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House of Modo appoints sales director for Europe
House of Modo, formerly MODO Group, has recruited Andrea Palermo as Sales Director Europe. A senior eyewear industry executive, Palermo joins the company from Look where he was serving as Global Sales Director. His previous experiences in the sector include sales management roles at Gigi Studios, Etnia Barcelona and Safilo. ...
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Optik Hallmann has a new managing director
Optik Hallmann, a retail chain of the Michael Pachleitner Group (MPG), has appointed Tobias Andersen as its new Managing Director. Andersen joins the company from Pawlik Consultants, a management consultancy. His prior experiences in the eyewear retail sector include management positions at Fielmann, eyes + more and Optiker Bode. Optik ...
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SightGlass Vision announces new clinical research results
SightGlass Vision, a joint venture between EssilorLuxottica and CooperVision, is presenting new clinical research related to its Diffusion Optics Technology (DOT) at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) currently taking place in Salt Lake City, Utah. SightGlass Vision says that a recent study ...
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Zyloware announces initiatives to mitigate US tariffs impact
Zyloware, an established US eyewear vendor with over 100 years of business history, has announced on its corporate blog several initiatives aimed at mitigating the impact of the US reciprocal tariffs announced by President Donald Trump last month. The company’s main measures include the diversification of its manufacturing footprint by ...
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Topcon Healthcare acquires retinal AI imaging company
Topcon Healthcare has announced the acquisition of RetinSight, an Austrian-based company specializing in retinal AI imaging software. Topcon stressed that the move would further enhance Healthcare from the Eye, its AI-powered disease detection and management platform. Founded in 2020, RetinSight has its origin in research of the Medical University of ...
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News briefsZeiss to release AI research platform
“The future of healthcare is in the data,” says Euan S. Thomson, head of the Digital Business Unit at Zeiss Medical Technology. In line with this belief, the German firm has collaborated with the pharmaceuticals multinational Boehringer Ingelheim to create the Zeiss Research Data Platform (Zeiss RDP). Source: ...
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Bausch + Lomb Q1 contact lens sales inch up 3%
Bausch + Lomb said it generated contact lens sales of $236 million in the first quarter of 2025, up by a reported three percent compared to the year earlier and five percent higher at constant currency rates, with growth led by its daily disposable silicone hydrogel and ULTRA monthly contact ...
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Alex Wilkes to succeed Reade Fahs as National Vision CEO
National Vision has announced that Alex Wilkes, currently serving as the company’s President, will take over the CEO position from Reade Fahs who has been at the helm of the US optical retail group since 2002. Wilkes, an experienced eyewear industry executive, joined the company in August last year from ...
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Vuzix acquires waveguide R&D facility in Silicon Valley
Vuzix has announced the acquisition of an advanced waveguide R&D center in the Silicon Valley. The smart glasses company said that the facility was previously operated by “a global technology leader known for its extensive work in software,” without disclosing that company’s name. Vuzix stressed that the acquired unit featured ...
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Safilo pursues share buy-back program with future investments in mind
Along with the approval by its shareholders of its financial statements as of Dec. 31, 2024, Safilo Group has announced that the shareholders of its Safilo SpA subsidiary have authorized the purchase and disposal of up to 15 million ordinary shares, corresponding to approximately 3.6 percent of the company’s outstanding ...
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VSP Vision launches second eye care experience innovation challenge
VSP Vision has announced the launch of the second edition of its Innovation Challenge, in partnership with MATTER, a Chicago-based healthcare and innovation hub. The competition is aimed at global companies innovating with new technologies to enhance patients’ eye care experience. They have until June 8, 2025 to send their ...
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Topcon Healthcare appoints new Chief Medical Officer
Topcon Healthcare has appointed Dr. Daniela Ferrara as Chief Medical Officer. She will lead Topcon Healthcare’s clinical and medical strategy, notably the development of Healthcare from the Eye, the AI-powered platform using ocular imaging and data to detect eye care and systemic diseases that the company launched last year. Ferrara ...
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Abióptica trade show attendance up 14%
Organizers of Abióptica, the Brazilian eyewear trade show, have announced that 22,000 visitors, or 14 percent more than in the previous year, have taken part in the last edition of the trade show that took place in São Paulo from last April 9 to 12. They added that the tally ...
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News briefsNew countries, features for Ray-Ban Meta
EssilorLuxottica, owner of Ray-Ban, announced on April 23 that the Ray-Ban Meta will soon be available in Mexico, India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Meta, for its part, announced on the same day that it was extending access to the smart eyewear’s AI to seven European countries: Germany, Austria, ...
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Research center launches multilingual website on eye care sustainability
The Centre for Ocular Research & Education (CORE), a research center in eye health established in 1988 by the University of Waterloo, Canada, is launching sustainableeyecare.com, a website aimed at educating eye care professionals (ECPs) and consumers about sustainability issues related to contact lenses and eyewear. The online platform notably ...
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Alain Afflelou hit in cyberattack
Personal data of thousands of Alain Afflelou clients and prospects were stolen in a cyberattack last week through unauthorized access to the IT systems of a CRM partner company, the group has announced. The stolen data include civil status information, contact details and commercial details such as the date and ...
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Fitting Box and Ocuco renew their partnership
Since 2018, Ocuco, the Irish-based supplier of optical software has integrated Fitting Box’ virtual try-own and other eyewear visualization tools in its products for independent optical practices and retail chains. Both companies have just announced that they have agreed to renew their partnership for five years. Ocuco says on its ...
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Rodenstock Group reshuffles top sales management team
Rodenstock Group has announced the appointment of Laurent Saada as Executive Vice President (EVP) Sales Europe. A seasoned executive, Saada joins Rodenstock from Sonova Group, where he has served as managing director of the wireless communications unit for four years. His previous experiences also include top executive functions at Straumann ...
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Higher than expected rebound for Carl Zeiss Meditec in Q2
Carl Zeiss Meditec has announced better than expected results for the quarter ended March 31 (Q2) as sales jumped by 19 percent year-on-year to €560 million based on preliminary data. The strong growth was driven by Dutch Ophthalmic Research Center (DORC), a business acquired last year and integrated from April ...
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Johnson & Johnson sales inch up in Q1 despite a slight dip in international markets
Johnson & Johnson generated contact lens sales of $919 million in the first quarter of 2025, up by a reported 1.0 percent compared to the year earlier and 2.7 percent higher at constant-currency rates. Growth was driven by continued strategic price actions and a strong performance in the Acuvue-Oasys 1-Day ...
