All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 15, Issue 9-10 – Page 2
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Pro Optic, one of the biggest ophthalmic optics retailers in...
Pro Optic, one of the biggest ophthalmic optics retailers in Germany, recorded total sales of more than €100 million in 2013. As compared to the previous year, sales increased by 16.9 percent, presenting the biggest increase in sales of all ophthalmic optics retailers in Germany. Pro Optic manages and owns ...
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Camper, a big and highly creative Spanish brand of casual...
Camper, a big and highly creative Spanish brand of casual footwear, has come out with its first eyewear line. Developed and produced by a Chinese company, Innui Lens Eyewear, it has been designed by Nendo, the 12-year-old Japanese design studio of Oki Sato, which is known for its designs of ...
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Coburn Ikuvu, a new joint venture between Coburn Technologies and...
Coburn Ikuvu, a new joint venture between Coburn Technologies and Ikuvu Optical Equipment, is opening an office in Danyang, China. This new office will store spare parts and aftermarket consumable items for local customers. It will also serve as a central hub for the company's service operations in China. The ...
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The Hilsinger Company, which is better known as Hilco, has...
The Hilsinger Company, which is better known as Hilco, has gone through a fourth change of ownership through a recapitalization conducted by Blue Point Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in Charlotte, Cleveland, according to VMail. The American company supplies opticians and consumers with more than 20,000 different products ...
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Mykita opened its second store in Berlin in May. The...
Mykita opened its second store in Berlin in May. The store is based in the renovated concept mall “Bikinihaus,” an architectural standout in Berlin, which includes boutiques, concept and flagship stores, pop-up stores, which can be rented for up to a year to food and service providers. The Mykita store ...
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Spy becomes more optical, more international
Sales were up by 2.0 percent to $9,192,000 at Spy Optic in the first quarter ended March 31. They included closeout sales of around $400,000, lower than before, and were driven by a 97.3 percent jump in sales of Spy's new line of prescription frames to around $1 million. They ...
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Visibilia gets the Betty Barclay license
Visibilia GmbH of Germany signed a worldwide license agreement with Betty Barclay this spring. The license for Betty Barclay eyewear was previously held by Müller Marketing, but it has not been marketed for the last 18 months or so. The first collection of sunglasses under the Betty Barclay brand name ...
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Essilor is redesigning its management structure in Italy. Massimo Barberis,...
Essilor is redesigning its management structure in Italy. Massimo Barberis, currently sales and marketing director for Essilor Italia, will be in charge of the new Nikon Lenswear business unit as from 2015. Additionally, the current “sales and marketing” division has been split into two separate entities, with two new directors. ...
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OptoVision named Axel Kellersmann as chief executive officer for Germany...
OptoVision named Axel Kellersmann as chief executive officer for Germany on April 1. Kellersmann has previously worked for Rodenstock, where he started to work in 2007 and took over the role as managing director of Rodenstock's business in Chile and Uruguay in 2010. Before joining Rodenstock, Kellersmann worked for Audi ...
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Etnia Barcelona continues to team up with international artists. This...
Etnia Barcelona continues to team up with international artists. This time, the Spanish eyewear company is cooperating with a talented American photoreporter, Steve McCurry, on a new line of acertate sunglasses called “Wild Love in Africa,” which is inspired by wood colors, zebras' furs and similar images. Produced by Mazzucchelli, ...
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Silvian Heach, the fashion brand created by the Naples-based Arav...
Silvian Heach, the fashion brand created by the Naples-based Arav group that recently branched out into eyewear, (see Eyewear Intelligence of March 28, vol. 15-5+6) has had substantial success in the first two months of its new venture, probably because this well-known Italian fashion brand has decided not to sell ...
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The U.S. Optical Business Barometer fell slightly in April
The overall rating of the U.S. optical business environment showed a slight decrease in April, down to a rating of 3.70 as compared to a March rating of 3.72, according to the Optical Business Barometer (OBB) compiled by Jobson Optical Research. The rating improved, however, against an April 2013 rating ...
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Lindsay Brown has been appointed by Hoya Vision Caro to...
Lindsay Brown has been appointed by Hoya Vision Caro to the new position of general manager for European key accounts, reporting to Hans Werquin, chief executive of the European operation. Graduated in South Africa, he brings more than 20 years of experience in the optical industry to Hoya, which has ...
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The Highmark group in the U.S. has appointed David L....
The Highmark group in the U.S. has appointed David L. Holmberg as president and chief executive of its Highmark Health arm, which provides vision care and other types of health insurance to end customers. He previously ran the Diversified Business unit of the group including HVHC, which oversees 620 Visionworks ...
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China fines lens firms for anti-trust behavior
Following an investigation across the lens industry, the National Development and Reform Commission of the People's Republic of China has imposed fines amounting to one or two percent of sales on some major foreign suppliers of ophthalmic lenses that enjoy high market shares, alleging that they have effectively controlled the ...
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Optoms Cycling for Sight, the annual cycling initiative organized by...
Optoms Cycling for Sight, the annual cycling initiative organized by Optometry Giving Sight to raise funds for vision correction in developing countries, has been nominated for an award as “Charity Initiative of the Year” by the Association of Optometrists (AOP) in the U.K. The initiative, on which we have reported ...
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The Vision Council has formally announced that Ed Greene, who...
The Vision Council has formally announced that Ed Greene, who has been running the U.S.-based organization for nearly eight years, will retire in the late part of 2014. The recruitment of his successor is already in progress. Formerly called the Vision Council of America (VCA), the association has grown under ...
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Sauflon has announced a new private label partnership with Vision...
Sauflon has announced a new private label partnership with Vision Source for the launch of Fresh Daily, a silicone hydrogel family of contact lenses. The launch came at The Exchange 2014, Vision Source's annual member's meeting, running from April 9-12 in Boston. Vision Source is the biggest optical alliance in ...
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Andrea Guerra, chief executive of Luxottica, sold in the last...
Andrea Guerra, chief executive of Luxottica, sold in the last few days 1.25 million shares in the Italian group at €41.50 each for €51.8 million. The transaction gave him a net gain of nearly €35 million as he had gotten the shares as an option at a price of €13.45 ...
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Johnson & Johnson Vision Care has appointed David Hall as...
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care has appointed David Hall as general manager responsible for the U.K. and Ireland. He was commercial director for Johnson & Johnson Consumer, Ireland after joining Johnson & Johnson 10 years ago. He holds an MBA from the University of California at Berkley.
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