All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 14, Issue 8-9
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Sport helps Optometry Giving Sight
Associating donations to aid the visually impaired with sport can be an effective fund-raising strategy. For example, at a unique event held at the Wimbledon tennis tournament in London on Sunday, June 23, Walter F. Hester III, founder and chief executive of Maui Jim Sunglasses, handed over a check for ...
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Optrafair London is filling quickly
The organizers of the first London edition of the British Optrafair show, due to take place in the Kensington Olympia convention center on Apr. 11-13, 2014, hope to attract a greater number of overseas visitors to the event than in the last few years, when it was staged only in ...
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Rudy Project, the Italian sports eyewear specialist, is launching a...
Rudy Project, the Italian sports eyewear specialist, is launching a new line of vintage sunglasses for leisure with a distinctive Italian design, called Ultimatum. The line offers a wide range of lenses including Multilaser, whose special production process gives the lens surface a fine mirroring effect that improves strength and ...
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The organizers of Expoóptica, the international optics and optometry fair...
The organizers of Expoóptica, the international optics and optometry fair in Madrid, have introduced a series of new features for its upcoming edition, aimed at raising the fair's profile. The first change involves the dates of the trade show. In order to adapt to the international fair calendar, and following ...
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Italia Independent floats on the Milan stock exchange
After its successful launch a few days ago on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the Milan Stock Exchange, Italia Independent is already targeting its quotation on the main counter of the Italian Bourse 18 months from now, provided it continues to perform well. The chances look good as the ...
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New head for Oakley Europe
We understand that another Frenchman, Olivier Cantet, has taken the place of Frank Heissat as vice president and general manager of Oakley for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), who has left the company after three years to run a French sportswear brand, Le Coq Sportif. Like Heissat, Cantet ...
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Visioptis has enriched its portfolio by signing a new licensing...
Visioptis has enriched its portfolio by signing a new licensing agreement with Daniel Crémieux, the French prêt-à-porter brand, for the design, manufacturing and distribution of optical and sun glasses. The Crémieux label is known for its tailored sportswear designs combining the style of the American colleges in the 1960s with ...
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Essilor signs eight other new partnerships
Before reporting yesterday on its acquisition of a 50 percent stake in Polycore Optical, Essilor International announced eight other new deals to acquire stakes in operations in the U.S., Brazil, South Africa, India and Asia representing a combined value of around €30 million in annual revenues.In the sun lenses segment, ...
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Julbo had a presence at last month's edition of the...
Julbo had a presence at last month's edition of the Natural Games outdoor sports festival held near Millau, in France, on June 27-30. In the U.S., Julbo was also the official eyewear sponsor of the 2013 edition of the Western States 100-mile Endurance Run, described as the world's oldest and ...
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Specsavers’ growth slows down
The growth in Specsavers' total revenues slowed down during the financial year ended last February. Global sales went up by 6.9 percent to about £1.8 billion (€2.1bn-$2.7bn), compared with increases of 10.3 percent in 2010/11 and 10.9 percent in 2011/12. On the other hand, the company says in its annual ...
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Marcus Wecht, distribution manager of the Michael Pachleitner Group (MPG),...
Marcus Wecht, distribution manager of the Michael Pachleitner Group (MPG), has expanded the distribution team of Schulz Optische Fabrik in Glücksburg, Germany. From June 1, Tom Scholl assumed the distribution in Germany and Denmark. The 37-years old Scholl, who has worked for a long time in the eyewear industry, has been ...
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Kenmark Group has hired William Hambleton as director of global...
Kenmark Group has hired William Hambleton as director of global marketing and communications. He will report to David Duralde, Kenmark's chief creative officer. Hambleton will lead efforts to strengthen the Kenmark brand and its growing portfolio of eyewear collections, while developing new strategies and campaigns to expand Kenmark's presence across ...
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Mykita partnered with Dover Street Market for the development of...
Mykita partnered with Dover Street Market for the development of a shop-in-shop concept within the London premises of the renowned concept store. To support the opening, Mykita has created a limited edition of sunglasses for the current spring/ summer season. Two models from Mykita's ‘decades' collection were given a new ...
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Rodenstock has opened a concept store in the Paradise shopping...
Rodenstock has opened a concept store in the Paradise shopping center of Sofia in partnership with its new exclusive Bulgarian distributor, Dynamed, which was appointed last January. There are already Rodenstock concept shops in nine other countries – Germany, the U.K., Croatia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Slovenia and the United ...
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Zeal Optics commits to reforestation
Zeal Optics, the American company recently acquired by Maui Jim, has unveiled a new initiative to help reforest part of the Rocky Mountains near its Boulder, Colorado headquarters, which are heavily impacted by the pine-beetle epidemic. The sunglass maker, in partnership with American Forests, will plant 5,480 trees across the ...
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Safilo strengthens its collaboration with the LVMH group
Shortly before the appointment of a new chief executive for the company, Safilo announced that it has become the licensee for sunglasses and optical frames of Fendi, the famous Rome-based fashion house bought by LVMH many years ago. The deal, which runs through 2022, takes the place of the contract ...
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Nau! has introduced the “Cicala” sunglass line, inspired by the...
Nau! has introduced the “Cicala” sunglass line, inspired by the great divas of the past. The new eyewear collection by the Italian franchising chain is made of recycled plastic embellished with 44 Swarovski crystals. The stones are hand-set on the frame to form a floral pattern. Cicala is part of ...
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Focus-China, the Chinese trade magazine published by Jörg Spangemacher since...
Focus-China, the Chinese trade magazine published by Jörg Spangemacher since August 2011, can finally be published with its own certification. Until now, Focus-China was published as a free insert in a magazine of the Chinese standards government agency and therefore under the control of a different editorial office. The Chinese ...
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Essilor International and the Wenzhou Medical University in China have...
Essilor International and the Wenzhou Medical University in China have joined forces to establish the Wenzhou Medical University-Essilor International Research Center (WEIRC), a research platform with a focus on myopia. As a first step, the platform will concentrate on myopia in children, and specifically on its etiology, epidemiology and the ...
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Changing of the guard at Safilo
The board of directors of Safilo Group decided last month to appoint one of its non-executive directors, Luisa D. Delgado, as the company's new chief executive, replacing Roberto Vedovotto. She will formally take over the position on Oct. 15, but she will join the group already on Sept. 15. Company officials ...
