Latest News Briefs – Page 2
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New director for Lissac
Lissac, the premium retail chain of the Optic 2000 group, has announced the appointment of Anne-Charlotte Guillaud as its new director. A trained optician, Guillaud boasts 18 years of experience in the French optical retail market with previous experiences at Atol and Optic 2000. She joined Lissac in 2019 and ...
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Cecop promotes chief of operations from within
Spanish-based buying group Cecop promoted David Silva Carvalho to the position of director of operations at the sart of this year, we just learned. Carvalho joined the company in 2016 as country manager for Portugal, acting in parallel as the group’s financing manager from 2019. In 2022, he was appointed ...
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A third of US workers experience daily screen fatique, survey finds
American workers experience eye strain after just 27 minutes in virtual meetings, according to a survey by VSP Vision and OnePoll of 2,000 employed Americans. Of the 71 percent of survey participants attending virtual meetings, a significant number said that they have experienced some form of eye strain, such as ...
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News briefsNexeye launches in-store “Show Don’t Tell” app
Dutch-based retail group Nexeye and tech company Ditar have developped Show Don’t Tell, an app to help the employees and customers of optical stores select frames and lenses by providing a preview of all possible options on the screen of a tablet. The app is being progressively rolled out at ...
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Movitra appoints international sales director
Italian high-end eyewear brand Movitra has announced the appointment of Andrea D’Arrigo as its global sales director as the company expects to grow globally thanks to the Italian manager’s expertise in the US and European markets. D’Arrigo has been working in both regions since 2008 through 1 Alternativa, his own ...
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News briefsMarcolin preliminary annual results show slight revenue hike, margin improvements
Marcolin revenue inched up by 2.0 percent year-on-year to €558 million in 2023, the group announced in a preliminary communication ahead of its shareholder meeting at the end of next week. Based on previously released figures for the first nine months of the year, we understand that sales in Q4 ...
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French Optique Lafayette plans to triple retail footprint by 2028
Optique Lafayette, a French optical retail chain with 48 stores at the end of 2023, has announced plans to open 20 new locations this year and grow its network to a total of 150 shops in the next five years. The company is also introducing a teleophthalmology service at its ...
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French association releases new poll results on kids eye health
AsnaV, whose acronym stands for “association for eyesight improvement” in French, and research company OpinionWay have published the results on an opinion poll focusing on the eye health of children under 12 years old in France. Based on online questionnaires filled by 1,302 people including 473 parents, the survey showed ...
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WCO launches global framework for optometry competencies, partners with Essiluxottica on presbyopia
The World Council of Optometry (WCO) is introducing its Competency Framework for Optometry, a new resource aimed at harmonizing the optometry profession and enhancing optometrics education globally. Aligned on the World Health Organization Eye Care Competency Framework (ECCF), the framework outlines the competencies expected from optometry graduates in five different ...
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CECOP expands German footprint
CECOP, the Spanish-based buying group, is expanding its presence in Germany with the acquisition of Macoma, a German buying group boasting over 200 members and headquartered in Bavaria. It is the third acquisition of a German buying group by CECOP in recent years following investments in Optic Society (2022) and ...
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News briefsMeta, U.S.Vision using Zenni’s IT platform
Zenni Optical has struck deals with Meta, U.S.Vision and PPG to provide “eye care solutions” through its B2B platform, Zenni Business. Zenni has in fact been working with Meta since early 2023, supplying prescription lens inserts for the Meta Quest 3 headset. U.S.Vision is using the platform for e-commerce, so ...
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News briefsRay-Ban partners with Lenny Kravitz for Reverse
EssilorLuxottica is partnering with Lenny Kravitz for a capsule collection of sunglasses under the Ray-Ban Reverse brand name. Launched last year by the Italo-French group, Reverse sunglasses have an inverted look, substituting a convex lens shape for the standard concave design. Frames in the capsule collection developed for the rock ...
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Vision Expo East bids farewell to NY ahead of Florida move
Vision Expo East organizers, RX and The Vision Council, have expressed both their satisfaction about the 2024 edition of the show and their anticipation at the move of the event to Orlando, Florida, next year. “We could not be happier to close our final show in New York City on ...
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News briefsMarcolin inaugurates NY showroon
Marcolin officially opened its new showroom in New York on March 14. Located in Manhattan, the showroom was desiged by Milan-based design studio Navone Associati and includes offices and a large space presenting Marcolin’s collections. As was the case when the company opened its showroom in Paris in November 2023, ...
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Revo opens first store in the US, has plans for more
Following the opening of a first brick-and-mortar store in Barcelona last year, US-based sunglass brand Revo has opened a second one in New York. Located in Manhattan’s Soho neighborhood, the new store displays the complete range of Revo products, also including custom prescription sunglasses, limited edition styles and collector items. ...
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Optiswiss enters myopia management category
Optiswiss has announced the launch of SMYLE, its first myopia management lens, which was developed in partnership with Indizen Optical Technologies (IOT), following guidelines and using patents from the Brien Holden Vision Institute (BHVI) that licensed the technology. According to the Swiss-based lens maker presentation, SMYLE lenses combine a central ...
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Menicon to build a new factory in Japan
Japanese-based contact lens maker Menicon has announced the acquisition of a 93,000 square-meter site in Fukui prefecture, Japan. The company will build there what will become its largest domestic production site for contact lenses and lens care products and is also considering the establishme of research and development operations related ...
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Safilo Group and Missoni extend eyewear partnership
Safilo Group has announced the renewal until 2029 of its license agreement for the design, production and global distribution of Missoni-branded eyewear. Safilo has been partnering with the women’s luxury fashion brand since 2020 and Angelo Trocchia, CEO of the eyewear group, stressed that the Missoni eyewear collection has been ...
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Marcolin negotiations with strategic investors reportedly hit a €1.3 billion snag
According to an article published last Saturday by the Financial Times (FT), EssilorLuxottica, Kering, Safilo and Marchon have all expressed interest in the acquisition of Marcolin, as PAI Partners is looking to sell its majority stake in the company. While EssilorLuxottica and Kering seem to be the most likely candidates ...
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Menicon partners with Japanese universities for research on CL materials and recycling
In a double initiative aimed at researching next-generation materials for contact lenses and at recycling plastic waste generated for their distribution, Menicon has announced the creation of the Research Center for Miru Mirai (litterally “see” and “future” in Japanese) in partnership with the Tohoku University. The University of Tokyo will ...
