All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 16, Issue 12-13
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Is Mister Spex on the verge of a sale?
In the next three months, the shareholders of Mister Spex may decide to start cashing out of their investment in the large German-based optical e-tailer by floating it on the stock exchange or by selling a majority of the shares to an institutional investor. That's what Dirk Graber, president of ...
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MEI has moved its U.S. sales subsidiary into larger premises...
MEI has moved its U.S. sales subsidiary into larger premises in Wood Dale, Illinois
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Nau! opens shop in India
The Italian chain of franchised optical stores opened on July 22 its first Indian sales outlet in the MGF Metropolitan Mall on the outskirts of New Delhi. This follows on from the chain's first venture onto the international market with an opening in Spain in May.A number of other new ...
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Hilco Vision, a provider of optical solutions that is particularly...
Hilco Vision, a provider of optical solutions that is particularly strong in the U.K. and the U.S., and its new majority shareholder, Blue Point Capital Partners, have taken over two German companies, Breitfeld & Schliekert (B&S) and Lexxoo International. B&S is the largest supplier of eyewear components in Germany. Lexxoo ...
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Tanya Storey has joined Shamir UK as head of sales...
Tanya Storey has joined Shamir UK as head of sales and professional services
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Peter Laaber has joined the Michael Pachleitner Group as German...
Peter Laaber has joined the Michael Pachleitner Group as German sales manager for the brands Daniel Hechter, Kiotonakamura and Ruud van Dyke
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Optovision, the German producer of free-form lenses, is investing nearly...
Optovision, the German producer of free-form lenses, is investing nearly €6 million to modernize its laboratory in Langen, which employs 400 people
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Franck Waterlot is taking a new position as vice president...
Franck Waterlot is taking a new position as vice president of sales, product merchandising and marketing at Burton Snowboards' European subsidiary, based in Austria. Since 2007 Waterlot had been acting as sales director of Oakley for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at the brand's office in Switzerland, which has ...
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Fedon starts selling sunglasses outside its shops
At this year's Mido show in Milan, Fedon launched a new line of sun eyewear for sale at its own leathergoods stores. From this September, this line is also being made available to third-party optical retail stores in Italy and France.Besides this diversification, the world's leading producer of eyewear cases ...
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Marchon Eyewear has formalized the full takeover of its operations...
Marchon Eyewear has formalized the full takeover of its operations in Australia and New Zealand. General Optical (GenOp), its distribution partner in Australia since 1987, and Marchon Australia have become wholly-owned subsidiaries of the U.S. company. This coincides with the retirement of Peter Lewis, founder and chief executive of GenOp, ...
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Marchon will be the global eyewear licensee for Marni, and...
Marchon will be the global eyewear licensee for Marni, and Italian fashion brand. The first collection of men's and women's sunglasses and prescription frames will come out during the spring/summer 2016 season. They will be made in Italy.
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Vista Eyewear is presenting the new Mad Fun models at...
Vista Eyewear is presenting the new Mad Fun models at Silmo 2015 in Paris, on Sept. 25-28. They are called Altea, Narciso, Orchidea and Violetta. The Italian company said the new models require seven phases of workmanship in order to obtain particular colorings, netting and 3D cube effects. Vista Eyewear ...
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Vision X, the international eyewear show planned to take place...
Vision X, the international eyewear show planned to take place in Dubai on Dec. 6-8, will feature an expanded Style Atelier area for designer brands. Last December, 4,268 unique visitors attended the exhibition, which hosted more than 250 brands. It will also have conferences on retailing. According to the organizers, ...
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IOFT, the international eyewear show organized by Reed Exhibitions...
IOFT, the international eyewear show organized by Reed Exhibitions in Tokyo, will feature an enlarge dedicated area for sunglasses, with more than 160 brands from all over the world, at its upcoming Oct. 6-8 edition
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Luxottica will use green energy from forests
By the end of 2015, Luxottica plans to produce its Made in Italy eyewear in its plant at Agordo using “clean energy.” Through a joint project conducted with the Italian state-owned power company, Enel Energia, the group will be in a position to satisfy almost 100 percent of its energy ...
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Vision Direct moves into France
Vision Direct, the UK-based online retailer of contact lenses, has taken a further step in its European expansion by acquiring a small French contact lens e-tailer, Visiooptik.fr, and migrated its website to the VisionDirect.fr domain. Existing Visiooptik customers can log into VisionDirect.fr with their account and purchase products as before. ...
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Zeal Optics has developed a new polarized and photochromic lens,...
Zeal Optics has developed a new polarized and photochromic lens, the Automatic, building on its technological heritage in goggles
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Vinyl Factory is releasing an exclusive model of sunglasses dedicated...
Vinyl Factory is releasing an exclusive model of sunglasses dedicated to Mike Brant, the famous singer who passed away 40 years ago
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David Shannon will be the new European regional manager of...
David Shannon will be the new European regional manager of Optometry Giving Sight, replacing Donna Power after six years. Working for an optometry practice in central London, he rose through the ranks of the U.K.'s Association of Optometrists (AOP) and became its chairman after 24 years. He participated in its ...
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Outperforming the market, CVI settles with J&J
In reporting on its financial results for its third quarter ended July 31, Cooper Companies, parent company of CooperVision (CVI) announced a settlement was reached with Johnson & Johnson in July. It made a one-time payment of a lump sum of $17.0 million to settle existing patent disputes and agreed ...
