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News briefsOcean Sunglasses sees 2020 sales at €2.5 million
Ocean Sunglasses, the Spanish brand that claims to be world leader in eyewear for water sports, expects sales to reach €2.5 million this year and €2.8 million in 2021. The company achieves 30 percent of its revenues in France, which is its main market. The U.S. and Spain are jointly ...
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Spect to release new Red Bull sunglasses
Red Bull Spect Eyewear, a brand of the Austrian group Michael Pachleitner Group, has introduced Raze, a new model of sunglasses created in collaboration with the Red Bull Skydive Team. Raze has polarized lenses, a frame made of lightweight TR90 thermoplastic, and nose pads and temples made of antibacterial rubber. ...
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Thélios in license agreement with Stella McCartney
The Italian eyewear group Thélios has entered an exclusive, long-term partnership with the British designer Stella McCartney. Under the agreement, Stella McCartney will collaborate with Thélios on sustainable innovation in the eyewear category. Thélios will develop, manufacture and distribute Stella McCartney eyewear beginning with the spring/summer 2021 collection, which will ...
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Kaibosh to release vintage-style collection with Bergans
It all started with the Instagram account of Norway’s National Library, which posted a newspaper ad from the 1930s showing that Bergans of Norway once made eyewear. Someone at the company noted a resemblance to his wife’s pair of Kaibosh glasses. And so a collaboration was born. The Kaibosh x ...
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Acuitis recycles fishing nets into sunglasses
Acuitis, the French chain of optical and hearing-aids’ shops, has released a small range of sunglasses in partnership with two companies based in the French Brittany region: the apparel brand Armor Lux and Fil & Fab, a start-up specializing in the recycling of fishing nets. After being collected and sorted, ...
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Kubota Vision tests myopia-preventing smart glasses
Kubota Vision, the American subsidiary of the Japanese-based Kubota Pharmaceutical Holdings, last month enrolled its first patient for a clinical study aimed at controlling the development of myopia. Two months ago, the company reported positive results on a first research where myopically defocused images were projected by electronic tabletop devices ...
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Thélios in license agreement with Rimowa
Thélios, the Italian joint venture between the French luxury goods group LVMH and the Italian eyewear manufacturer Marcolin, has entered an exclusive design, production and distribution partnership with Rimowa, a German manufacturer of high-quality luggage which has been part of the LVMH group since 2016. It is Rimowa’s first eyewear ...
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Swiss Lens takes over Lunelle from CooperVision
Swiss Lens, a supplier of made-to-order contact lenses, will be taking over the production and international distribution of the complete Lunelle range of contact lenses from CooperVision from Nov. 1. The Swiss company has been supplying Lunelle Toric RX contact lenses to CooperVision for more than 20 years. The product ...
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Marcolin renews license agreement with Moncler
Marcolin has renewed its worldwide license agreement with Moncler, an Italian brand of down-filled jackets for five years to Dec. 31, 2025. Marcolin had obtained the license in 2015, replacing Allison. At the time, Marcolin and Moncler had agreed to a five-year license with an option for a five-year renewal. ...
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Bollé uses AR to test sunglass lenses
Bollé, the French manufacturer of sports and lifestyle sunglasses, ski goggles and ski and bike helmets, is offering its customers for the first time an augmented reality (AR) tool for smartphones to try on and test its lenses and sunglasses.Developed in partnership with QReal and M7 Innovations, Bollé’s AR experience ...
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Drumohr launches a small sunglass collection
Drumohr, the Scottish knitwear brand established in 1770 and bought in 2016 by the Itailan businessman Michele Ciocca, has launched a small eyewear collection. The designer Emanuele Magenta proposed the brand extension to Ciocca, who accepted the idea. The collection comprises only one model of unisex acetate sunglasses, available in ...
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News briefsFielmann active in Covid-19 combat
Fielmann, the German optical retailer, and the Fielmann family, which owns it, have been active in taking part in the combat against the Covid-19 pandemic. The family donated 1 million surgical masks to each of the states of Brandenburg, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. The 3 million masks were bought through the ...
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Leica launches new version of its customized progressive lenses
Leica, the German optics manufacturer, has launched a new version of its customized progressive lenses, called Variovid Volterra Continuum, which increase dimensional accuracy. Novacel, a French company that operates one of the largest lens laboratories in Europe, won the Silmo d’Or in September 2019 for Leica Eyecare’s Variovid Volterra progressive ...
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Bausch prepares for launch of Infuse contact lenses after U.S. clearance
Bausch + Lomb, the eyecare business of Bausch Health, is preparing to launch in the U.S. the sale of its trademark Bausch + Lomb Infuse daily disposable silicone hydrogel (SiHydaily) contact lenses in the second half of the year, after receiving clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). ...
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Markus T develops new concept for safety glasses
Markus T, the German eyewear brand, has developed a new concept for safety glasses. The brand’s new Safe Eyes protective glasses are available in two color and design variations. The frame has a protective shield that can protect the eyes only or the whole face. Markus T has also developed ...
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Akoni launches Balmain collection
Akoni, a Swiss company led by its co-founder and chief executive, Rosario Toscano, has launched the first collection stemming from a new eyewear license agreement with the French fashion house Balmain, whose creative director is Olivier Rousteing. About three quarters of the collection will be sold through selected wholesale ...
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New Line Optik to launch special collection with German non-profit organization
New Line Optik, distributor of Staffan Preutz Design and the Danish Monkeyglasses brand in German-speaking markets, has established a partnership with Guud-Zweck, a German non-profit organization, for its Headrix private brand of eyewear. For the purchase of each frame in the new special collection, called Help with a Smile, New ...
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Fielmann buys 10% stake in a provider of wearables, augmented reality solutions
Fielmann is further pushing its digital agenda thanks to an alliance with Ubimax, a provider of computing technologies and augmented reality solutions. Tightening its strategic partnership with Ubimax, it has purchased a 10 percent stake in the company through a capital increase. The acquistion was carried out by Fielmann ...
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ArticleInspecs’ new Vietnamese factory attracts new clients
The Inspecs Group suffered delays in the extension of its Vietnamese factory as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. But the project is nearing completion and production in the new section is scheduled to start towards the end of the second quarter. In the meantime, the company is shipping goods ...
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ClearVision issues e-book on business reopening
ClearVision Optical of Hauppauge, New York, has released a digital guidebook providing eyecare professionals with information on how to successfully reopen their businesses after the Covid-19 lockdown. The e-book is available on the company’s website, in the well-documented Covid-19 resource center, and is composed of four sections: Plan, Prepare, Rebuild ...
