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A report on Vision Expo East
The four days of this year’s Vision Expo East – the first edition since 2019 – came to an end on April 3 in New York City. According to the organizers, exhibitors exceeded 360. This year’s VisionEd exceeded 230 hours of programs on business strategy, fashion, patient education and innovation, ...
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SIOF postponed over Covid
This year’s edition of SIOF, scheduled for April 22-24 at Shanghai’s Suzhou International Expo Center, has been postponed over new pandemic regulations. The trade show is organized by the China Optometric & Optical Association, Sinolight International Holdings Corporation and Orient International Exhibition Company, with support from the China National Light ...
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Copenhagen Specs returns
Uncancelled this year – the 2020 show having succumbed to Covid – Copenhagen Specs took place on March 5-6 at its usual location in Denmark’s capital, the train-repair building turned into a convention center known as Lokomotivværkstedet. This edition of the show drew 53 exhibitors, 85 brands and 608 unique ...
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Mido to be held in-person, review the Italian industry
Mido is expecting 630 exhibitors from 45 countries to show up in Milan for its first in-person show in two years, scheduled for April 30 to May 2. In preparation, its president, Giovanni Vitaloni, plans to attend Vision Expo East, in New York City, on April 2 so as “to ...
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Vision Expo East returns nearly to normal
Visitors will be entering and breathing the old-fashioned way at the forthcoming edition of Vision Expo East, scheduled for March 31 to April 3 at the Javits Center in New York City. The city’s new mayor, Eric Adams, suspended the “Key to NYC” pandemic restrictions on March 4. As a ...
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Germany's lifted Covid regulations should open way for Opti
With the German government set to lift most Covid restrictions on March 20, Opti is looking forward to a nearly liberated trade show on May 13-15. The country’s federal-state conference came to this optimistic conclusion on Feb. 16, abolishing limits on visitor numbers, restaurants or night life and adjusting regulations ...
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Italian Covid decree makes Mido attendance easier
The organizers of the Mido trade show in Milan, scheduled this year for April 30 to May 2, are delighted with Italy’s recent decree on Covid restrictions. The European Commission had already opened on June 1 of last year what it calls the European Gateway, which guarantees the validity in ...
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ArticleVision Expo East gears up for first show since 2019
So far about 240 exhibitors have committed to Vision Expo East, whose next edition – the first since 2019 – is scheduled to run from March 31 to April 3 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. (The educational program and OptiCon@Vision Expo will be opening on ...
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opti settles in Munich permanently
The organizer of the German trade show opti have announced in a press conference that the event would remain located in Munich on a permanent basis, putting an end to relocation speculations, and that the 2023 edition would take place from Jan. 27 to 29. As previously reported, the ...
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News briefsOmicron forces Mido, 100% Optical to reschedule
In response to the rapid escalation of the Omicron Covid variant across Europe and other countries, the organizers of Mido have announced the postponement of the 2022 edition of the show from the initially scheduled Feb. 12-14 dates to April 30 to May 2, returning to the Milanese show’s original ...
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About 200 exhibitors at IOFT 2021
The organizers of the IOFT optical trade show in Japan, RX Japan and the Fukui Optical Association, announced that 189 exhibitors took part in the last edition of the show from Oct. 18 to 20 in Tokyo. No attendance figures were communicated. Besides the Fukui-based eyewear makers, some international brands, ...
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New dates for ExpoÓptica
ExpoÓptica, the Spanish eyewear trade show, has shifted the dates of its 2022 edition to April 1 to 3, 2022. The organizers had to postpone the event as the IFEMA fairgrounds where it is taking place were fully booked for the first quarter of next year, LookVision reports. The show ...
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Interlook 2022 show postponed too
A few days after the postponement of the opti trade show from January to May 2022, the organizers of Interlook, the other German trade show formerly known as Brille & Co., have put their 2022 edition on hold as the Covid-19 pandemic is rebounding in Germany and other parts of ...
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Mido confirms its Feb 2022 edition
A few days after the postponement of the opti trade show from January to May next year and as new cases of new Covid-19 omicron spread across Europe, the organizers of the Mido show have confirmed that its 2022 in-person edition would be held as scheduled from Feb. 12 to ...
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opti postponed to May 2022
Organizers of the opti trade show have announced the postponement of the 2022 edition of the show from the initially scheduled dates Jan. 14-16 to May 13-15. The announcement comes as the Covid-19 pandemic is rebounding in Germany, which led the German government to introduce a health pass to go ...
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Silmo and Copenhagen Specs go to Barcelona
Silmo and its Copenhagen Specs partner have announced that they would extend the Specs eyewear fair concept to Barcelona in 2022. The format of the new show will be focusing on the eyewear designer segment and based on the same mix of business, networking and partying as the Copenhagen event. ...
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First edition of the Great British Eyewear Show
Under the impulsion of Tom Davies, British and international independent eyewear brands will gather for the first edition of the Great British Eyewear Show on Oct. 18 at the Custard Factory in Birmingham. Confirmed exhibitors to date include Booth & Bruce, Cazal, Chrome Hearts, Face à Face, Francis Klein, JF ...
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ArticleGood restart in Paris and new Asian project for Silmo
After a blank year in 2020, Silmo Paris reopened its doors to international exhibitors and visitors from last Sept. 24 to 27 for the first large-scale and in-person eyewear industry event since the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak last year. Although the number of exhibiting companies this year – roughly 500 – ...
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ArticleDaTE participation up 50% vs. 2020
The last edition of the DaTE trade fair, which was held in Florence, Italy, from Sept. 11 to 13, brought a feeling of recovery of the international market as compared to the 2020 show when the Covid-19 vaccination campaign was yet to start. A total of 90 companies showcased their ...
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Blue Light Summit 2021 announced
Eyesafe, the company bringing together the healthcare and consumer electronics sectors, has announced the dates of its Blue Light Summit 2021, which will be held online on Sept. 28 in Europe and the Americas and Sept. 29 in Asia-Pacific. Discussions will focus on the impact of Covid-19 on screens’ usage ...
