All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 17, Issue 7-8
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Rising numbers for Vision Ottica
Italy's Vision Group, which has 1,300 retail members with 1,700 outlets, has announced a 30 percent increase in the number of shops affiliated with its more closely integrated Vision Ottica network of franchised stores in the first quarter of 2016. Out of the 57 new stores that have joined the ...
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Nicola Zotta will run Marchon
VSP Global has announced the retirement of Claudio Gottardi as president of Marchon Eyewear and the appointment of another Italian executive, Nicola Zotta, as his successor. The transition had been under preparation for more than a year, but had been kept under wraps.Gottardi, who has spent nearly 30 years in ...
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Shamir launches a smarter mirror
Shamir had already created some excitement at the Vision Expo East fair in New York two years ago with the release of a tablet, called Spark, that allows the optician to measure electronically the customer's inter-pupillary distance and other parameters to fit a new pair of prescription lenses.At last month's ...
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Woodone' online shop has started to offer its Robin Wood...
Woodone' online shop has started to offer its Robin Wood line of stylish and environmentally friendly wooden bow-ties. Available in Italian, English, French and German, its responsive internet platform was already offering its WooDone and MyWood lines of wood spectacles.
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Oliver Peoples has opened its third store in New York...
Oliver Peoples has opened its third store in New York City
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Italia Independent, trouble at the top
One of the Italian eyewear industry's major success stories, Italia Independent, has just lost a managing director, co-founder and member of the board, Giovanni Accongiagioco. After spending four years as brand promotion manager of Fiat, he joined Lapo Elkann, brother of Fiat's current president, John Elkann, for the launch of ...
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A strong yen stifles Hoya’s performance
Without giving specific figures, Hoya Corp. said its revenues from eyeglass lenses declined in terms of yen during the fourth quarter of its financial year, ended March 31, due to the strength of the yen against the U.S. dollar, the euro and the Thai baht during the period. In local ...
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More financial problems in the French eyewear industry
Logo Eyewear, a major French eyewear company that has the license for Fred and Tag Heuer eyewear and many new projects with brands such as Rossignol, Leica and McLaren (see EWI Vol. 17 N° 3 of Feb. 26, 2016), is said to have run into financial problems. Officials of the ...
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The National Eyecare Group (NEG) of the U.K. has reported...
The National Eyecare Group (NEG) of the U.K. has reported growth of 12.7 percent in revenues in the past financial year despite difficult market conditions. The purchasing group, which provides services for independent opticians in the U.K., also saw a 6 percent increase in membership. More than 1,000 independent opticians ...
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Exhibitors registered to participate in the next Opti show in...
Exhibitors registered to participate in the next Opti show in Munich are invited by its organizers to a series of preparation workshops in Munich and on the internet to help them maximize their presence at the fair. They can sign up before June 14 for an all-day seminar that will ...
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Zeiss' new DriveSafe lens was elected as “Lens Product of...
Zeiss' new DriveSafe lens was elected as “Lens Product of the Year” at the latest Opticians Awards during the Optrafair trade show in Birmingham
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Safilens has given the exclusive distribution in Spain to Visionis...
Safilens has given the exclusive distribution in Spain to Visionis Distribucion for the next five years for its Safe-Gel, Fusion and Open lines
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De Rigo has launched a new website in German...
De Rigo has launched a new website in German
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Safilo reacts to criticism
Safilo's 2015 financial report and its remuneration policy were rejected at the company's annual meeting earlier this month by some minority shareholders, including the founding Tabacchi family, the asset management unit of an Italian insurance giant, Generali, and some investment funds. However, the company obtained the support of its main ...
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Mondottica takes control in the U.S.
Mondottica International announced on May 9 that it has merged with Mondottica USA, changing its top management. In the merger, Harvey Ross has reduced its large majority stake to a minority share and Mondottica International has raised its small minority stake to majority control through an equity increase.Mondottica USA was ...
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The latest data for contact lenses in Europe
In 2015, sales of soft contact lenses (SCLs) to eye care professionals (ECP) across 33 European countries grew by 4.45 percent to €1,619 million, according to the most recent census released by Euromcontact, the short name for the European Federation of National Associations and International Companies of Contact Lens and ...
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Denmark's Fleye is relaunching its website with a completely new...
Denmark's Fleye is relaunching its website with a completely new visual identity
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X-Ide is launching a vintage collection of super-compact folding sunglasses....
X-Ide is launching a vintage collection of super-compact folding sunglasses. Both the temples and the bridge are hinged to fold them up, so the glasses end up as one small, compact unit that can be slipped easily into a bag or pocket. The first example of folding glasses goes back ...
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Dirk Graber, chief executive of Mister Spex, has commented on...
Dirk Graber, chief executive of Mister Spex, has commented on Fielmann's annual results, which were recently announced at the company's annual press conference in Hamburg. Once again, Fielmann met its own expectations and managed to increase its total sales and its market share in the German optical retail trade in ...
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Vision charities work together
Optometry Giving Sight is farming out its fund-raising activities in the U.K. to Vision Aid Overseas, a UK-based international vision care charity, founded in 1985, which has already helped more than one million patients in emerging countries. The two charities have been working together since last year.Under the new structure, ...
