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Top management is changing at ABDO
Top management is changing at the Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO). After a term of two years, Jo Holmes has yielded the presidency to Daryl Newsome, who will himself serve a term of two years. Newsome has in turn yielded the vice presidency to Kevin Gutsell, who will serve ...
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Essilux names VP for professional solutions, northern Europe
EssilorLuxottica has made Franco Ferrante vice president for Professional Solutions for Northern Europe (U.K., Ireland, Nordics and Benelux). Ferrante has been with Luxottica for 17 years, serving most recently as regional director for Northern Europe, France and Israel. The Professional Solutions unit of the group covers the wholesale business of ...
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Bollé hires SVP of finance and operations for North America
Bollé Brands has hired Peter Moore as its senior vice president of finance and operations for North America. From Carlsbad, California, he will be helping the company expand throughout the Americas. Before joining Bollé, Moore held several management positions at international apparel and footwear brands, including Birkenstock, La Perla North ...
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News briefsSafilo appoints president & CCO for North America
Francesco Rinaldi Ceroni is to become Safilo Group’s president & chief commercial officer for North America on June 1, in replacement of Steve Wright, who is retiring. Rinaldi Ceroni has been with Safilo since June 2020, serving as president & global general manager of the Smith Optics brand. Before that ...
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Nicola Zotta to leave Marchon
Vision Monday reports that Nicola Zotta, president and CEO of Marchon, will leave the company on May 6. The Italian executive joined Marchon in 2009 as vice president and managaging director for EMEA, after nine years at Safilo. In 2016, he was appointed president of the U.S. eyewear group. Zotta ...
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Executive changes at Cooper and Essilux JV SightGlass
In connection with the freshly established joint venture between CooperCompanies and EssilorLuxottica, SightGlass Vision has made three executive appointments. First off, Andrew Sedgwick, until now CooperVision’s senior vice president of commercial strategy, is now CEO of SightGlass. He had been with CooperVision for about two decades, serving also as president ...
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Essilux hires from within for new head of Spain, Portugal
EssilorLuxottica has promoted Antonio Nemola from director of Luxottica Iberia to director of all Essilux operations in Spain and Portugal. He is taking over these duties from Marco Caccini, Essilor’s general manager for southern Europe, and will be reporting to Chrystel Barranger, president of EMEA and of Transitions Optical. Nemola ...
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News briefsNew managing director at Essilor France
Prûne Marre has become the managing director of Essilor France. She succeeds Lena Henry, who has left Groupe Essilor. Marre was hired in 2015 as director of marketing and communication for an Essilor subsidiary, the lens manufacturer BBGR, and rose in five years to become its president. She was most ...
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Italia Independent hires a creative director
Italia Independent Group has hired Matteo Pontello as its creative director. Pontello will be working alongside another creative director – Lapo Elkann, who is also the group’s founder and president – and will be in charge of developing collections for both house brands and the two licensed brands Hublot Eyewear ...
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Privé Revaux has a new GM and COO
On Jan. 21 Privé Revaux shifted George Schmidt from president, his title since November 2021, to general manager. The U.S. eyewear brand has also promoted Maureen Cavanagh from senior vice president of global sales to chief operating officer. Schmidt started out as a marketing manager for corporate sales at L.L.Bean ...
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News briefsThélios has a new CEO
LVMH has hired Alessandro Zanardo as CEO of Thélios. Zanardo has spent the past 11 years at Luxottica, serving, in reverse chronology, as general manager of Luxottica Brazil, country manager of Luxottica South Africa, director of business development for Luxottica Russia, and business planner for wholesale global channels and emerging ...
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Ross Holdings divests Mondottica Int’l.
At the end of December, Ross Holdings relinquished its share of the ownership of Mondottica International, the eyewear company headquartered in Hong Kong. At the same time, Harry Ross, who not only owns Ross Holdings but also founded both Viva International Group and Mondottica USA, stepped down as Mondottica International’s ...
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MEI expands into Japan
MEI, the Italian-based lens edging machines company, has established a subsidiary, MEI Nippon, in Japan, appointing Gian Piero Citti to lead it as general manager. This is the company’s fourth subsidiary outside Italy. The first, MEI Inc., opened in Chicago in 2007. There followed MEIsystem Asia, in Hong Kong, and ...
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Smith hires a marketing head away from Oakley
Smith, the U.S.-based producer of snow goggles, sunglasses and helmets owned by Safilo, has announced the appointment of Taryn Ryan as global head of marketing. Born in South Africa, she joined the Luxottica Group in 2008 as a buyer for its Sunglass Hut retail chain. Two years later, she was ...
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Essilux nominates new board member
Virginie Mercier Pitre – Essilor’s vice president commercial for Europe and, since Dec. 15, president of the Valoptec Association of EssiLux’s employees shareholders – has been nominated to take over Juliette Favre’s seat on EssilorLuxottica’s board of directors. Her nomination will be up for a vote at the next annual ...
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Mark’ennovy has a new head of DACH
Josipa Kern is handing over management of Mark’ennovy’s DACH division to Sabine Otero, who has been manager of key accounts and professional affairs for the past five years. Kern will instead be focusing on business development, for which she is the lens manufacturer’s director, and the Executive Board, of which ...
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Costa Sunglasses appoints VP of marketing
Costa Sunglasses has appointed John Acosta as vice president of marketing, with a view – according to Justin Cupps, senior vice president – towards expanding the brand and engaging “with our core fans – the anglers, adventurers and explorers who live to be on the water.” Acosta was previously vice ...
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Synsam Group appoints CEO for its new factory
Ida Geiler is to become CEO of Synsam Group’s Production and Innovation Center on Jan. 3. Located on the island of Frösön, west of Östersund, the center is scheduled to complete construction in this spring. For the past year and a half Geiler has been project manager for Synsam’s Made ...
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A new supervisory board chairman at Carl Zeiss
Dr. Dieter Kurz is stepping down this month as chairman of both Carl Zeiss’s supervisory board and the Carl Zeiss Foundation’s shareholder council. Replacing him in both as of January is Dr. Michael Bolle, who has just joined the supervisory board as the foundation’s representative. Kurz has been with Zeiss ...
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Former GrandVision CEO joins Rodenstock board
Rodenstock has appointed Theo Kiesselbach and Guillaume Daniellot to its advisory board, MAFO reports. Kiesselbach spent 15 years at GrandVision in several top executive positions, including CEO of the group from 2011 to 2018. Daniellot is currently CEO of Strautman Group, a leading supplier of dental implants. Rodenstock’s newly created ...
