All Marketing articles – Page 26
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The London flagship store of Kirk Originals has been named...
The London flagship store of Kirk Originals has been named Fashion Frames Practice of the Year for 2012 by The Optician Awards. Kirk Originals, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary, also recently won to retail design awards for the store. The London store is the only place customers can see ...
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Bollé is the new sunglass supplier for the GAC Pindar...
Bollé is the new sunglass supplier for the GAC Pindar sailing team. The sailors will wear the company's polarized Marine sunglasses in this year's Extreme Sailing Series, which started on Feb. 28.
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Oakley has started up a new branding campaign that pairs...
Oakley has started up a new branding campaign that pairs artists with the Olympic athletes who inspired them. The campaign, Beyond Reason, is reflected in a specially commissioned art piece collaborated on by the artist Natalie Frank and Bryan Clay, gold medalist in the decathlon in the 2008 Olympic Games. ...
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Kirit Patel, a British optometrist who runs the Radlett Opticians...
Kirit Patel, a British optometrist who runs the Radlett Opticians practice in Radlett, Hertfordshire, won two prizes at the recent Optician Awards. He said he has customers traveling from Canada and New Zealand to get their eyes tested. Optician magazine also honored numerous other opticians in addition to Essilor's OptiFog ...
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Optical Express is sponsoring the PGA Scotland golf tour in...
Optical Express is sponsoring the PGA Scotland golf tour in six events that run through October
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Besides Lindberg and POC (separate story in this issue), Eschenbach...
Besides Lindberg and POC (separate story in this issue), Eschenbach Optik has also won a Red Dot Award for product design. Accompanied by an “honorable mention,” the award has gone to the company's Titanflex 820605 model, which uses Titanflex plate material on the nose bridge instead of memory metal wire. ...
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Lindberg, the Danish eyewear company, has racked up four new...
Lindberg, the Danish eyewear company, has racked up four new design awards for 2012. It won two prestigious Red Dot awards, one for its 1800 Horn and one for its Acetanium Teen. In addition, the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design honored the company with Good Design awards for ...
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At the last edition of Optom, the Spanish Optometry Congress,...
At the last edition of Optom, the Spanish Optometry Congress, Spain's General Council of Optometry honored Enrique Orellana, an optometrist who is client services and logistics manager at Carl Zeiss Vision Spain. He was praised for an article he wrote for the General Council's official magazine about the impact of ...
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Transitions Optical has kicked off a new $20 million ad...
Transitions Optical has kicked off a new $20 million ad campaign, “Life Well Lit,” set to run in the U.S. through November. Timed to coincide with the announcement of its new Vantage lenses (see news brief in the product section), the ads will tout Transitions products in print, on television ...
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PFO Global's new website, www.pfoglobal.com, went live on Jan. 22...
PFO Global's new website, www.pfoglobal.com, went live on Jan. 22 offering high-quality, low-cost complete eyewear for eye care professionals. The Texas-based company, which is a pioneer in free form lens technology and global fabrication of finished eyewear through its B2B logistics technology, Acuity Global Systems, offers eye care professionals a ...
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Charmant is celebrating 25 years of presence in Europe with...
Charmant is celebrating 25 years of presence in Europe with an advertising campaign taglined “Japan Meets Europe” and with the collection of donations for a charity helping children who lost their parents during the tsunami and earthquake of 2011.
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Porsche Design is celebrating 40 years of producing luxury accessories...
Porsche Design is celebrating 40 years of producing luxury accessories with a limited edition offering of collectors' boxes for sunglasses. The collection is called 40Y of Innovation, and includes the 1978 P'8478 model, the first to use interchangeable lenses; the P'8480 foldable aviators; the P'8418 with self-attaching interchangeable lenses; and ...
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To help mark its 75th anniversary, Polaroid Eyewear is partnering...
To help mark its 75th anniversary, Polaroid Eyewear is partnering with Sightsavers, the global charity that helps fund work to restore sight and prevent blindness in the world's poorest countries. Throughout 2012, for every pair of sunglasses from its Best Under the Sun Anniversary Collection sold, Polaroid with donate a ...
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Adidas Eyewear is going to supply the Movistar professional cycling...
Adidas Eyewear is going to supply the Movistar professional cycling team of Spain with neon blue, evil eye halfrim sunglasses to wear during races throughout the year. The frame lies flat against the cyclist's face for comfort, and has adjustable nose pads and a sweat blocker to protect from wind ...
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Silhouette has revamped its website to make picking out eyewear...
Silhouette has revamped its website to make picking out eyewear and choosing a retailer easier, using clear graphics and large visuals. Visitors to Silhouette.com can use filters to select for color and lens shape in choosing their glasses, and can upload a photo of themselves to see how the glasses ...
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J.F. Rey has won a prize in France for its...
J.F. Rey has won a prize in France for its website
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Sightsavers has embarked on a 10-year program to eliminate onchocerciasis,...
Sightsavers has embarked on a 10-year program to eliminate onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, a leading cause of preventable blindness that is transmitted by the bite of the black simulium fly. Its first stop is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the disease is endemic, but it ...
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Essilor International, which has supported the Special Olympics since 2003,...
Essilor International, which has supported the Special Olympics since 2003, has renewed this arrangement. It will continue to provide corrective lenses for the Special Olympics-Lions Club International Opening Eyes program, which provides vision screenings, referrals, and corrective and sports protective eyewear for needy athletes.
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Götti has won the iF Product Design Award 2012 for...
Götti has won the iF Product Design Award 2012 for a style of sunglasses, Fons, from its Spin & Stow collection. The patented Spin & Stow functionality allows the sunglasses to be folded flat and placed easily in pockets or small cases. Götti says its sunglasses sold very well in ...
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The EU has officially declared 2012 to be the Year...
The EU has officially declared 2012 to be the Year of Active Aging and Solidarity Between Generations. Its goal is to allow reflection on Europeans' longer, healthier lives and to realize the opportunities resulting from this. The European Council of Optometry and Optics sees the year as a good time ...
