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Inspecs wins Queen’s Award for Enterprise
Inspecs won this year’s ”Queen’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade for Outstanding Short-Term Growth” because of the strong expansion of its sales outside the U.K. over the last three years. As reported in the April 4 issue of EWI, only 22.8 percent of the group’s sales of $57.3 million ...
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Luxottica and Milan's Bocconi University have signed an agreement to...
Luxottica and Milan's Bocconi University have signed an agreement to create the Luxottica Chair in Chinese Market and Business Development, a five-year professorship. The newly created position has been awarded to Fabrizio Perretti, full professor of the Department of Management and Technology. The professorship is meant to forster better understanding ...
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Ultra Limited, the Italian eyewear brand, and the European Institute...
Ultra Limited, the Italian eyewear brand, and the European Institute of Design (IED) of Turin have joined forces to hold a competition for students in an IED packaging course. After an introduction to the brand's history and philosophy, the students will be divided into ten working groups. In June, during ...
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The Brien Holden Vision Institute announced that it has received...
The Brien Holden Vision Institute announced that it has received an anonymous donation of $225,000, the largest single contribution in its history. The organization said the amount will be allocated to fund scholarships for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are, or plan to become, providers of vision care ...
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Bausch+Lomb has announced the launch of SightMatters.com, an educational website...
Bausch+Lomb has announced the launch of SightMatters.com, an educational website for people affected by age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Patients will have access to personalized tools and suggestions as well as the opportunity to join a supportive online community of others living with AMD. The online resource was specifically designed for ...
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Barberini Eyewear and Banca degli Occhi del Veneto Foundation have...
Barberini Eyewear and Banca degli Occhi del Veneto Foundation have agreed to support a research into dry eye. The study, conducted by the Foundation, aims to evaluate the protective effectiveness of the use of optical glass ophthalmic lenses, normal or graduated, in patients affected by moderate dry eyes. The study ...
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Lim Hyeon-Ju, a Korean female journalist and anchor-woman for MBC...
Lim Hyeon-Ju , a Korean female journalist and anchor-woman for MBC news sparked an online and general stir in South Korea by wearing a pair of glasses on TV, a privilege so far only reserved to male journalists.
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CORRECTION: In our last issue of Eyewear Intelligence (Vol.19, 4+5),...
CORRECTION: In our last issue of Eyewear Intelligence (Vol.19, 4+5), we erroneously described Safilo's so-called “going forward brand portfolio.” For 2017, it comprised both its proprietary brands and its licensed brands but excluded the Gucci business. This year, the group's going forward brands will exclude Céline, whose license Safilo lost ...
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CORRECTION:In discussing the latest results of Hoya Vision Care and...
CORRECTION:In discussing the latest results of Hoya Vision Care and the effect of its recent acquisition of Performance Optics, which drove down the profitability of this segment of Hoya Corporation, we misspelled the U.S. company's name. We apologize.
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This years' National Sunglasses Day in the U.S., which reached...
This years National Sunglasses Day in the U.S., which reached its fourth annual campaign, accumulated more than 836 million online, broadcast, social media and print consumer impressions altogether, according to The Vision Council. National Sunglasses Day, organized by The Vision Council, is a commemorative date celebrating the importance of ...
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Barberini Eyewear held on May 21-22 the first sessions for...
Barberini Eyewear held on May 21-22 the first sessions for 2017 of its Well-Seeing Academy, which will be followed by other sessions in June, July and September. The courses took place in Silvi, near Teramo – Italy, at Barberini's headquarters. The academy is opened to opticians and aims to raise ...
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CORRECTION: Jasper D'Hooge, the newly appointed chief executive of Komono,...
CORRECTION: Jasper D'Hooge, the newly appointed chief executive of Komono, will share the leadership with the two owners of the Belgian company, Raf Maes and Anon Janssens.
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CORRECTION: The article on Inspecs' acquisition of Killine in our...
CORRECTION: The article on Inspecs' acquisition of Killine in our last issue contained a few inaccuracies. Killine has not been based in Ireland for many years. Its design and customer support activities are based in Lisbon and its head office has been located since the late ‘nineties in Macau, close ...
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Essilor Sun Solution, the division of Essilor dedicated to sun...
Essilor Sun Solution, the division of Essilor dedicated to sun plano lenses, has announced a new partnership with IED – Istituto Europeo di Design in Turin. The collaboration is aimed at financing a study of the development by IED students of a concept frame, a communication campaign and marketing tools ...
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- The new line of Barberini branded sunglasses can be...
- The new line of Barberini branded sunglasses can be mounted with prescription glass lenses supplied by Barberini itself from the former factory of Schott bought by the Italian company. Corning has no input into the collection.
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CORRECTION: One of our subscribers has spotted a mistake in...
CORRECTION: One of our subscribers has spotted a mistake in the international calendar of trade shows that we released at Silmo in September. The next Optrafair in Birmingham is scheduled for April 1-3, 2017. Please don\'t hesitate to point us to any other mistakes in our issues.
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Celebrating its 90th birthday, Oliver Goldsmith has donated number 90...
Celebrating its 90th birthday, Oliver Goldsmith has donated number 90 of a limited edition of 90 limited President frames to the British Optical Association Museum, located within the College of Optometrists in London. Number 1 of 90 will be retained by the British entrepreneur. The museum documents the history of ...
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Zeiss has released a biography of the company's founder, Carl...
Zeiss has released a biography of the company's founder, Carl Zeiss, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of his birth on Sept. 11, 1816. The book has been written by Wolfgang Wimmer, head of Zeiss archives, and Stephan Paetrow, a German historian specializing in corporate history. Carl Zeiss, who lived ...
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Optic 2ooo is joining forces with Fondation Médéric Alzheimer in...
Optic 2ooo is joining forces with Fondation Médéric Alzheimer in France on a three-year partnership to help elderly people in nursing homes affected by sensory impairments. The collaboration is aimed at helping to maintain or restore sensor abilities in elderly people, for whom sensory impairments are often the origins of ...
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VSP Global has reached the milestone of 1 million adults...
VSP Global has reached the milestone of 1 million adults and children having received free eye exams and glasses through its Eyes of Hope initiative, which is aimed to improve access to eyewear and eyecare to people in need. Eyes of Hope offers gift certificates for no-cost eyecare in a ...
