All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 12, Issue 7 – Page 3
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Gargoyles Performance Eyewear, which belongs to FGX International, has signed...
Gargoyles Performance Eyewear, which belongs to FGX International, has signed an endorsement deal with Adrian Gonzalez, first baseman of the Boston Red Sox
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Manuel Martin has been made chief financial officer of Menicon...
Manuel Martin has been made chief financial officer of Menicon Europe, after three years spent as CFO of a major Spanish real estate company
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Rob Robillard, formerly the chief executive at the beauty company...
Rob Robillard, formerly the chief executive at the beauty company Living Proof, is the new CEO at Zoom Eyeworks; Jeff Linden will continue to serve as president and chief operating officer
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Ciba Vision has settled a complaint from Bausch + Lomb...
Ciba Vision has settled a complaint from Bausch + Lomb that its advertisements claimed, incorrectly, that its solutions were better at fighting Acanthamoeba than ReNu MultiPlus by Bausch + Lomb. Ciba Vision will stop running the ads, which were based on research that was published in the Journal of Clinical ...
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Shelly Bansal's one-year term as president of the British Contact...
Shelly Bansal's one-year term as president of the British Contact Lens Association has been extended for one more year before Catherine Chisholm takes his place in May 2012
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Vision-Ease Lens is buying a cast resin factory in Bangkok...
Vision-Ease Lens is buying a cast resin factory in Bangkok as part of its effort to expand in Asia. The plant, which it is buying from Indelor Lens (Thailand) Company Ltd. (Indo) once governmental and other conditions are met, will help Vision-Ease expand its ability to make advanced technology and ...
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Atol, a French opticians' cooperative, reports that a total of...
Atol, a French opticians' cooperative, reports that a total of six outlets have already been opened as part of its Archipel project, which helps young opticians to finance the start-up of relatively large stores that would otherwise be beyond their means. The cooperative, which expects to reach a total of ...
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The German optical retailers' association, ZVA, has struck a strategic...
The German optical retailers' association, ZVA, has struck a strategic agreement with www.brillenanprobe.be, a German internet portal for virtual try-ons of spectacles. ZVA plans to make its services available to more than 6,000 retailers and up to 2 million customers this year, creating the biggest internet portal for German end ...
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ASPs go up in Germany
An increase in the average selling prices of the spectacles they sold allowed German opticians to record a 2.8 percent increase in their overall revenues in 2010, breaking the €4 billion threshold and reaching an estimated level of €4.01 billion, according to their national federation, ZVA.Instead, the number of spectacles ...
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Vanni is calling on young Italian artists to participate in...
Vanni is calling on young Italian artists to participate in the third edition of its Autofocus program, giving them maximum freedom of creation to develop new styles that will be displayed at its showroom in Turin during a contemporary art exhibition next November
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Maui Jim announced the sponsorship of Gaël Monfils, currently ranking...
Maui Jim announced the sponsorship of Gaël Monfils, currently ranking as the best French professional tennis player, just before the Roland Garros tennis tournament in Paris. The American brand of sunglasses will announce another tennis sponsorship in the next days. Two other ambassadors of the brand are a famous tennis ...
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Anfao, the Italian Association of Optical Goods Manufacturers, had a...
Anfao, the Italian Association of Optical Goods Manufacturers, had a presence at the Vision X show held May 24-26 in Dubai. Thirteen Italian companies exhibited at the show, considered the most important eyewear event in the Middle East. Anfao is working to boost the presence of Italian companies in the ...
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Annett Strüwing boosts the management of Johnson & Johnson Vision...
Annett Strüwing boosts the management of Johnson & Johnson Vision Care in Germany as marketing manager for Acuvue in the country
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Bob Bartlett, a veteran of the American golf industry, becomes...
Bob Bartlett, a veteran of the American golf industry, becomes operations manager of Tifosi Optics, a new position within the U.S. company
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Rudy Project North America has revamped its website, rudyprojectusa.com, and...
Rudy Project North America has revamped its website, rudyprojectusa.com, and it now features “Click to Brick,” which allows consumers to construct and buy custom frames that will be shipped to their eye care professional for pick-up
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New French online retailer has big ambitions
The new group, called Sensee, is aiming to be the French leader in online sales of eyeglasses, sunglasses and contact lenses through major investments, strong management know-how and a declared program to cut in half the French customer's bill for identical optical products.The man behind the new Sensee project, whose ...
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Vision Aid Overseas is putting out a special issue of...
Vision Aid Overseas is putting out a special issue of its publication Sight for Sore Eyes in honor of the group's 25th anniversary. It includes the history of Vision Aid Overseas, written by Brian Ellis, the founding chairman. It is downloadable from www.vao.org.uk. The group has also signed a deal ...
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The recession affected the Czech market, too
While sales of sunglasses are declining or stagnating in the Czech Republic, more and more people are wearing contact lenses in the country, according to Jirí Los, managing director of the country's biggest eyewear retailer, Fokus Optik. Contact lenses are also considered to be more fashionable, especially among women, who ...
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Specsavers' latest television ads feature a myopic astronaut preparing to...
Specsavers' latest television ads feature a myopic astronaut preparing to return to earth. What he thinks is a Florida runway, however, turns out to be Luton Airport.
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Transitions' photochromic technology has been adopted by Lazer, a Belgian...
Transitions' photochromic technology has been adopted by Lazer, a Belgian supplier of motorcycling helmets, for its Solfx line of products, which is being marketed with immediate effect all over Europe
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