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Oakley has a new sales manager at its Swedish subsidiary...
Oakley has a new sales manager at its Swedish subsidiary in charge of the Scandinavian countries. He is Jonas Sund, formerly in charge of sales in Scandinavia and Finland for Rip Curl, an Australian brand with which he has been connected for 12 years, first as an agent and then ...
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Ten years of restructuring for South Korea’s optical industry
We complete our focus on South Korea (Eyewear Intelligence Vol. 13, No. 8+9) with some official industry statistics that we have obtained since our last issue. One concerns the exceptional 70 percent growth in the country's exports of ophthalmic optic products between 2005 and 2010, from $282 million to $479 ...
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Top Vision Group recovers from a fire
The Dutch supplier of store displays for optical frames and sunglasses, which counts some 3,000 optical retail stores all over Europe among its clients, suffered a big fire that completely destroyed its headquarters, factory and warehouse on May 12. None of its 30 employees were injured in the accident, which ...
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Good figures from Specsavers
Specsavers pursued its double-digit sales growth in the latest financial year, ended in February. The big international optical retail group reported a few days ago a 10.9 percent increase to £1.7 billion (€2.12bn-$2.65bn) worldwide, after booking a 10.3 percent in the previous year to £1.5 billion.Sales grew by 4.4 percent ...
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New eyewear show to be held in London
Optrafair, the British eyewear show held every other year in Birmingham, is getting fresh competition from a new event called The Eye Show, which is scheduled to run on Feb. 12-14, 2013, in the ExCel exhibition and conference center of London.Dawn Kime, who has 22 years of experience organizing similar ...
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Italy’s Optovista supports opticians hit by the earthquake
Optovista, an Italian supplier of ophthalmic lenses, has announced that it will take practical measures to help optometrists in the Northern Italian region of Emilia, following the earthquake that repeatedly hit the area between the end of May and the beginning of June.Optovista is based in Calderara di Reno, a ...
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Mondottica USA will start distributing Pepe Jeans Eyewear through an...
Mondottica USA will start distributing Pepe Jeans Eyewear through an exclusive multi-year agreement; the brand will make its debut at International Vision Expo West in September
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John Perkins, joint managing director of Specsavers, was one of...
John Perkins, joint managing director of Specsavers, was one of the company's 15 staff members to complete two 55-mile charity bike rides around London recently. The company dubbed the event “the Tour de Specsavers”; it raised more than £1,000 (€1,250-$1,560) for Volunteer Reading Help, a London charity that helps children ...
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Optiswiss has reportedly developed a new nanotechnological sputtering process to...
Optiswiss has reportedly developed a new nanotechnological sputtering process to apply many layers of anti-reflective coatings and others on both sides of the lens. Its Optiplas Dual + system adds a hydrophobic coating on the outer side and an oleophobic treatment on the inner side of the lens, in addition ...
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De Rigo Vision is opening a subsidiary in Sunrise, Florida,...
De Rigo Vision is opening a subsidiary in Sunrise, Florida, to strengthen its presence in the U.S. De Rigo Vision USA should be up and running by September. It will take care of sales of De Rigo eyewear and sunglasses through opticians throughout the U.S. The new subsidiary will be ...
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CooperVision continues to outperform the market
CooperVision's sales grew by 5 percent to $288.0 million in the second quarter ended April 30, up by 6 percent in local currencies. In three categories that represent 61 percent of the company's turnover – multifocal, toric and single-use spherical lenses – its revenues increased by 12 percent, double the ...
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European contact lens wearers upgrade
Sales of multifocal contact lenses grew by 7 percent in value in the optical retail stores of the five major European countries during the 12-month period ended last April, according to the monthly census conducted by GfK through its retail panel, but they still represented only 5.8 percent of the ...
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Contact lenses can now measure glycemia in diabetics. A team...
Contact lenses can now measure glycemia in diabetics. A team of researchers from the University of Akron in the United States has developed a product that can read the level of blood glucose contained in the wearer's tears. If it is too high, the lens changes color, warning the wearer ...
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Italia Independent has opened its fourth Italian concept store in...
Italia Independent has opened its fourth Italian concept store in the city of Bergamo. The company claims that the other three stores – in Alassia, Alessandria and Courmayeur – have had excellent results. The group's network of shop-in-shops inside independent optical stores is also giving good results, the plan being ...
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Tura, the U.S. company owned by Eschenbach, has signed a...
Tura, the U.S. company owned by Eschenbach, has signed a multi-year licensing agreement to make ophthalmic eyewear for the American Geoffrey Beene fashion brand. The collection should come out in spring of next year.
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David Homberg, who runs Highmark, the parent company of Viva...
David Homberg, who runs Highmark, the parent company of Viva International, has been named “Man of Vision” for this year because of his involvement in numerous charitable actions. Under him, the company has donated more than $42 million to help poor people in Texas obtain eye care.
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Oakley has extended its partnership with the U.S. Olympic Committee...
Oakley has extended its partnership with the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) through 2020, including the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. U.S. candidates for Team USA competing in the London Olympics starting next month have been wearing Oakley eyewear. Proceeds from the ...
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While looking for possible collaborations with similar groups in other...
While looking for possible collaborations with similar groups in other countries, Optic Libre has started to support its retail members in France with two commercial TV spots. They have been running since May 21 on LCI, a French news channel. Run by Jean-Luc Sélignan, a former top executive of GrandVision, ...
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Melchert F. Groot and Jeffrey A. Cole have resigned from...
Melchert F. Groot and Jeffrey A. Cole have resigned from their positions as members of the board of Safilo Group, effective Monday. Luisa Deplazes de Andrade Delgado has been named as their replacement for a three-year term. Groot is the executive director of Hal Holding, and Cole is the former ...
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Carl Zeiss Vision gets interactive
Having redesigned its presence on the internet, Carl Zeiss Vision relaunched its website on May 7. Aside from a new look and structure, it offers new content, addressing existing and potential clients at the retail level and among the general public.Opticians get an innovative form of sales support. Those who ...
