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Spectaris has a new chairman
SPECTARIS, the German industry association for optics and other related sectors, has announced the election of Dr. Bernhard Ohnesorge as its new chairman. Ohnesorge, who is the managing director of Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH was elected with over 90 percent of the votes at the last general meeting of the ...
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Sports optic market to grow 3% annually by 2028
The global market for sports optic – including binoculars, rangefinders, riflescopes and field scopes – is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 2.8 percent to $2.43 billion by 2028, according to a new report by Fortune Business Insights, an Indian research company. The company says that the market growth ...
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Bold Optical Fair gathered 2,750 eyewear professionals
Organizers of the Bold Optical Fair, which reunited for the first time three Dutch trade shows under the same roof, said that their 2023 edition had been “the hottest show of the year,” in reference to the unusually hot weather at this time of the year but also to its ...
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Marchon to distribute Linda Farrow in North America
Marchon Eyewear has announced the signature of a long-term distribution agreement with luxury eyewear brand Linda Farrow for North America, including Canada and the Cayman Islands. Linda Farrow’s sun and optical frames are designed at its headquarters in London and produced in Japan. The brand operates its own stores in ...
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Carl Zeiss’ CFO steps down
ZEISS Group has announced that Dr. Christian Müller, its chief financial officer and a member of its executive board, would leave the group at his own request and on the best of terms on Sept. 30. Müller joined the group in 2022 as vice president of corporate auditing and risk ...
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DaTE designer eyewear show gathers 1,000 industry professionals in Florence
The organizers of DaTE, the eyewear trade show focusing on the designer eyewear segment, have announced that approximately 1,000 industry professionals and buyers took part in the 11th edition of the show that just closed its doors in Florence, Italy. This marks a decline from the previous edition when 1,500 ...
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De Rigo expands partnership with Philip Plein
De Rigo Group has announced the signature of a new license agreeement for the creation, production and global distribution of PLEIN SPORT-branded sunglasses and prescription frames, a brand of PHILIP PLEIN, the Swiss-based luxury fashion company. The Italian eyewear maker has been the licensee for PHILIP PLEIN’s main brand since ...
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Marcolin adds new licensed fashion brand to portfolio
Marcolin has announced the signature of a new eyewear license partnership with German luxury fashion brand MCM. The Italian eyewear group will design, manufacture and distribute globally MCM-branded sunglasses and optical frames until the end of 2028. The first MCM eyewear collections by Marcolin will be available from January 2024 ...
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News briefsNew report on workplace dangers to the eye
The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) have released a report titled Eye health and the world of work and available free of charge online. In it, they estimate that 2.2 billion people in the world suffer from some form of vision ...
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Silhouette eyes carbon neutrality without offsetting
In 2022, the Silhouette Group became a certified carbon-neutral organization, through a combination of emissions’ reductions – which were halved to 2,000 tons annually in the last seven years – and the purchase of carbon credits for the support of a 400 MW solar panel system in India. The Austrian-based ...
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Kering Eyewear gathers supply chain partners for Sustainability Day
Kering Eyewear gathered its key Italian supply chain partners at its headquarters in Padua on Sept. 5 for its Sustainability Day. The event included a workshop by Anna Zandanel, a sustainability and innovation business advisor who shared information on circular economy practices in the eyewear industry with the 40 attendees. ...
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Fittingbox VTOs up 26 percent in 2022
Fittingbox, one of the leading players in eyewear virtual-try-on (VTO) software, processed approximately 120 million VTO operations with over 140,000 frames last year, up by 26 percent year-on-year. On a comparable basis, they were up by 21 percent. For the first six months of this year, Fittingbox told us it ...
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Olivier Petitfils (ADCL) has died
Olvier Petitfils, general manager of ADCL Aplus, died last week, at the age of 57. Petifils, an eyewear passionate, started his carreer as a product manager for L’Amy. He joined ADCL in 1994 and was appointed as chief executive of the company in 2005 following the untimely death of Jean-François ...
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Morel enters Finland with distributor partnership
French eyewear company MOREL has announced that it was entering Finland through a distribution partnership with Neonsun Oy, a company with more than 20 years of presence in this market. Other brands in Neonsun’s portfolio include: Bollé, Cébé, Serengeti, Spy +, Booth & Bruce and Monoqool.
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Monoqool launches transclucent 3D-printed eyewear
Monoqool, the Danish eyewear brand specializing in lightweight and 3D-printed eyewear has announced the launch of semi-transparent 3D-printed glasses, which it says is a world premiere. The new translucent glasses feature a screwless hinge system, adjustable temples and non-slip end tips and nose pads. The company also highlighted the eco-friendly ...
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News briefsFrench specialist in readers extends its line
Nooz Optics, a French specialist in reading glasses, is expanding its collections to sunglasses and eyeglasses with the release of a new line of 35 models. Called Nooz Eyewear, the line makes use of Korean titanium and stainless steel as well as Eastman’s Acetate Renew. Nooz now produces some 200 ...
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TOG invests in new automated RX production line
While presenting mixed results for the second quarter of 2023 earlier this month, Thai Optical Group has announced that it was building a state-of-the-art automated RX production line at Thai Optical Company Limited, one of its subsidiaries. The group expects the new facility to be operational by the end of ...
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HOYA Vision Care launches sustainability program
HOYA Vision Care has announced the launch of One Vision, its corporate sustainability program based on three pillars: environment, community and workplace. On the environmental front, the company’s initiatives focus on CO2 emission reduction – with a goal to reach 100 percent renewable electricity by 2040 at the latest ...
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Morel Eyewear appoints new U.S. sales director
Morel Eyewear has appointed Zachary Milan as its new sales director for the U.S, a key export market for the French company since it opened a local subsidiary thirty years ago. Milan has over twenty years of sales experience with lens and eyewear companies including Younger Optics, Shamir, Europa Eyewear ...
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Fielmann confirms strong half year, gives update on SVS Vision
Fielmann Group has reported finetuned figures for its half-year performance that broadly confirmed the solid results announced in July. H1 external sales were up by 13.6 percent year-on-year to €1.13 billion, driven by international markets (+21.5 percent) and e-commerce (+28.1 percent). Consolidated revenue increased at the same rate, reaching €971 ...
