All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 12, Issue 7 – Page 2
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Nouveau Eyewear has signed a contract with a French distributor,...
Nouveau Eyewear has signed a contract with a French distributor, Lunetterie Parisienne, for the sale in the country of the lines from its Nickelodeon collection bearing the names of three comics characters, Dora the Explorer, Go Diego Go! and SpongeBob SquarePants. These feature colorful prescription frames and sunglasses for children. ...
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Mister Spex got the fourth prize as the fastest-growing company...
Mister Spex got the fourth prize as the fastest-growing company in the European digital media economy at the Media Momentum CEO Summit in Barcelona earlier this month. Founded in 2007, Mister Spex enjoyed growth of nearly 400 percent between 2008 and 2010. It reached a turnover of €11 million in ...
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The new website of the German company Mykita is now...
The new website of the German company Mykita is now available in Japanese as well as in German and English. Consumers can get information on the company's new collections, stores and its new campaign by Mark Borthwick. A blog will be frequently updated.
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Giovanni Marcolin Coffen no longer controls Inmar, the family holding...
Giovanni Marcolin Coffen no longer controls Inmar, the family holding company that owns 25.04 percent of Marcolin. The change follows a reshuffle of voting rights among shareholders conducted on April 28. It was reported by Consob, the watchdog of the Italian stock exchange.
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ClearVision Optical has signed a global licensing deal with Marc...
ClearVision Optical has signed a global licensing deal with Marc Ecko Enterprises that will have the U.S. company designing and selling eyewear under the brands Marc Ecko Cut & Sew, Ecko Unltd and Marc Ecko Red. The Cut & Sew label will be the first released under the new, multi-year ...
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Toni Elias, the Spanish motorcycling champion who recently joined the...
Toni Elias, the Spanish motorcycling champion who recently joined the LCR Honda MotoGP team, is the new face of Charmant's Puma Eyewear line
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Xavier Fontanet, chairman of Essilor International, told shareholders at the...
Xavier Fontanet, chairman of Essilor International, told shareholders at the annual meeting that the time seems to have come for the company's current chief executive, Hubert Sagnières, take over his place and become chairman and CEO. The move will be discussed at the next meetings of the board of directors ...
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Delker Optik, a German chain of optical retail stores, is...
Delker Optik, a German chain of optical retail stores, is investing €1 million to build a new head office and laboratory at Eisenberg. It should become operative next November. Delker has also hired new collaborators to expand the activities of its web shop, which went online at the end of ...
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Cecop has made public its intention to double its membership...
Cecop has made public its intention to double its membership in the U.K. by the end of this year. After signing up 160 British opticians, the international buying group took a stand at last month's Optrafair in Birmingham, where Boots and Specsavers were also wooing new retail franchisees and partners. ...
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New head at Carl Zeiss Vision
Raymund Heinen is the new top manager of Carl Zeiss Vision (CZV) since May 16, taking the place of Michael Hoffmann who has left the group by mutual consent after less than two years in the post. Michael Kaschke, president of the whole Carl Zeiss AG group, will participate in ...
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Fielding Eyewear, a U.S. company specializing in camouflage eyewear for...
Fielding Eyewear, a U.S. company specializing in camouflage eyewear for shooting and other purposes that was recently acquired by Sportsquest, has picked Jim Spangler to be its new vice president for marketing and brand development. Formerly he was the president of World Axis Group, an advertising agency in the state ...
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Shamir buy an Italian lab to cope with growth
The deal, announced on Oct. 15, 2010, under which Essilor International will buy 50 percent of Shamir Optical Industry has been approved by all relevant authorities in Europe but still has to undergo clearance in Israel and the U.S. The Israeli lens producer remains confident the deal will be completed ...
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Pierre Fay, the president for the e-commerce business at Essilor...
Pierre Fay, the president for the e-commerce business at Essilor International on a global basis, has left the company, VMail reports. He will be pursuing other interests. Fay joined the company last spring to take up the newly created position, overseeing FramesDirect and the MyOnlineOptical business of Essilor of America. ...
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Brulimar forms a joint venture in India
Joint ventures can be a useful business model for entering one of the fast-growing emerging markets around the world.Brulimar Optical Group of the U.K. has formed a joint venture with its Indian distributor, Global Vision, to tap into the demand for branded fashion in India and the Middle East. Under ...
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Bridgepoint Capital indicates that it has started a strategic review...
Bridgepoint Capital indicates that it has started a strategic review that may lead it to cash out of its majority stake of 57 percent in Alain Afflelou. The investment fund is studying several options including a sale of the shares or a return to the stock exchange for the French ...
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The Theo brand is launching a new limited edition line,...
The Theo brand is launching a new limited edition line, Matheo, a collection of four titanium frames and four plastic frames in black accented with fluorescent-colored mathematical symbols such as equals, greater than and absolute value
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Blue Shark Optics, a provider of eyewear for poker, has...
Blue Shark Optics, a provider of eyewear for poker, has become a sponsor and the official eyewear of the World Series of Poker
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Big slump and concentration in Hungary
Participants in the Optika Hungary show last month said they were trying to find a way out of a big slump in the market through more specialized knowledge and better qualification of the sales personnel, as it's getting hard to sell their products. While there are no official figures, industry ...
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The London Eye Hospital has performed the first-ever bifocal light...
The London Eye Hospital has performed the first-ever bifocal light adjustable lens surgery, where a light adjustable lens is implanted after a clear lens extraction or cataract surgery. The new lens can be adjusted according to each patient, and corrects for both hyperopia and myopia with one lens. It is ...
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A Spanish study confirms the need for better vision correction...
A Spanish study confirms the need for better vision correction for safer driving, which has been expressed to European authorities by Eurom 1, the European optical industry association. The study found out that 24 percent of the people who drive a car, or a total of 6 million Spaniards, have ...
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