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Opti brings nine CL makers on the same booth
The organizers of the opti trade show in Munich have announced the launch of TOMORROW VISION, of 200 square meter area that will gather nine contact lens manufacturers under the motto “Contact lenses are the future of optics.” The participants are Alcon, Bausch + Lomb, CooperVision, Hecht, Hetych, Menicon, MPG&E, ...
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Mido announces earlier dates for 2026
The organizers of the MIDO international eyewear trade show have announced that they will be switching to earlier dates in 2026 in order to avoid overlapping with the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games. MIDO 2026 will then take place from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2. The new dates were ...
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Opti finetunes 2025 edition concept
Continuing its program of roundtable consultations with industry stakeholders, organizers of the opti trade show have announced some adjustments and novelties for the 2025 edition of the show that will take place from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2 next year in Munich. This will include the creation of a four-theme ...
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Sharp attendance increase at opti
Organizers of opti have announced that a total of 21,500 visitors from 70 countries and 390 exhibitors from 28 countries took part in the 2024 edition of the show that took place in Munich, Germany, from Jan. 12 to 14. The figures mark a significant improvement from last year’s edition ...
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ArticleOpti gets ready for a 2024 rebound
The numerous changes and initiatives implemented after a difficult edition of the show earlier this year, including a roundtable with stakeholders to rethink the concept this summer, seem to have paid off as opti has announced a significant increase in both exhibiting space and exhibitors’ participation for their 2024 edition. ...
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Opti returns to four-hall lay-out
The organizers of opti have announced that 400 exhibitors have already confirmed their participation for the next edition that will take place in Munich from Jan. 12 to 14 next year. Three months ahead of the event, this marks a significant increase in participation from last year’s show when 307 ...
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Opti launches industry trends’ analysis program
Organizers of opti have announced the launch of a new initiative aimed at “providing ophthalmic optics with a basis for identifying relevant trends at an early stage and working towards a succesful future (…).” The Trend Radar, as it has been called, is developed in cooperation with Trendone, an innovation ...
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Opti gathers industry players for a roundtable discussion on the event’s concept
The organizers of the opti trade show have announced that they gathered 40 selected industry representatives for one day in Frankfurt at the beginning of July for an open discussion around their expectations for the international trade show. The opti ROUNDTABLE, as the event was named, was organized for the ...
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Opti launches sustainability award for opticians
The organizers of the opti trade show have announced the launch of a new sustainability award aimed at German and international opticians at the next edition of the show, from Jan. 12 to 14 next year. The opti Sustainability Award competition will take into consideration a number of criteria such ...
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Opti on tour to promote 2024 edition
The Munich-based opti trade fair has embarked on an intensive tour that will see its teams participate in person to over fifteen eyewear industry trade shows and congresses, both in Germany and internationally, to promote the 2024 edition of the show. The opti tour kicked off at the last Vision ...
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ArticleChange of leadership at opti
Gesellschaft für Handwerkmessen (GmbH), the organizer of opti, has announced the appointment of Cathleen Kabashi as the new director for its Munich-based optical trade show. Kabashi joined GHM in 2007 and worked as trade fair advisor and later director of iba, which the group describes as the world’s leading trade ...
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ArticleGerman optical associations release new market data at opti
Ahead of the opening of the opti trade show in Munich today, industry association Spectaris announced that, based on its preliminary calculations, sales from German-based suppliers of ophthalmic optics and consumer optics reached a total of €4.87 million for 2022, up by 2.5 percent from 2021. The growth was entirely ...
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ArticleDownsized opti to focus on myopia management and sustainability
Opti organizers have had to reduce the exhibition space of their next edition of the show, scheduled to take place from next January 13 to 15 in Munich, after being faced with a wave of cancelations from several large eyewear industry players and usual exhibitors. Initially planned on four halls ...
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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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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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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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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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Opti organizers give 2022 update
Klaus Paschka and Bettina Reiter, respectively managing director of Gesellschaft für Handwerkmessen (GHM) and exhibition director of opti, gave an update on April 15 about the next edition of the German trade fair in the form of a corporate interview on the show’s website. After a blank year in 2021 ...
