All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 12, Issue 13-14 – Page 4

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    Safilo wonders about its Armani deal as it lays out its business plan

    2011-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Safilo is waiting for Giorgio Armani's answer regarding the renewal of the A/X Armani Exchange, Emporio Armani and Giorgio Armani licensing deal, which is scheduled to expire at the end of 2012. While Marchon and other firms are said to have been vying for this hot property, which would strongly ...

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    PPG is bullish about Tribrid

    2011-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Officials of some major lens companies and laboratories have given a thumbs-up to PPG Industries for the launch of its new hybrid lens material, Tribrid, which combines some of the properties of Trivex with those of more fragile higher-index monomers. Officials of PPG are very optimistic about its future market ...

  • News briefs

    This year's Silmo drew 34,671 people to Paris, 5 percent...

    2011-11-03T00:00:00Z

    This year's Silmo drew 34,671 people to Paris, 5 percent more than last year. More than half, 56 percent, came from outside France, a figure that was also up by 5 percent. Some of the growth stemmed no doubt from the absence of strikes and transportation problems at this year's ...

  • News briefs

    Brille24 is searching for customers who would like to be...

    2011-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Brille24 is searching for customers who would like to be part of its new online campaign. Customers had the chance to apply with the German company until Oct. 22. After a pre-selection, the star photographer Andreas Hofweber is now taking photos of the candidates, which will be published on the ...

  • News briefs

    Atol, the French buying and franchising group, reports a 5.22...

    2011-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Atol, the French buying and franchising group, reports a 5.22 percent increase in the sales of its affiliated optical stores, with growth of 0.94 percent on a same-store basis, for the first nine months of this year. Eric Plat, the managing director of the cooperative, says 124 of the 770 ...

  • Short stops

    Charmant has received the Good Design Award 2011 from the...

    2011-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Charmant has received the Good Design Award 2011 from the Japan Institute of Design Promotion for its Charmant Z collection of premium eyeglasses

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    Safilo see the market growing by 4.2% a year

    2011-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Safilo forecast that the worldwide market for frames and sunglasses will rise by an average 4.2 percent a year until the end of 2015, when wholesale revenues should reach €11.5 billion compared with €9.4 billion in 2010.Growth will be driven by emerging markets, where the increase will average 9.2 percent ...

  • News briefs

    Ogi Eyewear, founded in Minnesota in 1997, is seeking to...

    2011-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Ogi Eyewear, founded in Minnesota in 1997, is seeking to expand abroad. After discreet success at home in the US and Canada, the company is now exporting 10 percent of its production of prescription sunglasses. Using titanium and acetate – often sourced from Italy – and manufactured in Japan, a ...

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    Italian exports grew by 15% in the first half

    2011-11-03T00:00:00Z

    The definitive figures for the first half are slightly lower than the forecast that we had already reported last month (EyeWear Intelligence, vol. 12, N° 11-12), but they confirm the general trend. Compared with the same period last year, Italy's eyewear exports for the period January-June 2011 were up by ...

  • News briefs

    Opti'12, the international trade fair scheduled to take place in...

    2011-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Opti'12, the international trade fair scheduled to take place in Munich next Jan. 13-15, is on a growth path. While it is not yet sure that it will reach the level of last January, when it hosted 470 exhibitors and welcomed 22,700 visitors from 69 countries, the number of exhibitors ...

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    Luxottica grows by 10% currency-neutral

    2011-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Luxottica ended the third quarter with a 4.0 percent rise in sales to €1,532.8 million and an adjusted net profit of €111.2 million, up by 9.1 percent, yet again beating market expectations. Taking into account exceptional items, the bottom line rose by 4.1 percent to €106.1 million. At constant currency ...