All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 14, Issue 6-7 – Page 2
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Gem Lunetterie, a French company that has been specializing in...
Gem Lunetterie, a French company that has been specializing in children's eyewear, has announced signing a licensing contract for adult glasses with Torrente, a 45-year-old Parisian fashion house. The first collection will be presented at the next Silmo show in Paris.
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Lola González has become the manager responsible for Expoóptica, the...
Lola González has become the manager responsible for Expoóptica, the Spanish eyewear show in Madrid. She has been with Ifema, which organizes this and many other trade and consumer shoes in the Spanish capital, since 1991. She was previously involved in the promotion of Spanish tourism.
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Pregiata Eyewear, a new Italian company based in Padua, the city...
Pregiata Eyewear, a new Italian company based in Padua, the city of Safilo, and Tom Rebl, an emerging underground fashion brand, have announced an international license deal, which expires at the end 2020, for the production and distribution worldwide of a line of sunglasses and optical frames. The first collection will be seen at ...
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Hoya Vision Care is back to normal
In commenting on Hoya Corporation's financial results for the quarter and financial year ended last March 31, officials of the Japanese group declared that its sales of eyeglass lenses have pretty much gone back to the levels that they had reached before the October 2011 floods in Thailand, which paralyzed ...
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Hoya Vision Care Europe has appointed Olga Prenat as the...
Hoya Vision Care Europe has appointed Olga Prenat as the new dean of its Faculty Education & Experience Center in Budapest, taking the place of Hans Warntjes who is retiring after working for the Japanese company for 24 years, the last five for the Budapest center. Prenat is the director ...
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Essilor International has appointed Maureen Cavanagh as representative of employee...
Essilor International has appointed Maureen Cavanagh as representative of employee shareholders to the company's board of directors. Cavanagh, of American nationality, has been president of two Essilor subsidiaries, Nassau Lens Company and the OOGP buying group, since 2009. She joined Essilor in 2005, following the acquisition of Definity from Johnson ...
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Essilor International has announced the creation of a new board...
Essilor International has announced the creation of a new board committee to supervise the company's corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy. The new committee is chaired by Louise Fréchette, an independent director. Fréchette, of Canadian nationality, was deputy secretary general to the United Nations from 1998 to 2006. The other committee ...
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Higher profits at Alliance Boots
The Boots Opticians chain in the U.K. raised its sales by 0.9 percent to £335 million (€394.1m-$514.7m) in the 12 months ended last March 31, but on a same-store basis, sales grew by 2.7 percent at corporate stores thanks to a broader range of attractive frames, clearer pricing and improved ...
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Thomsons Online Benefits, in alliances aimed at raising awareness of...
Thomsons Online Benefits, in alliances aimed at raising awareness of the importance of eye examinations and corrective eyewear as a program sponsored by employers in behalf of their staff. AOP and VSP will establish a user group to enable members of the VSP Neighbourhood Eyecare network to provide feedback and ...
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The Cooper Companies has announced an agreement for the sale...
The Cooper Companies has announced an agreement for the sale by CooperVision (CVI) of Aime, a Japanese supplier of rigid gas permeable contact lenses and solutions, to Nippon Contact Lens Inc. The divestiture, which is subject to numerous conditions, should have a neutral effect on Cooper's earnings per share. CVI ...
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Essilor of America has acquired a majority stake in EyeBuyDirect.com,...
Essilor of America has acquired a majority stake in EyeBuyDirect.com, according to VMail, the American online news service of Jobson Publishing. Founded in 2005 by Roy Hessel, its chief executive, EyeBuyDirect is a leading online optical retailer with operations in the U. S., China, and Hong Kong. Hessel will continue ...
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Carl Zeiss reports that its Vision Care segment achieved a...
Carl Zeiss reports that its Vision Care segment achieved a “clearly positive” operating result in the first half of the group's financial year, ended last March 31, although its sales dropped slightly to €419 million from €432 million in the corresponding period of a year earlier. The group, which fully ...
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Valeant will take over Bausch+Lomb for $8.7 billion
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International has sealed a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Bausch+Lomb for $8.7 billion. The Candian company will pay $4.5 billion in cash to the current owners, an investor group headed by the private equity firm Warburg Pincus, and another $4.2 billion in cash to reduce Bausch+Lomb's current ...
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Top 50 U.S. retailers generate sales of more than $8 billion
According to Vision Monday's exclusive report on the Top 50 U.S. Optical Retailers, the country's 50 largest chains drove the growth of the American eyewear market in 2012. With sales of $8,064.9 million, they raised their combined market share to a record of 26.6 percent.Luxottica leads the list for the ...
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Atol, a major French cooperative of opticians, posted 3.3 percent...
Atol, a major French cooperative of opticians, posted 3.3 percent growth in retail sales on a same-store basis in 2012, reaching a turnover of €400.4 million at its 806 affiliated shops. The company said that last year two-thirds of its retailers registered a satisfactory performance, attributing it to their quality-oriented ...
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Optic 2000 gains market share
Optic 2000 reported direct revenues of €417 million for 2012, or 4.4 percent better than in the previous year. By the end of 2012, the French cooperative serviced a total of 1,944 stores, most of which trade under the Optic 2000, Lissac and Audio 2000 banners. It also supplied 225 ...
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Vision Express in the U.K. has bought 12 out of...
Vision Express in the U.K. has bought 12 out of the 18 British stores of Crown Eyeglass, the optical retailer based in Blackburn. Vision Express, however, is to close eight of those 12 shops, thus bringing its overall store network to 331 units. The remaining four Crown Optical Centre stores ...
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Rodenstock's Ebitda rises by 11%
Rodenstock registered a sales increase of 6 percent to €387 million for the 2012 financial year, despite a challenging and competitive environment, thanks to the strong demand for its products in emerging markets. The German manufacturer of spectacle lenses and frames also saw its operating profit before amortization (Ebitda) increase by ...
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Media 10, which wants to organize a new 100% Optical...
Media 10, which wants to organize a new 100% Optical show in London next Feb. 16-18, says it has signed a five-year deal with the ExCel exhibition center to host it annually for the next five years until 2018. The proposed show, which takes place of the still-born Eye Show, ...
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