Latest News Briefs – Page 367
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Hoya has appointed a new country manager for Germany, Jens...
Hoya has appointed a new country manager for Germany, Jens Uwe Diercks. The 42-year-old executive replaces Mathias Schmidt, who has left because of a conflict of opinions on future strategy. Ralf Mackensen, sales and marketing manager of Hoya Deutschland, is leaving as well.
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Optic 2000, which recently added the Lissac banner, has appointed...
Optic 2000, which recently added the Lissac banner, has appointed Thomas Le Vigoureaux as human resources manager, creating a new position to sustain the growth and diversification of this French buying group, which is planning to move to a new 11,000-square-meter site near Paris one year from now. After stations ...
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France's 4th largest optical retailing cooperative, Visual, is boosting its...
France's 4th largest optical retailing cooperative, Visual, is boosting its team of professional trainers to cope with the increase in the number of company-owned stores. The latter have grown from 14 to 25 in the past 12 months and are expected to reach 40 points of sale by 2007. The ...
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Alain Mikli, which has now become the 2nd largest supplier...
Alain Mikli, which has now become the 2nd largest supplier of eyewear frames in France after L'Amy, raised its sales by 18 percent last year to €46.3 million, with particularly strong increases in France, Italy and Spain. Italy is the largest market for Mikli after France, ahead of Germany. A ...
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Fedon, the world's leading producer of eyewear cases, has opened...
Fedon, the world's leading producer of eyewear cases, has opened a new manufacturing plant in Romania, supplementing its production in Italy, Slovenia and China. Fedon has also acquired a company specializing in the production and customization of lens cleaning products. The immediate sales outlook is not optimistic. In 2003 Fedon ...
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Precilens has acquired the contact lens business of another French...
Precilens has acquired the contact lens business of another French company, Bourgeois, building up to a group that will sell about 70,000 lenses on an annual basis, according to acuite.fr. Precilens in turn was acquired late last year by Pierre Pitance, who bought the company from its founder, Francis Vinzia, ...
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Intercast Europe is planning to set up a new 80,000-square-meter...
Intercast Europe is planning to set up a new 80,000-square-meter facility, fully dedicated to its NXT technology for the manufacture of sturdy and flexible sunglass lenses, which was first presented at the 2002 SILMO. In the 2nd half of 2003, the Italian company's sales of NXT sunglass lenses 250 percent ...
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Signet Armorlite is taking over the distribution in France for...
Signet Armorlite is taking over the distribution in France for its branded Kodak lenses and is conducting a test through an agent for this purpose. The lenses will be supplied directly to the customers by Signet Armorlite Iberica, the company's sales subsidiary in Madrid, which is gaining market shares in ...
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Leybold Optics has developed a new anti-reflection coating process, called...
Leybold Optics has developed a new anti-reflection coating process, called Optiflex SA, to provide high durability for molded scratch-resistant surfaces like those of Signet Armorlite's Kodak lenses. Processing time is reduced to 35 minutes. Separately, the announces the delivery of its 400th coating system for ophthalmic lenses. It's a model ...
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The Aspex Group announces that a US court in Florida...
The Aspex Group announces that a US court in Florida has ordered Regent Optical to pay it damages of $1,350,000 and issued an injunction against company from infringing its patents. In another one of Aspex' multiple legal cases to protect its intellectual property rights on magnetic sun clips, a California ...
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The number of visitors at Opta, the Czech eyewear fair...
The number of visitors at Opta, the Czech eyewear fair in Brno that closed its doors on Feb.22 in the Czech Republic, rose by 7 percent to over 4,000. The majority came from the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In the view of certain exhibitors from Poland, there were few buyers ...
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Edizioni Ariminium, the Italian-based publisher of Vedere International, is putting...
Edizioni Ariminium, the Italian-based publisher of Vedere International, is putting out a bilingual English/Chinese version of E&F Eyewear & Fashion, its 4-year-old English-Italian magazine for the trade and consumers, which follows the trends in fashion, art and design that influence trends in eyewear design. The company, run by Isabella Morpurgo, ...
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The eyes are the most attractive feature in a man,...
The eyes are the most attractive feature in a man, according to the average British woman with an average age of 25 years. In nearly 40 percent of the cases, they prefer them blue. A survey conducted in behalf of CIBA Vision in 1,500 fashion stores throughout the country to ...
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Giancarlo Galli, the new CEO and marketing manager of Rodenstock,...
Giancarlo Galli, the new CEO and marketing manager of Rodenstock, takes on the sales function as well on an interim basis following the departure of Frieder C. Löhrer, the company's executive vice president of sales, who is taking on new challenges.
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Marco Biz, who has built up France as De Rigo's...
Marco Biz, who has built up France as De Rigo's second-largest market after Italy, with sales up to €14.8 million in 2003, is leaving as part of the company's reorganization in Europe (see previous issue) to be responsible for the company's sales and marketing in its home country.
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Axel Neubert is taking his retirement after almost 10 years...
Axel Neubert is taking his retirement after almost 10 years at the head of Optiker Gilde's purchasing department, handling relations with over 80 suppliers, but he will continue as a consultant.
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Günther Hermann, a 31-year-old former executive of Amer Group who...
Günther Hermann, a 31-year-old former executive of Amer Group who has been in charge of sales for Marchon's Nike Vision line in Germany, is taking on pan-European responsibilities for the collection in a new position based in Amsterdam.
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Ocular Sciences has expanded its board of directors to 8...
Ocular Sciences has expanded its board of directors to 8 members by appointing to it Howard Liszt, a graduate in journalism and marketing with a brilliant 34-year career in marketing and advertising.
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Sonnie Byling has replaced Jonas Netterström as managing director of...
Sonnie Byling has replaced Jonas Netterström as managing director of Ska, the Swedish company based in Jönköping, which has changed its name to Scandinavian EyeWear.
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Bradley Montague becomes marketing manager of OptiSource International....
Bradley Montague becomes marketing manager of OptiSource International.
