All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 14, Issue 10 – Page 2
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Creating a new position, Marchon has appointed a new executive,...
Creating a new position, Marchon has appointed a new executive, Manlio Ciralli, to the position of vice president of international brands, responsible for all the European licenses of the company. Pierre Bessez, former executive vice president of European designer brands, will take on the new role of senior vice president ...
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CooperVision has appointed Juan Carlos Aragon to the newly created...
CooperVision has appointed Juan Carlos Aragon to the newly created position of senior vice president in charge of global professional and clinical affairs, covering both developed and emerging markets. He has been in the sector for nearly three decades. Aragon joined CVI in 2000 after working for Bausch & Lomb ...
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The owners of Bushnell have apparently made some progress in...
The owners of Bushnell have apparently made some progress in their efforts to sell the company with a high capital gain. According to various reports, ATK is in advanced discussions over the acquisition of the American optics company in a deal that would value it at around $1 billion. The ...
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Okia Optical has announced that patents for its revolutionary HDA...
Okia Optical has announced that patents for its revolutionary HDA (High Definition Acetate) technology have been granted in Japan and allowed in Australia, in addition to its existing patents in Hong Kong, China and Italy. HDA is a technology that allows the transformation of textures and colors into crisp high-definition ...
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The American Optometric Society (AOS) has been ordered to cease...
The American Optometric Society (AOS) has been ordered to cease operations and liquidate its assets following the conversion on July 18 by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Central District of California of its bankruptcy case from one under Chapter 11 to one under Chapter 7, as requested by a ...
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Allergan reported double-digit sales and earnings growth for the second...
Allergan reported double-digit sales and earnings growth for the second quarter ended June 30. The diversified health care company reported net earnings of $359.9 million for the quarter, compared with $295.4 million for the second quarter of 2012. Product sales were $1,577.0 million for the quarter, representing a 10.6 percent ...
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Hoya has regained market share, partly aided by discounts
In terms of local currencies, Hoya's sales of eyeglass lenses were up by about 20 percent in Europe, Japan and the rest of Asia in the first quarter of its financial year, ended June 30, as compared to the same period a year ago. These were the areas where its ...
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Filao Paris has signed a distribution agreement for spectacles...
Filao Paris has signed a distribution agreement for spectacles with Deflomas Eyewear for the Italian market
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Safilo Group and Fossil Group have renewed their licensing agreement...
Safilo Group and Fossil Group have renewed their licensing agreement for Fossil branded prescription frames through December 2018. The scope of the agreement has also been extended to include Fossil sunglasses and to give Safilo the right to distribute Fossil eyewear worldwide. The deal was previously limited to the U.S. ...
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David Moulsdale has agreed to make a significant investment in...
David Moulsdale has agreed to make a significant investment in his chain, Optical Express, as part of a settlement of its debts with The Royal Bank of Scotland. According to a local report, Moulsdale owed more than £30 million (€34.8m-$46.5m) to the Scottish bank. The chain closed down 40 stores ...
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Pearle Vision, a division of Luxottica Retail, has agreed to...
Pearle Vision, a division of Luxottica Retail, has agreed to convert 13 company-owned stores in the U.S. to licensed operations. According to VMail, this is part of its plans to license out 34 stores to independent opticians in ten different states and to enlist other licensees. In the longer term, ...
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The London show scene heats up again
Britain's Association of Optometrists (AOP) has partnered with a national trade magazine, Optometry Today (OT), to support 100% Optical, a new eyewear show scheduled to be held in London on Feb. 16-18, 2014. The AOP is set to provide the contents for a continuous education program for its members during the ...
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Google has started an administrative procedure against Glass Up, an...
Google has started an administrative procedure against Glass Up, an Italian start-up based in Modena, over the use of the “Glass Up” brand name, which the American giant considers to be too similar to the name of its own Google Glass product. The Glass Up device, created in 2011 by ...
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Adlens has entered the Chinese market by opening an office...
Adlens has entered the Chinese market by opening an office in Shanghai. Managed by a new director of the Asia-Pacific region, Florence Cheng, the office will be responsible for developing this brand of variable-focus eyewear in the region, to handle wholesale and general sales, and to manage import and export ...
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Specsavers has acquired Healthcall Optical Services, one of the largest...
Specsavers has acquired Healthcall Optical Services, one of the largest providers of eye care for the housebound in the U.K., paying an undisclosed amount. Healthcall sends out its mobile opticians to conduct eye tests at the customer's home or care home free of charge, as the British National Health Service ...
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Schneider has acquired Team Heinrich & Krall, a German manufacturer...
Schneider has acquired Team Heinrich & Krall, a German manufacturer of optical equipment, founded in1992 by Dieter Heinrich and Jürgen Krall, that has developed innovative automated solutions for deblocking, cleaning and tinting ophthalmic lenses. It has around 300 machines installed around the world. Heinrich and Krall will continue as joint ...
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We wrote in the last issue about the way Optometry...
We wrote in the last issue about the way Optometry Giving Sight, a charity dedicated to help poor visually-impaired people, is raising money through cycling and other sports activities. The British Optician magazine says that its editor, Chris Bennett, has raised £1,400 (€1,626-$2,171) for Vision Aid Overseas by completing the 300-mile ...
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The French Senate passed new guidelines on July 24 for...
The French Senate passed new guidelines on July 24 for the reimbursement of eye care expenses by the mutual insurance funds as a complement to those of the social security system, authorizing them to choose the opticians that they want to work with. Some of the guidelines must still be ...
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No growth in the European market since 2008
Overall, the total volume of ophthalmic lenses sold in the last four years has not grown at all in the four major European countries, according to SWW Strategy with Vision (SWV). Mark Mackenzie, who heads up the international consultancy, predicts that the volume will increase at an average annual rate ...
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Essilor expects a payoff for 100% of Transitions
(This article is the same that we have posted in an e-mail blast to our subscribers when the news was announced) Essilor International has announced a widely expected agreement to buy the 51 percent stake it does not have in Transitions Optical from PPG Industries, as well as PPG's 100 ...
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