All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 11, Issue 12-13 – Page 3
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Flying Fisherman, an American brand of polarized sunglasses for fishing,...
Flying Fisherman, an American brand of polarized sunglasses for fishing, has introduced bifocal lenses and put out a small line of headwear and T-shirts.
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Hoya Vision Care North America has opened a service center...
Hoya Vision Care North America has opened a service center in Denver dedicated solely to independent eye care professionals, providing the industry's latest technological processes, the company's online lens ordering system and a customer service center.
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Alexis Cardona is the new chief marketing officer for Transitions...
Alexis Cardona is the new chief marketing officer for Transitions Optical, and will also be chairman of the Transitions Global Marketing Council. He comes from Procter & Gamble, where he was most recently marketing director for the global oral care delivery division.
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Novartis' Ciba Vision Unit Has Good Results; Alcon Purchase Pending
The consumer health unit of Novartis, which includes CIBA Vision, has reported a 7 percent increase in net sales to $1.5 billion in the second quarter of 2010. The division's European sales were up by 5 percent to $600 million, with the strongest growth in France, the U.K. and Germany. ...
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Luxottica and its trade unions have agreed on a welfare...
Luxottica and its trade unions have agreed on a welfare package of more than €1.5 million for 2010, financed by the company and available to its 7,500 Italian workers. Luxottica launched, in agreement with the unions, its first welfare package in 2009. But this year's proposal includes the introduction of ...
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Silhouette is launching a modular shop-in-shop concept for Adidas Eyewear....
Silhouette is launching a modular shop-in-shop concept for Adidas Eyewear.
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Transitions Optical is running an ad campaign in Australia and...
Transitions Optical is running an ad campaign in Australia and New Zealand that takes a different approach from most vision-product campaigns. Large billboards and posters feature people wearing glasses but with horrible squints on their faces, with the slogan ?Live a life less squinty? across the top. John McLaren, the ...
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Dame Mary Perkins, co-founder of Specsavers, won the Lifetime Achievement...
Dame Mary Perkins, co-founder of Specsavers, won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the First Women Awards in London recently.
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Dominik Müser, 42, is the new chief executive of Nigura...
Dominik Müser, 42, is the new chief executive of Nigura Metzler, replacing Salvatore Grillo who is returning to London after restructuring logistics and other processes at the German company, taken over by an English private equity firm, Sisu, in 2005. Müser already joined Nigura Metzler last February from Roland Berger ...
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Essilor has canceled 4 million shares as part of its...
Essilor has canceled 4 million shares as part of its commitment not to create any dilution for existing shareholders. Of these, 2.13 million shares were canceled to offset the dilutive impact of the vesting of performance shares of the exercise of stock options granted to employees. The other 1.87 million ...
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Sover In 3-year Deal With Laura Biagiotti
Sover has reached a three-year license agreement with the Italian designer Laura Biagiotti to produce and distribute women's sunglasses and prescription frames. The new collection will be unveiled during the Silmo trade show held in Paris on Sept. 23-26. The Laura Biagiotti license was previously held by the now bankrupt ...
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Marchon Enters Deal For Stylish 3d Glasses
Marchon Eyewear is entering the booming category by setting up a new Marchon3D business division, headed up by David Johnson, that aims to provide consumers with the best in 3D eyewear technology and design. For this purpose, it has agreed to buy the 3D assets of MicroVision Optical and struck ...
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François Clamand, a 28-year-old former manager of industrial processes at...
François Clamand, a 28-year-old former manager of industrial processes at Alain Mikli, has set up Alternativ'Optic, a store in Annecy, France, that specializes in offering specific visual solutions for specific sports.
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Organizers of the 23rd China International Optics Fair, being held...
Organizers of the 23rd China International Optics Fair, being held Sept. 14-16 in Beijing, have set aside 44,000 square meters for the show, where more than 770 companies, including distributors and agents, will exhibit their wares. Some big names showing for the first time in Beijing include Benetton, Bugatti, Jeep, ...
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Orange 21 is creating a new music division, following up...
Orange 21 is creating a new music division, following up on the partnership it announced recently with Mary J. Blige and Jimmy Iovine of Interscope Records (see previous issue). Fran Richards, Orange 21's vice president for marketing, will move over to be vice president for business development as well as ...
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Specsavers is continuing is domestic expansion, planning to open 20...
Specsavers is continuing is domestic expansion, planning to open 20 new practices in the U.K. and Ireland in the next year. It already has 648 shops in the U.K. and 36 in Ireland. The company is now working to expand in smaller communities. Also in the next year, many of ...
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De Rigo's First-half Wholesale Revenues Up 16.5 Percent
De Rigo booked a 16.5 percent increase in wholesale revenues in the first half of 2010 thanks to strong sales growth in Asia and South America, and to its house brand Police. The group also enjoyed a recovery in luxury brands, which showed a 4 percent increase during the period. ...
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Eurom 1 Elects Tabacchi As President, Lobbies The Eu On Many Issues
Vittorio Tabacchi, president of Mido and Anfao, was officially elected president of Eurom I, the European Federation of Precision Mechanical and Optical Industries. Former president and major shareholder of Safilo, Tabacchi takes over from Antoni Olivella, general manager of Indo, who will stay on as vice president of the organization, ...
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Worldwide, sales grew by 12.5 percent to $1.89 billion at...
Worldwide, sales grew by 12.5 percent to $1.89 billion at Alcon in the second quarter of 2010. At constant currencies and excluding acquisitions, this was 11.3 percent growth. Net earnings rose by 15.1 percent to $670 million. Revenues in the U.S. were up by 12.7 percent on the strength of ...
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The American National Standards Institute has updated its Z80.1 standard,...
The American National Standards Institute has updated its Z80.1 standard, which applies to the processing of lenses for prescription glasses. Its updates involve measurement of transmission power, use of compensated power for the as-worn position, abrasion resistance, durability and AR coatings.
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