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Euromcontact appoints new secretary general
Euromcontact, the European association of the contact lens and lens care industry, has appointed Laure-Anne Copel as its new secretary general, replacing Pascale Rouhier who left the organization after ten years in that position. Copel held the same secretary general role for the last six years at GIFO, the French ...
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ArticleGerman industry association calls for urgent measures to protect SMEs
In a direct address to its national government, German industry association Spectaris is calling for the rapid implementation of a multi-point program to secure the future of healthcare industries in Germany, particularly for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that are most exposed to the current economic crisis. First and foremost, ...
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ArticleEssilor and EssilorLuxottica fined €81 m by French market watchdog, will appeal
L’Autorité de la Concurrence (AC), the French competition authority, has announced yesterday that it was handing a total of €81 million in fines to Essilor International and its parent company EssilorLuxottica for discriminatory practices between April 2009 and December 2020 in France. The Italo-French group immediately replied that it would ...
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French president suggests change in eyecare patients’ journey
Last week, replying to a question during a televised interview on access to eyecare, Emmanuel Macron hinted at a possible change to the current way in which French people consult ophthalmologists. Waiting times for ophthalmological appointments can exceed a year in some regions of France. Macron suggested that, in ...
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ArticleECOO addresses myopia management and digital eye care
The European Council of Optometry and Optics (ECOO), the umbrella organization for 21 eye care professionals’ (ECPs) national associations, has addressed two currently hot industry topics in a position paper on myopia management and a statement on the digital future of eye health care services. In publishing “Myopia management: a ...
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New bill under review in French parliament threatens opticians’ margins
The 2023 bill regulating the financing of the social security system in France, which is currently being debated by French deputies, would significantly disrupt the optical retail in the sector if it were to be adopted in its current form. The wide-ranging bill establishes a list of healthcare-related products reimbursed, ...
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Specsavers warns of a glaucoma ticking time bomb in the U.K.
According to Specsavers’ “The State of the U.K.’s eye health 2022” report, the country is facing a “glaucoma ticking time bomb” as waiting times for NHS ophthalmology appointments have increased, partly as a side effect of the Covid pandemic. As of May 2022, there were more than 630,000 people waiting ...
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ArticleJohnson & Johnson Q3 contact lens sales inch up 3.0% as class action litigation settled
Johnson & Johnson saw sales of contact lenses in the third quarter increased by a reported 3.0 percent on the year earlier to $908 million, with a rise at constant-currency rates of 10.8 percent. Growth was driven by a market recovery, price actions and new products like Acuvue Oasys Multifocal ...
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German industry association Spectaris bids farewell to Josef May, elects successors
Josef May, who has been chairman of the German industry association Spectaris and Chairman of the Consumer Optics division, has handed over his posts to two experienced successors after almost two decades on the board. Ulrich Krauss, CEO of Analytik Jena, was elected as the new chairman of the association ...
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ANFAO worried about eyewear SMEs with energy crisis
According to the Italian Eyewear Industry Association (ANFAO), the cost of energy – historically about 5 percent of an eyewear company’s expenditures – has risen to the point of becoming difficult to deal with. “This crisis is no longer limited to energy but has become global, and it has once ...
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Essilor settles false claims allegations in the U.S.
Essilor International, Essilor of America Inc., Essilor Laboratories of America Inc. and Essilor Instruments USA have agreed to pay $16.4 million to resolve allegations that the companies caused false claims to be submitted to Medicare and Medicaid by violating the Anti-Kickback Statute, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a ...
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Marcolin earns ISO certification
Marcolin has obtained ISO 13485:2016 certification, which, according to International Organization for Standardization itself, “specifies requirements for a quality management system” for medical devices and related services at any stage of the product life-cycle, be it design, development, production, storage, distribution, installation or servicing. The certification is valid for three ...
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The Vision Council has a new director of shows
The Vision Council has hired Sara Bonizio to be its director of shows. Bonizio will be reporting to Mitch Barkley, vice president of trade shows and events, and collaborating with RX, co-organizer of Vision Expo East and West. Bonizio spent seven years working for Metro Optics Group, her family’s group ...
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The Vision Council releases first quarterly consumer report
The Vision Council has released its Consumer inSights Q1 2022 Report, the first publication from its recently established newinSights Research Program. The report presents the results of a survey of 15,015 adults in the U.S. It covers vision correction, eye exams, eyeglasses, contact lenses, readers and plano sunglasses. It ...
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Top management is changing at ABDO
Top management is changing at the Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO). After a term of two years, Jo Holmes has yielded the presidency to Daryl Newsome, who will himself serve a term of two years. Newsome has in turn yielded the vice presidency to Kevin Gutsell, who will serve ...
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Essilux sues JPMorgan for failure to report fraud in Thailand
EssilorLuxottica has filed suit against JPMorgan, alleging that the bank knew about and failed to warn of embezzlements of its funds amounting to some $270 million, or €190 million. About half of the funds have been frozen in banks – mostly in Hong Kong and Singapore but also in Malaysia, ...
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Biometric privacy class action against LVMH in the U.S.
Bloomberg reports that LVMH’s U.S. subsidiary is being accused of illegally collecting biometric data from online shoppers through its eyewear virtual try-on tool. A proposed class action was filed in New York earlier this month with the plaintiffs arguing that the biometric data was being collected and stored on an ...
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New president at GIFO
Eric Lefort, the managing director of Marcolin France, has been unanimously elected as the new president of GIFO, the French eyewear industry association. He succeeds Léna Henry, former general manager of Essilor France, who had been at the helm of the organization since September 2020. Prûne Marre, who recently replaced ...
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Spectaris informs its members about Ukraine war effects on business
To keep its members informed, the German manufacturers of ophthalmic optics and consumer optics association has launched a new section on its website that is dedicated to the war in Ukraine. The association informs its members about the current sanctions in effect by the E.U., the U.S., and counter-sanctions installed ...
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WHO webinar to introduce myopia toolkit
In a webinar scheduled for March 15th, the World Health Organization (WHO) will be introducing a “toolkit” – developed with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) – for the implementation of its Myopia program. The kit will include “evidence-based message libraries for key end-user groups [i.e., policymakers], along with operational guidance ...
