All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 16, Issue 12-13 – Page 3
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Hoya has announced the introduction of the Hoya Vision Simulator,...
Hoya has announced the introduction of the Hoya Vision Simulator, which will allow wearers to experience their new lenses before they buy them, while still in the store. Based on the wearers' prescription, Hoya's simulator provides a 3D vision experience. The simulator is controlled by an application downloaded onto a ...
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Silhouette has announced a new collaboration with Wes Gordon, the...
Silhouette has announced a new collaboration with Wes Gordon, the New York-based designer of high-end women's wear
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International Vision Expo & Conference has launched VisionariesCommunity.com, a new...
International Vision Expo & Conference has launched VisionariesCommunity.com, a new social sharing, networking and information portal for the Vision Expo community of eyecare professionals. Users can also use it to post unique or sourced content, audio, video and images, share content to Twitter, Facebook and Google+, and post questions about ...
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Alessandro Dell'Acqua, a well-known Italian fashion designer, is planning to...
Alessandro Dell'Acqua, a well-known Italian fashion designer, is planning to sign an eyewear license by Dec. 21 or the end of this year for N°21, his new project in women's wear and footwear. Dell'Acqua calls his new brand N°21 because he considers 21 to be his lucky number. He was ...
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Wagner+Kühner will hold the eyewear license for Aigner, the German...
Wagner+Kühner will hold the eyewear license for Aigner, the German brand of leathergoods. The first five models of sunglasses and 20 styles of prescription frames will reach the market in the summer of 2016. They will be offered online and offline. Started in 1945, Wagner+Kühner, which was founded in 1945, ...
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Match Eyewear has signed a ten-year global license agreement with...
Match Eyewear has signed a ten-year global license agreement with Judith Leiber, best known as a designer of luxury handbags. The maker and distributor of premium fashion eyewear will develop both ophthalmic and sun collections under Judith Leiber Couture, as well as the newly-created JL by Judith Leiber collection. Both ...
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Italia Independent signs Adidas Originals contract
Italia Independent has signed a four-year contract to develop, produce and distribute the Adidas Originals line of eyewear. It had already partnered with Adidas Original on a successful capsule collection inspired by Adidas' Superstar sneaker, which came on the market a few months ago. The new styles will come out ...
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Safilo adds two licenses in two segments
The Safilo Group has announced an interesting new global eyewear licensing agreement with the Brazilian Alpargatas group for its well-known Havaianas brand of rubber sandals. It will run until 2021, with an option for renewal by mutual consent. The first collection will be sold in the second half of 2016.Pointing ...
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Carl Zeiss plans to organize many activities and events to...
Carl Zeiss plans to organize many activities and events to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of the company's founder, Carl Friedrich Zeiss, on Sept. 11, 2016 in downtown Jena
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MyOptique makes two acquisitions
MyOptique has taken over the second-largest German online retailer, Business 4Care, which sells prescription frames, sunglasses and contact lenses through its website, Lensbest.de, and has a wholesale operation that sells Lennox eyewear and its own Acumed and Lenscare brands of contact lenses, solutions, readers, sunglasses and other products. In parallel, ...
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Dita Group of Los Angeles has acquired the Christian Roth...
Dita Group of Los Angeles has acquired the Christian Roth brand of eyewear. Roth and his partner, Eric Domege, will continue as creative directors of the luxury eyewear brand, which they founded in 1984. The Christian Roth collection will be sold by the Dita Group, which has been expanding internationally ...
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Ocuco has acquired the optical software business of Retail Planit,...
Ocuco has acquired the optical software business of Retail Planit, including the company's name and brands, for an undisclosed amount. Retail Planit is based in Denmark and serves the Scandinavian market, with wholly-owned subsidiaries operating in Norway and Sweden. Its Optitec RS optical software package will be integrated with Ocuco's ...
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Fiamp, the umbrella organization of Italian producers of fashion accessories,...
Fiamp, the umbrella organization of Italian producers of fashion accessories, has announced changes at the top of the organization. Cirillo Marcolin, president of Anfao, is the new chairman for the next two years. He takes over from Cleto Sagripanti, the former president of Assocalzaturifici who is now president of CEC, ...
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Fielmann accelerates in the second quarter
Fielmann reached solid growth on a same-store basis of 4 percent in the first six months of this year, with an acceleration to 6 percent in the second quarter. Company officials attribute this to demographic developments, the ongoing upgrading to progressive lenses and the strength of the German economy. Total ...
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Think About Your Eyes focuses on children
Separate research studies from Think About Your Eyes and the American Optometric Association show that 89 percent of parents in the U.S. incorrectly consider vision screenings such as those offered in schools and at pediatricians' offices, as an effective way to detect vision issues in infants and children. This adds ...
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Italy's Netcity group grows to 820 members
Founded in 1990 by its current chairman, Roberto Marlazzi, this Italian buying group based in Tuscany has recently seen its membership soar. As from this year, Netcity has two former Essilor managers at the helm. The chief executive, Laurent Schmitt, a Frenchman who was most recently the strategic vice president ...
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7Trade, the German distribution agency of Micha Siebenhandl, will represent...
7Trade, the German distribution agency of Micha Siebenhandl, will represent Robert Marc of New York in the German-speaking markets
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More than 400 pairs of Davidoff, Superdry and Revo glasses...
More than 400 pairs of Davidoff, Superdry and Revo glasses were stolen on Aug. 27 in Strasbourg from the car of salesman from Menrad
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Driven by 3D-printed glasses, Italia Inde-pendent grows by 35%
Italia Independent has signed a multi-year contract with Menrad, the German company known also as Menrad the Vision, to represent it as an agent in Germany and Austria. The collaboration, which will also cover the Adidas Originals line, will reinforce the company's position in Europe, where it already sells in ...
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GrandVision reports 21.6% higher profits
GrandVision has reported increases of 16.9 percent in revenues and 23.2 percent in earnings per share for the first half ended June 30. Sales increased to €1,611 million, with growth of 15.5 percent in local currencies and 5.2 percent on a comparable, same-store basis across the group. Net earnings advanced ...
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