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Etnia turns 20 at the Reina Sofia national museum
Etnia Barcelona celebrated its 20th anniversary with a special evening at the Reina Sofia national museum center in Madrid last week, LookVision reports. Diner guests, including members of the press and influencers, were treated with a private visit of the permanent collection of the museum which had just been renovated. ...
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ZEISS celebrates 175th anniversary
ZEISS celebrated its 175th anniversary on Nov. 16 with a virtual event held at the Volkhaus in Jena, the German company’s founding city. During the event, Dr. Karl Lamprecht, president and CEO of the group, celebrated the company’s past achievements and reaffirmed its commitment to building a bright future through ...
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French survey reveals most popular optical chains
The yearly delivery of the French business magazine Capital’s survey, which looks at the most liked retail banners in the country across different sectors, showed that the Krys group placed three of its banners in the top 5 for the optical retail category. Vision Plus tops the ranking with an ...
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Out Of, the Italian sun lens start-up, gets Elite status
Out Of, a young company that recently launched the first electronic lens that adapts its tint to ambient light automatically in less than a second without using a battery, is one of 20 Italian start-ups that have joined Elite, a private market of the Italian Stock Exchange, with the support ...
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Google hails the inventor of the soft contact
Last Wednesday’s Google “Doodle” – the search engine’s ever-changing commemorative logo illustration – paid tribute to Otto Wichterle, the Czech chemist who held about 180 patents and invented the soft contact lens. This Oct. 27 was his 108th birthday. Wichterle was born in Prostějov, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian ...
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Ocuco gets ISO certification
Ocuco, the Irish-based supplier of optical software, has received the ISO/IEC 27001:2017 certification for its Practice Management Software (PMS) and related services. The ISO 27001 certificate guarantees that the software works in compliance with the current industry regulations in terms of data protection, such as the GDPR in Europe. Ocuco ...
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Indo to offer a virtual tour of its lens factory
Indo Optical is setting up a virtual tour of its lens factory. Opticians can now explore the Barcelonan firm’s procedures and machines from home but also in the company of experts, with an interactive feature for questions. The tour will be available at www.academy.indo.es.
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Maui Jim becomes official supplier to SailGP
Maui Jim is now the official eyewear supplier to SailGP, the international league of national sailing teams for Australia, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Japan, New Zealand, Spain and the U.S. According to Martijn Van Eerde, senior marketing director for EMEA and APAC, Maui Jim will be supplying the PolarisedPlus2 with ...
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Mister Spex ranked as one of the most innovative German companies
Mister Spex has been selected as one of 100 most innovative medium-sized companies in Germany, according to the Innovation Champions 2021 ranking by the Munich Strategy management consultancy. Over 4,000 German companies have been reviewed in the process that calculates an innovation score based for the most part on the ...
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VSP partners with e-sports company
VSP Global has announced the signature of a multi-year partnership with Kinds Guard Gaming , the NBA 2K League affiliate of the Sacramento Kings ’ NBA franchise. NBA 2K is a series of video games franchised by the U.S. professional basketball league. VSP Global’s innovation center and the ...
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Lozza is named a historic Italian brand
Lozza , the eyewear brand owned by the De Rigo Group , has been added to the special register of historic Italian brands. Founded in 1878 by Giovanni Lozza and the Frescura brothers in the Belluno eyewear district, the brand is renowned for its pioneering use of celluloid, ...
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MPG renames all subsidiaries
The Michael Pachleitner Group is changing the names of all its subsidiaries, switching them to the MPG brand name for unity purposes. This applies to the group’s headquarters in Graz, Austria, as well as to the production site in Germany and to the sales’ subsidiaries in France, Germany ...
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HOYA partners with Myopia Profile on training program
HOYA Vision Care is partnering with Myopia Profile , an international information resource on myopia management, to launch a co-created certified training program to educate eye care professionals on the topic and empower them to prescribe spectacle lenses for children. The program includes certified courses on myopia, the current ...
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EssilorLuxottica renews FIA partnership
EssilorLuxottica and the Fédération International Automobile ( FIA ) have announced the extension of their partnership aimed at raising awareness of the importance of good vision for all road users. Road safety has been picked by the United Nations as a pillar of its Sustainable Developments Goals’ program ...
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Biden gifts Randolph aviators to Putin
U.S. president Joe Biden has given Russian president Vladimir Putin , on the occasion of this week’s summit in Switzerland, a pair of aviator sunglasses. The brand behind the gift, Randolph Engineering , apparently did not know anything about this in advance and has since specified the model: 57mm ...
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Essilor signs partnership with the organizers of Le Mans
Essilor has signed a three-year partnership deal with the Automobile Club de l’Ouest ( ACO) , organizer of the 24 Hours of Le Mans , scheduled this year for Aug. 21-22. Together they will be conducting trackside initiatives and public-awareness campaigns to urge drivers professional and casual to ...
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Charmant online event gets two awards
Charmant , the Japanese eyewear manufacturer, has received two international communication awards, the Healthcare Advertising Award and the Communitor Award , for its Charmant Style Show held at the beginning of the year. Developed in partnership with the MENSCH Kreativagentur agency and initially launched to make up ...
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Safilo enhances B2B platform
Safilo Group is enhancing its You Safilo B2B platform with a new live chat function for an improved customer support to opticians. The new feature has been launched in Italy in May and will be progressively implemented in all the other European countries where the platform is used. ...
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Tom Davies provides eyewear for Disney movie
The British designer Tom Davies has designed glasses for most of the cast of the forthcoming Disney movie Cruella , with Emma Stone and Emma Thompson in the lead roles. The movie is set in 1970s London, during the punk movement. Davies collaborated with the costume ...
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Optic 2000 supplants Krys in French retailer ranking
The results are in for the 12th edition of a ranking called “France’s Favorite Retail Brands” (Enseignes Préférées des Français), based on a survey by e-marketing.fr and EYParthenon of 8,000 French consumers over 18 years of age. Leroy Merlin , a chain of big-box hardware stores, reigns supreme ...
