All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 16, Issue 10-11 – Page 2
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Brien Holden is dead
Brien Holden suddenly passed away on July 27 of a heart attack. He was 73. Professor Holden was a pioneer of treating global refractive error and an internationally renowned and awarded scientist. He was the chief executive of the famous Brien Holden Vision Institute and a professor at the School ...
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News briefs
Comma, a German brand of women's clothing, will be coming...
Comma, a German brand of women's clothing, will be coming out with a collection of prescription frames and sunglasses in January 2016. It will be presented at the Opti fair in Munich and marketed in Germany and other selected European markets by its new licensee, BoDe Design, which works also ...
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Rolf Spectacles, the pioneering Tyrolean brand of wooden glasses, has...
Rolf Spectacles, the pioneering Tyrolean brand of wooden glasses, has won another product award. This time, it has received the Good Design Award 2015 in the fashion and objects category for its Sapphire 92 model, which is made of bog maple oak.
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Luxottica boosts its distribution capacity
Oddly, the strong increase in demand for Luxottica's eyewear is not putting pressure on its manufacturing capacity but on the logistics. According to Massimo Vian, the group's joint chief executive in charge of product and operations, productivity gains are enabling the company to gain physical space in its existing production ...
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Marcolin boosts Italian production
Marcolin has officially opened a new manufacturing facility at Fortogna, raising the local staff by 30 people to 143 in a first stage, with 40 more to follow later on. The expansion of the facility, which Marcolin acquired from Marchon last October, will allow the company to double its in-house ...
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Revo partners with Bono
Revo, the American brand of sunglasses, is launching a program aimed at collecting $10 million to improve access to eye screening and vision correction for more than five million people in disadvantaged communities around the world. For every pair purchased by consumers, it will donate $10 to the Brien Holden ...
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Marcolin has extended the eyewear licenses for the Candie's, Bongo...
Marcolin has extended the eyewear licenses for the Candie's, Bongo and Rampage brands until 2020. The three labels, which are owned by Iconix Brand Group, had been licensed since 2008 to Viva International, which has since merged with Marcolin.
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The Italian section of the Christian Blind Mission (CBM), the...
The Italian section of the Christian Blind Mission (CBM), the international non-profit organization for the blind, presented the second edition of “Unlimited Love,” a campaign intended to raise funds to restore sight to 1,000 women in Africa. The event was celebrated on July 2, at the flagship store of Salmoiraghi ...
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U.S. optical barometer shows a slight drop
The Optical Business barometer (OBB), a monthly survey designed to gauge business attitudes among independent eye care professionals in the U.S., stood at 3.81 for May 2015, as compared to an April 2015 rating of 3.83. However, it showed an increase when compared to a May 2014 rating of 3.73, ...
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B. Robinson, the new global licensee for Revo sunglasses and prescription frames, has...
B. Robinson, the new global licensee for Revo sunglasses and prescription frames, has decided to assign the distribution of the line in the U.S. optical retail channel to ClearVision Optical, starting with January 2016.
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The “Safilo Product School,” a German-style apprentice program, will kick...
The “Safilo Product School,” a German-style apprentice program, will kick off on Sept. 14. Nine participants, selected among about 200 applicants, will start a three-year apprenticeship with the Italian company.
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Mark'ennovy has appointed Chris Carter as group sales and marketing...
Mark'ennovy has appointed Chris Carter as group sales and marketing director, a new position. He spent the last five years at Bausch & Lomb as commercial director for vision care in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He previously worked for Unilever and Kimberly Clark.
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Ben Wolf has been appointed senior vice president of Marcolin...
Ben Wolf has been appointed senior vice president of Marcolin USA, in charge of sales of all its products to the optical retail channel, including those that were previously marketed by Viva International. He will report to Fabrizio Gamberini, chief executive of the U.S. subsidiary. Most recently, Wolf covered this ...
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WestGroupe of Montreal has appointed Michael Debono as executive vice...
WestGroupe of Montreal has appointed Michael Debono as executive vice president of global sales. Debono joined the Canadian producer and distributor as national sales manager in 2005. He became vice president of North American sales in 2010.
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CooperVision has appointed Guy Whittaker as vice president of global...
CooperVision has appointed Guy Whittaker as vice president of global marketing. His nomination has followed the recent promotion of his predecessor, Jerry Warner, to president of North America. Whittaker has held management roles with CooperVision since 1998. Most recently he was general manager for Australia/New Zealand & Southeast Asia, and ...
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Smith Sports Optics has appointed Cale Meyer as promotions manager...
Smith Sports Optics has appointed Cale Meyer as promotions manager and Ben Cruickshank as sport channel communications manager, based at the company's marketing headquarters in Portland, Oregon
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Kevin Thompson, owner of Thompson Opticians, has been appointed as...
Kevin Thompson, owner of Thompson Opticians, has been appointed as chairman of the Association of Optometrists (AOP) in the U.K. Thompson has been on the association's council since 2007. He has taken over the role from Lyndon Taylor, who was presented at the annual general meeting with honorary membership of ...
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Another record quarter for Luxottica
Boosted by the strength of the U.S. dollar, Luxottica announced a 19.3 percent increase in revenues to €2,457 million in the second quarter, beating the previous quarterly record set three months earlier. At constant currency rates, the top line grew by 4.9 percent.Adjusted revenues grew at an even faster rate ...
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Another manager has left Safilo to join Kering Eyewear, the...
Another manager has left Safilo to join Kering Eyewear, the new company created to manage the eyewear lines for Kering's luxury goods and sports brands. Pietro Scognamiglio, who was in charge of travel retail in Asia at Safilo, will have a similar role at Kering Eyewear, leading its expansion in the ...
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PFO Global has announced the completion of a merger of...
PFO Global has announced the completion of a merger of PFO Acquisition Corp. with its wholly-owned subsidiary Pro Fit Optix Holding Co., resulting in the emergence of PFO Global as a publicly traded company. It will continue to be headed up by Rudolf Suter as chief executive, Charles Posternack as ...
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