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Loubsol, the French sports eyewear company, has registered worldwide the...
Loubsol, the French sports eyewear company, has registered worldwide the ?Loubsol Visual Utility? name tag, which it plans to use in advertising and POS materials. At the last SILMO fair, Loubsol introduced a highly versatile sun protection system using 5 different interchangeable sun screens and an optical insert. Earlier this ...
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Brett Craig, former managing director of Transitions Optical Asia, has...
Brett Craig, former managing director of Transitions Optical Asia, has become manging director of Transitions Optical Europe, based in Paris. Responsible also for the Middle East and Africa, he takes over from Gary Eilers who has gone back to the USA to work for PPG Industries on automotive glasses. Cédric ...
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Mary Pace, an American executive who worked previouly for Logo,...
Mary Pace, an American executive who worked previouly for Logo, Cartier Eyewear and Cambridge Optical in the USA, the UK and France, became recently business development manager of ClearVision Optical for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Based in Paris, she is supervising the European launch of the US company's ...
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Carsten Kipping, a 35-year-old former executive consultant of McKinsey, has...
Carsten Kipping, a 35-year-old former executive consultant of McKinsey, has been appointed as chief financial officer of Leybold Optics, responsible also for production. Working together with the CEO, Jürgen Meinel, one of his plans is to reduce delivery schedules by one half. In his previous job, Kipping managed strategic and ...
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Loh Optical Machinery won two awards at the OLA fair...
Loh Optical Machinery won two awards at the OLA fair in Indianapolis last month. It got for the 4th time the OLA Award of Excellence as ?Best in Surfacing? for its own Vpro generator, which can process up to 150 lenses an hour with its revolutionary single-tool design. The German ...
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The UK's Federation of Ophthalmic and Dispensing Opticians (FODO) has...
The UK's Federation of Ophthalmic and Dispensing Opticians (FODO) has appointed for the first time a second executive officer to help its executive director, Bob Hughes. Gordon Polson, a former director general of the National Association of Steel Stockholders, will join FODO next month as director of operations, handling educational ...
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The SILMO fair has signed a partnership agreement with Vision...
The SILMO fair has signed a partnership agreement with Vision Canada, the Canadian optical fair. Held in Toronto over two days in March every year, the fair hosts about 100 exhibitors who get visited by at least 1,500 opticians and optometrists. The Paris fair will use its contacts to help ...
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A new US trade show will cover the Midwestern states...
A new US trade show will cover the Midwestern states next year. Called Midwest Vision Congress & Exposition, it will be held in Rosemont, Illinois next May 15-17, replacing the former EyeCare conference organized by the North Central States Optometric Council (NOCSOC) as well as EyeQuest, which was operated by ...
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IOFT, the international optical fair organized by Reed Exhibitions in...
IOFT, the international optical fair organized by Reed Exhibitions in Tokyo, recorded a 31 percent jump to 19,037 in the total number of attendees at its last session on Oct. 9-11, as compared to one year ago. That including 14,741 buyers from 23 countries and 4,296 persons signed in by ...
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Opti München reports a record of 500 exhibitors with 800...
Opti München reports a record of 500 exhibitors with 800 brands for its 6th session next Jan. 10-12. Along with the industry majors from abroad, such as Luxottica, Marchon, Charmant, Essilor or Johnson & Johnson, all the German key players have finally signed up for the show in the M,O,C,, ...
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Krys, the French chain of optical retail stores run by...
Krys, the French chain of optical retail stores run by the Guilde des Lunetiers, has set up a foundation, with 3 professors on the board, whose intent is to educate the public about the necessity of vision correction and support specific medical research projects. It will concentrate its action on ...
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Oakley Europe, whose territory excludes Germany and the UK, will...
Oakley Europe, whose territory excludes Germany and the UK, will have 59 dedicated corners in European stores by the end of this year, including 19 in France, 15 in Spain and 10 in Italy. That compares with only 8 at the end of 2001. Oakley Europe has a total of ...
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Omareef Europe, the French-based eyewear licensee of Quiksilver, has been...
Omareef Europe, the French-based eyewear licensee of Quiksilver, has been taken over by its licensor and moved into its European headquarters. The company will now handle also a new line of watches for this major surfewear brand, which claims a 40 percent European market share. Including its wetsuits, Omareef was ...
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Carl Zeiss is presenting a new system technology at the...
Carl Zeiss is presenting a new system technology at the OLA fair in Indianapolis this month that allows opticians to handle numerous laboratory tasks in-house, including coating. The German company is also gearing up to unveil a 1.74-index version of its Gradal Short I multi-parameter progressive lens technology at the ...
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Jörg Albrecht, a 43-year-old veteran of Johnson & Johnson, took...
Jörg Albrecht, a 43-year-old veteran of Johnson & Johnson, took over last month as managing director of Johnson & Johnson Vision Care for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, replacing Markus Gilgen who has moved to another company in another sector in Switzerland. Albrecht served lately in J&J Vision Care's US headquarters ...
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Alain Mikly has appointed Andy Gugenheimer, a former executive of...
Alain Mikly has appointed Andy Gugenheimer, a former executive of Oakley Europe and Nike, as European sales manager in charge of key markets such as the Germanic and Scandinavian countries, Benelux and the UK. Guggenheimer recently sold a French internet portal that he had set up for the sporting goods ...
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Trenti, the Italian manufacturer of children's eyewear, has won the...
Trenti, the Italian manufacturer of children's eyewear, has won the Silmo Golden Award in its category for the second year running, thanks to the special characteristics of its Lilliput model. Last year the award triggered extra sales of 50,000 units. A similar year-end bonus is anticipated this year. Considering that ...
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Optic 2000, the French buying group, is investing more than...
Optic 2000, the French buying group, is investing more than 5 million euros on a massive advertising campaign that associates its brand name and the common banner of 832 affiliated independent stores with the image of Johnny Halliday, one of the most popular singers in France. The campaign started a ...
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Antoni Olivella, the managing director of Indo, was elected today...
Antoni Olivella, the managing director of Indo, was elected today as the new president of the European Sunglass Association. He replaces Alexandre Asseraf, who now works for Essilor on sunwear. Asseraf, who gave an interesting speech comparing the European and American sunglass markets (see next issue), will continue as a ...
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Anfao, the Italian association of eyewear manufacturers, organized with the...
Anfao, the Italian association of eyewear manufacturers, organized with the support of Mido an Italian fashion show in Paris today, on the eve of the Silmo fair, illustrating the combination with garments and featuring the major Italian eyewear brands plus a dozen smaller producers. It was an opportunity to introduce ...
