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Philippe Lafont, president of Lafont and of the Silmo eyewear...
Philippe Lafont, president of Lafont and of the Silmo eyewear show, died earlier this month at the age of 70. An optician's son, he took over the family shop and then launched the Lafont brand of glasses in 1979. Together with his wife Laurence, who passed away in 2008, he ...
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John Menon, a former president of the British Contact Lens...
John Menon, a former president of the British Contact Lens Association (BCLA), died in his sleep on Dec. 10. He had reportedly suffered a number of strokes in recent years, and was also affected by macular degeneration. Menon, who served as president of BCLA from 1982-83, was awarded honorary BCLA ...
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Paul Robinson, sales director of Look Designs, a family-owned British...
Paul Robinson, sales director of Look Designs, a family-owned British frame supplier, tragically passed away after a fire broke out at his house. He had been in the family business for 25 years and was also very much involved in the life of the local community through a book festival ...
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Both an optician and a professional scuba-diver, Roger Demetz died...
Both an optician and a professional scuba-diver, Roger Demetz died last month at the age of 93. In 1953, he invented the first scuba-diving mask with corrective lenses. At the same time, he opened his optical shop in Paris and founded the Demetz brand. In 1968, he launched his first ...
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Kurt Öslund, a Swedish optometrist has acted as vice president...
Kurt Öslund, a Swedish optometrist has acted as vice president of the Opticians Association and chairman of the Swedish Society of Optometry, has passed away at the age of 75. A well-known specialist in contact lenses, he started the first post-qualification courses in the country and wrote the first Swedish ...
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Fabienne Coudray-Meisel, a French eyewear designer who had created the...
Fabienne Coudray-Meisel, a French eyewear designer who had created the Volte-Face brand in the 1990s, has abruptly passed away. After a pause in the market, another French designer, Jean-François Rey, has been supporting her work for the past few years.
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Fabienne Coudray-Meisel, a French eyewear designer who had created the...
Fabienne Coudray-Meisel, a French eyewear designer who had created the Volte-Face brand in the 1990s, has abruptly passed away. After a pause in the market, another French designer, Jean-François Rey, has been supporting her work for the past few years.
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Gérard Cottet, one of the emblematic figures in the history...
Gérard Cottet, one of the emblematic figures in the history of Essilor, died on July 17 at the age of 84. Cottet made a major contribution to Essilor's transformation from a French optical exporting company into a global optical supplier. He took part in the merger between Essel and the ...
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Gérard Cottet, one of the emblematic figures in the history...
Gérard Cottet, one of the emblematic figures in the history of Essilor, died on July 17 at the age of 84. Cottet made a major contribution to Essilor's transformation from a French optical exporting company into a global optical supplier. He took part in the merger between Essel and the ...
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Charles Schmall, an American eyewear industry veteran and well-known personality...
Charles Schmall, an American eyewear industry veteran and well-known personality in the business, has died after a brief illness at the age of 87. His name is linked to the expansion of the designer eyewear business in the U.S. Schmall was born in Brooklyn in 1929 to Polish immigrants. After ...
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Pierre Marly, a primary figure of the French optical industry,...
Pierre Marly, a primary figure of the French optical industry, has died at the age of 100. He joined Lissac at 26 and rapidly became one of the main collaborators of the French company, Georges Lissac. In 1948 he left Lissac to take over SGOL, a Brussels-based company that was ...
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James Drain, the former president of Dac International, has died...
James Drain, the former president of Dac International, has died at the age of 77. Drain worked at Dac International for 19 years until his retirement, in 2010. He served the last 11 years as president. Drain helped the California-based company pioneer single-point diamond turning and the movement to free-form ...
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Bruno Fornaciari, who took charge of the lenses and insturments...
Bruno Fornaciari, who took charge of the lenses and insturments business unit of Rodenstock in Italy last year, passed away on Oct. 6. He started his career in the optical sector in 1975 in Italy. He worked also in Spain and Portugal during the ‘nineties.
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Harry Daile, the former chairman of the Association of Optometrists...
Harry Daile, the former chairman of the Association of Optometrists (AOP) in the U.K., has died at the age of 103. Orphaned at the age of 12, Daile trained to be an optometrist while working full-time and studying in the evenings. In his 50s he developed glaucoma, which eventually forced ...
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Lissac has announced the death of Jean-Pierre Bonnac. He would...
Lissac has announced the death of Jean-Pierre Bonnac. He would have turned 80 in July. Bonnac was an emblematic figure of the French banner, which he joined when it was still run by Georges Lissac, and where he spent all his professional career. Bonnac invented one of the first electronic ...
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Herbert Volz, honorary chairman of the German optical retailers' federation...
Herbert Volz, honorary chairman of the German optical retailers' federation (ZVA), has passed away at the age of 85. The German optician, who conducted his own business in the Heidelberg area, acted as chairman of ZVA between 1969 and 1981. He was responsible for the implementation of several important initiatives, ...
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Hansgeorg Bode, who has been running the Hamburg-based Optiker Bode...
Hansgeorg Bode, who has been running the Hamburg-based Optiker Bode chain for three decades, died unexpectedly at the age of 69. Under his management, the company has become the fourth-largest optical retailer in Germany, with about 75 stores. He bought the former family business back from a U.S. investor in ...
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Michael Jaggs has died at the age of 77. The...
Michael Jaggs has died at the age of 77. The contact lens pioneer started his career in optics with Leighton's Opticians in 1954. After qualifying as a dispensing optician, he ran a branch for the company, and then studied optometry at Northampton College, four years later. He started his own ...
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Josef Reiner, a well-known German ophthalmologist who collected more than...
Josef Reiner, a well-known German ophthalmologist who collected more than 30 patents during his career, has died at the age of 93. Born in Romania, he started teaching ophthalmic optics in Jena in 1947. Ten years later he became the director of a new school in Cologne, HFAK, which was ...
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Wilhelm Anger, the founder of Optyl and Carrera, has passed...
Wilhelm Anger, the founder of Optyl and Carrera, has passed away at the age of 88. Anger was a pioneer in the eyewear sector through his early involvement in the licensing of fashion designers and his technical achievements. After World War II, he went door-to-door selling welding equipment to ...
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