Latest News Briefs – Page 352
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Boots plc has appointed Chas McShane to oversee its network...
Boots plc has appointed Chas McShane to oversee its network of 290 Boots Opticians outlets and their closer integration into the large British drugstore group. McShane, a regional director who has been with Boots for a long time, will work together with Alex Gourlay, former retail director of Boots, who ...
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Essilor International has appointed Eric Leonard as the new general...
Essilor International has appointed Eric Leonard as the new general manager of Essilor France, replacing Bertrand Roy who was recently promoted to the post of strategic marketing director of the group. Leonard, who is 38 years old, has been the purchasing manager of Essilor since June 2002, and he became ...
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In its latest financial report on its ophthalmic lens division,...
In its latest financial report on its ophthalmic lens division, which has been merged with SOLA to form the new Carl Zeiss Vision International company, Carl Zeiss reports a 10 percent decline in its sales to €153 million for the six months ended March 31, due to the effects of ...
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Menicon has established a new subsidiary in Singapore to distribute...
Menicon has established a new subsidiary in Singapore to distribute the Japanese contact lens company's products in China, Taiwan, Korea and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Naoki Nomura, who has been with Menicon for 14 years, has been appointed as president of the new company, called Menicon Mandarin Asia ...
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SOLA Sunlens reports on a positive MIDO show last May...
SOLA Sunlens reports on a positive MIDO show last May for some of its new products including its new Muver photochromic lenses, which switch over quickly from the active to the inactive state, and VooDoo. The latter is described as the first one-piece lens with a total absence of prism, ...
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Nidek says the Birmingham Optical Group achieved one of the...
Nidek says the Birmingham Optical Group achieved one of the best turnovers last year among its 100 distributors worldwide. The British company, which is Nidek's licensee in the UK and Ireland, launched its newest industrial edging machinery at the Optrafair in Birmingham earlier this year. Its products are recognized as ...
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Oakley has opened a 1,371-square-meter O Store, with a net...
Oakley has opened a 1,371-square-meter O Store, with a net sales surface of 762 sqm., on a prestigious site just in front of Covent Garden's main market in London. While looking for other locations in major European cities, the company has also opened an O Store in Mexico City. Meanwhile, ...
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Rudy Project, official supplier of the Tour de France, stresses...
Rudy Project, official supplier of the Tour de France, stresses that 24 percent of the professionals competing in the French tournament are wearing its glasses. Oakley come next with 17 percent of the racers, although the brand is getting a lot of visibility as the sponsor of Lance Amstrong, 6-time ...
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Bausch & Lomb has entered a definitive agreement to acquire...
Bausch & Lomb has entered a definitive agreement to acquire a 55 percent controlling interest in Shandong Chia Tai Freda Pharmaceutical Group (CTF), described as the leading ophthalmic pharmaceutical company in China, with sales of US$62 million in 2004. B&L is paying $200 million in cash to acquire this stake ...
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Essilor has announced the acquisition of the industrial and marketing...
Essilor has announced the acquisition of the industrial and marketing assets of National Optronics, a US manufacturer of lens processing equipment based in Charlottesville, Virginia, consolidating what it claims to be its position as the global leader in edging systems and bringing over complementary technologies suited for polycarbonate, high-index and ...
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Gerber Coburn has extended for another three years a 9-year-old...
Gerber Coburn has extended for another three years a 9-year-old agreement for the distribution of lens finishing products made by Essilor Instruments in North America and Australia. The introduction of new products such as Gerber Coburn's DTL Generator contributed to a very small sales increase for Gerber Coburn parent company, ...
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Neostyle Eyewear Corporation, which is the independent, exclusive importer of...
Neostyle Eyewear Corporation, which is the independent, exclusive importer of Neostyle eyewear in the USA, run by Helmuth Igel, says it has modernized its collections and implemented new merchandising programs since the recent financial reorganization of Neostyle in Germany. A revamped product line has been well received. A new corporation, ...
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INDO says it has adhered to the Global Concept, a...
INDO says it has adhered to the Global Concept, a corporate social responsibility initiative promoted by the United Nations that binds it to integrate into its corporate strategy ten principles of action in the areas of human rights, labor, the environment and the fight against corruption. For example, the Spanish ...
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Britain's Federation of Manufacturing Opticians (FMO) has decided that it...
Britain's Federation of Manufacturing Opticians (FMO) has decided that it will continue to organize its Optrafair every other year in Birmingham ? the next one being scheduled for Apr. 21-23, 2007 ? and that there will be no London show in even years. On the other hand, Sportvision, a company ...
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The European Vision Association has been disbanded because it failed...
The European Vision Association has been disbanded because it failed to reach its aim of gathering enough representatives from the optical industry to push forward a plan to promote vision quality. EVA was established in June 2004 to follow up on the former European Hard Resin Institute.
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CORRECTION: CODIR, the recent buyer of a big lot of...
CORRECTION: CODIR, the recent buyer of a big lot of machines from Visionix, is the production and distribution center of Guildinvest, servicing its affiliated Krys, Vision Plus, Vision Originale, Lynx Optique stores and the CDO buying group in France.
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Alain Afflelou has proceeded with the planned acquisition of F2L,...
Alain Afflelou has proceeded with the planned acquisition of F2L, the company set up by Apax Partners in July 2003 to take over the Carrefour's former optical stores in Spain. The French optical retailing group is paying €29 million for F2L, which now owns 70 Alain Afflelou Optico stores and ...
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Davis Vision has bought the last remaining 25 optical retail...
Davis Vision has bought the last remaining 25 optical retail stores from Sight Resource, the loss-making American optical retail chain, for $6.5 million. The stores will keep their present banners - Cambridge Eye Associates and Douglas Vision World - but they will be managed by a retail subsidiary of Davis, ...
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Petters Consumer Brands, a subsidiary of Petters Group Worldwide, has...
Petters Consumer Brands, a subsidiary of Petters Group Worldwide, has completed the planned acquisition of Polaroid Holding Company in an all-share deal worth $426 million. Petters has been licensing the Polaroid brand for consumer electronics. No changes are expected for the moment in the management of Polaroid Eyewear or on ...
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PPG Industries has agreed to acquire the business of International...
PPG Industries has agreed to acquire the business of International Polarizer, a manufacturer of polarized film based in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Richard Phillips, the 72-year-old chemical scientists who set up the company 20 years ago, will continue to run it. Competing mainly against Polaroid, International Polarizer, which employs 26 people, claims ...
