All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 16, Issue 15-16 – Page 2
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Claudio Gottardi, president and chief executive of Marchon Eyewear, got...
Claudio Gottardi, president and chief executive of Marchon Eyewear, got the Leadership Award at the 19th annual Accessories Council Excellence Awards (ACE Awards) in New York earlier this month. The award was introduced by Diane von Furstenberg, the American fashion designer, and given to the Italo-American executive by his son, ...
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New CEO for Eschenbach
Jörg Zobel, 43, has become the new chief executive of Eschenbach Optik, the largest eyewear producer in Germany and a major global supplier of low-vision equipment. He takes the place of Wolfgang Rebstock, who retired on Nov. 13 after more than 16 years with the company. Rebstock's main partner, Peter ...
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Consorzio Italian Vision (CIV) is a new buying group formed...
Consorzio Italian Vision (CIV) is a new buying group formed in Italy at the beginning of this year. It has federated so far ten small optical retail chains: Barello, Fbl, Ilop, Lisi & Bartolomei, Milleocchiali, Salva, Semedo, Tutto a Vista, Vision Optika and +Vista. Led by Fabrizio Lambertini, the consortium ...
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As planned, Revo has launched a “Buy Vision, Give Sight”...
As planned, Revo has launched a “Buy Vision, Give Sight” marketing campaign in connection with the release of a capsule collection of five styles of sunglasses developed in collaboration with Bono, the activist lead singer of the U2 group. Revo will donate $10 from the sale of every pair of ...
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Lower margins for Hoya’s eyeglass business
Hoya Corporation reported an 8.1 percent increase to 81.6 billion yen (€623.6m-$664.0m) for its second quarter ended Sept. 30 in the revenues of its Life Care segment, which includes eyeglasses, contact lenses, intraocular devices, endoscopes and other products. Excluding foreign currency conversions, the revenues were up by 6 percent. The ...
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Better results and more stores for Salmoiraghi
The other major player in the Italian optical retail market, Salmoiraghi & Viganò, has announced that it will open 30 new directly operated stores during the financial year that started this September, positioned in different market segments and equally divided between city center locations and shopping malls.The new stores will ...
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Mad Vision, a new wholesale company, has been launched in...
Mad Vision, a new wholesale company, has been launched in the U.S. through the collaboration of Guillaume Pottecher, an 18-year veteran in the optical sector, and Marc Aptakin, who owns Mad Studios, a South Florida-based advertising and marketing agency. Pottecher and Aptakin have joined forces to combine wholesale distribution with ...
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Robert Sparkes from Optimed has been elected as the new...
Robert Sparkes from Optimed has been elected as the new chairman of ODMA, the Australian optical industry association. He takes the place of Richard Grills, a former statesman who has been on the board since 1996, running it for the last ten years. He will remain involved for two more ...
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U.S. Optical Barometer shows a slight decrease
The Optical Business Barometer (OBB), a monthly survey designed to gauge business attitudes among independent eyecare professionals in the U.S., stood at 3.76 for October 2015, as compared to a September 2015 rating of 3.89. The rating is only slightly down versus an October 2014 rating of 3.77 and is ...
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New CEO for Avanzi
Avanzi Holding, the Italian optical retail group controlled by GrandVision, has a new chief executive, Luca Sacilotto, who has been running since 2008 Gruppo Randazzo, the Italian retail chain that was acquired by Avanzi last year. Sacilotto takes over from Christophe Reale, who has been named international project manager for ...
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Works by the finalists and winners of the Autofocus art...
Works by the finalists and winners of the Autofocus art competition, sponsored by Vanni, were on display on Nov. 5-8 in Turin during The Others, a fair dedicated to emerging art and research. Vanni's initiative is aimed to promote young artists of any nationality and language area and to reward ...
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WestGroupe of Canada has appointed new French distributor, LVD Consulting,...
WestGroupe of Canada has appointed new French distributor, LVD Consulting, to market its Fysh UK and Evatik brands in France, starting last September. LVD is the distribution company of Daniel Louveau, who has been associated with major French brands such as Lafont, Alain Mikli, Beausoleil and Face à Face.
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Anton Scherer is the new general manager of Menicon's German...
Anton Scherer is the new general manager of Menicon's German subsidiary, which covers also Austria and the Scandinavian countries. He has worked since 1987 in the contact lens business, serving in various positions at Ciba Vision, Sauflon and Coopervision. He was most recently in charge of key accounts and professional ...
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Another poor quarter for Spy
Spy's net loss widened to $788,000 in the third quarter from a loss of $19,000 in the same period a year ago as the U.S. company's sales fell by 14.6 percent to $9,370,000 during the period. The gross margin declined sharply to 43.7 percent from 49.2 percent in the same ...
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Specsavers has announced the details of a new electronic patient...
Specsavers has announced the details of a new electronic patient record (EPR) tool which links customers' vision and hearing information with retail. The tool has been built by U.S.-based eClinicalWorks after signing a deal to work with Specsavers globally. The new cloud-based platform is designed to hold patients' optical records ...
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Walter & Herbert, a new line made in England
The Optoplast Actman Eyewear Company has successfully launched a new corporate brand of eyewear made in England, Walter & Herbert. The new project follows two years of intense development and investments in new equipment for barreling, polishing, cutting, laser engraving and other operations at the company's own central warehouse in ...
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Cutler & Gross has opened its second store in London,...
Cutler & Gross has opened its second store in London, which is located in the Old Spitalfields Market in East London. The British firm already has a flagship store in the Knightsbridge area of London as well as shops in Bath and Leeds. Early last month, Cutler & Gross also ...
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The sports & leisure segment of Uvex Winter Holding, which...
The sports & leisure segment of Uvex Winter Holding, which produces eyewear and helmets under the Uvex and Alpina brands, raised its sales by 6 percent in the financial year ended June 30, reaching a level of €117.2 million, accounting for 29 percent of the group's total turnover. Weak sales ...
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American Vision, an ambitious new Indian project
Many new Indian projects start up in Pune, a technologically driven city in the state of Maharashtra near Mumbai. One of them is American Vision, a new store franchising program that began there last spring with a declared ambition to become the largest network of optical stores in the country.The ...
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Luxottica signs an innovative labor agreement
Luxottica employs about 10,000 people at its head office in Milan and at its Italian manufacturing plants in Agordo, Cencenighe, Sedico, Pederobba, Rovereto, and Lauriano. The company has announced the signature of a comprehensive new collective labor agreement with their trade unions, covering the period from Dec. 1 to Dec. ...
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