All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 14, Issue 15-16 – Page 2
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Safilo has opened a new showroom in the center of...
Safilo has opened a new showroom in the center of Milan and its tenth Solstice Sunglasses boutique in New York. The new 370-square-meter showroom, inaugurated on Nov. 14, is located at via Manzoni 38, in a prestigious building. The showroom has been relocated from its previous address in via Montenapoleone, ...
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Trevi-Coliseum, an eyewear manufacturer in the Cadore district of Italy,...
Trevi-Coliseum, an eyewear manufacturer in the Cadore district of Italy, will make eyewear for Ottici Associati, an Italian buying group of retailers, to be sold under its private label, Ottica Italiana 2.0, which has been completely revamped. Ottici Associati, which federates more than 400 shops, has also another house brand ...
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Essilor and FGX buy sunglass firms in China and Canada
Essilor International has acquired a 50 percent stake in Xiamen Yarui Optical Company, China's leading supplier of mid-range sunglasses. The company designs and manufactures non-prescription sunglasses that are sold in China under various brands, including Bolon and Molsion, two of the country's best known brands of sunglasses. In 2012, Xiamen ...
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CVI is bullish in spite of a mixed quarter
The growth of CooperVision (CVI) softened in its fourth quarter, ended on Oct. 31, but this did not prevent the company from growing nearly twice as fast as the global market for soft contact lenses.CVI's sales went up by 3 percent to $327.1 million in the fourth quarter, up by ...
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John Lewis, a British chain of department stores, is said...
John Lewis, a British chain of department stores, is said to be considering setting up optical counters and opening restaurants, barber's shops and postal services at 30 of its locations. Asda, the supermarket chain owned by Walmart, already has many optical counters in its stores.
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Professor Brien Holden, the outgoing executive chair of Optometry Giving...
Professor Brien Holden, the outgoing executive chair of Optometry Giving Sight (OGS), has been presented with the organization's inaugural Humanitarian Award, in recognition of his contribution in support of global efforts to eliminate avoidable blindness and impaired vision and reduce the disability, poverty and lack of opportunity associated with vision ...
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Optimax, the British laser eye surgery company that bought Ultralase...
Optimax, the British laser eye surgery company that bought Ultralase a year ago, has placed the latter in administration, a form of bankruptcy protection from creditors, but declared that its patients will continue to be cared for. Ultralase has not been profitable for many years and is likely to be ...
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Munich, the Spanish brand of sneakers and futsal boots, is...
Munich, the Spanish brand of sneakers and futsal boots, is reportedly launching its first collection of eyewear, produced by a Spanish company called Optim. The line is starting off with a series of prescription frames that are being marketed in Spain by Optica Universitaria on an exclusive basis. Munich saw ...
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Better margins for Zeiss’ vision business
The Vision Care segment of Carl Zeiss recorded a slight sales decline to €841 million for the financial year ended last Sept. 30, down from €860 million in the prior year. Without providing any details, the group indicated that was a satisfactory development in view of a difficult market environment ...
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CORRECTION: Marcolin has not become the third-largest producer of eyeglasses...
CORRECTION: Marcolin has not become the third-largest producer of eyeglasses and sunglasses following its acquisition of Viva International, as incorrectly stated in the previous issue of Eyewear Intelligence and some other publications. In fact, even after this acquisition, Marchon Eyewear, which is part of a much larger group involved in ...
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Mido has won the first edition of the Exhibitionist Award...
Mido has won the first edition of the Exhibitionist Award (sic) for special exhibition areas at trade fairs for the “Piazza” of the Fashion District at last year's Mido trade show. The award has been created by Fondazione Fiera Milano and other institutions including the Milan Chamber of Commerce.
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Daniele Voltini is leaving as chief executive of Avanzi, the...
Daniele Voltini is leaving as chief executive of Avanzi, the Italian optical retail chain owned by Hal through GrandVision, to be in charge of business development at the group's Chinese retail company, GrandVision Shanghai. He will move to Shanghai next February after more than a year of preparation. At Avanzi, ...
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Sauflon, the British contact lens manufacturer, received authorization from the...
Sauflon, the British contact lens manufacturer, received authorization from the Federal Drugs Administration in the U.S. for its new product line of daily and monthly contact lenses. The multifocal silicone hydrogel daily lens, Clarity 1day Multifocal, was presented for the first time in September 2012 in Frankfurt.
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Carl Zeiss is shutting down its Australian surfacing laboratory in...
Carl Zeiss is shutting down its Australian surfacing laboratory in Lonsdale, leading to the elimination of 75 jobs. Opticians in Australia and New Zealand will be supplied by Zeiss' labs in Asia and other parts of the world. The company will set up a new lens fitting laboratory at the ...
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Joaquin Murillo Perez assumes the post of country manager for...
Joaquin Murillo Perez assumes the post of country manager for the German market at Smarteyes, a Swedish-based optical retail chain with more than 40 stores in Sweden and Germany. Murillo Perez previously worked as area manager for a French fashion retail chain, Pimkie, and as German country manager for Grupo ...
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Peter Williams, member of the board of director of Asos,...
Peter Williams, member of the board of director of Asos, the online fashion retailer from Great Britain, assumed on Dec. 2 the newly created post of chairman of the supervisory board of Mister Spex, the biggest German online eyewear retailer. Williams, a former chief executive of the British Selfridges department ...
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Holly Rush has been appointed by Luxottica as president of...
Holly Rush has been appointed by Luxottica as president of its wholesale operations in North America, replacing Andrea Dorigo who is planning to do something outside the group. Rush will report to Paolo Alberti, Luxottica's global executive vice president of wholesale operations. She joined the group's North American subsidiary in ...
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C.W. Dixey & Son has released a new collection of...
C.W. Dixey & Son has released a new collection of elegantly crafted eyewear that pays homage to Sir Winston Churchill. Established in 1777, the London-based company has been the maker of spectacles to emperors, royalty, artists and political leaders and Churchill was among its loyal customers. Key design elements of ...
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Italy's Commissione Difesa Vista (CDV), which promotes vision correction among...
Italy's Commissione Difesa Vista (CDV), which promotes vision correction among the Italian people, recently performed over 600 free eye tests on the occasion of the “G! Come giocare” toy fair in Milan, held on Nov. 22-24, and the results were rather alarming. It found 26 children suffering from hyperopia, 44 ...
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Improving Spy has new ambitions in Europe
Spy hopes to generate a turnover of about €5 million in Europe next year, following the establishment of a rather comprehensive sales organization for the region over the past few months. For many years, Spy had a European sales office, located in the premises of its LEM laboratory in the ...
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