Latest News Briefs – Page 379
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Bausch & Lomb has moved all manufacturing of PureVision contact...
Bausch & Lomb has moved all manufacturing of PureVision contact lenses from Rochester to its Waterford plant in Ireland as a US court denied its request to suspend a temporary injunction in a patent suit launched by CIBA Vision (see previous issue). B&L is now planning to continue to supply ...
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Organizers of the Silmo fair in Paris say they have...
Organizers of the Silmo fair in Paris say they have gotten bookings for 4.2 percent more space for over 1,000 firms and brands at the next Oct. 25-28 session. A wider range of conferences is planned to accompany the event to boost its information value.
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The Expo Optica fair in Madrid will change from a...
The Expo Optica fair in Madrid will change from a 5-day schedule to only 4 days next year, running from Feb. 28 to March 2. The management of the Madrid fairgrounds and other local institutions are launching an international promotional campaign to boost the image of the Spanish capital as ...
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Optrafair, the sector's leading trade show in the UK, will...
Optrafair, the sector's leading trade show in the UK, will still be held in Birmingham next Apr. 12-14, but it will then move to London in 2004. It will probably be held in February and it will be managed by Centre Exhibitions, a division of the Birmingham National Exhibition Centre ...
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Optiker Gilde, the 17-year-old German buying group, plans to change...
Optiker Gilde, the 17-year-old German buying group, plans to change its status into a limited partnership fully owned by its CEO, Winfried Bahn, who has a controlling stake in the present cooperative structure. The equity will be raised, while the retail members' monthly fees will be reduced. Some funds are ...
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Essilor International has completed the acquisition of Stereo Optical Company,...
Essilor International has completed the acquisition of Stereo Optical Company, a major US supplier of vision screening equipment, owned by Gerber Scientific, with annual sales of about $4 million. Stereo Optical's range will complement the range of vision tests already marketed by Essilor Instruments, which claims the leadership in the ...
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Sola International has taken over certain assets of Optical Electroforming...
Sola International has taken over certain assets of Optical Electroforming (OEF), a company in Florida whose core business consists in the fabrication of molds and insert used in the manufacture of polycarbonate and acrylic ophthalmic lenses. The acquisition enhances the in-house capabilities of Sola's Oracle polycarbonate division, the fastest-growing operation ...
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The acquisitive Bushnell group, whose sales increased at a double-digit...
The acquisitive Bushnell group, whose sales increased at a double-digit rate in the 1st half of this year, has acquired the Tasco brand name, patents and other assets of Tasco Worldwide, a large supplier of binoculars and telescopes that went bankrupt recently. Its annual sales had declined from about $100 ...
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Fedon, the world's leading manufacturer of eyewear cases, has reported...
Fedon, the world's leading manufacturer of eyewear cases, has reported bad first-half results. Turnover for the first 6 months of 2002 amounted to e28.1 million, down 18.1 percent over the same period last year. While reassuring investors that it is now regaining lost ground, the Italian company explains the drop ...
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NiGuRa Optik, the Rodenstock subsidiary specializing in licensed optical frames...
NiGuRa Optik, the Rodenstock subsidiary specializing in licensed optical frames and sunglasses, raised its sales by 47 percent in the 1st half of 2002, says the German group, without providing a specific figure. The growth was driven by its two new licensed lines, Porsche Design and Reebok. Two other collections, ...
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The Carl Zeiss group reports a satisfactory 7 percent sales...
The Carl Zeiss group reports a satisfactory 7 percent sales increase to e1,125 million for the 1st half ended last March 31, leading to an increase of more than e4 million in operating income and to a net profit of e63.4 million for the period. However, new orders fell by ...
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Oakley is opening a lens processing laboratory in Ireland to...
Oakley is opening a lens processing laboratory in Ireland to service the whole European region, taking over the functions of an independent French lab that was supplying opticians with corrective sun lens and broadening the scope of operations to a level comparable to that of its own prescription lens lab ...
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Marchon Eyewear has appointed Andy Cockayne as general manager and...
Marchon Eyewear has appointed Andy Cockayne as general manager and managing director of its sales subsidiary for the UK and Ireland, working closely with Plaul Bowry who has been promoted as sales director. Cockayne has spent 11 years in the optical industry and was most recently general manager of Ciba ...
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UltraVision has filed for bankruptcy proceedings in Canada, where it...
UltraVision has filed for bankruptcy proceedings in Canada, where it has closed its St-Hubert facility and dismissed all its employees, but the company says its operations in England and Australia continue. UltraVision's CEO, Robert Doyon, has resigned. UltraVision says its serious financial problems were caused by its failure to fulfil ...
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The European Union has agreed to postpone until Sept. 30...
The European Union has agreed to postpone until Sept. 30 a decision to impose 100 percent import duties on sunglasses and other products imported from the USA, but they will then apply retroactively to all the merchandise that entered the territory from last June 18 on. The delay was announced ...
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Mido, the world's largest eyewear fair, will again last for...
Mido, the world's largest eyewear fair, will again last for 4 days next year, running from May 2 to May 5 in Milan instead of the previously indicated 3-day schedule starting in April. The show will be held in 4 different halls, but the total area will be the same ...
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The Korean DIOPS optical show, which will run in Daegu...
The Korean DIOPS optical show, which will run in Daegu on Nov. 1-3, is offering 3 free nights in a hotel and a free city tour of Daegu to visitors who pre-register before Aug. 31 (e-mail: diops@kotis.net). Organizers proposes the package to visitors who want to see afterwards the large ...
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Specsavers has opened its largest store in Holland on the...
Specsavers has opened its largest store in Holland on the Lijnbaan, one of the major shopping streets of Rotterdam. Set up by one of the retail partners in the British group, Alan McLean, the 460-square-meter store is about 4 times the average size of the 33 other existing Specsavers Opticiens ...
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Concepcion Technologies, the operation unit of Concepcion Holding, has obtained...
Concepcion Technologies, the operation unit of Concepcion Holding, has obtained the Swiss equivalent of Chapter 11 bankrupcty protection from creditors for a minimum of two months. Another subsidiary that holds its patents is not involved in the proceedings. Rudolf Suter, still the holding company's controlling shareholder with a stake of ...
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Vision Council of America has been lobbying daily to try...
Vision Council of America has been lobbying daily to try to prevent a trade war between the European Union and the USA which may lead to a dramatic raise in the EU's import duties on sunglasses imported from the USA. The EU had threatened to impose higher duties on these ...
