All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 17, Issue 6 – Page 2
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Valeant Pharmaceuticals International has named Joseph C. Papa as its...
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International has named Joseph C. Papa as its future chairman and chief executive officer. He is expected to join the company by early May. Papa will succeed J. Michael Pearson. Valeant's board had been searching for the right candidate to take over the chief executive role since March, ...
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Kering Eyewear is partnering with a British designer, Christopher Kane,...
Kering Eyewear is partnering with a British designer, Christopher Kane, to launch its first line of eyewear, starting with sunglasses. The products will be manufactured in Italy.
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Hundreds of branded eyewear cases and an optical measuring instrument...
Hundreds of branded eyewear cases and an optical measuring instrument stolen last month from an optical store in Rome were found by the Italian police during a spot check on trucks on a highway east of the Italian capital. The total value of the stolen items amounts to around €100,000. ...
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Karsten Möhrer has been promoted by Bushnell to the role...
Karsten Möhrer has been promoted by Bushnell to the role of country manager for Germany and Austria. He had been in charge of marketing and key accounts since 2012. Möhrer takes the place of Gernot Trebsche, who is also European sales director for eyewear and sport protection as well as ...
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A million euros' worth of eyewear frames have been stolen...
A million euros' worth of eyewear frames have been stolen from Safilo. On the night between Tuesday April 12 to Wednesday April 13, thieves broke into the group's Longarone plant through a window, without setting off the alarm system. They took some 9,000 frames. The break-in was spotted by employees ...
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Barberini, the big Italian producer of mineral lenses, is coming...
Barberini, the big Italian producer of mineral lenses, is coming out with its first line of sunglasses, called Big Bang, which is being marketed initially in Italy only. The limited-edition collection consists of six styles developed with the help of a young designer, Roberto Russo. It uses a variety of ...
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Mister Spex reports that its German clients buy on average...
Mister Spex reports that its German clients buy on average 1.12 sunglasses per year. About 76 percent of all people living in Germany own a pair of sunglasses. Six out of ten women living in Düsseldorf and Dortmund buy at least one pair of sunglasses per year. The average price ...
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La Dolce Vita has launched its new e-commerce platform, available...
La Dolce Vita has launched its new e-commerce platform, available in Italian and English at www.ladolcevitastore.it. Each product of the Italian eyewear brand can be viewed in all available colors, with enlargement of its details and from different angles. A special service allows viewers to customize some of the products ...
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Assogruppi, the Italian association comprising the Oxo and Vision Group...
Assogruppi, the Italian association comprising the Oxo and Vision Group buying groups, has a new chairman, Fabrizio Vettore, the 50-year-old owner of an optical store in Varese and a retail member of Oxo. The chairmen of Oxo and Vision Group, Marco Carminati and Marco Procacciante, have announced that the outgoing ...
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Costa Del Mar has appointed Holly Rush as chief executive,...
Costa Del Mar has appointed Holly Rush as chief executive, effective April 25. She will replace Chas MacDonald, who announced his retirement as president and chief executive of the Essilor-owned brand of sunglasses last month. For the past 25 years, Rush had held key leadership roles at companies like Duracell/Gillette, ...
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Essilor has apparently solved the problem of the blue reflection...
Essilor has apparently solved the problem of the blue reflection in its Crizal Prevencia anti-reflective coating. The company is rolling out a new package, called the Eye Protect System, which combines UV protection and blue light filtering with full clarity, without any blue reflection on the lens, thanks to a ...
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The Association of Optometrists (AOP) in the U.K. has decided...
The Association of Optometrists (AOP) in the U.K. has decided to expand the annual AOP Awards ceremony and to run it on Sunday, Feb. 5 next year at the ExCel exhibition center alongside the now three-year-old 100% Optical show in London. The AOP Awards were previously held during the National ...
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Vision Ease has announced three new sales and marketing appointments....
Vision Ease has announced three new sales and marketing appointments. Grady Lenski has been promoted to the newly created role of chief marketing officer. He was previously Vision Ease's vice-president of sales for North America. David George has been promoted to senior director for North American key accounts and Canada. ...
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Safilens has announced a new three-year partnership with a distributor...
Safilens has announced a new three-year partnership with a distributor in Singapore, Advance Healthcare Pte. Advance Healthcare will be the sole distributor of the Italian contact lens company's Safe-Gel, Fusion and Open product ranges in Singapore.
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The International Glaucoma Association (IGA) has announced that Karen Osborn...
The International Glaucoma Association (IGA) has announced that Karen Osborn will join the organization as its new chief executive at the end of July. She will replace Russell Young, who retires in July after leading the charity for the last three years. Osborn has served as chief executive of the ...
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Charles Schmall, an American eyewear industry veteran and well-known personality...
Charles Schmall, an American eyewear industry veteran and well-known personality in the business, has died after a brief illness at the age of 87. His name is linked to the expansion of the designer eyewear business in the U.S. Schmall was born in Brooklyn in 1929 to Polish immigrants. After ...
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Pfizer and Allergan said they have put to an end...
Pfizer and Allergan said they have put to an end to their merger negotiations by mutual agreement. The decision came after the U.S. Treasury and the Internal Revenues Service (IRS) issued a proposal to introduce new rules that would limit the ability of U.S.-based companies to move their headquarters overseas ...
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Alcon, a division of Novartis, has entered into a strategic...
Alcon, a division of Novartis, has entered into a strategic alliance with PowerVision to bring fluid-based accommodating intraocular lenses (IOL) to the market. PowerVision has developed an accommodating IOL (AIOL) which has the ability to change focus via a fluid-driven shape-changing technology. The AIOL is suitable for cataract patients who ...
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Insight will change hands after the April issue. In the...
Insight will change hands after the April issue. In the wake of the retirement of its long-standing publisher and editor, Neil Forbes, the Australian ophthalmic news source will become part of Gunnamatta Media, a Melbourne-based specialist business-to-business publishing house. Gunnamatta, headed by Coleby Nicholson, owns magazines such as Jeweller and ...
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