All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 16, Issue 8-9 – Page 2
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Reportedly, Chanel is planning to start selling its eyewear online...
Reportedly, Chanel is planning to start selling its eyewear online in the U.S. at the end of this year, as a test for the launch of an e-commerce website for all its products
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Nau!, the Italian eyewear franchise chain, has opened its first...
Nau!, the Italian eyewear franchise chain, has opened its first store outside its domestic territory in Barcelona. The store is located in the Anec Blau shopping mall on the sea front. The store sells sun and prescription eyewear for men, women and children, as well as contact lenses and related ...
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VSP Global will have a new president and CEO
Jim McGrann has been appointed president and chief executive of VSP Global, the U.S.-based parent company of Marchon Eyewear with effect from Oct. 1, after the retirement of Rob Lynch, who has served as CEO since 2006. McGrann was also recently appointed chairman of the board at the National Association ...
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Glassing, an Italian start-up that can’t be missed
Visitors to the last Mido trade show in Milan could not avoid being impressed by the vision of a big white speedboat in one of the halls. It is used by a fast-growing Italian start-up, Glassing, whose products can be found at luxury stores like Excelsior and La Rinascente in ...
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With its new yellow logo, Silmo is launching a campaign...
With its new yellow logo, Silmo is launching a campaign around the theme of “the world's largest optics store,” in view of its next session, which will start in Paris on Sept. 25
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Cecop, the international buying group, has launched a new and...
Cecop, the international buying group, has launched a new and more modern logo. The red C with a circle in the center is designed to portray the “embrace and protection” that it strives to provide to all its retail members, says the company. Red and green are still used in ...
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Vista builds for expansion
Vista Outdoor, the owner of the Bushnell, Bollé and Cébé brands, is preparing to move to a new corporate head office at Station Park in Farmington City, Utah. Construction on the facility is to start this summer and is expected to be completed toward the middle of next year.Formed earlier ...
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The eyewear industry in Brazil is evidently suffering from the...
The eyewear industry in Brazil is evidently suffering from the economic slowdown in the country. According to the organizers of Abióptica, the annual trade show in São Paulo, sales to the trade grew by only 3 percent in 2014 to 23.1 billion reais (€6.6bn-$7.3bn). They were still 50 percent higher ...
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Bollé was the official eyewear of the recent Giro d'Italia,...
Bollé was the official eyewear of the recent Giro d'Italia, the big Italian cycling race
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Ron Blum is launching new wearable devices
Photo-Eyewear, an American development company focusing on electronic wearable devices, has changed its name to PogoTec and announced the establishment of three business divisions, two of which are planned to commercialize new eyewear-related products soon. Based in Roanoke, Virginia, the company is run by Ron Blum, described as a visionary ...
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Optrafair enjoyed a big jump in the number of visitors...
Optrafair enjoyed a big jump in the number of visitors at its latest session in Birmingham, which took place on April 18-20. The number of unique visitors rose to 6,510 from 4,577 two years ago. Including repeat visits, the attendance level reached a score of 8,761, said the organizer, the ...
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Safilens used the opportunity of the BCLA convention in Liverpool...
Safilens used the opportunity of the BCLA convention in Liverpool to launch its Fusion 1Day Presbyo, described as the first daily contact lens for presbyopia using its patented Fusion technology
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Mister Spex, the leading internet eyewear retailer based in Germany,...
Mister Spex, the leading internet eyewear retailer based in Germany, opened a new website in Switzerland three months ago, using a solution supplied by Intershop, which also helped to relaunch its French and Spanish web stores at the beginning of this year. Mister Spex has just won the ECMOD Direct ...
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Bausch+Lomb back in the eyewear market with Rédélé
Rédélé, a start-up in the Belluno district of Italy, has won the licenses for two renowned brands, Bausch+Lomb and Stefanel. The former is the American giant famous for lenses, contact lenses and ophthalmological equipment, which made a return to the market for eyewear frames with a line presented at the ...
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The Austrian-based Michael Pachleitner Group (MPG) has invested more than...
The Austrian-based Michael Pachleitner Group (MPG) has invested more than €2.5 million to upgrade the technical and software structure of its Schulz lens laboratory at Glücksburg, Germany. The measuring and polishing technologies, in particular, have been refined.
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A new national trade show and convention, called Optik Austria,...
A new national trade show and convention, called Optik Austria, will address Austrian opticians as well as hearing aids specialists on Sept. 19-20 in newly installed premises in the centrally located town of Wels.
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The British Contact Lens Association names new president and council members
The British Contact Lens Association (BCLA) welcomed Brian Tompkins as its new president, and Keith Tempany as president-elect. Susan Bowers, the outgoing president, presented Tompkins with the Presidential Chain of Office at the association's awards dinner, which was held in Liverpool on May 30.Also at the dinner, Tony Martin received ...
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ZVA, the German opticians' association, has changed its name to...
ZVA, the German opticians' association, has changed its name to Zentralverband der Augenoptiker und der Optometristen to include the increasingly important segment of the optometrists. More and more opticians in Germany have been extending their training in the past few years to develop optometric services.
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Fedon turns around on strong sales
From January to March 2015 the Fedon group's turnover topped €18 million, up 28.8 percent over the same period last year, and up 13.8 percent at constant exchange rates. The extra €4 million in turnover had a positive effect on margins. Rising by 57.1 percent from the year-ago period, operating ...
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Armin Duddek of Prolens, Switzerland, was elected president of Efclin,...
Armin Duddek of Prolens, Switzerland, was elected president of Efclin, the European contact lens industry association, at its 42nd Congress & Exhibition, held near Venice on May 7-9. He takes the place of Marcel Kopitos, who has retired from Bausch & Lomb. A new general manager will have to be ...
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