All Trade fairs & Events articles – Page 24
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Some major firms including Bausch & Lomb, Essilor, Indo, Hoya,...
Some major firms including Bausch & Lomb, Essilor, Indo, Hoya, Menicon, Visibilia and Vistamax will show at Expooptica, the Spanish trade show in Madrid, which will take place on Feb. 17-19 in a new format. The fair will coincide with Optom 2012, a national convention on optometry, conctactology and ophthalmic ...
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More than 600 exhibitors from 20 countries appeared at the...
More than 600 exhibitors from 20 countries appeared at the 19th HKTDC Hong Kong Optical Fair held on Nov. 3-5, which the organizers said was a record. More than 150 manufacturers and designers showed in the Brand Name Gallery arena, including first-timers such as Fiorucci, Guy Laroche, Kenzo, myDeary and ...
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International Vision Expo West, held last month in Las Vegas,...
International Vision Expo West, held last month in Las Vegas, saw a slight drop in attendance with 12,359 eye care professionals attending, 436 fewer than last year. The exhibit hall attracted 8,187 visitors, and 4,172 attended the conference program, where the number of hours of education offered were up by ...
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Attendance continues to decline at the Odma fair, the major...
Attendance continues to decline at the Odma fair, the major Australian trade show held every other year for the eyewear sector in Sydney. Only 5,498 visitors were registered at its last edition on Aug. 5-7, 33 percent less than in 2009, when they had already gone down by 26 percent ...
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The Federation of Manufacturing Opticians of the U.K.has announced that...
The Federation of Manufacturing Opticians of the U.K.has announced that Optrafair 2013 will be held April 13-15 of that year at the NEC in Birmingham, England. The federation wanted to give plenty of notice for the event so that interested groups and companies could have time to plan their events ...
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This year's Silmo drew 34,671 people to Paris, 5 percent...
This year's Silmo drew 34,671 people to Paris, 5 percent more than last year. More than half, 56 percent, came from outside France, a figure that was also up by 5 percent. Some of the growth stemmed no doubt from the absence of strikes and transportation problems at this year's ...
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Opti'12, the international trade fair scheduled to take place in...
Opti'12, the international trade fair scheduled to take place in Munich next Jan. 13-15, is on a growth path. While it is not yet sure that it will reach the level of last January, when it hosted 470 exhibitors and welcomed 22,700 visitors from 69 countries, the number of exhibitors ...
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The Federation of Manufacturing Opticians has set the dates for...
The Federation of Manufacturing Opticians has set the dates for next year's Optrafair: It will take place April 13-15 at the NEC in Birmingham
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Orient International Exhibition Company, which organizes the China International Optics...
Orient International Exhibition Company, which organizes the China International Optics Fairs in Shanghai and Beijing, confirms that the 12th edition of the Shanghai show, scheduled for next Feb. 22-24, will be held at the larger and more modern venue of the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center, closer to ...
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Torsten Höninger, a 37-year-old with a background in marketing and...
Torsten Höninger, a 37-year-old with a background in marketing and advertising, is the new project manager of Brille & Co., the alternative eyewear fair for the northern part of Germany
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The 19th Hong Kong Optical Fair scheduled for Nov. 3-5,...
The 19th Hong Kong Optical Fair scheduled for Nov. 3-5, which is running alongside the 9th Hong Kong Optometric Conference, which will feature optometric and neuroscience experts from Canada, Hong Kong, Finland and Singapore discussing the conference's theme, “Vision for the Next Generation.” Subjects include research on DISC Lens for ...
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IOFT, the optical fair taking place in Tokyo from Oct....
IOFT, the optical fair taking place in Tokyo from Oct. 11-13, is accepting entries for this year's Eyewear of the Year awards. Submissions are welcome in six categories: men's eyewear, women's eyewear, sunglasses and sport glasses, functions and technologies, accessories, and kids, a new addition. Three products will be recognized ...
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Focus-CN, the new Chinese trade magazine recently launched by Jörg...
Focus-CN, the new Chinese trade magazine recently launched by Jörg Spangemacher, is co-organizing the first Ophthamic Optics Forum Beijing on Sept. 13 together with the Chinese National Institute of Standardization and a Chinese professor, Liru Wang. Several speakers from Essilor, Rodenstock, Carl Zeiss Vision and Satisloh will address the theme ...
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A management team from Luxottica got to visit the New...
A management team from Luxottica got to visit the New York Stock Exchange on June 30 as part of their 50th anniversary celebration, and Andrea Guerra, the chief executive, rang the exchange's closing bell
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Small German start-ups are going to get for the first...
Small German start-ups are going to get for the first time a subsidy of up to €7,5000 from the German government to show at the Opti '12 show running next Jan. 13-15 in Munich. Among the conditions for this grant, they will have to be based in Germany, they will ...
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Italian organizations took to the road to promote the country's...
Italian organizations took to the road to promote the country's eyewear industry at an exhibition in Istanbul from June 30 to July 14. The exhibition, called “Eyewear, a Never-Ending Italian Story,” featured more than 100 pairs of eyeglasses, tracing their evolution from their origins to today's latest trends. It was ...
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The technical team and member services of The Vision Council...
The technical team and member services of The Vision Council hosted two seminars in Hong Kong and Xiamen in June, discussing U.S. standards and regulations for optical manufacturers. The Vision Council worked with the Hong Kong Optical Manufacturers Association and the Xiamen Optical Association to set up the seminars, which ...
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MAFO will organize a convention in Beijing for the first...
MAFO will organize a convention in Beijing for the first time next Sept. 13, on the eve of the CIOF fair in the Chinese capital. MAFO, which already stages similar conferences at Mido in Milan, will work through the Chinese edition of its Focus magazine, which started last year, and ...
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The imaginative and successful “Less Squinty” advertising campaign conducted by...
The imaginative and successful “Less Squinty” advertising campaign conducted by Transitions in Australia and New Zealand last year has moved to the U.S., with billboards in major cities since last May
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IOFT, the international eyewear show in Tokyo, will add a...
IOFT, the international eyewear show in Tokyo, will add a new exclusive area, called “Tide,” featuring high-end international eyewear designer brands
