All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 17, Issue 7-8 – Page 2
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Management changes at Luxottica
Luxottica is considering a simplification of its corporate structure in regional markets as well as an evolution in marketing to put more emphasis on digital communication. Meawnhile, Luxottica has reorganized its retail division by appointing Nicola Brandolese sole manager for both the sunglass and optical retail businesses. Previously, he was ...
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Modo’s Eco eyewear made of castor oil resin
Modo Eyewear, a company based in New York with an office in Milan for the European, Asian and Middle Eastern markets, is enjoying strong growth. Declining to disclose the overall figures, managers of the company tell us that its sales grew last year by 22 percent in the U.S. and ...
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Fedon, business down with the major eyewear producers
Giorgio Fedon & Figli, the world's leading producer of eyewear cases, quoted on stock exchanges in Italy and France, recorded sales of €17.2 million in the first quarter 2016, down by 5.5 percent year-on-year. That means a shortfall of a million euros in revenues due to a 10.3 percent drop ...
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Menicon is building a new site in the Paris region,...
Menicon is building a new site in the Paris region, which is scheduled to open at the end of 2017. The company said the decision to build the new facility follows the launch of Menicon Co. Ltd. on Tokyo Nagoya Stock Exchange in 2015, and is expected to meet the ...
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Budri is an Italian leader renowned internationally for its luxury...
Budri is an Italian leader renowned internationally for its luxury marble and marquetry. The company recently entered the eyewear sector with an innovative line of marble frames, of which it presented the first prototypes in June 2014. A team of engineers, designers and eyewear professionals has provided the company with ...
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Reme, a company in Milan that distributes various eyewear brands,...
Reme, a company in Milan that distributes various eyewear brands, and has acquired the distribution in Italy and the Italian part of Switzerland until 2022 for Shamballa Eyewear, established in 2014 by the eponymous Danish brand of jewelry. Reme also has Italian distribution for Oliver Peoples, Paul Smith Spectacles, Massada ...
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Brando Eyewear hires industry experts
Michael Jardine, founder and “chief dreamer” of Brando Eyewear, has a knack for attracting experienced professionals, the same as with Brando's parent company, Mondottica International, which he continues to steer separately as its chairman.Julian Clarke has been appointed global commercial director of Brando Eyewear. The U.K.-based industry veteran was previously ...
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Certottica has a new chairman, Luigino Boito, formerly director general...
Certottica has a new chairman, Luigino Boito, formerly director general of this Italian institute for the certification of optical products, which is controlled by Anfao, the Italian eyewear industry association. Boito takes over from Floriano Pra for a three-year term. The board of directors, made up of 11 representatives of ...
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Henri Blomqvist, chief commercial officer of the Safilo Group, is...
Henri Blomqvist, chief commercial officer of the Safilo Group, is going to fill the new position of chief executive for Safilo North America, says the group, confirming a report in Vision Monday. He will also take global responsibility for the group's sales activities in the sports channel. He will be ...
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Eblock, best known for its locking system Easy Block, has...
Eblock, best known for its locking system Easy Block, has developed a testing tool for opticians, which enables the correct mounting of lenses on Eblock frames. The tester is a handy metal tool that helps verify measurements while giving the optician the certainty that the process of mounting lenses on ...
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Komono, the Belgian brand of watches and sunglasses, is launching...
Komono, the Belgian brand of watches and sunglasses, is launching Komono X Tomorrowland, a new sunglasses collection developed with the Tomorrowland festival. Tomorrowland is one of the biggest electronic music festivals held in the world, and takes place in Boom, Belgium, 16 kilometers south of Antwerp. The new sunglasses collection, ...
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Bernhard van Ommen has left Cecop to become the new...
Bernhard van Ommen has left Cecop to become the new managing director of De Rigo UK. The Dutch executive, who replaces Paul Clapton, spent more than a decade with the international buying group, based in Madrid, where he was in charge of international business development, opening new markets. In this ...
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Bausch + Lomb and CooperVision have reaffirmed their commitment to...
Bausch + Lomb and CooperVision have reaffirmed their commitment to unilateral pricing policies (UPP) in the U.S. on the back of Johnson & Johnson's decision to discontinue minimum pricing requirements for its contact lenses. Bausch + Lomb says its UPP helps to support innovative product offerings while Coopervision confirms it ...
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The U.S. Optical Barometer moves to quarterly releases
The latest Optical Business Barometer (OBB) report from Jobson Optical Research, a survey designed to gauge business attitudes among independent eyecare professionals (ECPs) in the U.S., is now issued quarterly instead of monthly. Data are still collected each month, but then they are aggregated and analyzed on a quarterly basis. ...
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Silhouette has received a Red Dot Award for the design...
Silhouette has received a Red Dot Award for the design of its Titan Minimal Art Pulse frame
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Euromcontact, the European Association of Contact Lens and Lens Care...
Euromcontact, the European Association of Contact Lens and Lens Care Products, has welcomed mark'ennovy as a new member. Chris Carter, mark'ennovy's group marketing and sales director, will represent the company on the Euromcontact board. Euromcontact\'s members represent around 90 percent of the EU market of contact lens and lens care ...
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The Association of Optometrists (AOP) in the U.K. announced in...
The Association of Optometrists (AOP) in the U.K. announced in May that it received more than 3,800 legal and regulatory inquiries in 2015, up 32 percent from 2014. The inquiries mostly concerned employment issues, followed by queries regarding general ophthalmic services and patients' complaints. The AOP also recorded a 6 ...
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Tag Heuer Eyewear has announced a partnership with Shamir Optical...
Tag Heuer Eyewear has announced a partnership with Shamir Optical whereby the Israel-based company will produce prescription lenses for Tag Heuer's Panorama collection of wrap-around frames. Shamir has successfully met Tag Heuer's quality standards to produce prescription and sunglass lenses for Tag Heuer's entire collection.
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Anfao and EU fund training in Veneto’s eyewear district
Italy's association of eyewear manufacturers, Anfao, signed a two-year agreement with the Veneto region on May 5 to organize about 1,000 hours of courses for people employed or due to be employed in the eyewear sector, partly financed by public authorities.Those who are already employed in the sector, who operate ...
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Black & Lizars is introducing a new loyalty card which...
Black & Lizars is introducing a new loyalty card which is said to give patients an upgraded level of eye care. The Black Card, which will be initially available only in the company's Giffnock and Milngavie practices, will provide a comprehensive program of benefits as well as exclusive access to ...
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