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Oxo Italia invests in marketing
Oxo Italia, a consortium of 16 regional cooperatives of optical retailers in Italy, has created a marketing and communications division headed up by Daniela Poletti, who was marketing manager for CooperVision Italia for the past 11 years.With 400 affiliated outlets in Italy, Oxo offers similar services to those proposed by ...
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Fielmann’s market share goes up
Fielmann sold last year 3.5 percent more glasses, or 7.3 million pairs, although the rest of the German optical market probably fell by 3 percent. The total market was more or less flat. The company's consolidated revenues for the year went up to €1.16 billion from €1.11 billion in 2012, ...
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Instead of marketing its line of Von Zipper eyewear and...
Instead of marketing its line of Von Zipper eyewear and watches through its own sales network, Billabong has assigned its distribution in the optical and watch retail channels in France, Spain and Portugal to Despomar
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The Swiss Eyewear Group (SEG), which was recently formed by...
The Swiss Eyewear Group (SEG), which was recently formed by Jerry Dreifuss and other former managers of Polaroid Eyewear, has announced the signing of an exclusive global license agreement for a line of Marc Stone branded eyewear. Marc Stone is a Swiss fashion label that has received many design awards. ...
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Rodenstock’s sales exceed expectations in Germany
The Rodenstock Group saw sales increase by 4 percent, or 5 percent at constant exchange rates, to €401 million in the last financial year. Operating income before amortization (Ebtda) grew by 23 percent to €75 million, generating an Ebtda margin of 19 percent against 16 percent in the previous year.The ...
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Sunwear and emerging markets to lift Essilor’s growth
Essilor International is targeting a sales increase of between 10 and 12 percent this year and a higher operating margin of between 18.2 percent and 18.6 percent, excluding the impact of its just-announced acquisition of Coastal Contacts (see the next article in this issue), which will probably dilute its profitability. ...
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Italy’s export growth offsets a domestic slump
Italy's domestic eyewear sales have fallen for the fifth year in succession, while export markets are continuing to grow, confirming the positive results for the 2010-2012 period that followed on from the slump of the previous two years.In 2013 the turnover of the Italian eyewear industry grew by 4.3 percent, ...
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Oakley and Smith Optics have developed vintage styles of goggles...
Oakley and Smith Optics have developed vintage styles of goggles for the athletes that they are sponsoring at the Winter Olympics in Sochi
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The projected “Look Istanbul - Design Optics Order Show” will...
The projected “Look Istanbul - Design Optics Order Show” will not take place this year. GHM, organizer of the Opti trade show in Munich since 2009, had planned to organize a new eyewear event in Istanbul on May, 5. Although frame manufacturers from Germany expressed their desire for a trade ...
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Hoya has decided not to exhibit at the next Silmo...
Hoya has decided not to exhibit at the next Silmo fair in Paris and to privilege instead the organization of local events with opticians
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Marcolin signs licensing deals with Zegna
Marcolin Group and Ermenegildo Zegna Group have signed a licensing agreement with exclusive rights for the worldwide production and distribution of sunglasses and eyeglasses for the Ermenegildo Zegna and Agnona brands. The deal has a 10-year duration and the launch of the first collections is expected for January 2015.De Rigo ...
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Fleye, a recent successful start-up in Danish eyewear design that...
Fleye, a recent successful start-up in Danish eyewear design that we have already reported about at length, has been honored with the iF Product Design Award 2014 for its handmade eyewear model “Ori 925.” The awarded design will be presented at the next eyewear trade shows in Italy, Britain, the ...
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CooperVision will be a lead sponsor of the first IACLE...
CooperVision will be a lead sponsor of the first IACLE Contact Lens Educator of the Year Awards, a program initiated by the International Association of Contact Lens Educators (IACLE) to recognize contact lens educators worldwide for their innovations and achievements in the field. The awards will be presented at the ...
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The Swiss Eyewear Group (SEG), maker of the INVU collection...
The Swiss Eyewear Group (SEG), maker of the INVU collection of ultra-polarized eyewear, has opened a wholly-owned subsidiary in Italy, located in Varese. Ernesto Scotti, former managing director of Polaroid Eyewear Italy, will be the managing director of SEG Italia. Barbara Cocco is also joining the management team as sales ...
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Coburn Technologies has expanded its lab works team of employees...
Coburn Technologies has expanded its lab works team of employees and placed it under the management of an industry veteran, Charlie Seidel
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The European Coalition for Vision (ECV) and the Coalition's manifesto...
The European Coalition for Vision (ECV) and the Coalition's manifesto for the elections to the European Parliament were launched last Feb. 4 at the parliament's seat in Strasbourg. The manifesto, presented by a member of the European Parliament, Marian Harkin, calls on the European Parliament to use its significant powers ...
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Seiko gets several patent claims confirmed
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has confirmed 20 Seiko Epson patent claims covering the invention of back-surface progressive lenses. The office has also ruled that six additional claims submitted by Seiko were patentable.On May 21, 2013, Ocuco had submitted a request for a re-examination of Seiko's U.S. patent ...
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CORRECTION: Oliver Goldsmith Spectacles is not changing the distribution of...
CORRECTION: Oliver Goldsmith Spectacles is not changing the distribution of its products in Europe, as reported in our last issue. It's Oliver Godsmith Sunglasses, the British company run by Oliver Goldsmith's niece Claire, that is selling directly to the opticians.
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Oakley unveiled details of its new global marketing campaign at...
Oakley unveiled details of its new global marketing campaign at a special dinner at its fortress-like headquarters in Foothill Ranch, California on Feb. 24. For the launch of its “Disruptive by Design” campaign, Oakley invited guests from five continents, including a group of Olympians who flew in straight from the ...
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Younger Optics and Indizen Optical Technologies are introducing Camber, a...
Younger Optics and Indizen Optical Technologies are introducing Camber, a lens blank with specially designed curves on both surfaces for a wider range of progressive lens solutions
