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Strong children myopia increase in Spain, research finds
A fifth of Spain’s schoolchildren suffer from myopia, whose incidence over the past six years has increased by 17.8 percent. So says this year’s edition of the “Barometer of Myopia in Spain,” a report put out by the Alain Afflelou Foundation and Madrid’s Complutense University. Myopia is most prevalent (30%) ...
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Fielmann appoints a U.S. eyewear industry veteran as group COO
Fielmann Group is adding another high-profile executive to its top management team with the appointment of Peter Lothes as chief operating officer for the whole group. In his new position, Lothes will oversee the German retail group’s manufacturing and logistics operations worldwide. This role was previously held by CFO Alexander ...
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Coburn and SDC find synergies in photochromic system
Coburn Technologies has announced the launch of a new photochromic system for optical labs. Called CrystalChrome, the new system is the first major product developed in partnership with SDC Technologies, an entity of the Mitsui Chemicals and Coburn’s new parent company since the end of last year. CrystalChrome allows optical ...
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Sunglass Hut partners with Ready Player Me for virtual eyewear
Sunglass Hut, the retail banner of the EssilorLuxottica group, has started collaboration with Ready Player Me, an avatar platform for apps and games, to offer digital sunglasses to users who want to customize their digital avatars. Since last Sept. 14, customers can visit a selection of eight of Sunglass Hut ...
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Nexeye expands fashion eyewear brands’ offering
Nexeye has announced that it was expanding its asortment of fashion eyewear brands with the addition of the latest collections from labels such as Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein Jeans, Hugo Boss, Levi’s, Guess, GANT, Max & Co and Vogue in all of its 300 eyes + more stores across Germany, ...
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Mister Spex appoints new CFO
Mister Spex has announced the appointment of Stephan Schulz-Gohritz as its new CFO and member of its management board effective from Jan. 1, 2024. Schulz-Gohritz will lead all aspects of the company’s financial operations, including mergers and acquisitions, Mister Spex noted. The seasoned executive joins the German-based omnichannel retailer from ...
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New logo for Johnson & Johnson
U.S. health care company Johnson & Johnson is updating its brand visual identity and uniting its meditech and pharmaceutical segments under the same brand name and logo. Janssen, the group’s pharmaceutical segment will be named Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine while the medical technology segment retains its Johnson & Johnson ...
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Gibaplast adopts Eastman Tenite Renew
Gibaplast, the Italian-based supplier of cellulose esters and other materials for the eyewear industry, has adopted Eastman’s Tenite Renew material, the U.S. specialty materials manufacturer has announced. Tenite Renew is a more sustainable version of the company’s Tenite cellulose acetate propionate that is widely used in the production of injection ...
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New podcast by Kirk & Kirk
Kirk & Kirk is launching The Eyes Have It, its own podcast in which Jason Kirk, co-founder of the British designer eyewear brand, is discussing with celebrities and friends from the worlds of sport, music, cinema or fashion on a variery of topics including their eyewear. The first guest of ...
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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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New 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. ...