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MIDO drops schedule for its Digital Platform
MIDO has scheduled a series of new online conferences for its Digital Platform. Creativity Day by ANFAO will fall on July 5 and cover fashion trends and the metaverse. Retail Week on July 12-15 will discuss local retail strategies, the post-pandemic retail associate and airport retail. And Future Consumer Day ...
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opti highlights the emotional experience, looks forward to 2023
The organizers of opti have announced that about 13,000 visitors from 71 countries took part in the 2022 edition of the Munich show from last May 13 to 15. The show had been canceled last year due to the COVID-19 outbreak and rescheduled from January to May this year because ...
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MIDO holds its 50th edition
MIDO has held its 50th edition. According to president Giovanni Vitaloni, who called it a “fresh start for the industry,” this year’s show drew about 22,000 visitors. They hailed from some 50 countries, while the more than 660 exhibitors came to Italy from 45 countries, among them France, Spain, Germany, ...
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100% Optical holds first show in two years
100% Optical held its first show in two years, after many postponements, on April 23-25 at London’s ExCel, breaking its attendance record with 9,680 attendees. The show included catwalk shows, some 160 seminars curated by The Association Of Optometrists (AOP), showcases for optical technology, a mix of independent and international ...
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ExpoÓptica holds its first show since 2018
According to Look Vision, ExpoÓptica closed out on a hopeful note its 33rd edition, which took place in Madrid on April 3-6. The optometry and audiology trade show drew an encouraging 6,456 visitors. The previous edition, in the pre-pandemic year of 2018, drew 8,300 visitors, along with 170 brands (up ...
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A report on Vision Expo East
The four days of this year’s Vision Expo East – the first edition since 2019 – came to an end on April 3 in New York City. According to the organizers, exhibitors exceeded 360. This year’s VisionEd exceeded 230 hours of programs on business strategy, fashion, patient education and innovation, ...
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SIOF postponed over Covid
This year’s edition of SIOF, scheduled for April 22-24 at Shanghai’s Suzhou International Expo Center, has been postponed over new pandemic regulations. The trade show is organized by the China Optometric & Optical Association, Sinolight International Holdings Corporation and Orient International Exhibition Company, with support from the China National Light ...
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Copenhagen Specs returns
Uncancelled this year – the 2020 show having succumbed to Covid – Copenhagen Specs took place on March 5-6 at its usual location in Denmark’s capital, the train-repair building turned into a convention center known as Lokomotivværkstedet. This edition of the show drew 53 exhibitors, 85 brands and 608 unique ...
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Mido to be held in-person, review the Italian industry
Mido is expecting 630 exhibitors from 45 countries to show up in Milan for its first in-person show in two years, scheduled for April 30 to May 2. In preparation, its president, Giovanni Vitaloni, plans to attend Vision Expo East, in New York City, on April 2 so as “to ...
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Vision Expo East returns nearly to normal
Visitors will be entering and breathing the old-fashioned way at the forthcoming edition of Vision Expo East, scheduled for March 31 to April 3 at the Javits Center in New York City. The city’s new mayor, Eric Adams, suspended the “Key to NYC” pandemic restrictions on March 4. As a ...
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Germany's lifted Covid regulations should open way for Opti
With the German government set to lift most Covid restrictions on March 20, Opti is looking forward to a nearly liberated trade show on May 13-15. The country’s federal-state conference came to this optimistic conclusion on Feb. 16, abolishing limits on visitor numbers, restaurants or night life and adjusting regulations ...
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Italian Covid decree makes Mido attendance easier
The organizers of the Mido trade show in Milan, scheduled this year for April 30 to May 2, are delighted with Italy’s recent decree on Covid restrictions. The European Commission had already opened on June 1 of last year what it calls the European Gateway, which guarantees the validity in ...
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opti settles in Munich permanently
The organizer of the German trade show opti have announced in a press conference that the event would remain located in Munich on a permanent basis, putting an end to relocation speculations, and that the 2023 edition would take place from Jan. 27 to 29. As previously reported, the ...
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News briefsOmicron forces Mido, 100% Optical to reschedule
In response to the rapid escalation of the Omicron Covid variant across Europe and other countries, the organizers of Mido have announced the postponement of the 2022 edition of the show from the initially scheduled Feb. 12-14 dates to April 30 to May 2, returning to the Milanese show’s original ...
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About 200 exhibitors at IOFT 2021
The organizers of the IOFT optical trade show in Japan, RX Japan and the Fukui Optical Association, announced that 189 exhibitors took part in the last edition of the show from Oct. 18 to 20 in Tokyo. No attendance figures were communicated. Besides the Fukui-based eyewear makers, some international brands, ...
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New dates for ExpoÓptica
ExpoÓptica, the Spanish eyewear trade show, has shifted the dates of its 2022 edition to April 1 to 3, 2022. The organizers had to postpone the event as the IFEMA fairgrounds where it is taking place were fully booked for the first quarter of next year, LookVision reports. The show ...
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Interlook 2022 show postponed too
A few days after the postponement of the opti trade show from January to May 2022, the organizers of Interlook, the other German trade show formerly known as Brille & Co., have put their 2022 edition on hold as the Covid-19 pandemic is rebounding in Germany and other parts of ...
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Mido confirms its Feb 2022 edition
A few days after the postponement of the opti trade show from January to May next year and as new cases of new Covid-19 omicron spread across Europe, the organizers of the Mido show have confirmed that its 2022 in-person edition would be held as scheduled from Feb. 12 to ...
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opti postponed to May 2022
Organizers of the opti trade show have announced the postponement of the 2022 edition of the show from the initially scheduled dates Jan. 14-16 to May 13-15. The announcement comes as the Covid-19 pandemic is rebounding in Germany, which led the German government to introduce a health pass to go ...
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Silmo and Copenhagen Specs go to Barcelona
Silmo and its Copenhagen Specs partner have announced that they would extend the Specs eyewear fair concept to Barcelona in 2022. The format of the new show will be focusing on the eyewear designer segment and based on the same mix of business, networking and partying as the Copenhagen event. ...
