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Thomsons Online Benefits, in alliances aimed at raising awareness of...
Thomsons Online Benefits, in alliances aimed at raising awareness of the importance of eye examinations and corrective eyewear as a program sponsored by employers in behalf of their staff. AOP and VSP will establish a user group to enable members of the VSP Neighbourhood Eyecare network to provide feedback and ...
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VSP Vision Care, the largest vision care insurance company in...
VSP Vision Care, the largest vision care insurance company in the U.S., has announced that it will expand its eyecare offerings to the U.K. by forming a company called VSP Neighborhood Eyecare, in line with its previous expansion into Australia and Canada under the same name. Jeremy Chadwick has been ...
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Zenni Optical has won a patent dispute with Aspex Eyewear...
Zenni Optical has won a patent dispute with Aspex Eyewear relating to the use of magnets to connect the bridges of eyeglasses and clip-on sunglasses. In 2002, Aspex sued Altair Eyewear, distributor of Tommy Bahama sunglasses, believing that Altair had been marketing and selling a magnetic clip-on sunglass product infringing their ...
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The Vision Council and the California Optical Laboratories Association (COLA)...
The Vision Council and the California Optical Laboratories Association (COLA) signed a definitive merger agreement on April 26, as announced in January. Under the terms of the agreement, COLA's current leadership will remain in place to ensure a smooth transition. COLA members will join The Vision Council as The California ...
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Last March 20, police in Punta Cana, in the Dominican...
Last March 20, police in Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, found cocaine worth more than €20 million aboard a private Falcon jet owned by Alain Afflelou. Officials reportedly seized 26 suitcases packed with nearly 700 kg of the drug when they boarded the jet minutes before it was due ...
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Rodenstock has agreed to a cross-licensing agreement with Carl Zeiss...
Rodenstock has agreed to a cross-licensing agreement with Carl Zeiss Vision for patents covering some of their ophthalmic lens technologies, including Zeiss' back-surface free-from technology. Zeiss has already struck similar agreements with Essilor, Hoya, Indizen and Vision-Ease.
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Jobson Healthcare has set up a nonprofit foundation named for,...
Jobson Healthcare has set up a nonprofit foundation named for, and in honor of, Rick Bay, the publisher and president of Review of Optometry and Review of Ophthalmology who died in December. The Rick Bay Foundation for Excellence in Eyecare Education will provide scholarships to students in optometry and ophthalmology ...
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Alain Afflelou, the 64-year-old founder of the eponymous French-based chain...
Alain Afflelou, the 64-year-old founder of the eponymous French-based chain of franchised opticians, will be leaving France for Britain in a move that might be connected with the announcement by the French government of a 75 percent super-tax on revenues beyond €1 million. Other famous French millionaires and personalities announced ...
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All of Specsavers' joint venture companies (JVCs) must register with...
All of Specsavers' joint venture companies (JVCs) must register with the General Optical Council (GOC). As reported by Optician, the GOC in the U.K. opened an investigation after receiving a complaint about unregistered Specsavers' JVCs and subsequently made its policy on registration of corporate bodies clear to the multiple, triggering ...
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The Cooper Companies has announced its donation of $100,000 to Optometry Giving...
The Cooper Companies has announced its donation of $100,000 to Optometry Giving Sight in support of the 2012 World Sight Day Challenge. Employees at more than 30 locations worldwide participated in the fundraising campaign, organizing local activities for this purpose. To support its subsidiary CooperVision and the efforts of employees worldwide, The ...
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An optometrist in Singapore has been sentenced to pay a...
An optometrist in Singapore has been sentenced to pay a fine of US$30,000 for selling counterfeit contact lenses. Neo Teck Soon confessed that he sold 100 pairs of contact lenses that were wrongly marked with the brand name Freshlook Colorblends, which belongs to Novartis, parent company of Alcon and thus ...
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The internet portal for contact lenses managed by Spectaris, cl-portal.com,...
The internet portal for contact lenses managed by Spectaris, cl-portal.com, welcomed its 1,500th member earlier this month. The service portal of the German eyewear industry association gives registered opticians the opportunity to download up-to-date catalogs for contact lenses from various suppliers and to integrate them into their own software. Opticians ...
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Oakley is trying to stop the previously reported sponsorship deal...
Oakley is trying to stop the previously reported sponsorship deal between the golfer Rory McIlroy and Nike, suing them both for breach of contract. Oakley, a former sponsor of McIlroy, says that it tried to use its right of first refusal to match Nike's offer, but the golfer and his ...
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Eyecessorize has hit 50,000 “likes” on Facebook. This program is...
Eyecessorize has hit 50,000 “likes” on Facebook. This program is The Vision Council's campaign to increase awareness of the fashion and lifestyle aspects of eyewear in the U.S. The Facebook page, which has been growing steadily since its launch in October 2008, offers its fans an inside look at each ...
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Optic 2000 will contribute to the French edition of the...
Optic 2000 will contribute to the French edition of the Téléthon fund-raising event on Dec. 7, with the support of 150 volunteers from its headquarters in Clamart, near Paris. The company's initiatives will revolve in particular around rare diseases and ocular gene therapy and will complement the planned collection of ...
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Since the launch last April of the campaign “Mon permis...
Since the launch last April of the campaign “Mon permis à portée de vue” (Tr.: “My driver's license within eyesight”) by the retail partners of Optic 2000 and Optissimo, nearly 1,000 people have had a chance to test their sight for free in the French northeastern region of Alsace, in ...
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Italy's Commissione della Vista (CDV), which promotes vision correction in...
Italy's Commissione della Vista (CDV), which promotes vision correction in the country, recently performed over 1,000 eye tests on the occasion of the G! Come Giocare toy fair in Milan, held on Nov. 16-18, and the results are rather alarming. More than 20 percent of the adults who took an ...
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The Vision Council in the U.S. is launching a new...
The Vision Council in the U.S. is launching a new web series on in-office processing. Eight eye care providers (ECPs) from different backgrounds talk unscripted in the web series about their use of in-office processing equipment and discuss how such equipment can capture new customers, reduce errors and speed up ...
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Members of the Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO) have...
Members of the Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO) have voted against a proposal to give it a more modern name, the British Association of Opticians
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TD Tom Davis suffered the theft of a gold version...
TD Tom Davis suffered the theft of a gold version of its Rockstar sunglass at the Silmo fair in Paris earlier this month, according to Optician magazine. Originally created for Matthew Bellamy, the lead singer of Muse, it was said to be worth more than €1,000 at retail. Compensating for ...
