Latest News Briefs – Page 344
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Circle Peak Capital, a private equity firm based in New...
Circle Peak Capital, a private equity firm based in New York City, has completed the acquisition of three separate high-end optical retailers located in different parts of the USA to form one single luxury eyewear retailing platform, appropriately named Luxury Optical Holdings. The deal, which included the purchase of Davant ...
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Optiker Gilde continues to keep quiet about the sales results...
Optiker Gilde continues to keep quiet about the sales results of its affiliated retailers, but members of the German buying group are projecting increases of 15 percent in volume and 10 percent in value for their sales this year, without catching up yet with the market levels of 2002. Industry ...
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Dollond & Aitchison, the British optical retail chain owned by...
Dollond & Aitchison, the British optical retail chain owned by De Rigo, has launched a funny TV commercial, where animated customers have different service experiences at D&A versus the competition. The latter is compared to a sausage factory where the customer is strewn through a series of machines and then ...
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Seiko Optical UK has taken over Lens-online, the lens supply...
Seiko Optical UK has taken over Lens-online, the lens supply service over the internet set up a few years ago for independent opticians by Neil Appleton, a former managing director of SOLA and a former official of the UK's Federation of Manufacturing Opticians (FODO). Seiko will replace most of the ...
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INDO has raised its stake in Diamonex CB Medical of...
INDO has raised its stake in Diamonex CB Medical of Milan from 80.68 to 100 percent. The subsidiary, which employs 20 persons and invoiced more than €2.5 million in 2005, will renamed as INDO Italia. The Spanish company, which now derives 32 percent of its revenues from foreign customers, first ...
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While indicating that other licensing agreements are in the pipeline,...
While indicating that other licensing agreements are in the pipeline, Charmant is introducing an elegant new line of frames with a specific Japanese style under the Nodoka brand name. At MIDO, the Japanese company will present the styles that have won an international design competition. The selection of the winners ...
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Marcolin is showing a rare model of Ferrari in presenting...
Marcolin is showing a rare model of Ferrari in presenting its new line under that brand at MIDO. The company will also revive in a more modern key a luxury line of prescription frames and sunglasses that had been marketed by Luxottica until 2001 under the Web name through a ...
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VidiVici Occhiali is launching a children's line of eyewear, called...
VidiVici Occhiali is launching a children's line of eyewear, called Exalt Cycle Kids, which is inspired to its Exaggerated line for adults. Meanwhile, the Italian company signed a few weeks ago a 3-year agreement for the design, production and distribution of the Sweet Year brand of sunglasses and prescription eyewear. ...
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Pure Eyewear is a new collection from Viva Internenational that...
Pure Eyewear is a new collection from Viva Internenational that features 3-piece mounting without drilling holes, providing more rigidity and reducing frame mounting time from 35-40 minutes to 5 minutes. The technology was launched for the first time at Vision Expo East. Viva may have new licenses to announce at ...
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Sama Eyewear is producing and distributing a collection of Badgley...
Sama Eyewear is producing and distributing a collection of Badgley Mischka eyewear through a deal between the two companies. The new line debuted at Vision Expo East last March and should be rolled out in Europe at MIDO. The collection is based on Badgley Mischka's Spring/Summer collection of women's wear ...
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Signature Eyewear has obtained the exclusive right to design and...
Signature Eyewear has obtained the exclusive right to design and distribute Cutter & Buck branded eyewear through an agreement with the American golf apparel company that runs through Dec. 31, 2009. The new collection will be launched at Vision Expo West for distribution in the USA in the Fall of ...
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Kenmark Group's Couteur Designs division will be launching a Jhane...
Kenmark Group's Couteur Designs division will be launching a Jhane Barnes collection of designer eyewear for men in the USA to complement its Vera Wang range as well as Jhane Barnes menswear. The company is still developing a business plan for the collection and has not yet confirmed its global ...
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Rip Curl, the Australian surf clothing brand, is launching a...
Rip Curl, the Australian surf clothing brand, is launching a new eyewear collection with some 100 new optical and solar styles, replacing about half of the brand's current models. While the brand's strength remains with optical products, sunglasses now make up 40 percent of the entire collection. The high-end sunglasses ...
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Corning announced new collaboration ventures at Vision Expo East in...
Corning announced new collaboration ventures at Vision Expo East in New York, one with Tokuyama Corporation and the other with MoldSolutions. According to Corning, the partnership with Tokuyama is intended to develop state of the art photochromic technology that will allow the plastic photochromic market to grow in the future. ...
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Menicon has appointed Tosho Mathushima as the new president of...
Menicon has appointed Tosho Mathushima as the new president of Menicon Holdings Europe, the French-based subsidiary created in 2004 to coordinate the administration of its business in France, Germany, Spain and the UK, and the maintenance of its contact lens products in the region. The former general manager, Pierre Vilcot, ...
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Cooper Companies filed a lawsuit against CIBA Vision on Apr....
Cooper Companies filed a lawsuit against CIBA Vision on Apr. 10 claiming that CIBA's O2Optix contact lenses encroach on five of its patents in the USA. The patents are for innovations that control the edge characteristics of certain types of contact lenses and the unique designs of certain contact lenses. ...
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Fresh off a victory against Concept Lens, Aspex is still...
Fresh off a victory against Concept Lens, Aspex is still locking horns with Viva International in a similar patent dispute. The company alleges that Viva infringed on its 545 and 747 patents, both of which are for its magnetic clip technology. Aspex expressed confidence in early April that the California ...
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The European Patent Office has cancelled a patent (# 837087)...
The European Patent Office has cancelled a patent (# 837087) that was restricting Degussa's use of its Trogamid CX polyamide material to the manufacture of clear lenses, eyeglasses and magnifying glasses. The same material can now be used to make also eyeglass frames, sunglasses and lenses for sports glasses. Trogamid ...
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Alcon's consumer eyewear sales grew by 4.4 percent to $156.8...
Alcon's consumer eyewear sales grew by 4.4 percent to $156.8 million in the 1st quarter, or by 5.6 percent in local currencies. Total sales increased by 8.1 percent to $1,157.1 million and were up by 10.5 percent on a currency-neutral basis. Net earnings climbed by 18.5 percent to $295.7 million ...
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The Vision Council of America (VCA) has launched the Optical...
The Vision Council of America (VCA) has launched the Optical Career Center, an online employment service for members of the optic community hosted on its website under http://careers.visionsite.org. Employers who are members of VCA can use this service to post work opportunities online and look through the resumes of job ...
