All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 15, Issue 1-2 – Page 2

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    Change of the guard at Silhouette

    2014-01-31T00:00:00Z

    Silhouette International has named Thomas Windischbauer and Daniel Rogger as new members of the executive board. The owners of the company, Klaus and Arnold Schmied, are leaving the operational business after working on the executive board for 15 years. The two Schmieds are now joining the company's supervisory board to ...

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    Luxottica buys Glasses.com as part of its digital transformation

    2014-01-31T00:00:00Z

    In an asset deal, WellPoint has sold its Glasses.com business and its virtual try-on technology to Luxottica and its online contact lens retail subsidiary, 1-800 Contacts, to an equity firm, Thomas H. Lee Partners. Both transactions should be completed before the end of the first quarter.For Luxottica, its part of ...

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    Michael Pachleitner Group has extended its Red Bull Racing eyewear...

    2014-01-31T00:00:00Z

    Michael Pachleitner Group has extended its Red Bull Racing eyewear collection with a range of ski goggles, presented for the first time at Opti 2014 in Munich.

  • News briefs

    Inspecs has a new licensing deal with Radley, a British...

    2014-01-31T00:00:00Z

    Inspecs has a new licensing deal with Radley, a British brand of handcrafted leather bags and other accessories born in London in 1998. The first Radley optical collection was launched exclusively at Vision Express stores at the end of last November. It will be available to independent retails from next ...

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     TD Tom Davies has collaborated with Meadham Kirchhoff, a British...

    2014-01-31T00:00:00Z

     TD Tom Davies has collaborated with Meadham Kirchhoff, a British fashion designer, to develop a limited edition of sunglasses for spring/summer 2014, available from Febuary in Meadham Kirchhoff's concept stores and the TD Tom Davies website

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    Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior, the Brazilian football player who...

    2014-01-31T00:00:00Z

    Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior, the Brazilian football player who is generally known simply as Neymar, is a new ambassador for Police, the house brand of De Rigo

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    Licefa has launched a new private brand, Eigensign, positioned in the...

    2014-01-31T00:00:00Z

    Licefa has launched a new private brand, Eigensign, positioned in the premium price segment and made in Germany by a local production partner

  • News briefs

    TD Tom Davies, the British eyewear brand, has established a...

    2014-01-31T00:00:00Z

    TD Tom Davies, the British eyewear brand, has established a system whereby opticians get frames on consignment, provided that they order at least 200 units. If the sales target is achieved during the first year, the process continues free-of-charge in the following year. The company will open its first mono-brand ...

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    Very French Gangsters, a brand of children's eyewear born in...

    2014-01-31T00:00:00Z

    Very French Gangsters, a brand of children's eyewear born in France a little while ago, launched two limited editions for adult men and women at Opti 2014 in Munich. The first models for women are to be delivered to opticians at the end of March for sale in connection with ...

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    Bode Design, a German eyewear manufacturer and licensee, has a...

    2014-01-31T00:00:00Z

    Bode Design, a German eyewear manufacturer and licensee, has a new license agreement with Timezone, a German sport and streetwear label, for the international development and sales of eyewear collections under the brand name. The first collection was presented during the recent Opti show in Munich. Bode has expanded to ...

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    Hans Gottfried Schmidt, owner of Licefa, left the executive board...

    2014-01-31T00:00:00Z

    Hans Gottfried Schmidt, owner of Licefa, left the executive board of the company in autumn last year. He is now a member of the supervisory board. Frank Alraun, former sales director at Licefa, and Thomas Lange, former technical director, form the new management of the company and started to act ...

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    iC! Berlin has taken over the distribution of its products...

    2014-01-31T00:00:00Z

    iC! Berlin has taken over the distribution of its products in the U.K. While sales in Russia and the Ukraine are still carried out by a distributor, Luxury House, sales in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary are handled directly by representatives of the German company since the ...

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    Rodenstock re-launched its Mercedes Benz eyewear collection, for which it...

    2014-01-31T00:00:00Z

    Rodenstock re-launched its Mercedes Benz eyewear collection, for which it has held the worldwide license since 2009, at the Opti 2014 show in Munich. The new collection, which is completely made without screws, includes 12 prescription frames and eight sunglasses, each available in four different colors from March this year. ...

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    Jim Stepanek has been promoted to the position of executive...

    2014-01-31T00:00:00Z

    Jim Stepanek has been promoted to the position of executive vice president of Spy. He was previously vice president in charge of its optical division, responsible for its RX business. Stepanek brings nearly 20 years of experience in the optical industry, including stations at Rem Eyewear, Revo and Signature Eyewear. ...

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    Nicola Brandolese has become the new president of Retail Optical...

    2014-01-31T00:00:00Z

    Nicola Brandolese has become the new president of Retail Optical of Americas, a new position at Luxottica where he will supervise all the group's retail operations in North and South America. A former project director for the Boston Consulting Group and a former manager of Sky Italy at News Corporation, ...

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    Claiming to have become the largest European online retailer, Mister...

    2014-01-31T00:00:00Z

    Claiming to have become the largest European online retailer, Mister Spex reports that it reached sales of €47 million in 2013, but they were apparently lower on a consolidated basis. Company officials said the figure refers to the annualized turnover of the company, comprising the sales for the whole year ...

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    Etnia Barcelona, the Spanish eyewear brand, reached a total sales...

    2014-01-31T00:00:00Z

    Etnia Barcelona, the Spanish eyewear brand, reached a total sales volume of 580,000 frames in 2013, representing an increase of 26 percent as compared to the previous year. The biggest increases in Europe in terms of volume were recorded in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. In France, the company sold ...

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    Gloryfy, the young eyewear brand from Austria known for its...

    2014-01-31T00:00:00Z

    Gloryfy, the young eyewear brand from Austria known for its unbreakable sunglasses and ski goggles, took over its distribution in Italy on Jan. 1 this year. In France, the company has hired a distributor, Visi Optis, who started to sell Gloryfy products last October. In Sweden and Norway, Gloryfy is ...

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    The German opticians' association, ZVA, has a new chief executive...

    2014-01-31T00:00:00Z

    The German opticians' association, ZVA, has a new chief executive from this month. Jan Wetzel succeeds Joachim Goerdt, who retires after working for 31 years at ZVA. Goerdt become managing director of ZVA in March 1983 and became chief executive in April 1990. Wetzel, who has been legal adviser to ...

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    Safilo Group has appointed Henri Blomqvist to the newly established...

    2014-01-31T00:00:00Z

    Safilo Group has appointed Henri Blomqvist to the newly established role of global commercial director. He will report to the group chief executive, Luisa Delgado, and will oversee all commercial wholesale operations worldwide. Blomqvist spent the last 10 years at Procter & Gamble, where he held a variety of roles ...