All Trade fairs & Events articles – Page 5
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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 ...
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A report on Vision Expo East 2023
The organizers of Vision Expo East, the Vision Council and RX, have expressed their satisfaction about the last edition of the show that just closed its doors on March 19 in New York, after three days of what was described as “the largest gathering of ophthalmic professionals in the U.S. ...
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100% Optical announces record participation
The organizers of 100% Optical have announced that the last edition of the trade show, which took place from Feb. 25 to 27, was attended by a record-breaking 10,657 attendees or 10 percent more than in 2022. Over 250 eyewear companies were exhibiting their products and services. The U.K. show ...
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ArticleMIDO bounces back strongly
MIDO officials expressed their strong satisfaction, tainted with a sense of relief, after the 51st edition of the international eyewear show closed its doors on Feb. 6 with all key metrics on green. The event organizers have announced that 35,000 industry professionals from over 140 countries visited the show this ...
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WCO holds second edition of online myopia management event
The World Council of Optometry (WCO) and its partner CooperVision are holding its second global virtual event dedicated to myopia management on Feb. 16. Called ”Advancing the Global Standard of Care”, the online conference will include five presentations by eye care professionals (ECPs) on different myopia management issues and a ...
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IOA summit to be held at Silmo Singapore
The International Opticians Association will be holding a clinical conference alongside the first edition of Silmo Singapore, slated for next April 12 to 14 at the Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Center. The association said that one full day will be devoted to myopia management. Sustainability and practice improvement, among ...
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Over 1,000 exhibitors to participate in MIDO 2023
The organizers of MIDO have announced that over 1,000 exhibitors from around the world would take part in the next edition of the show scheduled from Feb. 4 to 6 in Milan, a strong increase from last year’s 660 companies. Beyond the presence of most eyewear industry players from Europe ...
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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 ...
