All Trade fairs & Events articles – Page 3
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ArticleGerman optical associations release new market data at opti
Ahead of the opening of the opti trade show in Munich today, industry association Spectaris announced that, based on its preliminary calculations, sales from German-based suppliers of ophthalmic optics and consumer optics reached a total of €4.87 million for 2022, up by 2.5 percent from 2021. The growth was entirely ...
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ArticleDownsized opti to focus on myopia management and sustainability
Opti organizers have had to reduce the exhibition space of their next edition of the show, scheduled to take place from next January 13 to 15 in Munich, after being faced with a wave of cancelations from several large eyewear industry players and usual exhibitors. Initially planned on four halls ...
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SILMO ACADEMY announces 2022 winner
SILMO PARIS has announced that Denis Sheynikhovich of the Institut de la Vision was the winner of the 2022 edition of SILMO ACADEMY’s scholarship, its educational program aimed at supporting ophthalmic professionals in their research. Sheynikhovich’s project looks at the improvement of visual information supporting elderly people in train stations. ...
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ArticleCovid has highlighed the importance of trade fairs
The Covid-19 outbreak demonstrated that digital solutions “on their own” could not replace trade shows canceled due to the pandemic, noted Luca Palermo, the chief executive of Fiera Milano, which manages the Rho exhibition hall as well as exhibition pavilions in Milan and the Allianz MiCo convention center. The Italian ...
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MIDO launches new sustainable awards
International eyewear trade show MIDO is launching Certified Sustainable Eyewear (CSE) Award, a new award category to debut at the next edition of the trade fair from Feb. 6 in Milano, Italy. The new award program is established in partnership with ANFAO, the Italian industry eyewear association, and Certottica, the ...
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Silmo Istanbul announces record attendance for its 2022 edition
Silmo Istanbul organizers have announced that the last edition of the show, which was held from Nov. 17 to 20, attracted a total of 700 exhibiting brands and 11,912 vistors, a record attendance with 14 percent more participants than in 2021. International visitors represented approximately 20 percent of the total, ...
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SILMO Paris details last edition’s international attendance
Organizers of SILMO PARIS have shared mode details on the number of visitors for the last edition of the show that was held at the end of last September. The 66 percent year-on-year increase in attendance to a total of 36,964 participants was driven by the doubling in the number ...
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ArticleEquipment suppliers discuss future of lens manufacturing at Lenskart’s event
Lenskart, the Indian-based optical retail group, has hosted a series of events throughout the month of October on a new platform called Vision for Billion, whose name reflects the company’s ambition to “reach” a billion eyes in the future. One of the events on the program was a panel ...
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ArticleGood momentum at Silmo Paris
Silmo Paris closed its doors on Monday afternoon after a well-attended and lively edition that confirmed the post-pandemic rebound of the trade show. Although attendance and exhibiting surface remained lower than in the 2019 edition, with travel restrictions still in place in some regions, they were significantly higher than in ...
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ArticleU.S. eyecare market insulated from inflation, CLI survey says
Vision Expo West – held on Sept. 14-17 in Las Vegas – previewed the results of a survey on eyecare in times of financial duress. Commissioned by the Contact Lens Institute through its “See Tomorrow” initiative, and conducted on Aug. 9-17, the survey queried 251 contact lens wearers screened from ...
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News briefsMIDO launches new communication campaign
MIDO has announced that it was launching a new communication campaign, called FRAMES, developed with designer and artist Max Gally and the Mixer Group, and said to convey the show’s principles of contemporaneity, culture, fashion and beauty. The campaign comes with a new claim, “The Eyewear State of the Art” ...
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DaTE attracts 1,500 visitors
Organizers of the DaTE trade show in Florence, Italy, have announced that this year’s edition gathered 1,500 eyewear professionals between last Sept. 10 and 12, in line with the attendance registered in 2021. Giovanni Vitaloni, president of the show and of the Italian eyewear industry association ANFAO, stressed the good ...
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Jason Kirk hosts a series of podcasts for Silmo
Jason Kirk, Kirk & Kirk co-founder, is hosting a series of podcast interviews, with eyewear industry and outsiders, for Silmo. Named The Right Optics by Silmo, the podcasts will be broadcast this week at https://shows.acast.com/the-right-opti.Interviewees are Nada Vuksic of Bruce Eyewear, a Vancouver-based optical retailer, Daniel Feldman, executive editor of ...
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Silmo announces 750 exhibitors for its next edition
The organizers of Silmo have announced that 750 companies, including 70 percent from outside France, have confirmed their participation to the next edition of the show from Sept. 23 to 26 in Paris. This represents a significant uptick from the first post-pandemic show last year that had gathered 450 exhibitors ...
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ArticleIOFT reopens for international business
Organizers of the IOFT show are getting ready to welcome back international visitors and exhibitors in Tokyo for the next edition of the event scheduled to take place from Oct. 18 to 20. Although the Japanese show was one of the very rare industry events that was not canceled during ...
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DaTE prepares for its 10th anniversary edition
The organizers of DaTE, the Italian trade show focusing on international designer eyewear, have announced that 90 exhibitors representing more than 150 brands have confirmed their participation to the 10th edition of the show slated for Sept. 10 to 12 in Florence. The list of exhibiting companies, which is not ...
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Silmo Paris announces optical design contest nominees
The organizers of Silmo Paris have unveiled a list of seven projects that have been selected for the show’s first international optical design contests. The chosen candidates will have a prototype of their eyewear design produced and presented at the next edition of Silmo Paris from Sept. 23 to 26 ...
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Vision Expo upgrades its digital sourcing platform
The Vision Council and RX, co-organizers of Vision Expo, recently hosted a webinar to review the first year and future of ShopVISION, Vision Expo’s global digital sourcing platform for players in the optical and optometric market. Launched last July, ShopVISION so far lists some 7,000 products in 80 categories and ...
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MIDO drops schedule for its Digital Platform
MIDO has scheduled a series of new online conferences for its Digital Platform. Creativity Day by ANFAO will fall on July 5 and cover fashion trends and the metaverse. Retail Week on July 12-15 will discuss local retail strategies, the post-pandemic retail associate and airport retail. And Future Consumer Day ...
