All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 13, Issue 1-2 – Page 3
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Luxottica books higher-than-expected sales
Luxottica beat market expectations by reporting a 12.1 percent increase in fourth-quarter sales to €1,509 million ina preliminary statement yesterday. On a similar currency basis, turnover rose by 11.2 percent. Revenues were driven by the group's operations in North America and emerging markets. Market expectations were for quarterly sales to ...
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iC! Berlin launched a new collection of glasses at this...
iC! Berlin launched a new collection of glasses at this year's Opti trade show. The collection is called Schubert's Winter Journey, named after the song cycle by the Austrian composer Franz Schubert. The first part of the collection was launched at Opti '12; the second part will be launched during ...
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Brett H. Craig has been named president and chief executive...
Brett H. Craig has been named president and chief executive of PixelOptics, effective immediately. He was the president of Transitions Optical from January 2008 through June 2010, having started with that company in 1999. Ronald Blum, who previously held those titles at PixelOptics, is taking instead the resounding role of ...
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A study that Bausch + Lomb conducted in the U.K....
A study that Bausch + Lomb conducted in the U.K. found that 90 percent of contact lens wearers keep their lenses in longer than they're supposed to. Half of those surveyed admitted that they would keep their lenses in for seven hours longer than advised; about 20 percent said that ...
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Pro Fit Optix, the recently recapitalized optical technology company based...
Pro Fit Optix, the recently recapitalized optical technology company based in Texas and run by Ruedi Suter, has announced that it has changed its name to PFO Global; it unveiled a new logo this week. The company said the new name better represents the company, which now provides eyewear, mobile ...
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Jobson's Optical Business Barometer for December shows a heartening increase...
Jobson's Optical Business Barometer for December shows a heartening increase for the U.S. optical market. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being very negative and 5 being very positive, optical professionals in the U.S. gave the industry a 3.8 rating, up from 3.5 in November and higher ...
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Bausch + Lomb is planning to go back to the...
Bausch + Lomb is planning to go back to the stock market after its acquisition by the Warburg Pincus investment fund in 2008, says Les Echos, a French financial daily, without indicating the timing of the move. It says B+L is investing €3.5 million in its three sites in France, ...
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Julbo broke off with its Austrian distributor Kitz Sportive at...
Julbo broke off with its Austrian distributor Kitz Sportive at the end of last year. Starting this month, the company is managing the distribution of its products in Austria on its own. A new customer service center for the German, Austrian and Swiss markets was set up recently in the ...
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Charmant began to cover the Australian market directly last November,...
Charmant began to cover the Australian market directly last November, but its former distributor in the country, Optical Products, has been named sales support agent by the Japanese group. Charmant said the new structure would allow it to provide the Australian market with advanced products and services, while facilitating its ...
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The Swiss optician Marc-Etienne Berdoz has asked a court to...
The Swiss optician Marc-Etienne Berdoz has asked a court to order the television channel TSR to remove from its website the findings of an inquiry that ranked Berdoz Optic fifth among the best-priced opticians in the country. The Swiss newspaper 24 Heures reports that Berdoz argued that the whole purpose ...
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Bollé has been appointed official eyewear partner of the PGA...
Bollé has been appointed official eyewear partner of the PGA Tour of Australasia for the next two years
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Mister Spex analyses the online market
Dirk Graber, chief executive officer of the German online retailer Mister Spex, appeared at the Opti Forum to present his recently launched multi-channel partnership program with brick-and-mortar opticians – a hybrid business model that is also being followed by big and small companies in France such as Krys or Evioo.com. ...
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Some major firms including Bausch & Lomb, Essilor, Indo, Hoya,...
Some major firms including Bausch & Lomb, Essilor, Indo, Hoya, Menicon, Visibilia and Vistamax will show at Expooptica, the Spanish trade show in Madrid, which will take place on Feb. 17-19 in a new format. The fair will coincide with Optom 2012, a national convention on optometry, conctactology and ophthalmic ...
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Modo Eyewear has a new chief executive for North America....
Modo Eyewear has a new chief executive for North America. Pierre Fay is taking the reins, and will help expand the company in the U.S. and Canada. He was formerly the president for the global e-commerce business of Essilor, and has also held management positions at Luxottica Group. The founder ...
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Oakley has signed up Erik Guay, a Canadian alpine skier,...
Oakley has signed up Erik Guay, a Canadian alpine skier, to an endorsement contract
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Signet Armorlite's license agreement with Kodak will remain intact, despite...
Signet Armorlite's license agreement with Kodak will remain intact, despite the recent announcement that Eastman Kodak has declared bankruptcy. Essilor of America, Signet Armorlite's parent company, told VMail that it will continue to produce, distribute and sell Kodak Lens products. All of those activities are integrated into the operations of ...
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Esprit has renewed its licensing agreement with Charmant Group for...
Esprit has renewed its licensing agreement with Charmant Group for manufacturing and distributing its optical and sun eyewear, continuing a partnership that first began in 1994
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Another experienced Italian manager has joined Alain Mikli International after...
Another experienced Italian manager has joined Alain Mikli International after the nomination of Antonio Bortuzzo as its new chief executive a few months ago. Giuseppe La Boria is now joining the group as its sales and marketing director, a newly created position where he is responsible also for the coordination ...
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L.A. Eyeworks returned to the Opti trade show after a...
L.A. Eyeworks returned to the Opti trade show after a break of three years. Because the company is very successful in France, it has usually been sufficient to exhibit at the Silmo trade show in Paris. However, business in Germany is drifting off a little, so the company decided to ...
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The Advertising Standards Authority in the U.K. has ruled that...
The Advertising Standards Authority in the U.K. has ruled that Specsavers must not air two national ads anymore. Both of the ads, out last year, urged customers to save a specific amount of money on contact lenses by switching from Boots to Specsavers. Boots complained, saying that Specsavers was citing ...
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