerland from Sevysa Sport. A new Swiss company, Oakley ...
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The board of directors at Orange 21, parent company of...
The board of directors at Orange 21, parent company of Spy Optics, has shaken up its executive spots. Barry Bucholz has been moved from his position as chief executive at Orange 21 to the position of president of European operations, including the company's recently acquired manufacturing division, LEM, and Spy's ...
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About 20 candidates were reportedly interested in taking over control...
About 20 candidates were reportedly interested in taking over control of Rodenstock from Permira at the beginning of this month, according to the German press, and they were all financial investors. Hoya says in fact that it had no discussion with the German company lately. Essilor doesn't seem to be ...
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Gilbert Le Nouy is the general manager of Charmant France....
Gilbert Le Nouy is the general manager of Charmant France. He replaces Georges de La Motte Collas who has become business development manager of the Lissac retail chain. Le Nouy, who is 50 years old, began at Optyl Seiler and joined Charmant's French subsidiary under his predecessor in 1994. ...
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Patrice Pineau has stepped down as INDO's country manager in...
Patrice Pineau has stepped down as INDO's country manager in France after only a few weeks in the job to return to Hoya, following a recent change of management in the Japanese group. Pineau, 36, has become again commercial director of Hoya France, reporting to Hans Werquin, 46, who has ...
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Roberto Vedovotto, the former chief executive of Safilo, has been...
Roberto Vedovotto, the former chief executive of Safilo, has been appointed as managing director and chairman of European luxury goods investment banking at Lehman Brothers, the US investment bank. The position was specifically created for Vedovotto, who will report to Perry Hoffmeister and Christian Meissner, Lehman's executives responsible for investment ...
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Hans Berndl, 45, has been promoted as sole chief executive...
Hans Berndl, 45, has been promoted as sole chief executive of Optovision. He had been running the German company lately together with another general manager, Uwe Wiedermann, who is now leaving. He had been in charge since 2002 of international sales, production, data processing, finance and purchasing.
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For the first time for many years, Visibilia closed its...
For the first time for many years, Visibilia closed its financial year on June 30 in the black, with pre-tax profits of €1 million. Consolidated revenues grew by 20 percent to €30 million during the 12-month period, with increases of 30 percent in Germany and 16 percent in Spain. Excluding ...
