All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 12, Issue 11-12 – Page 4
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Safilo has appointed Nicola Giorgi global head of house brands....
Safilo has appointed Nicola Giorgi global head of house brands. The company said the position is one of the most strategic for its future development because the house brands offer significant growth opportunities. The group's house brands are Carrera, Safilo, Smith, Oxydo and Blue Bay. The Carrera brand has been ...
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EyeDispense, the iPad application for optical professionals that was launched...
EyeDispense, the iPad application for optical professionals that was launched in July, has added a new feature that allows opticians to co-brand the app with their corporate logo. The app, designed by David Crystal, an optometrist in Edinburgh, allows for video dispensing, helping clients with poor vision select their ...
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German customers are apparently discovering sunglasses
GfK's European sunglass panel has shown a positive first half of 2011, with growth of 7 percent to more than €1 billion in the optical retail circuit.Germany was the only major country where sales of sunglasses increased markedly in the first half of this year in the optical retail circuit, ...
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Inspecs has just announced a new licensing deal with Superdry,...
Inspecs has just announced a new licensing deal with Superdry, a fast-growing British brand of “future classic” garments that is now sold in more than 40 territories around the world. Its revenues increased by 71 percent to £237.9 million (€273.7m-$371.1m) in the financial year ended last May. Inspecs' Superdry collection ...
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Robert A. Amato, former president of Jobson Publishing/Jobson Medical Information,...
Robert A. Amato, former president of Jobson Publishing/Jobson Medical Information, died on Sept. 19 at the age of 80. His family said he had a stroke and lapsed into a coma, and never recovered. Amato started his publishing career with General Binding Corporation, then took a sales position at ...
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Bausch + Lomb now has the option to buy all...
Bausch + Lomb now has the option to buy all outstanding and unowned shares of Technolas Perfect Vision, a German ophthalmology laser company, for a total company value up to €450 million, depending on certain milestones and earnouts. Technolas Perfect Vision was originally a joint venture between Bausch + Lomb ...
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Alain Mikli created a weird collection of futuristic sunglasses, some...
Alain Mikli created a weird collection of futuristic sunglasses, some featuring a crest or a triple temple, for the fashion show of Jean Paul Gaultier
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Safilo has renewed a license agreement with the New York...
Safilo has renewed a license agreement with the New York fashion brand Kate Spade for four years, until Dec. 31, 2015. The agreement has an option to prolong the license for n additional three years. Safilo has had worldwide rights since 2005 to design, manufacture and distribute women's sunglasses, prescription ...
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Michael Ferrara has been named executive chairman of Adlens, the...
Michael Ferrara has been named executive chairman of Adlens, the optical manufacturers and developer of self-adjustable eyeglasses based in Oxford, England. Ferrara, whose position is a new one in the company, will help the company grow, which includes its debut on the Japanese market in spring 2012. He was most ...
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Mazzucchelli is launching a new type of eco-friendly cellulosic acetate,...
Mazzucchelli is launching a new type of eco-friendly cellulosic acetate, for which it has requested international patent rights. Called M49, it makes use of cotton and wood fibers. The new thermoplastic material uses the same manufacturing process as regular acetate, and it is compatible with other polymers, including polycarbonate.
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Tumi, the high-end brand of travel and business accessories, has...
Tumi, the high-end brand of travel and business accessories, has a new licensing agreement with REM Eyewear to launch Tumi Eyewear, a collection of sunglasses and optical frames. REM will distribute the lines through its worldwide network of prestigious fashion and eyewear retailers as well as in Tumi stores. The ...
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Marcolin has given Vito Varvaro (accented on the first a),...
Marcolin has given Vito Varvaro (accented on the first a), vice chairman on its board of directors, the same powers of attorney that had been previously assigned to Massimo Saracchi, the company's chief executive, who resigned a few weeks ago. Varvaro, who has been on the board since November 2007, ...
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The American “Think About Your Eyes” campaign run by the...
The American “Think About Your Eyes” campaign run by the Foundation for Eye Health Awareness got a big boost when The Vision Council pledged to give it $2 million a year for two years, and the possibility of another $4 million for a national launch. The campaign has successfully raised ...
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Alain Mikli reports a sales increase of 8 percent for...
Alain Mikli reports a sales increase of 8 percent for the year ended Aug. 31 on a comparable basis, without including the Vuarnet licensee acquired at the end of 2009. Sales rose by 20 percent in France, by 26 percent in the U.S. and by 23 percent in China. On ...
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To mark the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the...
To mark the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Luxottica group by Leonardo Del Vecchio, the company's board has decided to grant an overall 350,000 treasury shares to employees of the group's Italian operations. The transaction, scheduled to be closed by October, is worth about €7 million. Luxottica celebrated ...
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Torsten Höninger, a 37-year-old with a background in marketing and...
Torsten Höninger, a 37-year-old with a background in marketing and advertising, is the new project manager of Brille & Co., the alternative eyewear fair for the northern part of Germany
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Zoobug's children's sunglasses designed for the 2012 London Olympics, reported...
Zoobug's children's sunglasses designed for the 2012 London Olympics, reported on in June (Vol. 12-No. 8, June 29), will make their debut at Silmo
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Optica 2000, the Spanish optical retail chain of El Corte...
Optica 2000, the Spanish optical retail chain of El Corte Inglés, recorded sales of €80.34 million in the financial year ended last Feb. 20, up by 0.5 percent compared with the previous year. It was a minimal part of the activities of the group, which recorded net profit of €319.4 ...
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The 19th Hong Kong Optical Fair scheduled for Nov. 3-5,...
The 19th Hong Kong Optical Fair scheduled for Nov. 3-5, which is running alongside the 9th Hong Kong Optometric Conference, which will feature optometric and neuroscience experts from Canada, Hong Kong, Finland and Singapore discussing the conference's theme, “Vision for the Next Generation.” Subjects include research on DISC Lens for ...
