All Trade fairs & Events articles – Page 25
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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 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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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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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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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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The next edition of the international Silmo trade fair, scheduled...
The next edition of the international Silmo trade fair, scheduled to be held from Sept. 29 to Oct. 2 for the second time at the Villepinte fairgrounds near Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport, will deliberately take place at the same time as the Paris ready-to-wear fashion shows of well-known designers, ...
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Anfao, the Italian Association of Optical Goods Manufacturers, had a...
Anfao, the Italian Association of Optical Goods Manufacturers, had a presence at the Vision X show held May 24-26 in Dubai. Thirteen Italian companies exhibited at the show, considered the most important eyewear event in the Middle East. Anfao is working to boost the presence of Italian companies in the ...
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There will be no national eyewear show in Denmark this...
There will be no national eyewear show in Denmark this year. The Drommesyn trade show has been postponed to a still-unspecified date in March 2012. At its last edition in Copenhagen in March 2010, it hosted 48 exhibitors and welcomed about 1,500 visitors.
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Silmo is organizing an exhibition of posters at the next...
Silmo is organizing an exhibition of posters at the next show that would convey information to visitors about scientific studies made on any subject related to vision care. The initiative will run in parallel with the Silmo Academy, a scientific convention being held for the second time during the fair, ...
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The preliminary figures are in for the 25th anniversary edition...
The preliminary figures are in for the 25th anniversary edition of International Vision Expo East, held last month in New York. They indicate that total attendance was up by 7 percent. The show featured 565 exhibitors and more than 300 hours of continuing education classes. Final figures should be available ...
