All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 17, Issue 14-15 – Page 2
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Uvex has launched its first line of corrective sports glasses....
Uvex has launched its first line of corrective sports glasses. The new Uvex sportstyle RX collection includes prescription and rimless frames. All styles are made with Uvex unbreakable synthetic material as well as adjustable, anti-slip temple ends with a metal inlay.
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CORRECTION: One of our subscribers has spotted a mistake in...
CORRECTION: One of our subscribers has spotted a mistake in the international calendar of trade shows that we released at Silmo in September. The next Optrafair in Birmingham is scheduled for April 1-3, 2017. Please don\'t hesitate to point us to any other mistakes in our issues.
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A new company, Swiss Eye International, was formed on Sept....
A new company, Swiss Eye International, was formed on Sept. 1 from the merger of Swiss Eye International, a German manufacturer of sports sunglasses and sports eyewear by the same name based in Augustdorf, near Bielefeld and Top Look Brillen, which has several brands of prescription frames including Top Look, ...
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Sensimed has expanded its current collaboration in Japan with Seed,...
Sensimed has expanded its current collaboration in Japan with Seed, a Japanese contact lens maker. Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies are joining forces to obtain the registration of the Sensimed Triggerfish, a soft disposable silicone contact lens featuring an embedded micro-sensor that captures spontaneous circumferential changes ...
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Paolo Ciarlariello, head of Luxottica's Chinese operations, left the group...
Paolo Ciarlariello, head of Luxottica's Chinese operations, left the group at the end of September to join Coty, the American beauty products group. Based in Shanghai, Ciarlariello was president for Greater China, in charge of wholesale and retail, from January 2015 to September 2016, according to his LinkedIn account. Prior ...
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Fusalp is launching its first children's skiwear line
Fusalp is launching its first children's skiwear line
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Jérôme Kuzio, former chief executive of MPG&E, has left the...
Jérôme Kuzio, former chief executive of MPG&E, has left the German supplier of contact lenses and solutions for personal reasons. Fabian Hasert, who has been part of the executive team since May, and Gerhard Eissing assumed his responsibilities and tasks in October. They are supported by Anja Clages, senior product ...
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Without giving specific figures for its revenues, officials of Charmant...
Without giving specific figures for its revenues, officials of Charmant tell us that the Japanese company sold about 7 million pairs of glasses last year and recorded a 10 percent increase in the first half of this year
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Last chance for Logo
We held up the publication of this issue until now to be able to report on the future of Logo Eyewear, the insolvent eyewear licensee for LVMH’s Tag Heuer and Fred brands. A bankruptcy court in Lyon was scheduled to approve or reject on Nov. 2 a conditional takeover proposal ...
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Three companies – Cecia, Essilor and Visiole - took the...
Three companies – Cecia, Essilor and Visiole - took the Golden Silmo Award this time in the low-vision segment. Visiole got the award for Go Vision, a portable, high-definition video magnifier launched last May by a Korean company, HIMS, for which it is the distributor in France. It can magnify ...
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Hoya buys Performance Optics
Hoya Corp. announced a definitive agreement to acquire Performance Optics from Wind Point Partners. The business includes Vision Ease, a large player in the U.S. market for polycarbonate eyeglasses, and Daemyung Optical (DMO), the second-largest Korean supplier of optical lenses, which is particularly strong in high-index cast lenses.With manufacturing facilities ...
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The Michael Pachleitner Group (MPG) has extended its Red Bull...
The Michael Pachleitner Group (MPG) has extended its Red Bull Racing Eyewear license, whose contract was running out in June 2016. The new contract runs for 10 years. MPG has launched a new brand of prescription frames, called Spect, that combines urban styles with sports functionality, and it is cooperating ...
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Peter Brierly has succeeded Ken Payne as president of DAC...
Peter Brierly has succeeded Ken Payne as president of DAC International. The two had been working together since 1988. Payne will relocate to the U.S. from the U.K., where he was stationed lately in the position of vice president of global sales. David Golden, an experienced industry professional who has ...
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Charmant launched a new brand at this year's Silmo show....
Charmant launched a new brand at this year's Silmo show. The Awear collection is the company's first ecological eyewear collection, made with sustainable and recyclable materials in Japan and China. The frames and demo lenses are made of recyclable plastic and hand-assembled components in order to reduce energy consumption. The ...
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Rolf Spectacles, the pioneering Tyrolean brand of wooden glasses, launched...
Rolf Spectacles, the pioneering Tyrolean brand of wooden glasses, launched a new brand of glasses made of horn, called MonoCeros, at this year's Silmo show in Paris. Made out of one single piece of horn sourced from India, they are manufactured in Austria at the company's own plant and are ...
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iC! Berlin customizes glasses, offers services to third parties
In the past two years, iC! Berlin invested more than €2 million in new manufacturing technologies and additional capacities. At the beginning of this year, the company opened a new 1,600-square-meter production site in Berlin. It also moved its headquarters in the German capital to a new 1,200-sqm. building on ...
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The Design Eyewear Group has hired Jonathon Berke for the...
The Design Eyewear Group has hired Jonathon Berke for the newly created position of vice president of sales for the U.S. and Canada. For the past five years, Berke worked as director of sales and training and as marketing director for the U.S. and Canada for Montblanc. Previously, he worked ...
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Komono, the Belgian brand of sunglasses and watches, opened a...
Komono, the Belgian brand of sunglasses and watches, opened a new franchised mono-brand store with its Greece distributor in Athens in July. In 2017, the company plans to open two additional units - a franchised store in Tokyo and a company-owned store in Los Angeles, where the company is distributing ...
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Material combinations are being offered more frequently than in the...
Material combinations are being offered more frequently than in the past, in addition to new natural materials and 3D-printed eyewear. Kuboraum, the Berlin-based eyewear brand, won the special prize of the jury at this year's Silmo awards in Paris for its Mask E3 sunglasses, made of 60 percent acetate and ...
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Oakley has begun to sell its interactive Radar Pace glasses,...
Oakley has begun to sell its interactive Radar Pace glasses, developed together with Intel, on its website and in its stores in North America, Europe and Australia
