All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 14, Issue 13-14 – Page 2
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Poc Sweden, a specialist in creative sports helmets, is investing...
Poc Sweden, a specialist in creative sports helmets, is investing more in its eyewear line, which was first presented at the Mido show in Milan last year. It has hired a new global marketing director for its eyewear business unit, Jonas Söderqvist, replacing Sarah Laurell in this function. The 40-year-old ...
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Reed Exhibitions and The Vision Council, organizers of the International…
Reed Exhibitions and The Vision Council, organizers of the International Vision Expo East and West shows in the U.S., announced a multi-year partnership with the British Contact Lens Association to develop a Global Contact Lens Forum, which will make its debut next March 26 and 27 during the fair in ...
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Strong growth for Costa
Sales grew by 26.3 percent to $24.6 million in the third quarter ended Sept. 28 at Costa Inc., the company that owns the Costa and Native brands of sunglasses. They rose by 24.1 percent for sunglasses and by 46.6 percent for the company's lines of accessories and apparel.Costa Inc. is ...
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Novacel, the large French laboratory controlled by Essilor, will move...
Novacel, the large French laboratory controlled by Essilor, will move into Germany and Austria from January 2014. More details will be announced during the Opti 2014 trade show to be held in Munich on Jan. 10-12. Novacel recorded total sales of €80 million in 2012 and expects them to increase ...
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Mykita sells online, launches shop-in-shop concept
Mykita, which has been selling glasses hand-made in Berlin since 2003, launched a new shop-in-shop concept, Mykita Furniture, at Silmo. The company had a separate stand at the trade show, held in Paris on Sept. 26-29, in order to present freestanding units that can be ordered by premium clients or ...
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Samsung has registered a patent for wearable computer glasses that...
Samsung has registered a patent for wearable computer glasses that are connected to a smartphone, which might be its answer to Google Glass wearable devices. The patent has been categorized as a type of “sports glasses.” It states that the device will allow users to take phone calls and listen ...
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Karavan Production, the French company that sells high-end optical and...
Karavan Production, the French company that sells high-end optical and solar frames, has changed name and become Karavan & Co. The company designs and produces a wide range of adult and children's frames and distributes its products in France, Europe and abroad. The new identity is said to better represent ...
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Zeal Optics has come out with a special line of...
Zeal Optics has come out with a special line of sunglasses with frames in biodegradable stainless steel frames, called Street Metals, inspired by rock bands. The material comes from buildings damaged in the nuclear disaster around Fukushima. The temples use Ace, Zeal's patented biodegradable cotton developed with Mazzucchelli.
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Colmar and Italia Independent join forces
Italia Independent has launched a co-branding initiative with Colmar, an Italian sportswear brand. The two companies will showcase models specifically designed for their respective mono-brand stores – seven stores in Italy and two in South Korea for Colmar, and 40 shop-in-shop corners for Italia Independent, with another 22 in the ...
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Lunettes Grasset presented the first collection of prescription frames and...
Lunettes Grasset presented the first collection of prescription frames and sunglasses under the recently acquired licensed for the Tara Jarmon brand at this year's Silmo trade show in Paris. The collection includes 60 models in total, 30 sunglasses and 30 prescription frames. The sunglasses will be sold by Tara Jarmon's ...
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Rodenstock is cooperating with Claudia Schiffer, the German top model,...
Rodenstock is cooperating with Claudia Schiffer, the German top model, in the development of a new eyewear collection of prescription frames and sunglasses. The full collection, to be called ‘Claudia Schiffer by Rodenstock', will be presented for the first time during Opti 2014 in Munich and will be available worldwide ...
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Opal plans to set up a subsidiary in China in...
Opal plans to set up a subsidiary in China in 2014. Last July, the French company established a subsidiary in Germany. The company has taken over the distribution in a few other markets: In Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands and Germany, sales agents hired by Opal will take care of sales, ...
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Mathias Schmidt, chief executive of Essilor Germany, left the company...
Mathias Schmidt, chief executive of Essilor Germany, left the company at his own request at the beginning of October. Bernhard Nüsser, senior vice president for Central and Northern Europe, has assumed the post of chief executive of the German subsidiary on an interim basis.
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Nau!, a fast-growing Italian chain of franchised stores, has just...
Nau!, a fast-growing Italian chain of franchised stores, has just launched its online shop, www.nau.it, in Italian and English, and is considering possible master franchising agreements abroad. The company currently has 28 optical outlets, mainly in northern Italy, but it plans to have 60 in place by the end of ...
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Dita Eyewear won the Silmo d'Or in the category of...
Dita Eyewear won the Silmo d'Or in the category of optical frames for its TB-011 model out of its new Thom Browne collection. Thom Browne, a menswear designer, signed a global licensing agreement with Dita Eyewear in June 2011. The second collection, comprising 30 styles, was already launched at Mido ...
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Nidek, a Japanese company that carries out some of its...
Nidek, a Japanese company that carries out some of its R&D in Italy, has won a Silmo d'Or award for the ARK-IS, an auto-refracto-kermatometer with new functions for the acquisition of objective refraction parameters, simultaneously measuring central refraction and periphery. Using a 3D tracking system and an auto-shot, it allows ...
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Justus Felix Wehmer is the new chief executive of Carl...
Justus Felix Wehmer is the new chief executive of Carl Zeiss Jena since Oct. 1. He takes over the responsibilities and tasks of Peter Popp, former CEO and commercial director of this subsidiary of the Carl Zeiss group, who left the company at his own request. Together with Thomas Polzer, ...
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Rodenstock has launched a digital marketing campaign in five countries...
Rodenstock has launched a digital marketing campaign in five countries for its range of computer spectacles. The core of the campaign is a special website, relax-your-eyes.com, which was launched on Oct. 10 for World Sight Day, a global event organized by communities, associations and non-government organizations, which work with the ...
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New markets and brands for the Rem-Mondottica joint venture
REM Eyewear is expanding its collaboration with Mondottica U.K. on the distribution front. In 2011 the two companies set up a joint venture, Remdottica, to distribute the Converse eyewear collections in the U.K., Ireland, the Netherlands, France and Spain. Given the success of the operation, the two companies have decided ...
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+++ Götti, the Swiss eyewear brand that owns the Swiss...
+++ Götti, the Swiss eyewear brand that owns the Swiss lens manufacturer Eyetech, has signed a new distribution agreement for China with Shanghai Corris +++
