All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 12, Issue 5-6 – Page 3
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Blindness is decreasing
The World Health Organization estimates that there are now less than 39 million people around the world who are blind. This is less than the figure of 45 million blind people that had been estimated in 2000 and sharply below the level that had been suspected before. In fact, experts ...
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The Laura Biagiotti Eyewear collection developed by Sover will be...
The Laura Biagiotti Eyewear collection developed by Sover will be distributed in North America by V.P.I. Canada
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Fabio Patrizi, former head of marketing at Marcolin, has been...
Fabio Patrizi, former head of marketing at Marcolin, has been appointed general manager at Inottica, a position previously held by Giuseppe Losapio, the group's chairman. Patrizi took up his job on April 1. Inottica's head office is based near the Italian town of Brescia and the company specializes in eyewear ...
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BBGR is introducing a package for opticians, called Easy Profit,...
BBGR is introducing a package for opticians, called Easy Profit, that allows them to develop their sales by evaluating the potential of their stores
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New Balance has a new three-year deal licensing with Mountain...
New Balance has a new three-year deal licensing with Mountain Shades of Colorado to make sunglasses under its brand. Mountain Shades will develop New Balance Sun, a ling of running-specific sunglasses, for sale in the U.S. market outside the optical retail circuit through 2013. The first batch of products, due ...
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Fedon is back in the black
Fedon and its eyewear case business are finally turning around, after five consecutive years of losses that were attributed to difficulties that the eyewear industry has been going through lately. The Italian company's consolidated turnover reached €54,539,000 in 2010. It ended up 21.2 percent higher than 2009, an annus terribilis ...
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Folomi, a French company that markets eyewear under the Axebo...
Folomi, a French company that markets eyewear under the Axebo and Laguiole brand names, has reportedly obtained a license for the development and distribution of a line of sunglasses and prescription frames under the John Lennon brand name
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Tony Gray, former director of Carl Zeiss Vision Australia...
Tony Gray, former director of Carl Zeiss Vision Australia and international vice president of sales at Younger Optics, has become chief executive of Essilor Australia New Zealand, replacing Pascal Toneatti who is being assigned to new responsibilities within the Essilor group
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Carve Eyewear of Australia has signed up a local surf...
Carve Eyewear of Australia has signed up a local surf champion, Adam Robertson
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Tifosi Optics, the U.S.-based maker of high-tech eyewear for athletes,...
Tifosi Optics, the U.S.-based maker of high-tech eyewear for athletes, has named Bob Bartlett to the new position of operations manager. His previous experience includes stints with Dunlop Maxfli, Srixon Sports USA, US Kids Golf and PowerBilt Golf. He will be in charge of inside sales and warehouse operations at ...
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Inviting members and non-members, the European Sunglass Association is organizing...
Inviting members and non-members, the European Sunglass Association is organizing its annual conference next May 19-20 at the Green Park Resort in Pisa, Italy. Aside from networking opportunities across the eyewear sector, including sports eyewear, delegates will get market intelligence from GfK, which is going to hold a speech on ...
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Signet Armorlite is circulating the results of a study of...
Signet Armorlite is circulating the results of a study of customers' preferences for different types of progressive lenses, indicating that the wearers preferred Kodak lenses with Vision First Design technology 56 percent more often than five other types of lenses – a preference of more than 2 to 1 over ...
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Brulimar Optical Group has announced a license for a line...
Brulimar Optical Group has announced a license for a line of Ed Hardy eyewear to be distributed in the U.K. and Ireland, starting immediately. Presented at the Optrafair in Birmingham earlier this month, the line features the tattoo symbolism typical of the brand and multi-colored temples with encrusted Swarovski crystals. ...
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The organizers of Mido have announced that next year's show...
The organizers of Mido have announced that next year's show will be held on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, instead of starting on a Friday, to give more time to retailers who don't work on Sundays and Mondays. The fair will run on March 11-13 at the same location as before ...
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Luxottica's German subsidiary has promoted Andrej Murnik to the position...
Luxottica's German subsidiary has promoted Andrej Murnik to the position of sales manager for the German market and hired Christelle Perreaux as marketing director for Germany and Austria
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Two funds take over Hans Anders
Alpha Private Equity Funds 5 and AlpInvest Partners have agreen to take over the leading Dutch optical retailer, Hans Anders Group, from two other funds, Gilde Buy-out Funds and Comnaar Investments. Hans Anders' current chief executive, Patrick Herman, and the chain's chief financial officer, Jan de Groot, are also taking ...
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Salmoiraghi & Viganò had its first open day for the...
Salmoiraghi & Viganò had its first open day for the year on March 14, drawing more than 160 opticians from Southern Italy to Bari to discuss the market and the future of the industry. Market experts and various company executives talked about the recession, customer evolution, retail development, the latest ...
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Walgreens, the huge American drugstore chain, is buying Drugstore.com, parent...
Walgreens, the huge American drugstore chain, is buying Drugstore.com, parent company of VisionDirect.com and other online health and beauty sites. The price was said to be about $409 million. VisionDirect.com sells replacement contact lenses to large chains such as LensCrafters and PearleVision. The deal should close by the end of ...
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A.T. Cross, the American company behind Costa and Native Eyewear...
A.T. Cross, the American company behind Costa and Native Eyewear sunglasses, reports a rise in net income to $1.3 million for the first quarter from $0.2 million in the same period a year ago. Consolidated sales grew by 15.7 percent to $39.8 million, with progress in both of its business ...
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Seiko Optical Products of America, the U.S. division of the...
Seiko Optical Products of America, the U.S. division of the Japanese company, is the new exclusive American distributor for Minima eyewear, the French specialist in beta-titanium rimless eyewear
