All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 15, Issue 1-2 – Page 3
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Coburn Technologies has announced the construction of a new express...
Coburn Technologies has announced the construction of a new express logistics center at its headquarters in South Windsor, Connecticut, to replace the current distribution warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky. The new facility should provide customers with faster delivery times, improved on-time deliveries and, in some cases, lower overall freight costs, the ...
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Safilo USA has announced the retirement of Dick Russo, executive...
Safilo USA has announced the retirement of Dick Russo, executive vice president in charge of the commercial activities for North America, after 42 years of service. Glenn Rusk, who previously led Safilo's Canadian business, has been named the new commercial senior vice president of Safilo North America and has become ...
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Spy has announced a global licensing deal with The J....
Spy has announced a global licensing deal with The J. Fin Group to develop, manufacture and sell apparel, accessories and consumer electronics under the Spy brand name. The timing and the modalities for the release of the new products in the various markets could not be learned at the time ...
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Google has announced through a blog post that it is...
Google has announced through a blog post that it is testing a “smart contact lens” for diabetics to monitor their blood-sugar levels while wearing the lens. The lens prototype uses a tiny wireless chip and miniaturized glucose sensor, embedded between two layers of soft contact lens material, which can generate ...
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New investors in Gold & Wood
Maurice Léonard, the 53-year-old entrepreneur who founded the company in Luxembourg in 1995, has opened its capital to two new investors and boosted its management to speed up its development in the core luxury segment and in new markets. Following a capital increase, whose details have been kept confidential, Léonard ...
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Sheetal Patel is the new manager of the Johnson &...
Sheetal Patel is the new manager of the Johnson & Johnson's Vision Care Institute in the U.K. She will be responsible for delivering education strategies that improve the way ECPs provide care to their patients, the institute said. Prior to her new role, Patel was an associate optometrist at a ...
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Jason Kirk, founder of Kirk & Kirk, has been appointed...
Jason Kirk, founder of Kirk & Kirk, has been appointed business development director at Inspecs. In his new role, he will concentrate on developing acetate production at the Inspecs-owned Algha Works factory in East London, which produces the Savile Row eyewear collection. Besides developing the Savile Row brand, the Algha ...
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The Michael Pachleitner Group (MPG) is labelling all its freeform...
The Michael Pachleitner Group (MPG) is labelling all its freeform lenses with a micro-engraving from this month. MPG owns two lens manufacturing firms, Schulz in Germany and Optic Technologies in Austria. As it aims to present itself as a manufacturer of both frames and lenses, the Austrian firm is launching ...
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Alexander Gerstung, who previously worked in the financial sector. joined...
Alexander Gerstung, who previously worked in the financial sector. joined iC! Berlin in April last year as deputy general manager, working closely together with the boss, Ralph Anderl
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Alessandro Lanaro, owner and global chief executive of Modo North...
Alessandro Lanaro, owner and global chief executive of Modo North America, has been taking care of its North American operations directly since Jan. 1. The move follows the departure of Pierre Fay, who had been running the company in North America since 2011. He has become CEO of a new ...
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Etnia Barcelona launched the sunglass collection “Wild love in Africa,”...
Etnia Barcelona launched the sunglass collection “Wild love in Africa,” developed in collaboration with the photographer Steve McCurry, at Opti 2014. Two percent of total sales of the collections will be donated to the Africa Rising Foundation.
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Adlens has announced a distribution partnership with a new London-based...
Adlens has announced a distribution partnership with a new London-based company, Rassin E&F Eyewear and Fashion, for the sale of its variable focus eyewear in Israel. The new company is owned and managed by Efrat Rassin, who has 15 years of experience in the eyewear sector. His family founded and ...
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Google Glass adds RX and sunwear support, partners with VSP
Google is releasing its first collection of four prescription frames for Google Glass. The move comes as the company prepares to make the Google Glass technology available to the general population in the U.S. later this year. Until now, Google has not had corrective lenses in its frames. Google Glass ...
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Charmant launched its first Ad Lib collection for women at...
Charmant launched its first Ad Lib collection for women at Opti 2014 in Munich for introduction in all European countries
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A new German company, Primus Optik, acquired MDA, a bankrupt German...
A new German company, Primus Optik, acquired MDA, a bankrupt German marketing group for opticians, on Jan. 1 this year. The headquarters of the company remain in Lorch, keeping 18 of the former 22 jobs. The acquisition was implemented through a management-buy-out by Gabi Rothgerber, product development director of the MDA, ...
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Lenstore, the online contact lens retailer, has been acquired by...
Lenstore, the online contact lens retailer, has been acquired by GrandVision for an undisclosed amount. Mitesh and Olga Patel, who founded Lenstore in 2008, will remain with the Guernsey-registered business. Lenstore, which offers its customers a same-day delivery service, saw sales grow beyond £5 million (€6.1m-$8.2m) in 2012.
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The Hong Kong Optical Fair reports an 8 percent increase...
The Hong Kong Optical Fair reports an 8 percent increase in the number of buyers to 14,000 for its last edition of Nov. 6-8, compared with the previous one. Most of the buyers came from the Chinese mainland, Taiwan, the U.S., Korea, Japan, Malaysia and Australia. The organizers noted major ...
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Vision Express buys 65 stores from Rayners
Vision Express has acquired 65 stores from Rayner Opticians, representing 62 percent of Rayners' premises. The move brings Vision Express' number of stores in the U.K. and Ireland up to 367. Thirty eight of Rayner's U.K. stores will become part of the Vision Express portfolio and will continue to sell ...
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Johnson & Johnson came in 57th place, Novartis was ranked...
Johnson & Johnson came in 57th place, Novartis was ranked 99th and Essilor International 100th in an authoritative chart made public at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week. Compiled every year by Corporate Knights, a Toronto-based media and investment advisory company, the Global 100 index of the most ...
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Essilor breaks the €5 billion barrier
In a preliminary statement, Essilor International reports a sales increase of 1.8 percent to €1,252.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2013. On a comparable basis, sales went up by 3.0 percent in the quarter. Changes in the scope of consolidation added 4.3 percentage points to the growth, but this ...
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