All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 14, Issue 1
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PPG sold more optical materials lately
PPG Industries' Optical and Specialty Materials segment improved its earnings by $15 million to $68 million in the fourth quarter of 2012 as its sales rose by 5 percent to $272 million from the comparable period of 2011. Volumes grew by 6 percent thanks to higher sales of optical products, ...
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Logo treads new ground
After creating a sensation with a brand-new image stand at the Silmo show in Paris last October, Logo Eyewear is gearing up to launch two new special lines of licensed eyewear at the next Mido show in Milan. The new product launches follow a major reorganization of the management structure ...
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Made in Germany gains importance
More and more German eyewear companies are relocating their production to Europe. Quality standards and production flexibility are secured without booking large orders when manufacturing “at home.” On the other hand, the “made in Germany” label is regarded as a seal of quality, although it apparently has a bigger impact ...
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Opti show stresses its international focus
Marchon says it is bringing over top international manager from the U.S., Italy and the Netherlands to the Opti 2013 trade show taking place in Munich from Jan. 25 to 27 because it believes that the fair will be useful for exchanging information on an international level and discussing new strategies. ...
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Safilens will use the Opti fair in Munich to launch Ottiko, a...
Safilens will use the Opti fair in Munich to launch Ottiko, a new website for the German-speaking countries that was launched first in Switzerland on Jan. 1. It allows its registered dealers in the region to visualize and select online any of the lenses in the Italian company's range, and to order them with a ...
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Interest grows in The Eye Show
The new trade show, the first to be held in London Feb. 12-14, will showcase the collections of more than 100 companies, including big names such as Marchon, Menrad, Hoya, Shamir, Coopervision, Lindberg, Cutler & Gross and William Morris London. The organizers said they had 112 exhibitors booked with 75 ...
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Pearle Vision plans to expand in the U.S. this year,...
Pearle Vision plans to expand in the U.S. this year, while converting some stores from corporate owned shops to franchises. VMail reports that Pearle, a Luxottica Retail company, is looking at converting 34 of its stores out of its 622 locations in the U.S., 266 of which are company-run. Among ...
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European manufacturers focus on quality
Competition in the global marketplace, combined with difficult economic conditions at home, are pushing small and medium-sized European eyewear manufacturers to focus heavily on the quality of their products, with a marketing strategy based on the tradition of excellence for which their countries are renowned. This has been the case ...
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Essilor and PPG reconsider Transitions joint venture
Essilor and PPG Industries have disclosed that they are currently in talks regarding the future of their joint venture, Transitions Optical, which is the biggest supplier of photochromic lenses to optical manufacturers in the world and a consolidated subsidiary of PPG.According to PPG, the outcome of the discussions with Essilor remains, at this ...
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Marchon Eyewear has set up a new sales division that...
Marchon Eyewear has set up a new sales division that will be focusing only on servicing the sporting goods sector in the Europe,Middle Eastand Africa (EMEA) region. It will notably handle sales of performance sunglasses and snow goggles for its long-standing Nike Vision license, as well as action sports sunglasses ...
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A.T. Cross has said that it expects to meet its...
A.T. Cross has said that it expects to meet its guidance of earnings per share of 70 cents for 2012, against 64 cents in 2011, mainly due to strong sales of its Native and Costa eyewear. Both Costa and Native are designed, produced and marketed by the Cross Optical Group, a wholly ...
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Essilor makes moves in fast-growing countries
In its bid to make its presence felt in fast-growing emerging markets, Essilor has established new partnerships in Colombia, Turkey, China and North Africa.In Colombia, the French company has signed an agreement to take a 51 percent stake in Servi Optica, one of the largest prescription laboratories in South America. ...
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Delfin, the holding company of Leonardo Del Vecchio and his...
Delfin, the holding company of Leonardo Del Vecchio and his family, which is registered in Luxembourg, reportedly had a net profit of €436 million back in 2011, or 17.9 percent less than in 2010, although its operating profit improved by €109 million to €802 million. The company closed the financial year ...
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Coastal Contacts goes hybrid in the U.S.
The Canadian online retailer of contact lenses and prescription frames says it obtained good results from a test conducted with a chain of optical retail stores in the U.S. that agreed to conduct eye exams on some of its local customers. Without naming the chain, Coastal Contacts said it has ...
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Prescription Eyewear: A clear online strategy in Europe
The recent takeover of LensOn by Prescription Eyewear, which we reported about in the last issue of Eyewear Intelligence, was an important step in the British company's strategy of acting as a major online retailer with a comprehensive range of optical products on an international scale, with a leadership in ...
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Christian Dehn is leaving the laboratory of Schulz Optische Fabrik in...
Christian Dehn is leaving the laboratory of Schulz Optische Fabrik in Glücksburg, Germany. After three years of restructuring the company, Dehn will be assuming a new post in the management of a company outside the optical industry. The Michael Pachleitner Group (MPG), which owns the German laboratory, has seized the opportunity to ...
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Shamir exec chosen to lead Vision Council
The Vision Council elected its newest chairman, Raana Naftalovich of Shamir Insight, at its recent annual executive summit in Florida. The executive has been active with the American organization for many years, and has been chairman of its Lens Division, Finance Committee and Statistics Committee. Taking the place of James ...
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Zeiss' board of directors has extended the contracts of Dr....
Zeiss' board of directors has extended the contracts of Dr. Michael Kaschke, chief executive, and Thomas Spitzenpfeil, chief financial officer, for an additional five years, from Oct. 1, 2013, to Oct. 1, 2018. Kaschke has been on the company's executive board since October 2000. He was named Zeiss' chief executive ...
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Borsalino Eyewear will be distributed in Korea and “Big China”...
Borsalino Eyewear will be distributed in Korea and “Big China” – the Republic of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan - by a Korean company, Miottica. The exclusive distribution agreement for these markets was signed by Brands O.I., which produces Borsalino and Miottica Korea eyewear. Under the terms of the five-year ...
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Jim Greenwood has been named the president and chief operating...
Jim Greenwood has been named the president and chief operating officer of Vision Source, an optometric alliance based in Texas. He will report to Glenn Ellisor, the company's chief executive and founder. He comes from Concentra, where he was CEO for the last five years. He joined that company in ...
