All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 12, Issue 16 – Page 2
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REM Eyewear has launched its business-to-business e-commerce site, which the...
REM Eyewear has launched its business-to-business e-commerce site, which the company touts as using cutting-edge technology while maintaining user-friendliness. The site allows for 24/7 ordering, the creation of custom catalogs and the ability to see all of your preferred REM products in one click. Out-of-stock items can be reordered immediately ...
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A coalition of British groups including the College of Optometrists,...
A coalition of British groups including the College of Optometrists, the Optical Confederation and the Royal National Institute of Blind People has come up with a strategy designed to improve public eye health. The strategy, available at www.college-optometrists.org/opticalstrategy, includes training more ophthalmic public health experts, improving data and evidence for ...
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Article
Luxottica buys Brazil’s Tecnol
Luxottica has agreed to buy Tecnol in a deal valuing the leading Brazilian eyewear company at about €110 million. The acquisition enables Luxottica to reinforce its presence in a market with significant growth potential, where the Italian group has been already growing at an annual rate of more than 10 ...
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ImageWear will start designing, manufacturing and distributing London Fog branded...
ImageWear will start designing, manufacturing and distributing London Fog branded eyewear among eye care professionals under a new licensing agreement. The first collection from ImageWear, a division of Walman Optical, should be out in January.
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Moncler, the Italian brand of fashionable outerwear, is launching two...
Moncler, the Italian brand of fashionable outerwear, is launching two unisex models of sunglasses, developed and produced by Mykita at its factory in Berlin. They use the German company's patented Mylon material and mineral glasses by Barberini. The new styles will be available for six months at €730 per pair ...
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Bob Hughes has stepped down suddenly from his position at...
Bob Hughes has stepped down suddenly from his position at the helm the country's Association of Optometrists, but according to Optician, he doesn't want to go into specifics about why. When the British magazine tracked the British industry veteran down for details, all he would say was that his reasons ...
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Article
Rimless frames and the U.K. see the biggest drops in Europe
The economic uncertainty is affecting sales of prescription frames in Europe, judging from some figures supplied to us by GfK and taken from its retail panel. It has hit particularly hard opticians in the U.K., whose sales of this type of product fell by an estimated 5 percent in volume ...
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Brazil is big in eye care
Strategy With Vision, the European market research consultancy, has recently carried out a study of the optical market in Brazil. The key finding of the study was that the per capita spending on vision care is the highest there of all the emerging markets researched by SWV to date, including ...
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Short stops
Bellinger is putting out a new and rather creative collection...
Bellinger is putting out a new and rather creative collection of seven acetate frames, called Bounce, which it says are made for the intellectual architect, the vibrant art director, the stylish manager or the colorful artist
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Hoet, an eyewear producer from Belgium, will be exhibiting at...
Hoet, an eyewear producer from Belgium, will be exhibiting at Opti in January, presenting new models from its Cabrio sunglasses collection and new accessories for optical stores, following a change in its distribution model. Hoet's business activities fall into three different categories: the Hoet collection of premium eyeglasses, which is ...
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Gilda Mehraban has been promoted to be director of brand...
Gilda Mehraban has been promoted to be director of brand management at REM Eyewear. She was previously the brand manager of Tumi and Jones New York, having joined REM just six months ago. She will oversee all the brands, which also include John Varvatos and Converse. Her background is in ...
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Oliver Goldsmith of London, whose grandfather started the business bearing...
Oliver Goldsmith of London, whose grandfather started the business bearing his name in 1926, announces that his own life story and the interesting history of the Oliver Goldsmith Company until 1989 have been published by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London as an attachment to its website. Interested opticians ...
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Bausch + Lomb has bought Laboratorio Pfortner Cornealent SACIF, the...
Bausch + Lomb has bought Laboratorio Pfortner Cornealent SACIF, the controlling entity of Waicon, the market leader in contact lenses and lens care products in Argentina. This acquisition will make B+L the leading eye health company in the country. The Pfortner chain of retail optical shops will remain independent and ...
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The Australian Sailing Team is wearing Maui Jim sunglasses under...
The Australian Sailing Team is wearing Maui Jim sunglasses under a new two-year partnership. The team is currently participating in the ISAF Sailing World Championships, the largest regatta of the kind ever held in Australia, to qualify for next summer's Olympic Games in London. Members of the team have already ...
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Marcolin has appointed Giovanni Zoppas as its new chief executive...
Marcolin has appointed Giovanni Zoppas as its new chief executive and general manager, effective on Feb. 1, 2012. He will replace Vito Varvaro, who has held the position on a temporary basis since the end of September after the resignation of Massimo Saracchi. Varvaro will retain his job as ...
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Marchon has appointed Tony Klijn, a Dutch executive coming from...
Marchon has appointed Tony Klijn, a Dutch executive coming from Luxottica, as managing director of Marchon Germany, responsible also for the Austrian market. The position had remained vacant for about four months following the move of Micha Siebenhandl to the U.S., where he was named vice president of global house ...
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ClearVision Optical made an impressive debut at its first appearance...
ClearVision Optical made an impressive debut at its first appearance in the MarCom Awards, and international competition that gives prizes for outstanding creative achievement by marketing and communication professionals. It took home five platinum awards – the highest possible – for its 2010 intern brochure, catalog mobile app and 2012 ...
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Salmoiraghi & Viganò has appointed Francesco Iovine as marketing and...
Salmoiraghi & Viganò has appointed Francesco Iovine as marketing and purchasing manager, a position that didn't previously exist in the Italian retail chain. The 40-year-old business and economics graduate previously worked in sales and purchasing for two other major Italian retail groups, Rinascente and Pam, first as category manager and ...
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Ashley McEvoy, worldwide president for Ethicon Products at Johnson &...
Ashley McEvoy, worldwide president for Ethicon Products at Johnson & Johnson, will be starting the new year with a new position. The company has just appointed her group chairman of J&J Vision Care, replacing Michael Sneed, who moves on to become vice president, global corporate affairs for Johnson & Johnson ...
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Salmoiraghi & Viganò, which is Italy's leading optical retail chain...
Salmoiraghi & Viganò, which is Italy's leading optical retail chain with some 500 outlets, won the Italian “Retailer of the Year” award this year in the “Eyewear” category. The award started up four years ago, giving Italian consumers the chance to express their opinion on retail banners in 22 different ...
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