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Italian eyewear show in NY carries special weight amid US exports drop
The Italian Trade Agency (ITA) and ANFAO, the national eyewear industry association, are taking their Italian Eyewear Exhibition (IEE) to New York for the Eyewear Design Week (March 4-9) after previous stops in Panama, Paris and Milan. The New York IEE show, branded Reflections in the US, will take place ...
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Silmo Academy heads to Bali
SILMO has announced the program of its SILMO Academy congress taking place in Bali, Indonesia, from next April 6 to 8. The sessions will cover a wide range of topics, including evolving professional practices, clinical innovation, light management and myopia, presbyopia, and the increasing role of AI, smart eyewear and ...
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ArticleMIDO attendance holds steady despite market difficulties
Attendance figures at the MIDO trade fair that ran from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2 in Milan matched those of the previous edition despite market difficulties provoked by tariffs and uncertainty on economic and geopolitical fronts that contributed to a decline in Italian eyewear exports last year. MIDO organizers announced ...
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Japan industry associations announce new trade show dates
Following the termination of its IOFT partnership with RX, the Fukui Optical Association announced the dates of its new trade fair in collaboration with the national eyewear associations of manufacturers and wholesalers and with Innovent, a trade show organizer. Called the Japan International Eyewear Exhibition (JEX), the event will be ...
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MIDO Awards celebrate store designs and innovation, industry sustainability efforts
The MIDO 2026 Awards ceremony that was held at the international trade show in Milan last weekend focused on retail experience and sustainability. On the retail side, two optical shops in Lisbon, Portugal, have received the Best Store Award: AndréOpticas Chiado was recognized for its store design inspired by vintage ...
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ArticleOpti finds momentum in stubbornly stagnant German optical market
The organizers of the opti trade show have announced that 21,972 trade visitors took part in the 2026 edition that took place from Jan. 16 to 18 in Munich, up by 4 percent from the previous year, confirming positive impressions from exhibitors. Visitors from outside Germany accounted for roughly 20 ...
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MIDO 2026 announces list of exhibitors, event updates
MIDO has announced that it was expecting 1,200 exhibitors from 50 countries, including 140 newcomers, to take part in the 2026 edition of the show from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2 in Milano. That is in line with participation to this year’s event. The list, which keeps being updated, is ...
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Silmo Istanbul attracts close to 12,000 visitors
The organizers of Silmo Istanbul have announced that the 12th edition of the trade fair welcomed 700 brands and 11,736 visitors over a 25,000-square-meter exhibition surface from Nov. 19 to 22 in the Turkish capital city. International visitors accounted for 18 percent of the total and most came from Europe, ...
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Opti 2026 to introduce hearing acoustics area
Organizers of opti have announced the launch at the next edition of the show (Jan. 16-18, 2025, in Munich) of SPHEARE, a 200 square-meter area focusing on hearing acoustics. Bellman & Symfon, Meditrend, Nuance Audio, Optimus Hearing, oton & friends PROABO and Sinfonia have confirmed their participation to the new ...
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The Hong Kong International Optical Fair welcomes 12,000 visitors
The Hong Kong International Optical Fair (HKIOF) attracted 12,000 industry professionals from 92 countries during its 33rd edition which took place from Nov. 5 to 7 according to the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) and the Hong Kong Optical Manufacturers Association (HKOMA), its organizers. They were 13,000 last year ...
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WOF's first ASEAN trade show gathers 5,500 industry professionals
WOF ASEAN Int’l Optics Fair, a trade show by the China Wenzhou International Optics Fair (WOF) group, took place in Bangkok, Thailand, on Oct. 9-11. Organizers have announced that 230 exhibitors and over 5,500 professionals from over 30 countries (including Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea and Australia) took part ...
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SILMO announces 2026 eyewear design contest
Aspiring eyewear designers have until June 16, 2026, to send in their projects for the SILMO 2026 Optical Design Contest, whose theme is “seeing tomorrow.” Finalists will be showcased at the next edition of the Paris eyewear trade show, in September of next year. The winner and their school will ...
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ArticleEssilorLuxottica launches new B2B event with focus on innovations
EssilorLuxottica has announced the launch next year of a new trade event aimed at presenting the sector’s innovations, with a focus on AI wearables, medtech and myopia, to eye care professionals in the US and Europe. Called SWITCH: Vision Innovation Summit by EssilorLuxottica, the event will take place just before ...
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ArticleSilmo Futurology round-up – Part one
Silmo Paris, held on Sept. 25-28, once again had its Silmo Next: Futurology & Tech Village, this time with a focus on artificial intelligence (AI). Stopping by for a chat with several brands and producers of smart glasses, we noticed what seems to be an emerging predilection for voice command. ...
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Silmo Paris attendance up 7%
SILMO Paris organizers have announced that 33,358 eyewear industry professionals visited the 2025 edition of the show, which took place from Sept. 26 to 29, representing a 6.5 percent year-on-year increase. Sligthly more than half (52 percent) of visitors came from outside France, meeting over 900 companies at the 75,000 ...
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Fukui Optical Association calls industry to unite under new trade show
The Fukui Optical Association and RX (formerly Redd Exhibitions), co-organizers of the IOFT eyewear trade show, are parting ways after the 38th and last edition of the show, held from Oct. 1 to 3 in Tokyo. In recent years, the eyewear exhibition was increasingly diluted in a larger fashion show ...
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ArticleSilmo d’Or awards remitted at the show
Silmo Paris organizers have yet to issue their final report on the 2026 edition of the trade fair that closed its doors last Monday, with attendance figures, but our impression was positive during the four days we spent at the show. We will progressively report on things that we have ...
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Relaunched DaTE draws 1,000 visitors
DaTE, the Italian trade show focusing on the designer eyewear segment, said its first edition under a new format drew 1,000 visitors. The event, held in the Cocoricò nightclub in the seaside resort town of Riccione from Sept. 13 to 15, was considered a success by organizers, who noted that ...
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ArticleSilmo Paris doubles down on technology
SILMO will be expanding its usual Futurology space at the next edition of the trade show in Paris (Sept. 26-29), rebranding it Futurology & Tech Village and putting the spotlight on artificial intelligence (AI). The area will be divided into four key zones showcasing different applications of AI in the ...
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Sergio Cereda eyewear design award for emerging student designers expands internationally
The MIDO exhibition in Milan and the Ross Viva Family Foundation announced the launch of the second edition of the Sergio Cereda Design Award, which honors the renowned Italian eyewear creator and has been expanded this year to include emerging designers from around the world. Participation in the award contest ...
