All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 15, Issue 17-18 – Page 3
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Mondottica has appointed Monica Dal Cin to the new position...
Mondottica has appointed Monica Dal Cin to the new position of international business development director. Based at the company's Italian office near Treviso, she will have commercial responsibilities for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America to the exclusion of the U.K. and France. Dal Cin is a veteran ...
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Hoet, the Belgian luxury eyewear manufacturer, appointed sales managers for...
Hoet, the Belgian luxury eyewear manufacturer, appointed sales managers for the German, Austrian, Swiss and U.K. markets in April, after Paul Galle joined the company as sales manager in January 2014. He previously worked in the sporting goods industry at Peak Performance as country manager for the Benelux countries for ...
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Götti has appointed company Corris, a company in Shanghai, to...
Götti has appointed company Corris, a company in Shanghai, to take care of sales in the Chinese market. Corris also has its own optical stores in the China. Previously, a sales representative from Taiwan was taking care of Götti's distribution in this territory. Götti has also changed its distributor in ...
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Götti launched its first collection of ski goggles with applicable...
Götti launched its first collection of ski goggles with applicable corrective lenses, including three different models, at this year's Silmo show in Paris. A local production partner in Taiwan manufactures the ski goggles for Götti.
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HTS Hans Torgersen & Sønn, a Norwegian supplier of...
HTS Hans Torgersen & Sønn, a Norwegian supplier of safety equipment that also markets the Swisseye brand of sports glasses, has acquired Top Look, a German manufacturer of eyewear frames. Christopf Ellwein remains chief executive officer of Top Look, which markets the Top Look, Maxey, ICU and TAO brands ...
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Karavan & Co, the French company that sells high-end optical...
Karavan & Co, the French company that sells high-end optical and solar frames, appointed Anne-Laure Pauthier to the position of export manager in the spring. She succeeded Jessy Tissot, who assumed the newly created position of export manager in November last year. Pauthier previously worked for six years at Oxibis ...
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Karavan & Co launched a new private label at this...
Karavan & Co launched a new private label at this year's Silmo show in Paris. The Folomi brand, manufactured in Asia and France, is targeted at customers aged 40 and over and is priced from €150 for end consumers.
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Kirk & Kirk, the new brand of Jason and Karen...
Kirk & Kirk, the new brand of Jason and Karen Kirk, won the Gold Newcomer Award at the recent edition of the Hall of Frames in Zurich. Silver went to Vava, a company in Berlin, and bronze to Tarian, the brand of Jeremy Tarian, who is the son of Alain ...
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Liberty Sports, the American eyewear brand, started selling in South...
Liberty Sports, the American eyewear brand, started selling in South Africa and Nigeria in July through distributors
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New developments in Valeant’s bid for Allergan
Valeant Pharmaceuticals, the big Canadian-based group that has owned Bausch & Lomb since last year, sent a letter to Allergan's shareholders on Oct. 27 stating that it was prepared to increase the proposed price of its takeover offer again from $72 to $200 per share. The new offer coincided with ...
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Alcon’s operating income grows strongly
Alcon, the eye care division of Novartis, saw its net sales increase to US$2.7 billion in the third quarter ended Sept. 30, up 5 percent in dollars and 6 percent in constant currencies. A positive factor was the approval given by the European Commission to Simbrinza, Alcon's new drug for ...
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Alcon, a division of Novartis, has appointed Eric Bruno as...
Alcon, a division of Novartis, has appointed Eric Bruno as the new general manager for Alcon U.S. Vision Care. He replaces Jim Murphy, who is being promoted to president of Alcon Japan, with immediate effect. Bruno, who joined Alcon in 2012, most recently served as the global franchise head of ...
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VSP Vision Care has struck an agreement with Luxottica Retail,...
VSP Vision Care has struck an agreement with Luxottica Retail, which provides any of its 67 million members access to the latter's 506 Pearle Vision stores in the U.S. and Puerto Rico as special network providers of managed care, according to VMail. Some of the stores are already affiliated with ...
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Marchon Eyewear has announced a new exclusive licensing agreement for...
Marchon Eyewear has announced a new exclusive licensing agreement for eyewear frames and sunglasses with Etro, a fashionable Italian luxury brand. The multi-year contract will start with the launch of Marchon's Etro collection in September 2015. The line will be entirely made in Italy. The Etro brand, which is known ...
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Theo hired Thomas Lambrecht as new sales agent for France...
Theo hired Thomas Lambrecht as new sales agent for France and the French-speaking part of Belgium in May. Lambrecht is a friend of the family that owns the Theo brand.
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Adlens has launched a new Adlens Interface line of eyewear,...
Adlens has launched a new Adlens Interface line of eyewear, designed to combat digital eye strain due to prolonged exposure to High Energy Visible (HEV) light in backlit screens. The rapidly increasing use of screens in daily life, including smartphones, tablets, computers and televisions, has brought about a surge in ...
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Bellinger has added graphite with a smooth snakeskin finish to...
Bellinger has added graphite with a smooth snakeskin finish to the high-tech materials used in its collection
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Woodone has added a new kind of wood, dark ash,...
Woodone has added a new kind of wood, dark ash, to the range
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Hoya will act as headline sponsor of the annual conference...
Hoya will act as headline sponsor of the annual conference of the European Academy of Optometry & Optics (EAOO) next year. It will also sponsor the associated clinical skills workshop on May 14-17. The conference was in Warsaw last May, and will take place in Budapest next May. The Hungarian ...
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Essilor’s latest international acquisitions
Essilor International has acquired a majority stake in Company Grand Vision, a distributor of ophthalmic lenses and contact lenses in Russia with annual revenues of around €29 million. Company Grand Vision will continue to be led by its current management team. This acquisition is intended to strengthen Essilor's multi-network strategy ...
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