All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 12, Issue 13-14
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Oliver Peoples is now selling a new line stemming from...
Oliver Peoples is now selling a new line stemming from a collaboration with the Japanese designer Takahiro Miyashita and his TheSoloIst fashion label. It includes two unisex styles, one for optical frames and one for sunglasses. The Teardrop and Round styles use stock parts (or, if not available, inspiration from) ...
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Tura has named the successor to its retiring president and...
Tura has named the successor to its retiring president and chief executive, John Weir. Scott Sennett took the reins of this American subsidiary of the Eschenbach Group on Oct. 3; Weir will stay on through the end of the year in an advisory capacity. Sennett was formerly the president of ...
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A research team at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience has...
A research team at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience has reported that aspirin could increase the risk of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The findings, published in the Ophthalmology Journal, were that 4 percent of the 839 patients over 65 who regularly took aspiring developed AMD, compared with 2 percent of ...
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PPG Industries' Optical and Specialty Materials segment raised its sales...
PPG Industries' Optical and Specialty Materials segment raised its sales by 8 percent to $311 million in the third quarter, with consistent growth in North America and emerging markets offsetting declining volumes in Europe. Segment profits rose by $11 million to a record of $93 million for the quarter, thanks ...
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Mister Spex has launched an interactive shopping helpdesk on its...
Mister Spex has launched an interactive shopping helpdesk on its website. Moderated videos guide the visitors of Mister Spex' online store through the company's product portfolio and the order processes. The moderator, Ralph Gassmann, who is well-known on German television, informs the consumer about product characteristics, explains optical technical terms ...
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Natural Optics takes over Grupo Visual Opticos
Grupo Visual Opticos is a Spanish buying group that works for 178 optical retail stores spread all over the eastern coast of the country. Its retail members signed an agreement last month to join forces with two other Spanish purchasing groups – Red Visual and Provision – that are run ...
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Uvex group grows in safety, not sports
With total sales in the amount of €330 million, the Uvex group managed to increase sales by 9 percent during the 2010/11business year, which ended at the beginning of August. Manufacturing head-to-toe protection gear for sports, leisure and work, the German company has also been able to exceed the sales ...
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The German online retailer Mister Spex recently started a partnership...
The German online retailer Mister Spex recently started a partnership program with 23 German opticians, including a total of 30 stores that are situated in Berlin, Hamburg, Köln and Munich and the region around Stuttgart and Frankfurt. In addition to payment for performed services, the participating opticians receive a share ...
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Jobson Optical Research has found that in September, U.S. opticians...
Jobson Optical Research has found that in September, U.S. opticians had a more gloomy outlook on the industry than they did the month before. The Optical Business Barometer showed an overall rating of 3.5 in September, compared with 3.7 in August, on a scale where 1 is very negative and ...
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Polaroid Eyewear is inviting stylists and sunglass wearers worldwide to...
Polaroid Eyewear is inviting stylists and sunglass wearers worldwide to help it to select 10 frames for its 2013 Best Under the Sun collection, featuring models inspired by the 10 decades between 1930 and 2020. The company has received more than 700 submissions from students, professionals and design aficionados from ...
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International Vision Expo West, held last month in Las Vegas,...
International Vision Expo West, held last month in Las Vegas, saw a slight drop in attendance with 12,359 eye care professionals attending, 436 fewer than last year. The exhibit hall attracted 8,187 visitors, and 4,172 attended the conference program, where the number of hours of education offered were up by ...
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Oftalmica Galileo Italia has just introduced its Galileo Ettorino lenses,...
Oftalmica Galileo Italia has just introduced its Galileo Ettorino lenses, designed especially for children. Done as part of a partnership with its distributor Moa Ottica, the lenses are touted as being comfortable and suitable for everyday activities. Through Dec. 31, they will be sold with an accompanying fish-shaped case.
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The Silmo d'Or Winners
The history of aviation continues to inspire the world of eyewear. Taking its cues from the growing popularity of aviator styles in the Italian sunglass collections, Mido organized a fashion show inspired by this theme at one of its rare gala evenings a few years ago, staged inside the premises ...
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Petra Eckhardt has left as managing director of the European...
Petra Eckhardt has left as managing director of the European Sunglass Association, and its board is looking at two-three candidates to succeed her. The board has regularized ESA's accounting, returning to a positive cash position, and legally registered the nonprofit organization in France. It wants to create more benefits for ...
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Mykita develops new product segment with innovative material
Mykita presented its newest invention, a special material that offers diverse design options, light weight and individual adaptability, at the Silmo show in Paris last month. The Berlin-based eyewear brand set up a distinct stand at the fair to present the first Mykita Mylon collection to retailers and industry professionals. ...
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Marcolin has renewed its licensing deal with Montblanc whereby it...
Marcolin has renewed its licensing deal with Montblanc whereby it designs, produces and distributes Montblanc optical frames and sunglasses worldwide. The companies have worked together for 10 years; the new deal runs through December 2016.
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The new Kirk Originals store on Conduit Street in London...
The new Kirk Originals store on Conduit Street in London was listed among the “11 insanely cool flagship stores” in Business Insider, along with the Apple store in New York City, a Nike store in Japan and others. In the same week, the designers of the Kirk store, Campaign Design, ...
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Frency&Mercury, a Japanese company with a very niche product, is...
Frency&Mercury, a Japanese company with a very niche product, is seeking to enter the European market. After a debut at Mido 2011, the company pursued the experience at Silmo. Founded in 2005 by 32 year old Japanese designer Eque M., the company makes its top-end products by hand in the ...
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Oko, a Paris-based company that produces the Oko by Oko...
Oko, a Paris-based company that produces the Oko by Oko and My Muse brands, is now also distributing a number of other brands, beginning with two Australian collections of sun and prescription eyewear called Le Specs and Ksubi, distributed by Oko in Europe and Canada. The French company has also ...
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Cione, the Spanish retail cooperative of opticians, has launched a...
Cione, the Spanish retail cooperative of opticians, has launched a special ultralight progressive lens for women for sale in affiliated stores. The lens was developed after checking out the specs of more than 5,000 women for pupillary distance, reading distance and other parameters. At the same time, another Spanish chain, ...
