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With 6,230 visitors, last month's Hong Kong Optical Fair saw...
With 6,230 visitors, last month's Hong Kong Optical Fair saw the number of buyers up by nearly 9 percent. More than half of the visitors came from outside Hong Kong, mainly from the rest of Asia. This category showed a 21.3 percent increase to 2,533 persons. Attendance from Europe recorded ...
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Angelo De Sandre has moved to De Rigo to run...
Angelo De Sandre has moved to De Rigo to run act as the group's chief operating officer, supervising industrial planning, production, purchasing and logistics. De Sandre had worked for 11 years at Safilo as its industrial planning manager.
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Silhouette International says its Adidas Sports Eyewear division enjoyed a...
Silhouette International says its Adidas Sports Eyewear division enjoyed a 37.1 percent sales increase sofar this year, mainly due to the launch of the a123 Gazelle running glass, the a18 golf glass and the a120 Robin snowboard goggle, which uses color interference technology. Increased demand in the Japan market led ...
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The Chinese offensive on western markets shows no sign of...
The Chinese offensive on western markets shows no sign of letting up. At the latest MIDO fair in Milan, the 45 firms exhibiting under the umbrella of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council sold over Lit. 10 bn (e5.5m-$6m) worth of eyeglasses, an increase of 13 percent over the 1998 ...
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The European Sunglass Association published in September the first edition...
The European Sunglass Association published in September the first edition of the Sunglass Guide, a useful handbook containing all the information you need to know about the sunglass business, from the list of manufacturers to questions of health and fashion. Over 30,000 copies in 5 languages are due to be ...
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AWARENESS OF SUNGLASS BRANDS IN ITALY Brands Producer %...
AWARENESS OF SUNGLASS BRANDS IN ITALY Brands Producer % (*) Classical Glasses 92 1 Ray Ban Luxottica 41 2 Armani Luxottica 39 3 Calvin Klein Marchon 26 4 Persol Luxottica 22 5 Byblos Luxottica 21 6 Gucci Safilo 20 7 ...
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July 10, 2001 Prada has acquired Genny, the Italian...
July 10, 2001 Prada has acquired Genny, the Italian fashion group that markets the Genny and Byblos brands of apparel. Both also have a line of eyewear, produced by Luxottica. Neither license is about to expire, and Prada, which is in partnership with De Rigo for its eyewear business, ...
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While opening its 20th store in France, Hans Anders, the...
While opening its 20th store in France, Hans Anders, the Dutch low-cost chain of optical stores, has decided to open a full-fledged lens edging, mounting and logistics center in Reims to service the markets in Northern France and Belgium. The €1.8 million investment is intended to support the sale of ...
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Louis Vuitton is studying the establishment of an eyewear workshop...
Louis Vuitton is studying the establishment of an eyewear workshop in France's Jura region, while planning to open a shoe manufacturing plant in the Spring of 2009 in the Veneto town of Fiesso D'Artico. The investments are part of the company's policy of integrating the production of various lines of ...
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Silhouette International's American distribution unit, Silhouette Optical, has started work...
Silhouette International's American distribution unit, Silhouette Optical, has started work on a new learning center that should open next Fall in Colonie, in the state of New York, close to the company's U.S. distribution headquarter in Green Island, NY. It will be the site of a pilot retail store and ...
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INDO has decided to stop selling its lenses in the...
INDO has decided to stop selling its lenses in the German market as part of a decision to reorganize its activities in the markets where it has not reached critical mass. Thus its German subsidiary, Werner Schulz, has gone into insolvency proceedings, a process that will involve restructuring measures through ...
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Native Eyewear, a U.S. maker of polarized sport sunglasses and...
Native Eyewear, a U.S. maker of polarized sport sunglasses and goggles, was absorbed into the optical group segment of A.T. Cross after its purchase was completed last week. A.T. Cross paid $17.8 million for the company, and took on about $1 million in short-term debt. Cross' optical segment previously consisted ...
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The executive turnaround at Mikli International is going on. While...
The executive turnaround at Mikli International is going on. While boosting its sales staff and preparing the opening of new stores in Beijing and Macau, the big French designer eyewear company is again working without a managing director. After only a few months in that position, François Le Méhènaze has ...
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CIBA Vision has promoted its chief operating officer since May...
CIBA Vision has promoted its chief operating officer since May 2007, Andrea Saia, to the position of chief executive, reportedly with a goal to achieve 6 percent growth annually over the next five years. She joined the company six years ago after working previously with Revlon, Unilever and Procter & ...
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Marchon has promoted Micha Siebenhandl as regional business director, responsible...
Marchon has promoted Micha Siebenhandl as regional business director, responsible for Germany, Austria, the UK, Ireland and Spain. Paolo Minardi, country manager for Spain, will now report to him instead of Andy Skidmore, who remains as European manager. Siebenhandl, who has been with Marchon for 11 years, was previously country ...
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Hoya Lens Deutschland continues to restructure its management. After the...
Hoya Lens Deutschland continues to restructure its management. After the departure of its former general manager, Jens Uwe Diercks, its marketing manager, Ulrike Hagelschuer, has left the German subsidiary of Hoya after only a few months in the job. She joined Hoya last October after running Werner Schulz (see the ...
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FGX International has promoted Richard W. Kornhauser as executive vice...
FGX International has promoted Richard W. Kornhauser as executive vice president and chief marketing officer, based at its head office in Smithfield, USA. He was previously vice president of marketing. The company has also promoted a 20-year employee, Robert Grow, from vice president of product development to the executive vice ...
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Alex Antoniacomi, who has worked for Nike, Benetton and Sport...
Alex Antoniacomi, who has worked for Nike, Benetton and Sport Alliance in Italy, has become the Italian sales manager for Carrera and Smith, replacing Maurizio Margelli and reporting to Alfonso De Antoni, head of Safilo's sport department. In the USA, meanwhile, Level USA, an independent company that markets waterproof sports ...
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Thanks to eyewear and leathergoods, Italy's exports to the USA...
Thanks to eyewear and leathergoods, Italy's exports to the USA in the fashion sector are the second highest in the world. Italian eyewear exports to the USA grew by 14 percent in the first 10 months of 2007, compared with the same period last year, reaching a total of $450 ...
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Visibilia has announced the inauguration of a new 5,000-square-meter headquarters...
Visibilia has announced the inauguration of a new 5,000-square-meter headquarters in Marghera, Italy, close to the company's current head office. Coming just three years after Dan Levi, the group's chairman, closed a plant in Taibon Agordino in the province of Belluno, the news comes as something of a surprise. Levi's ...
