All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 14, Issue 11-12
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New MD and many new lines for Mondottica
Mondottica International has announced licensing agreements in the last few days for several interesting new eyewear collections. Added to the numerous other lines in its portfolio, they should help this relatively young company, based in Hong Kong, to raise its turnover by around 30 percent next year.One of the new ...
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Higher profits for HAL
In the first six months of 2013, the optical retail companies that belong to HAL Holding registered sales increases of 1.2 percent on a same-store basis and 2.2 percent including new stores but excluding acquisitions and the effect of changes in currency exchange rates.In absolute terms, their sales went up ...
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Zeal Optics releases the world’s greenest sunglasses
Zeal Optics, an American company known for its environmental-friendly sunglasses, has announced the release of the world's first biodegradable sunglasses. Called Ace, the range has been developed over the past two years in collaboration with Mazzucchelli, a leading Italian supplier of eyewear components, from cotton grown in the U.S. The ...
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Hoet is launching a style of frames in titanium with...
Hoet is launching a style of frames in titanium with 3D laser printing
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Ocuco has filed a new request with the U.S. Patent...
Ocuco has filed a new request with the U.S. Patent Office in relation to technological claims for the development of back-surface free-form progressive lenses. The company had already asked to review a patent by Seiko Epson. This time it is questioning the patent numbered 6,078,713 obtained by Carl Zeiss Vision ...
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Fielmann reports further progress
While the rest of the optical retail sector in Germany suffered a 2 percent decline in the number of glasses sold during the first half of 2013, Fielmann managed to raise its unit sales by 2 percent to 3.52 million pairs. Including VAT, its external sales grew by 3.7 percent ...
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Vunetic, a new type of front-connection magnetic eyewear, will make...
Vunetic, a new type of front-connection magnetic eyewear, will make its world debut at the Silmo 2013 trade show in Paris. Designed in the U.S. by Ron Lando, Vunetic is described as a patented luxury product, completely manufactured in Italy from fine frame materials and the highest standards in quality ...
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Essilor loses market share, profit is still high
Essilor International achieved stronger growth in the second quarter ended June 30 than in the first one, and the company reached a record profit margin for the first half. However, the growth is expected to decelerate in the second half of the year because of the termination of contracts with ...
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Essilor sees stronger growth in the medium segment
In spite of its temporary slowdown, Essilor International is enjoying an acceleration in the medium segment of the ophthalmic market, which it says is growing faster than other segments because of growing demand in emerging markets.According to company officials, the overall market is rising at rates of only 1 to ...
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Randazzo outlines its environmental savings
The Randazzo Group, an Italian optical retail group with 189 stores trading under the Optissimo and Corner Optique banners, has been experimenting in the past three years with a green business project – called “Zero Impact” – intended to provide significant savings in energy consumption and waste treatment. It has ...
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France is not the only country where opticians are said...
France is not the only country where opticians are said to be making windfall profits. ZVA, the German optical retailers' federation, has criticized a highly publicized article in a leading German magazine, Der Stern, which suggests that some opticians are overcharging their customers. It alleges that they generate gross margins ...
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Higher raw material costs are leading Evonik Industries to raise...
Higher raw material costs are leading Evonik Industries to raise the sales price of products from its Acrylic Monomers business line by €95 per metric tons in Europe by Oct. 1, unless otherwise specific contractually
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Leclerc is launching a new online sales platform for contact...
Leclerc is launching a new online sales platform for contact lenses, starting off with the ones that it already sells through its physical stores. The French cooperative of supermarkets already counts 69 specialty optical stores in its domestic market, called Leclerc Optique, and optical counters in some 300 supermarket stores. ...
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Luneau Technology, the French-based company that develops, manufactures and markets...
Luneau Technology, the French-based company that develops, manufactures and markets Briot and Weco edgers and Visionix refraction and diagnostic equipment, has made an unspecified capital investment in Latham & Phillips Ophthalmic, a service company based in Columbus, Ohio. Luneau says the move is expected to expand the visibility of the ...
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Okia is putting out a collection of HAD frames, targeting...
Okia is putting out a collection of HAD frames, targeting youngsters, that are inspired from the bright prints and other elements of sneakers
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Coastal is selling more glasses, online and offline
Coastal Contacts is developing an international network of physical stores after experimenting with temporary kiosks in shopping centers and more permanent stores operated by its LensWay subsidiary in Sweden over the past eight years. The big Canadian-based online retailer, which has been diversifying its offer from contact lenses to corrective ...
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Cirillo Marcolin, who was re-elected president of the Italian eyewear...
Cirillo Marcolin, who was re-elected president of the Italian eyewear industry association (Anfao) and Mido in July, has finished his mandate of president of Fiamp, an Italian industry federation that group's Anfao and other associations dealing with shoes, handbags, jewelry, furs and other personal fashion accessories. Astrid Galimberti, managing director ...
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Starting tomorrow, the Silmo show near Paris' Charles de Gaulle...
Starting tomorrow, the Silmo show near Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport will welcome visitors to new spaces designed to provide more information about exhibiting brands and the style trends. A “Fashion Style” area in Hall 6 will show the combination of clothing with eyewear on a podium through about 100 ...
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Charity cycle rides in the U.K.
A series of cycling challenges have been boosting donations to charities in the U.K. this summer. A British optometrist, Gordon Ilett, cycled 500 miles from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, via the Pyrenees, and raised £520 (€616-$832) for the fundraising initiative “Optoms Cycling for Sight.” Sponsored by Zeiss, the initiative, now ...
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Rodenstock had a positive reaction to its roadshow, called ‘System...
Rodenstock had a positive reaction to its roadshow, called ‘System of a Better Vision,' which toured around 20 German cities from June 3 to 11 and attracted 2,000 visitors, interested in the company's latest product news. The show toured in a two-story mobile house, the so-called ‘House of a Better Vision,' ...
