All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 15, Issue 7-8 – Page 3
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Allison has launched the first tatooed eyewear under its Opposit...
Allison has launched the first tatooed eyewear under its Opposit brand, in partnership with Agatha Menegaz and Guè Pequeno, the Italian rapper and music producer. For this unprecedented project, Guè chose Opposit's TM503S14 model, which now features the same tattoos as the ones on the rapper's body. The frame and ...
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Allergan seeks to fend off a takeover by Valeant
Valeant Pharmaceuticals, the Canadian company that took over Bausch & Lomb a year ago for $8.7 billion, has proposed to take over Allergan as well, at a price that would reportedly value the company at $45.6 billion. It's a very high price for Allergan, which made a net profit of ...
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Bluebird Creative has become the U.K. distributor of Alessieyes and...
Bluebird Creative has become the U.K. distributor of Alessieyes and Apo. We have already reported about the new Alessi line of eyewear, which has been licensed to a subsidiary of the Chinese Sun Hing Vision Group. We have not yet reported on Apo, an interesting Italian developer of creative eyewear ...
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Modest growth and new head for Alcon
Alcon Vision Care's sales rose by 5 percent in local currencies in the first quarter, but translated into U.S. dollars, they grew by 4 percent to $626 million, driven by “robust” sales of Dailies Total1 and other contact lenses, says its parent company, Novartis. The AirOptix brand saw moderate growth ...
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Alcon has inaugurated a new manufacturing plant in Singapore to...
Alcon has inaugurated a new manufacturing plant in Singapore to produce ophthalmic pharmaceutical products. Construction on this 330,000-square-foot facility, located in the Tuas Biomedical Park, began in 2009, and represents an investment of around S$200 million (€114.85m-$159.27m). The location was strategically chosen to be closer and able to respond quickly ...
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Maui Jim has launched its first advertising campaign on television...
Maui Jim has launched its first advertising campaign on television in the U.S., featuring 624 ads at prime time in two months. The campaign has been described as a test and may be replicated in Europe in 2015. Elements of the advertising, which is running under the “Maui Jim - ...
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Rodenstock launched a new TV advertising campaign for its new...
Rodenstock launched a new TV advertising campaign for its new sunglass collection in Germany on April 1. The TV advertisement, which is targeted at end consumers, especially young people, explains the concept of the new sunglass collection, combining functionality with design. The website sonnenbrillen.de is the core of the new ...
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Essilor completes the acquisition of Coastal and Transitions
Essilor International and PPG Industries, which shared ownership of Transitions Optical, have made important management changes after the completion of Essilor's acquisition of the 51 percent stake it did not own in the company and of Intercast. The operations have been consolidated into Essilor's accounts as of April 1.Transitions and ...
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Hal will consolidate Safilo in its accounts
Even though the Dutch holding company Hal Holding NV does not have a majority stake in Safilo, IFRS accounting rules oblige it to consolidate the Italian company on a line-by-line basis as of Jan. 1, 2014. Hal, which currently owns 42.2 percent of Safilo, would thus benefit more directly from ...
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The Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO) of the U.K....
The Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO) of the U.K. awarded an honorary fellowship to Dame Mary Perkins, co-founder of Specsavers, at a gala dinner during its annual conference and exhibition in the Midlands, which attracted 600 delegates
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Safilo celebrates its 80th birthday with a new capsule collection...
Safilo celebrates its 80th birthday with a new capsule collection of its flagship brand in partnership with Marc Newson, the Australian-born industrial designer. The eyewear case has been created by Álvaro González, the artistic director of Valextra. On sale since mid-April, the “Safilo by Marc Newson” collection is available at ...
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More than 4,600 people showed up at the first edition...
More than 4,600 people showed up at the first edition of Optrafair London on April 11-13. More than 160 firms participated in the event, presenting some 500 brands, and many of them expressed satisfaction, including some that had already exhibited at the new 100% Optical fair in February. Officials of ...
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Italia Independent went up by 59% in 2013
Italia Independent is gaining strength with an aggressive sales strategy that is also giving results on the financial markets. Its growth in the fourth quarter of last year was on a par with the fast development of the previous quarters. Turnover reached €24.9 million for the entire financial year in ...
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Galileo, the Italian company acquired by Essilor in 2008 and...
Galileo, the Italian company acquired by Essilor in 2008 and merged into BBGR's Italian subsidiary two years later, has created a new version of its logo to commemorate its 150th anniversary
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Optic 2000, the French cooperative of independent opticians, has added...
Optic 2000, the French cooperative of independent opticians, has added 500 more Afnor-labeled stores to its network. The group now makes up for 71 percent of France's optical stores having received AFNOR's quality label for optics, created in 2011. The group's banners include both Optic 2000 and Lissac. With 1,200 ...
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Optical Service, a 20-year-old British company that sells about one...
Optical Service, a 20-year-old British company that sells about one million pairs of frames a year under 15 different house brands, has obtained a license for Schott eyewear that covers the U.K., the Baltic countries and South Africa, where it carries most of its export business through an export agent. ...
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Michael Kors license may generate $100 million in annual revenues for Luxottica
Luxottica announced a new license agreement with Michael Kors Holdings, adding that it could generate more than $100 million in annual revenues in three years' time. Following the entry of the American fashion license in its portfolio, Luxottica will drop a secondary license with annual revenues of about €10 million. ...
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Uvex will be changing to 100 percent renewable energies for...
Uvex will be changing to 100 percent renewable energies for all of its locations in Germany. The company has signed a contract with Infra Fürth, a supplier of green energy that is certified by German Technical Control Board (TÜV), in order to secure a more sustainable production. The contract runs ...
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Zeiss Vision Care invested more than €10 million in the...
Zeiss Vision Care invested more than €10 million in the modernization and improvement in efficiency of its site in Aalen during 2014-15. With this investment, Zeiss Vision Care aims to prepare the company's research and development, customer service, and lens production departments in Germany for the future. In the framework ...
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