Latest News Briefs – Page 349
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Romain Afflelou has signed a 3-year licensing deal for the...
Romain Afflelou has signed a 3-year licensing deal for the European market with the Read Madrid football team, adding to the eyewear licenses that this son of Alain Afflelou has with five French teams.
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Andy Roddick, which signed last April a 5-year apparel sponsorship...
Andy Roddick, which signed last April a 5-year apparel sponsorship deal with Lacoste said to be worth $25 million, will also endorse Lacoste sunglasses for an additional $750,000-$1 million under a separate deal.
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ORBIS, an American non-profit organization seeking to eliminate avoidable blindness,...
ORBIS, an American non-profit organization seeking to eliminate avoidable blindness, will give its Blue Sky Award to Al Berg, chief executive of Marchon Eyewear, for his contributions to the organization at the Crystal Ball For Sight event in New York on Feb. 16.
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Chas McShane has been appointed as managing director of Boots...
Chas McShane has been appointed as managing director of Boots Opticians. He was previously a regional director for Boots the Chemists, another division of the UK-based Boots Group. McShane replaces Colin McLean who left last March to pursue other opportunities. Boots Opticians has been merging its operations with those of ...
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The general assembly of Cione, one of the largest Spanish...
The general assembly of Cione, one of the largest Spanish buying groups in the eyewear sector, has agreed to give the name of ?Vision & Co.? to a collective banner that will be gradually introduced among its members. Under an agreement signed with Guildinvest, the large French buying group, the ...
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Two top managers of Optic 2000, Yves Guenin and Alain...
Two top managers of Optic 2000, Yves Guenin and Alain Bruguerolle, have become joint managing directors of Les Frères Lissac, the high-end French chain of optical stores partially taken over by the French buying group in 2003. They replace in effect Raouf Sabet d'Acre, who left the company at the ...
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De Rigo's board of directors has decided to pay an...
De Rigo's board of directors has decided to pay an extraordinary dividend of €1.65 per share. If approved by shareholders at a meeting on Dec. 13, it will amount to a total payout of €70 million, which will help finance the De Rigo family's tender offer for the shares it ...
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Hoya has decided to offer Transitions' photochromatic technology on its...
Hoya has decided to offer Transitions' photochromatic technology on its 1.50 index lenses in Europe, as it is already doing in the USA. The application will be limited to its Hilux single-vision lenses and its progressive Hoyalux Summit Pro, Summit CD and Wide lines. Hoya will start with France, the ...
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Fedon has reduced the 3.63 percent sales drop posted in...
Fedon has reduced the 3.63 percent sales drop posted in the first half of the year, closing the first nine months of 2005 with a 1.8 percent decline year-on-year to €41.266 million. Orders are stable - up 1.2 percent at €18 million. The range of top end office and travel ...
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Signet Armorlite has sold Ango Italian Optical, a UK-based distributor...
Signet Armorlite has sold Ango Italian Optical, a UK-based distributor of lenses, to Vision Technologies Inc., another British supplier of lenses, according to the Optician magazine. Signet has also cut the last links it had with the Galileo brand. Unable to use this name in certain countries for its protection ...
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Henning Reichardt, 37, has become the new country manager of...
Henning Reichardt, 37, has become the new country manager of Johnson & Johnson Vision Care for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He replaces Jörg Albrecht who is moving back to the head office in Jacksonville, Florida. Reichardt worked previously as marketing manager of J&J Vision Care for the UK and Ireland.
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Alain Mikli likes to do things in style or not...
Alain Mikli likes to do things in style or not at all at the big eyewear fairs. As he did at the last MIDO, where he rented one of the restaurants of the fair for his showroom, he rented this time a well-decorated space of 1,200 square meters at ...
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Time magazine has elected Bausch & Lomb's Nike Maxsight contact...
Time magazine has elected Bausch & Lomb's Nike Maxsight contact lenses for sportsmen as one of the «best inventions» of this year. The magazine notes, among other things, that Brian Roberts of the Baltimore Orioles team improved his batting average by wearing these lenses. The amber-tinted Nike Maxsight lenses filter ...
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Like Johnson & Johnson, Luxottica and Marcolin have decided not...
Like Johnson & Johnson, Luxottica and Marcolin have decided not to show at the Opti München fair in Munich next month. Like at the beginning of this year, these two companies will join Safilo, Charmant and Eschenbach in a joint presentation of their collections, called Kick-Off, in six German cities ...
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After three years of absence, an eyewear show is to...
After three years of absence, an eyewear show is to be held again in India next Jan. 7-9. Called In-Optics, it will be organized by RSD Expositions of Delhi in Chennai, which is regarded as an important center for the vision care industry and trade. It is being endorsed by ...
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Jeff White, one of the three entrepreneurs who founded Marchon...
Jeff White, one of the three entrepreneurs who founded Marchon more than 20 years ago, has passed away at the age of 54, after a brief illness. He had not been active within the company over the last few years, although he sat on the board of directors. White was ...
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Alain Afflelou is entering the Swiss market, starting with its...
Alain Afflelou is entering the Swiss market, starting with its French-speaking part where its strong TV commercials are received by many potential customers. The first franchise is set open in Neuchâtel next week, followed by two others at La Chaux-de-Fonds, near the French border, and Geneva. The Swiss franchise network, ...
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Visual, the French retail banner that partnered with GrandVision one...
Visual, the French retail banner that partnered with GrandVision one year ago, has launched a bright new corporate identity and a new logo for its affiliated stores. A prototype of the new store concept has been inaugurated in the shopping center of Val de Fontenay, near our office, and it ...
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Visibilia will take over the production and distribution of eyewear...
Visibilia will take over the production and distribution of eyewear under the name of Emmanuel Ungaro, which has been absent from the market since the end of 2004, when Luxottica's license was not renewed. Announced during the recent SILMO fair in Paris, just as the loss-making French fashion house was ...
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Allison has added an 18th license to its portfolio through...
Allison has added an 18th license to its portfolio through a deal for Frankie Morello, a lesser known brand held by the Italian Gilmar group. A limited collection of men's and women's lines will be presented under this brand name at MIDO 2006, to be followed by an expanded line ...
