All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 16, Issue 4-5
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Spy makes some progress
Spy Inc. improved operating results and reduced its net losses in the financial year ended Dec. 31 as well as in the fourth quarter. The American company's revenues increased by 0.9 percent for the year to $38.1 million, but jumped by 13.2 percent to $9.8 million in the fourth quarter, ...
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John Weber, who has worked for six years as president...
John Weber, who has worked for six years as president of CooperVision, has been named chief executive of Vision-Ease, taking the place of Doug Hopper. The company's new owners would like to push its annual turnover from about $130 million to $500 million by adding substrates, coatings and other products ...
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Shamir Optical Industry has promoted Raanan Naftalovich to president of...
Shamir Optical Industry has promoted Raanan Naftalovich to president of Shamir North America. For the past 10 years, Naftalovich has been the chief executive of Shamir Insight, the San Diego-based subsidiary of the spectacle lens manufacturer. In his new position, he will now oversee all of the Shamir sites and ...
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A good Mido
The organizers of the Milan show report an increase of 8.7 percent in the number of visitors to its 45th edition, ended on March 2. They reached a record level of 49,000, and 56 percent of them came from outside Italy. Almost everybody registered for the show online before coming ...
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Rodenstock is doing well on many fronts
Rodenstock is doing much better than five years ago, when its controlling shareholder, Bridgepoint Capital, installed a new chief executive, Oliver Kastalio, who has made many interesting initiatives. Sales and profits have increased every year since the appointment of this former manager of Procter & Gamble. The German company started ...
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A more profitable Salmoiraghi pushes franchising
After accumulating losses and debts year after year, Salmoiraghi & Viganò, Italy's largest optical retail chain, closed its fiscal year on Sept. 30, 2014 with profit of almost €200,000, a clear sign of a turnaround, even if the sum is still modest.It came after the appointment of a new chief ...
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Italy’s Vision Group strengthens franchising, too
It is just a year since an Italian equity fund, Arcadia, acquired 46 percent of the capital of Vision Group, an Italian optical buying group with some 1,500 retail members. Arcadia was set up by Guido Belli, one of the founders of Bridgepoint, an international investor with a strong presence ...
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Fittingbox, the French-based leader in virtual try-on software, is setting...
Fittingbox, the French-based leader in virtual try-on software, is setting up a U.S. office in New York to work more closely with the 31,000 independent opticians that operate in the country. It will be run by Sylvain Jaboeuf, who has been in charge of other distant markets. The company already ...
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Fielmann makes a retail test in Italy
Confirming a report in B2Eyes, a top executive of Fielmann says the German company is moving into the fragmented Italian market with a test store due to be opened during the month of June in Bolzano, taking the place of an old café on via Museo.The choice of the city ...
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If you are visiting the International Vision Expo fair in...
If you are visiting the International Vision Expo fair in New York and are interested in design, you may want to attend a panel discussion on the subject from 5:00 PM to 5:45 PM at The Galleria, followed by a reception with the participating eyewear designers until 6:30 PM. The ...
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Evioo.com, the French online optical retailer, is planning to open...
Evioo.com, the French online optical retailer, is planning to open 100 bricks-and-mortar stores over the next three years, according to reports in the information portal acuite.fr. The stores will be relatively small in terms of surface, between 5 and 40 square meters, and highly technical, equipped with artificial intelligence devices. ...
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The Essilor Sun Solution is a new range of plano...
The Essilor Sun Solution is a new range of plano and prescription sun lenses produced in partnership by BNL and Intercast. Both are leading players in the sun lens market that belong to the Essilor group. There are five main categories of lenses – Sport & Performance, Protection, Fashion & ...
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Safilo launched a dedicated Safilo Kids collection of prescription frames...
Safilo launched a dedicated Safilo Kids collection of prescription frames for children between the ages of 0 and 8 years at the Mido fair in Milan. Using light and hypoallergenic materials, including rubber and various polymers, they are made in Italy.
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Rye&Lye presented a collection of three eyeglass styles with a...
Rye&Lye presented a collection of three eyeglass styles with a Murano glass insert on the temples at Mido
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Ørgreen joins forces with Claire Goldsmith in the U.S.
Ørgreen Optics and Claire Goldsmith Sunglasses are inviting their customers to a Danish-style party in New York next Saturday night, during the International Vision Expo show, to celebrate another major step in their alliance. They will be exhibiting together at the fair following the establishment of a joint U.S. sales ...
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The chief executives of Luxottica and Safilo did not express...
The chief executives of Luxottica and Safilo did not express great concern earlier this month about the likelihood of more stringent social security reimbursement guidelines for prescription frames that may be soon adopted by the French government. Adil Mehboob-Khan, Luxottica's co-chief executive in charge of markets, said that the size ...
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Givenchy license to offset loss of minor Kering brands for Safilo
Safilo announced that it has grabbed the Givenchy license from De Rigo, adding that the deal will more than compensate for the loss this year of the licenses on three brands whose eyewear is being taken in-house by their owner, the French Kering group, after the end of June.In a ...
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Safilo to grow faster than the market, driven by house brands
Safilo wants to raise its annual turnover by about 40 percent to a level of between €1.6 billion and €1.7 billion by 2020, compared with the revenues of €1,179 million posted in 2014, driven by a doubling in the sales of its proprietary brands. The increase in the top line ...
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Ocuco is recruiting six engineers to boost the professional services...
Ocuco is recruiting six engineers to boost the professional services team that delivers training and consultancy to the optical retailers with whom it works in the U.S., the U.K. and Ireland. The Irish-based company, which claims to be the largest provider of software solutions to the optical sector, already employs ...
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Blackfin is moving into the Chinese market through a distributor...
Blackfin is moving into the Chinese market through a distributor based in Beijing
