All Trade fairs & Events articles – Page 4
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Opti returns to four-hall lay-out
The organizers of opti have announced that 400 exhibitors have already confirmed their participation for the next edition that will take place in Munich from Jan. 12 to 14 next year. Three months ahead of the event, this marks a significant increase in participation from last year’s show when 307 ...
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ArticleMaterialise to 3D-print new translucent material
Right across from the Futurology space at this year’s Silmo was a booth for Materialise, the company that supplies frames for the Futurology companies Skugga and Lexilens, not to mention Morrow Eyewear, winner of one of this year’s Silmo d’Or awards. Founded 30-odd years ago, Materialise is headquartered in Leuven, ...
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ArticleSilmo Paris kicks off post-Covid trade-show era
The organizers of Silmo Paris have announced that 31,337 people visited the last edition of the show that closed its doors on Oct.2, or 16.5 percent more than last year, confirming the visual impression that the event has almost returned to its pre-pandemic self (approximatively 35,000 visitors in 2018). A ...
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Bold Optical Fair gathered 2,750 eyewear professionals
Organizers of the Bold Optical Fair, which reunited for the first time three Dutch trade shows under the same roof, said that their 2023 edition had been “the hottest show of the year,” in reference to the unusually hot weather at this time of the year but also to its ...
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ArticlePacked house and new lay out for Silmo Paris
As the Silmo Paris teams are gearing up for the 2023 edition of the show that will take place in two weeks in the French capital (Sept. 29 to Oct.2), we sat down with Éric Lenoir, the event’s director, to assess the current status of the fair and the novelties ...
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DaTE designer eyewear show gathers 1,000 industry professionals in Florence
The organizers of DaTE, the eyewear trade show focusing on the designer eyewear segment, have announced that approximately 1,000 industry professionals and buyers took part in the 11th edition of the show that just closed its doors in Florence, Italy. This marks a decline from the previous edition when 1,500 ...
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News briefsNew segments at Vision Expo West
Vision Expo West – scheduled for Sept. 27-30 at the Venetian Expo & Convention Center in Las Vegas – has added two exhibition segments: ocular aesthetics and audiology. The exhibitors that have signed up for these include MAICO Diagnostics, BlephEx, Dejavi Innovation, MDelite Laser, Avologi and Optometric Aesthetics. In all, ...
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Opti launches industry trends’ analysis program
Organizers of opti have announced the launch of a new initiative aimed at “providing ophthalmic optics with a basis for identifying relevant trends at an early stage and working towards a succesful future (…).” The Trend Radar, as it has been called, is developed in cooperation with Trendone, an innovation ...
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ArticleSilmo Paris adds CSR prize to events portfolio
The organizers of the Silmo trade show have announced the launch of a Responsible Company Prize, that will take place for the first time at the next edition of the show slated to take place at the usual fairgrounds in the north of Paris from Sept. 29 to Oct. 2. ...
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Opti gathers industry players for a roundtable discussion on the event’s concept
The organizers of the opti trade show have announced that they gathered 40 selected industry representatives for one day in Frankfurt at the beginning of July for an open discussion around their expectations for the international trade show. The opti ROUNDTABLE, as the event was named, was organized for the ...
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Dutch eyewear trade shows unite
Three Dutch trade shows, Hall of Frames, Centrop Sales and Bold Optical Fair have joined forces and regrouped under the latter’s banner. Launched seven years ago as a small and exclusive event, the next edition of Bold Optical Fair will showcase a diverse range of 380 brands from different parts ...
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Opti launches sustainability award for opticians
The organizers of the opti trade show have announced the launch of a new sustainability award aimed at German and international opticians at the next edition of the show, from Jan. 12 to 14 next year. The opti Sustainability Award competition will take into consideration a number of criteria such ...
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ANFAO and ICA to showcase independent Italian eyewear in the U.S.
With the support of the Italian Trade Agency, Italian eyewear industry association ANFAO will organize two networking events to promote 20 of the country’s indepedent eyewear brands in the U.S. The events will take place in Seattle and Chicago on next October 10th and 12th, respectively. The organizing partners said ...
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Opti on tour to promote 2024 edition
The Munich-based opti trade fair has embarked on an intensive tour that will see its teams participate in person to over fifteen eyewear industry trade shows and congresses, both in Germany and internationally, to promote the 2024 edition of the show. The opti tour kicked off at the last Vision ...
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News briefsOverview of Silmo Singapore first edition
Silmo Singapore – ASEAN Optical Fair, held for the first time on April 12-14 at the Suntec Singapore Exhibition and Convention Centre, drew some 250 international and local brands from 15 countries and 2,175 professionals, optometrists, dispensing opticians and buying groups from 44 countries. About half of the attendees were ...
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News briefsSilmo meets Singapore, IOA gets new president
The International Opticians Association (IOA) held its Silmo Academy on April 12-14 in Singapore. There it transferred its presidency from Fiona Anderson to Donald Crichton, a dispensing optician who began his career in Scotland before moving to New Zealand. He is now a supervisor to final-year students at the University ...
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Myopia management events thrive
Myopia Profile, an Australian-based “information center” in clinical myopia management, has announced the launch of Myopia Action Month, a series of events for eye care professionals. Slated for September 2023 and sponsored by CooperVision, EssilorLuxottica and Johnson & Johnson, the digital event will include a number of new video resources, ...
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ArticleChange of leadership at opti
Gesellschaft für Handwerkmessen (GmbH), the organizer of opti, has announced the appointment of Cathleen Kabashi as the new director for its Munich-based optical trade show. Kabashi joined GHM in 2007 and worked as trade fair advisor and later director of iba, which the group describes as the world’s leading trade ...
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ArticleA look at MIDO CSE Awards’ RoW winners
During the last edition of the Mido trade show last month, organizers premiered their Certified Sustainable Eyewear Awards (CSE) which were divided in two categories: Europe and the Rest of the World (RoW). As awards winners from Europe are better known to our readers – Neubau Eyewear, Marchon, Modo Eyewear ...
