All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 18, Issue 14-15 – Page 2
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L.A. Eyeworks launched a new marketing campaign, featuring portraits of...
L.A. Eyeworks launched a new marketing campaign, featuring portraits of artists from Los Angeles made by a well-known photographer, Josef Jassp. The brand was nominated for the Silmo d'Or in the category of designer optic frames for its signature L.A. Eyeworks model, Dublin, which is made with Mazzuchelli acetate in ...
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EBM Design of Germany signed a deal with CaféNoir for...
EBM Design of Germany signed a deal with CaféNoir for the distribution of its CaféNoir eyewear brand in Germany and Austria in April. The Bavarian eyewear manufacturer started to sell the eyewear collection of the Italian fashion label in May this year. CaféNoir is an Italian manufacturer of leathergoods, bags ...
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TD Tom Davies, the high-end British eyewear company, has invested...
TD Tom Davies, the high-end British eyewear company, has invested £800,000 (€0.90m-$1.05m) to re-shore some of the manufacturing process for its frames in a new production unit in Brentford, near London. Production at the new facility has already started, currently representing 30 percent of the company's output, and the British ...
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A British eyewear company, Eyespace, has signed a licensing deal...
A British eyewear company, Eyespace, has signed a licensing deal with Jaguar Land Rover to design, produce and distribute Land Rover and Range Rover branded glasses and sunglasses in the U.K.
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Dame Mary Perkins, co-founder of the British retail chain Specsavers,...
Dame Mary Perkins, co-founder of the British retail chain Specsavers, received a lifetime achievement award at the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards in the U.K. In Austria, Michael Pachleitner has been named Entrepreneur of the Year in the “Industry & Hightech” category.
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Going Forward Brands drive Safilo
In releasing its results for the third quarter, the Safilo Group's management reported that operations have returned to normal at its distribution center in Padua. The switch to a new order-to-cash system had caused delivery problems in Europe during the first quarter, resulting in lower sales in May and June, ...
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Brando buys Sunday Somewhere
Brando Eyewear, the luxury eyewear subsidiary of Mondottica, is acquiring an interesting Australian brand of fashionable and accessible sunglasses, Sunday Somewhere, which will benefit from the group's supply chain, its management expertise and other state-of-the-art resources. The takeover agreement, whose terms were not disclosed, was announced during last month's Silmo ...
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Ray-Ban, a brand of Luxottica, will soon open a temporary...
Ray-Ban, a brand of Luxottica, will soon open a temporary store in Milan's piazza San Babila. According to reports by Pambianconews and Affaritaliani, the store will occupy the space previously held by Moreschi, and will remain in place from mid-November to the end of January 2018. Ray-Ban has one flagship ...
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Metzler Germany plans to launch its new brand of metal...
Metzler Germany plans to launch its new brand of metal frames, called One830 by Metzler Germany, at the Opti show in Munich next January. A signature collection will be launched at Mido or Silmo 2018. The brand is already being sold in Asia, where Metzler is setting up at the ...
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Opal has changed the brand name, image and marketing of...
Opal has changed the brand name, image and marketing of its Pola brand of sunglasses, renaming it as Henko. The product line and the price positioning remain the same, but the French company has added about 80-100 new style to the collection, which was presented for the first time at ...
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Rolf Spectacles, the pioneering Tyrolean brand of wooden glasses, won...
Rolf Spectacles, the pioneering Tyrolean brand of wooden glasses, won the Silmo d'Or in the category of technological innovation in frames for its Deville wooden frame. It features a multi-directional hinge, called Flexlock. The patent-pending technology consists of a combination of densely compressed wood and natural rubber. The metal-free hinge ...
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The Jet Set Group and Borbonese have signed a multi-year...
The Jet Set Group and Borbonese have signed a multi-year licensing agreement for the production and distribution worldwide of a line of sunglasses and frames to be sold under the name of Borbonese, a leading Italian leathergoods manufacturer that recently debuted in the footwear sector. The Borbonese eyewear collection will ...
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Michael Pachleitner Group has signed a partnership with Beyond Plaid...
Michael Pachleitner Group has signed a partnership with Beyond Plaid for the distribution of its Daniel Hechter Eyewear collections in Canada
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The Michael Pachleitner Group launched a new brand called Berlin...
The Michael Pachleitner Group launched a new brand called Berlin Eyewear at the last Silmo edition in Paris. The first Berlin Eyewear collection includes a total of 50 styles of men's and women's optical glasses, each style available in four colours. Designed to reflect the Multikulti (multi-cultural) image of the ...
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Hilary Halper has been promoted to the position of Essilor...
Hilary Halper has been promoted to the position of Essilor International's chief financial officer after the departure of the previous CFO, Géraldine Picaud, who has joined a Swiss construction giant, LafargeHolcim. Halper had joined Essilor a few months before the announcement of the merger with Luxottica in the position of ...
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Flexon, a brand of Marchon Eyewear, has been honored at...
Flexon, a brand of Marchon Eyewear, has been honored at the 2017 Internationalist's Awards for its digital campaign entitled “Flexon Extreme: Do Not Try This at Home.” The campaign, which was first launched in the autumn of 2016, was named a Bronze winner. The Internationalist's Awards for Innovative Digital Solutions ...
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Fleye wins a special Silmo award
Fleye Copenhagen won the prestigious Silmo d'Or Premiere Classe Special Award at the international eyewear show in Paris at the beginning of October. The winner in this category is chosen out of all the nominees in all eight Silmo d'Or award categories. The award includes a free booth for the ...
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Audrey Bertheas joined Opal last month in the position of...
Audrey Bertheas joined Opal last month in the position of marketing director, replacing Caroline Linder who left the company at the end of July
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Carrefour, the French chain of hypermarkets and Atol, a French...
Carrefour, the French chain of hypermarkets and Atol, a French voluntary group of opticians with close to 800 shops, have signed a partnership agreement for the development in France of a new optical and hearing aids retail banner under the name Carrefour Optique et Audition. For the French retail giant, ...
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Reed Exhibitions Japan and the Fukui Optical Association, co-organizers of...
Reed Exhibitions Japan and the Fukui Optical Association, co-organizers of IOFT, have reported a slight increase in visitors at last month's edition of the Japanese eyewear trade show with a total attendance by 14,013 national and international visitors, as compared to 13,986 last year. Some 370 companies from 21 different ...
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