All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 15, Issue 5-6 – Page 3
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Tura has announced the opening of a new design studio...
Tura has announced the opening of a new design studio and showroom in Manhattan's Bryant Park neighborhood. The new space, located on the 21st floor of 989 Avenue of the Americas, will house the company's executives as well as the product design and marketing teams. The company's customer service, warehouse, ...
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VSP Vision Care has announced that it is launching its...
VSP Vision Care has announced that it is launching its vision benefits and services business in Ireland. The not-for-profit vision insurance company, which normally provides eyecare plans in the U.S. and Canada, plans to partner with employee benefit companies, health insurers and flexible benefit consultants across Ireland to make the ...
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Ocuco says that Simon Hirst from Rayner & Keeler has...
Ocuco says that Simon Hirst from Rayner & Keeler has joined its Professional Services team. Hirst has been with Rayner for more than 18 years, occupying various functions including those of product manager and head of its low-vision department. His last main role at Rayner's head office was in systems ...
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Roger Pope & Partners, the independent optician in London, says...
Roger Pope & Partners, the independent optician in London, says it has been awarded a second Royal Warrant of Appointment for His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, after obtaining the first Royal Warrant for Her Majesty the Queen in 2006. The optician began its business in Marylebone in 1987. ...
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Among other interesting novelties, Opto-Tech has introduced a completely new...
Among other interesting novelties, Opto-Tech has introduced a completely new star-shaped system for the automatic generation of free-form surfaced lenses, called IQ-Star, based on a new tower structure, that takes up less space than a conventional system. The job trays go through the tower for the different tasks and the ...
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CooperVision has appointed Bob Ferrigno as president for North America,...
CooperVision has appointed Bob Ferrigno as president for North America, effective February 2014. The role was formerly held by Andrew Sedgwick, who was named executive vice president of commercial strategy and business development last year. Prior to joining CooperVision, Ferrigno was with Becton Dickinson (BD), a Fortune 500 global medical technology ...
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Allison makes a good recovery
Allison closed 2013 with a turnover of around €50 million; this represents growth of 25 percent for the Italian company last year, and it more than makes up for the previous year's losses. The group's recovery can be attributed to three factors: the positive performance of some new house brands, ...
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Allison has appointed Jorge Perez as its new sales manager...
Allison has appointed Jorge Perez as its new sales manager for Spain, working out of the company's new showroom in Barcelona, opened at the end of 2012
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All the Ciba Vision products will gradually change their name...
All the Ciba Vision products will gradually change their name to Alcon in the packaging through January 2015. The process started in January of this year with the Dailies AquaComfort Plus line.
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Alan Wells, founder of Sauflon and a member of the...
Alan Wells, founder of Sauflon and a member of the family that owns the innovative U.K.-based contact lens company, categorically denies a rumor that it discussing or negotiating its sale to Essilor International. It would have been Essilor's first big move into the contact lens sector.
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Inspecs has announced a longterm licensing agreement for eyewear with...
Inspecs has announced a longterm licensing agreement for eyewear with O'Neill, the international surf and young lifestyle brand that had been licensed by Spy since 2009. The agreement covers the design, manufacture and distribution of ophthalmic frames, sunglasses and snow goggles under the O'Neill name. The first collections are being ...
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Carl Zeiss Vision is said to be changing hands again....
Carl Zeiss Vision is said to be changing hands again. We have heard that its parent company, the Carl Zeiss group, has signed a letter of intent with a Japanese chemicals company, but we have been unable to get the rumor confirmed or denied by the time of closing this ...
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As reported by the German advertising journal W&V, the Imas...
As reported by the German advertising journal W&V, the Imas institute in Munich tested the efficiency of radio advertisements and found that Apollo Optik has had the most effective radio spot since January. The Blink advertising agency in Vienna developed the radio spot, in which the German retail chain advertised ...
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Adlens has announced a strategic partnership with a Canadian eyewear...
Adlens has announced a strategic partnership with a Canadian eyewear distributor, Superclip Canada, owned by the Perfect Optical Group
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More than 60 companies are going to participate in the...
More than 60 companies are going to participate in the Expoóptica fair in Madrid on Apr. 4-6, which will coincide with an international scientific convention on optometry, contact lenses and ophthalmic optics
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Hans Anders saw comparable sales jump 25 percent in France...
Hans Anders saw comparable sales jump 25 percent in France in 2013 versus 2012. The Dutch group, which has 35 percent of the domestic market, had never performed so well in France, where it has been present since 2006. To adapt to the French market and accelerate its development, the company ...
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De Rigo loses Zegna but should gain a big new brand in 2015
De Rigo should have a major new luxury brand in its portfolio next year. Negotiations are currently underway with a brand which, sources claim, has “strong recognition in Europe” - a continent that represents 60 percent of the group's wholesale business and is holding up well, in contrast with the ...
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Italy's antitrust regulator fined Novartis and Roche €182.5 million for...
Italy's antitrust regulator fined Novartis and Roche €182.5 million for allegedly colluding to prevent the use of Roche's Avastin, a cancer drug, as a treatment for eye macular degeneration. The two pharmaceutical companies blocked distribution of Avastin in favor of a more expensive drug, Lucentis, which they marketed jointly for ...
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Mei's sales increased by 10 percent in 2013 to around...
Mei's sales increased by 10 percent in 2013 to around €30 million. The Italian equipment supplier is introducing several new products for small and medium-sized prescription lens laboratories including Ezfit, a compact lens edger that uses the company's milling technology for increased productivity. After Mido in Milan, it is showing ...
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