All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 12, Issue 11-12
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Norville has launched a special promotion in the U.K., with...
Norville has launched a special promotion in the U.K., with dedicated POS material, to convey the advantages of Trivex and Transitions for children's vision
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From this September, Sover has a new manager. The Italian...
From this September, Sover has a new manager. The Italian company owned by the Cannicci brothers has appointed Andrea Fiabane to head up business development. The appointment represents a change of policy, as all management positions were previously held by the owners. Fiabane has had years of experience with Luxottica, ...
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Maui Jim has promoted Hans-Jürgen Penzek to the new position...
Maui Jim has promoted Hans-Jürgen Penzek to the new position of vice president for Europe. Penzek has been the sales manager for Maui Jim Germany since 2003, helping the brand grow there as well as expand into Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, Poland and Hungary. The company is looking for his ...
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Hal makes more money
Hal Holding, the major shareholder of Safilo and owner of GrandVision, Pearle Europe and other optical retail operations in Europe and elsewhere, has reported a net profit of €304.9 million for the first half of 2011, up sharply from €200.2 million. Most of the increase came from the higher profits ...
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The Italian Randazzo Group has named two new sales managers,...
The Italian Randazzo Group has named two new sales managers, both in their early 40s. Marco Ferrante has the role for the Corner channel and Enrico Segner got the slot for Optissimo, Randazzo's retail chain. Ferrante is taking over the Corner sales manager, which will be in charge of the ...
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Heidelberg, the German producer of optical instruments, has set up...
Heidelberg, the German producer of optical instruments, has set up its own subsidiary in the U.K., thus ending its longtime distribution partnership with Haag-Streit UK. The new unit, Heidelberg Engineering, was set up in Hemel Hempstead to distribute the company's imaging and perimetry products. Haag-Streit UK will have responsibility for ...
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Mister Spex focuses on Germany
Mister Spex reduced its staff by 12 percent in September. In total, 19 of the 150 employees at Mister Spex will be leaving the German online eyewear retailer by the end of this month. Only 6 percent of all employees have left the company for operational reasons. The company says ...
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FittingBox’ Virtual Mirror is taking on new shapes
FittingBox, which claims to be the leading supplier of virtual try-on systems for spectacles via the internet, is developing some interesting new solutions for the benefit of brands and their retail clients, such as the opportunity to try on two models at the same time through its “Virtual Mirror,” or ...
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Starting next year, Sting eyewear will have a new spokesman,...
Starting next year, Sting eyewear will have a new spokesman, the former DJ Francesco Facchinetti, to help the De Rigo house brand relaunch its creative image
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At International Vision Expo West last week, Pro Fit Optix...
At International Vision Expo West last week, Pro Fit Optix previewed SmartEyePix, a family of dispensing technology devices that combine fitting measurements, lens consulting, frame try-on and soon, refraction. It can be connected to Pro Fit Optix' supply and manufacturing system. SmartEyePix takes accurate measurements including optical center by bouncing ...
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Evioo.com, one of the various new online retailers springing up...
Evioo.com, one of the various new online retailers springing up in France, reports that it has secured an equity injection from a private investor that allowed it to get started earlier this month without any problems, but it doesn't want to disclose the amount. The founder of the company, Philippe ...
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Menicon is reportedly setting up an international hub at Emmen,...
Menicon is reportedly setting up an international hub at Emmen, in the Netherlands, with an R&D center and a laboratory that will start supplying contact lenses for the European market from the beginning of 2013
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PEI Licensing, a subsidiary of Perry Ellis International, has a...
PEI Licensing, a subsidiary of Perry Ellis International, has a new licensing deal that will have Oxford Ophthalmic Corporation designing, manufacturing and distributing Perry Ellis brand sunglasses and reading glasses in the retail channel. The deal is for several years and is renewable. Oxford Ophthalmic is a division of Eyewear ...
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The French market slows down
The latest figures from GfK for the French optical market indicate that it grew by only 1.6 percent in the first half of this year, down from an increase of 2.1 percent to €5.4 billion for all of 2010. Published in a French daily newspaper, the figures also indicate that ...
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Italy’s output slows down
Italy's eyewear exports for the first half of 2011 confirmed the growth recorded for the full 12 months of the previous year, up by 17 percent compared with 17.3 percent in 2010. These are reassuring figures for Italy's eyewear sector, but don't exclude a certain degree of concern, due partly ...
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Ron Kroll is going to head up Innovations Digital Lens...
Ron Kroll is going to head up Innovations Digital Lens Company, a joint venture of CC Systems and Ocuco that provides private-label free-form lens designs to laboratories. His role is operations director, handling all functions related to sales and service. Innovations Digital is taking care of integrating the Innovations Lens ...
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L'Amy Group will be the worldwide designer and distributor of...
L'Amy Group will be the worldwide designer and distributor of eyewear for the Balmain brand under a new licensing deal. The deal covers prescription eyeglasses and sunglasses, which will make their global debut at Mido next year. The fashion house of Balmain has been without a licensee for a while, ...
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Derek McLaren, former managing director of Grafton Optical and Silhouette...
Derek McLaren, former managing director of Grafton Optical and Silhouette UK, passed away last month after a long illness. A well-known member of the British eyewear industry, he acted as a trustee of the Eyecare Trust and as chairman of the Optical Frame Importers Association within the U.K. Federation of ...
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The Jones Group has signed a deal with Marchon Eyewear...
The Jones Group has signed a deal with Marchon Eyewear to be the exclusive creator, manufacturer, marketer and distributor of Nine West brand ophthalmic eyewear frames and prescription-ready sunglasses worldwide. The products of the new collaboration will first hit upscale optical chains, optical specialty retailers and individual eye care professional ...
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World sight day on Milan tramway
A special tram, put on by the city's public transport provider, ATM, will run in central Milan on Oct. 13 and 14, providing an unusual service to passengers: They will be able to have their eyes tested on board, free of charge. This is the most spectacular of the various ...
