All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 18, Issue 4-5 – Page 2

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    This month Charmant is launching its first collection of opthtalmic...

    2017-03-29T00:00:00Z

    This month Charmant is launching its first collection of opthtalmic frames and sunglasses under the Eddie Bauer license. Both ranges will be available in North America, Europe and Asia through Charmant's optical network. The sunglasses will also be sold through Eddie Bauer's stores. Eddie Bauer is an American outdoor brand ...

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    Under the growing pressure of regulatory changes, private health insurance...

    2017-03-29T00:00:00Z

    Under the growing pressure of regulatory changes, private health insurance companies and consumers' associations, French opticians have created a new lobbying body called Rof (Rassemblement des Opticiens de France). The new organization wants to stand as the most representative association of opticians in a fragmented market by January 2018. Most ...

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    Richemont teams up with Kering for Cartier

    2017-03-29T00:00:00Z

    After LVMH's tie-up with the Marcolin Group, the other two major luxury goods group in the world, Kering and Compagnie Financière Richemont have reported on a different and interesting new partnership in the eyewear sector. Kering and Cartier, the most important brand of jewelry in Richemont's portfolio, have announced plans ...

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    Iris, The Visual Group, the largest network of eye care...

    2017-03-29T00:00:00Z

    Iris, The Visual Group, the largest network of eye care professionals in Canada, has announced the acquisition of D.R. Josephson, an optical retail chain also known as Josephson Opticians. The chain, which was founded in 1936 by David Josephson, currently operates six locations in the Greater Toronto Area.

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    Horizons Optical, a business unit of Indo Optical specialized in...

    2017-03-29T00:00:00Z

    Horizons Optical, a business unit of Indo Optical specialized in the distribution of technology, presented for the first time a new integrated offer of spectacles and lenses at Mido, called Made4U. Similar to Yuniku, the system developed by Hoya, Made4U consists of a scanner that measures the parameters of the ...

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    Nadine Roth is taking charge of international distribution for Budri...

    2017-03-29T00:00:00Z

    Nadine Roth is taking charge of international distribution for Budri Eyewear, the innovative Italian line of marble spectacles that we have already reported about (Eyewear Intelligence Vol. 17 N°16+17). Last year she left Architectures, the French company that she had founded with Pascal Jaulent in 1995 to market the Face ...

  • Short stops

    Modo Eyewear is bringing out a line of Paper-Thin Ultra...

    2017-03-29T00:00:00Z

    Modo Eyewear is bringing out a line of Paper-Thin Ultra frames with very thin and colorful 1.6 polyamide rim inserts

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    A new playing field for Briko

    2017-03-29T00:00:00Z

    Briko, the Italian brand of sport eyewear, helmets and garments for cycling and winter sports, exhibited for the first time at Mido last month. It got a big space in an area of the fair where other sports brands had been invited to exhibit, but they did not show up. ...

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    CooperVision has launched a new Biofinity range of contact lenses...

    2017-03-29T00:00:00Z

    CooperVision has launched a new Biofinity range of contact lenses aimed at users who frequently switch from “on screen” to “off screen,” called Biofinity Energys

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    Mister Spex, Germany's biggest online eyewear retailer, opened its second...

    2017-03-29T00:00:00Z

    Mister Spex, Germany's biggest online eyewear retailer, opened its second bricks-and-mortar store in Berlin. Its first offline store had been opened in Berlin's Alexa shopping center a year ago. The new store is located on the Schlossstrasse in Berlin-Steglitz, the second-biggest shopping mall in Berlin. The interior of the new ...

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    Essilor Sun Solution made a big splash at the Mido...

    2017-03-29T00:00:00Z

    Essilor Sun Solution made a big splash at the Mido show in Milan last month with the launch of a new E-Sun brand of sunlenses for “no ordinary people” and of a portfolio of five new sunlens technologies under this brand. The core collection for spring/summer 2018 is based on ...

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    Better margins and market shares for CVI

    2017-03-29T00:00:00Z

    CooperVision claims that it continued to grow faster than the overall soft-contact lens market in the fourth quarter of 2016, with sales rising by 10 percent in a market that grew by 6 percent to an estimated global level of $1,830 million, according to the Contact Lens Institute. The actual ...

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    Moscot, the New-York based eyewear brand had a busy week...

    2017-03-29T00:00:00Z

    Moscot, the New-York based eyewear brand had a busy week in Italy last month. Only a few days after its first participation in the Mido fair in Milan with its own stand, the American company opened a new directly-operated store in Rome. It is the seventh unit of the brand ...

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    Eyes + More, the international eyewear retail chain based in...

    2017-03-29T00:00:00Z

    Eyes + More, the international eyewear retail chain based in Germany, increased its sales by 13.3 percent to a total of €57.27 million in 2016, as compared to the previous year. In Germany, sales rose by 15.8 percent to €44.8 million. On Feb. 2, Eyes + More opened its 100th ...

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    Jet Set, a young Italian company based in the Marche...

    2017-03-29T00:00:00Z

    Jet Set, a young Italian company based in the Marche region, increased sales by 25 percent to €3.5 million in 2016. It currently produces four brands under license: Laura Biagiotti, Genny Fiorucci and Byblos, plus a few house brands. In January the Byblos license was extended to 2020. The company ...

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    Etnia Barcelona goes through the roof

    2017-03-29T00:00:00Z

    Etnia Barcelona is preparing for a big splash on April 20 with the opening of its flagship store in the famous Born district in the center of the Catalunyan city. It is the first venture in the retail sector for the Spanish brand of colorful glasses, which has experienced a ...

  • Short stops

    The Chicago Athenaeum has given a Good Design Award to...

    2017-03-29T00:00:00Z

    The Chicago Athenaeum has given a Good Design Award to Rolf Spectacles for its Zephyr 204 model in bog oak and walnut

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    The Italian fashion industry forms an umbrella association

    2017-03-29T00:00:00Z

    After two years of preparation, the Italian fashion industry has given birth to a common umbrella association for its apparel, footwear and accessories segments, called Confindustria Moda. The new confederation will be positioned above Sistema Moda Italia, which groups textile and apparel firms, and Fiamp (Federazione Italiana dell'Accessorio Moda e ...

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    Safilo books a massive writeoff in Asia

    2017-03-29T00:00:00Z

    Safilo's net loss widened to €142.1 million for the 2016 financial year from €52.7 million a year earlier as one-off charges rose to €159.8 million from €60.5 million. For 2016, the group has booked an impairment loss on the goodwill of its Far Eastern business of €150.0 million. The activity ...

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    The board of directors of Essilor International has approved its...

    2017-03-29T00:00:00Z

    The board of directors of Essilor International has approved its merger with Luxottica ahead of a final approval of the transaction by the company's annual shareholders' meeting on May 11. While waiting for the endorsement of the merger agreement by anti-trust authorities, Essilor and Luxottica have been making further progress ...