All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 18, Issue 16-17
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The Mido trade show in Milan will present a new...
The Mido trade show in Milan will present a new layout on Feb. 24-26. With a stronger focus on innovation, the Mido Tech area will be moved from Hall 5 to Hall 6, joining the future-oriented More! area opened in 2016. New designers and start-ups will continue to present their ...
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The role of the internet is rising for sunglass purchases
Classical opticians are still the chief place for purchases of eyeglasses in the main European countries, but internet websites, fashion stores and department stores have been growing in importance for the purchase of plano sunglasses, according to the latest results of the semi-annual Optical Monitor (OMO) presented by GfK in ...
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Zeiss’ overall sales and profits improve strongly
Carl Zeiss reported an increase of 2 percent to €1,108 million in the revenues of its Vision Care and Consumer Products division for the financial year ended last Sept. 30. According to a spokesman for the German company, the segment's growth was mostly driven by Zeiss' precision eyeglass lenses, but ...
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Nidek's support has helped the reopening of a secondary school...
Nidek's support has helped the reopening of a secondary school in Nepal that was destroyed by an earthquake in 2015. The new school, which has an earthproof structure, serves about 550 students between the ages of 5 and 15.
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Nidek has put out a new versatile and portable fundus...
Nidek has put out a new versatile and portable fundus imaging unit, the VersaCam ?
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Nau! has opened its fourth Spanish store in the Maquinista...
Nau! has opened its fourth Spanish store in the Maquinista shopping center of Barcelona
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Flat market in the U.S.
Higher sales of contact lenses, plano sunglasses and OTC readers could not prevent the vision care sector from recording an overall sales decrease of 0.1 percent to $40.21 billion in the U.S. during a rolling 12-month period ended last Sept. 30, according to the Vision Council's quarterly VisionWatch survey.As 1.3 ...
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Modo Eyewear recorded significant growth in the third quarter of...
Modo Eyewear recorded significant growth in the third quarter of 2017 which will likely lead the Italian-American eyewear company to go beyond the record level of more than €50 achieved last year in its annual revenues. Sales rose by 25 percent in the Americas and by 38 percent in Europe. ...
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Marchon Eyewear has signed a multi-year renewal of its ten-year-old...
Marchon Eyewear has signed a multi-year renewal of its ten-year-old licensing deal with Karl Lagerfeld
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The latest edition of Silmo Istanbul, which ran from Nov....
The latest edition of Silmo Istanbul, which ran from Nov. 30 to Dec. 3, welcomed a total of 9,246 visitors, 6.6 percent more than a year ago. The number of visitors from outside Turkey went up by 24.5 percent to 1,276, indicating that the trade show is becoming more relevant ...
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Supreme Eyewear will be the new distributor of Safilo in...
Supreme Eyewear will be the new distributor of Safilo in Thailand and Cambodia, adding to the group's presence in 40 other markets
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De Rigo is launching a women's line of optical glasses...
De Rigo is launching a women's line of optical glasses and sunglasses under its Police brand
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Leonardo Del Vecchio creates his own foundation
Following the recent example of Giorgio Armani, an Italian designer who is 82 years old like him, Leonardo Del Vecchio has decided to create his own foundation, with an initial endowment of €300 million. Del Vecchio has changed the by-laws of his family's Luxembourg-based holding company, Delfin, giving its management ...
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MEI continues to invest in the promotion of its milling...
MEI continues to invest in the promotion of its milling technology to optical retailers, which currently account for only about 10 percent of its annual sales of around €70 million. As it did at the recent Vision Expo West and Silmo fairs, it will show its compact EzFit machinery for ...
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Opal, the French eyewear company mostly known for its kids...
Opal, the French eyewear company mostly known for its kids eyewear brand licenses – Star Wars, Hello Kitty, Tartine et Chocolat among others - has taken a sharehodling in another French company, Visioptis. Created in 1979 and based in the south of France, Visioptis has been developing optical and sunglass ...
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Silhouette International is searching a new president and chief executive...
Silhouette International is searching a new president and chief executive for its U.S. subsidiary following the departure of Jan Cory, who held the two functions. Cory has led Silhouette's U.S. business for more than three years. Carol Montgomery, who has worked with the U.S. management and advised the board during ...
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Francesco Milleri is Luxottica’s new CEO
Luxottica has announced the departure of Massimo Vian, chief executive of the group in charge of product and operations, ahead of the company's planned merger with Essilor International. At the same time, the group has announced the nomination of a new chief executive, Francesco Milleri, a 58-year-old industry consultant who ...
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During his presidential campaign, the newly elected president of France,...
During his presidential campaign, the newly elected president of France, Emmanuel Macron, had promised that 100 percent of the French eyeglass users' vision care expenses would be reimbursed. Negotiations between industry professionals and government officials on what would be included in the refund scheme have just started, but the Health ...
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CooperVision builds up a new specialty segment
CooperVision announced on Dec. 1 the acquisition of Paragon Vision Sciences, a company specializing in premium orthokeratology (ortho-k), specialty contact lenses and oxygen permeable rigid contact lens materials. Paragon, which is headquartered near Phoenix, Arizona, will continue to operate as an independent business, retaining its brands and offices.Rich Jeffries, president ...
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The BRICs help drive Italy’s exports
Italy's exports of eyewear to the BRICs – Brazil, Russia, India and China – jumped by 21.1 percent in the first eight months of 2017, with increases of 18.1 percent for prescription frames and 22.4 percent for sunglasses.The good performance in these generally fast-growing markets helped the Italian eyewear industry ...
