All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 16, Issue 6-7
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Rand-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses are no longer sold by Rand Paul,...
Rand-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses are no longer sold by Rand Paul, a candidate to the U.S. presidency, through his website. According to Mashable, he did not get permission to do so by Luxottica, owner of the Ray-Ban brand name.
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Luxottica integrates Oakley
Luxottica has started the integration of Oakley, the Californian brand that it bought in 2007, by merging its wholesale team into its own operations. The move, which we had already mentioned in our last issue, is the first of a “series of integration moves” scheduled in the coming weeks to ...
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Spy improves results
The American company reported yesterday a 0.7 percent drop in revenues to $9,131,000 for the first quarter, with lower sales of sunglasses partially offset by higher sales of snow goggles and prescription frames. The management blamed the ongoing contraction of the action sports retail sector and added that the business ...
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Sunglass Hut will be the new main sponsor of the...
Sunglass Hut will be the new main sponsor of the London Fashion Week in February and September, taking the place of Vodaphone
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Luxury Optical Holdings is moving its Morgenthal Frederics flagship store...
Luxury Optical Holdings is moving its Morgenthal Frederics flagship store in Manhattan to the historic Carlton House nearby, at 680 Madison Avenue. According to VMail, the company has also acquired Ruhle Opticians, a luxury optician in Warwick, New York. Last year, LOH had acquired two other retailers, Specs Optical and ...
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Fedon resumes sales growth
Sales are growing again for Giorgio Fedon & Figli after their poor performance in recent years. Italy's leading producer of eyewear cases, which has been diversifying into leathergoods, closed its 2014 fiscal year with revenues up by 3.6 percent to €62.6 million.However, a look at the company's profitability tells another ...
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Kering Eyewear will start up in July
The new company established by Kering to manage the eyewear lines of its 22 fashion, sports and lifestyle brands will make a start on July 1 with nine of them and with a team of experienced professionals, many of whom come from Safilo.Four of the nine Kering brands - Bottega ...
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Rem Eyewear has named Keith Kamalich as vice president of...
Rem Eyewear has named Keith Kamalich as vice president of sales, effective April 9. Kamalich is an industry veteran with more than 26 years of optical and manufacturing experience. Prior to joining Rem, he worked for 15 years at Tura, where he served as vice president of sales and most ...
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Ogi Eyewear has promoted John Nides to the position of...
Ogi Eyewear has promoted John Nides to the position of vice president of sales
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Luxottica expects to release the first product stemming from its...
Luxottica expects to release the first product stemming from its partnership with Intel in February or March of next year, with a campaign being timed with the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro
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Safilo’s quarterly sales lifted by a weak euro
Like many other European companies with big operations overseas, Safilo is benefiting from the weakening of the euro against the U.S. dollar. In the first quarter, the group's sales rose by 10.6 percent to €324.3 million. But at constant currency rates, the top line only rose by 0.8 percent, in ...
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Securing its first listing in travel retail, the recently established...
Securing its first listing in travel retail, the recently established Swiss Eyewear Group has signed a big deal with Virgin Atlantic Airlines for on-board sales of a £39 (€53-$59) women's style from INVU, its collection of “ultra-polarized” sunglasses. The company says the affordable collection is enjoying great sell-through at opticians ...
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A strong quarter for Essilor
The strength of the dollar helped to boost the reported revenues of Essilor International by 25.4 percent to €1,659 million in the first quarter. On a comparable basis, they went up by 4.0 percent, as changes in the scope of consolidation and currencies boosted the top line by 8.7 and ...
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An integrated sun lens offer by Essilor
Essilor has set up a new business unit, Essilor Sun Solution, offering a vast range of plano and prescription sun lenses produced in partnership by BNL Eurolens and Intercast Europe. Both companies are leading players in the sun lens market that belong to the Essilor group.Presented at the recent Mido show ...
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Electric has hired Etienne Pinon as sales manager for the...
Electric has hired Etienne Pinon as sales manager for the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region. Pinon brings more than 15 years of experience in the action sports industry and international sales. Most recently, he served as head of sales for Europe at Neff Headwear. Prior to that, he ...
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Geraldine Wood has replaced Mark Ross has managing director of...
Geraldine Wood has replaced Mark Ross has managing director of Black & Lizars, an optical retail chain with 24 stores in Scotland and one in Belfast. The company reportedly made an improved pre-tax profit of £761,000 (€1.03m-$1.16m) last year on 9 percent higher sales of £13.9 million (€18.8m-$21.2m).
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Günther Fielmann delegates some responsibilities
Fielmann continued to make progress in the first quarter of 2015, raising its consolidated sales by 3.5 percent to €317.1 million from the relatively high level of the year-earlier period, with growth of 2.9 percent on a same-store basis. Net income increased by 6.0 percent to €44.5 million. The supervisory ...
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Oscar de la Renta has renewed and expanded its partnership...
Oscar de la Renta has renewed and expanded its partnership with Allure Eyewear, a subsidiary of Marchon
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Customers expect more from their optician
Opticians are appreciated by more than 80 percent of European customers for their technical competences, but they don't seem to be as attentive and receptive to the clients' requests in Germany and the U.K. as compared to other major markets. Purchasing trends in these two countries tend to diverge from ...
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Marc Onetto, a French-American specialist in operational efficiencies and customer...
Marc Onetto, a French-American specialist in operational efficiencies and customer service with experience in internet communication and logistics, was elected yesterday as a new member of the board of Essilor International for the next three years. The 64-year-old manager acted as senior vice president of worldwide operations and customer service ...
