All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 16, Issue 1-2 – Page 2
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Centennial Optical is taking on the distribution in Canada for...
Centennial Optical is taking on the distribution in Canada for Revo and for Spine, the new collection of Mondottica
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Six fire crews were called to a fire at the...
Six fire crews were called to a fire at the Specsavers building in Coventry, U.K. recently. One firefighter was hospitalized for heat stress as a result of the heat in the building. The cause of the fire was identified as a faulty LED light. Specsavers has arrange alternative premises for ...
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Exercising a call option, KKR has sold its remaining stake...
Exercising a call option, KKR has sold its remaining stake of 55 percent in Alliance Boots to Walgreens, which had bought an initial share of 45 percent in August 2012. Walgreens, the largest drugstore chain in the U.S., has thus been able to complete its merger with Alliance Boots, which ...
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Will Essilor buy Safilo?
It's the latest speculation. It has been formulated as a possibility by Exane BNP Paribas, and it could make some sense after the recently reported failure of merger discussions between Essilor International and the Luxottica Group. The two eyewear industry giants have been very respectful of each other until now, ...
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Google Glass takes a break
Googgle announced its decision to halt further sales under its Glass Explorer program on its website as of Jan. 19, but indicated that it was working on new versions of Google Glass that might be released at a later stage, without giving a timeline. The decision is not surprising, considering ...
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New and old brands use new materials
More and more brands of spectacles are using wood in the wake of pioneers such as Gold & Wood and Rolf Spectacles, which just got the German Design Award, or WooDone, which has improved its manufacturing technology by developing specific, labor-saving machinery. There are now about a dozen more or ...
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New boss for Zeiss' Vision Care
With effect from next July 1, the current four-member executive board of the Carl Zeiss group will be expanded to include a member who will be specifically responsible for its Vision Care and Consumer Optics business groups. The new member is going to be Matthias Metz. The two business units ...
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Luxottica benefits from exchange rates
In fourth quarter of 2014, Luxottica's revenues started to significantly benefit again from foreign exchange movements thanks to the depreciation of the euro against other currencies, especially the U.S. dollar. The revenues reported earlier this week by the group for the quarter showed a big increase of 13.4 percent in ...
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Jeff Grumbling, a seasoned industry executive who has been responsible...
Jeff Grumbling, a seasoned industry executive who has been responsible for Carl Zeiss Vision's lab operations on the U.S. West Coast for more than seven years, has been hired by OptoTech to act as chief operating officer of its North American ophthalmic division. He previously worked for Pearle Vision and ...
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Joseph (Joe) Tellier has become the chief executive of Ogi...
Joseph (Joe) Tellier has become the chief executive of Ogi Eyewear. It's a new position at the American accessible luxury company, where he and other officials have been working as a team. Sales have grown by 300 percent since he joined Ogi in September 2008 as vice president of global ...
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The Vision Council promoted this week Marty Bassett of Walman...
The Vision Council promoted this week Marty Bassett of Walman Optical as its new chairman at the organization's Executive Summit in Florida. Bassett, who has set the promotion of market growth as one of his priorities, replaces Raanan Naftalovich of Shamir Insight, who had been elected chairman two years ago. ...
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U.S. Optical Barometer points upwards
The Optical Business Barometer (OBB), a monthly survey designed to gauge business attitudes among independent eye care professionals in the U.S., showed an increase for December 2014 as compared to the previous month and the previous December ratings. The December 2014 rating rose to 3.91 from a November rating of ...
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Mikamale - a word that means “not so bad” in...
Mikamale - a word that means “not so bad” in Italian - is the name of a new eyewear brand launched by Micha Sascha Siebenhandl in collaboration with Alessandro De Vecchi. Deseigned in Germany and Italy, it will be presented to the press at the Mido show in Milan and ...
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B. Robinson Optical, the global eyewear licensee of Revo, is...
B. Robinson Optical, the global eyewear licensee of Revo, is launching the brand's first snow goggle for the coming autumn/winter season. There will be eight unisex styles with three mirror lens coatings and a dual photochromic/polarized lens combination.
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In collaboration with GfK, the German opticians' association, ZVA, is...
In collaboration with GfK, the German opticians' association, ZVA, is developing a pilot project in geomarketing to help its members to position themselves better against the local competition. The first 26 participants in the project joined a workshop last November to implement it in the course of 2015. Each one ...
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The British Contact Lens Association (BCLA) and the U.K. Federation...
The British Contact Lens Association (BCLA) and the U.K. Federation of Ophthalmic and Dispensing Opticians (FODO) have agreed to become association partners of Optrafair for its next edition in Birmingham on Apr. 18-20
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Aquasphere has launched the polarized lens version of its award-winning...
Aquasphere has launched the polarized lens version of its award-winning Kayenne swimming goggle
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CooperVision has appointed Gary Orsborn as vice president of global...
CooperVision has appointed Gary Orsborn as vice president of global professional & clinical affairs. He will be responsible for the management and development of the company's professional and clinical affairs strategy worldwide. Dr. Orsborn joined the company in 2013 and has served as senior director of global professional affairs. In ...
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Optovision has appointed a new international sales director, Thomas Beier,...
Optovision has appointed a new international sales director, Thomas Beier, who has spent 22 years in the ophthalmic optics industry, occupying major roles for important companies such as Essilor and Rodenstock. The 54-year-old Austrian native is expected to consolidate the position of the German manufacturer of progressive lenses in markets ...
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Essilor plans to appoint a new president for its Canadian...
Essilor plans to appoint a new president for its Canadian office to replace Marc Tersigni, a former executive managing director of Essilor UK who is expected to move into a new role within the company. In Germany, meanwhile, we hear that Michael Brukner has taken the place of Marcel Phol ...
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