All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 19, Issue 12
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Telehealth will be the subject of a two-hour symposium to...
Telehealth will be the subject of a two-hour symposium to be held at the upcoming edition of Vision Expo West. The symposium, entitled “Telehealth & Eyecare: Challenge & Opportunity,” is scheduled to take place on Sept. 27, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm at the Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas. ...
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The Safilo Group has moved its head office and showroom...
The Safilo Group has moved its head office and showroom for the German-speaking countries to a new central location in Cologne, in a building designed by Sir Norman Foster. It covers 600 square meters on two floors. It's one of more than 20 sales offices operated by the company around ...
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Grandvision returns to growth in various markets
The G4 segment of GrandVision - which includes France, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, the U.K. and Ireland - returned to growth during the first half of the year, after several consecutive quarters of weakness following a change in health insurance reimbursements in France. In the first six months ended ...
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The U.K.'s first Marks and Spencer (M&S) Opticians was officially...
The U.K.'s first Marks and Spencer (M&S) Opticians was officially inaugurated at Westfield London in White City on July 31. The company said that right after opening, bookings for the following two weeks filled up quickly. The practice is run by Galaxy Optical, the former operator of Tesco Opticians. Customers ...
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Gentle Monster focuses on own retail in Europe
Gentle Monster, the big and creative eyewear brand from South Korea, opened its first European flagship store in London at the end of July, stirring a lot of excitement in the retail scene, way beyond the eyewear sector, because of its very special design and the development strategy behind it. ...
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Fielmann earns less
Fielmann hopes to turn around in the second half, in order to reach its forecast for a further increase in sales and profits for the full financial year. Germany's biggest optical retailer booked a net profit of €37.8 million in the second quarter of this year, down from €43.8 million ...
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Maui Jim is launching a new dual-mirror treatment for a...
Maui Jim is launching a new dual-mirror treatment for a new style of sunglasses called Kami
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Discarded used lenses may be contributing to environmental pollution. Researchers...
Discarded used lenses may be contributing to environmental pollution. Researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) examined the destiny of 13 contact lens brands made from nine different types of plastic polymers. Lenses that end down the drain are usually conveyed to wastewater treatment facilities. ASU researchers found that wastewater plants ...
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Reed Exhibitions launched a new video and social media contest...
Reed Exhibitions launched a new video and social media contest to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Vision Expo West in Las Vegas, which will take place on Sept. 26-29. Followers on Vision Expo's Facebook page had the opportunity to comment on the video in order to enter the contest and ...
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Hal Trust, the parent company of GrandVision and a major...
Hal Trust, the parent company of GrandVision and a major shareholder in Safilo, reported that its total consolidated revenues advanced by 3.9 percent in the first half of 2018 to €4,136 million. Operating profit declined by 36.6 percent to €352 million, and the company ended up with net income ...
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Two Microsoft researchers, Christian Holz and Edward J. Wang, have...
Two Microsoft researchers, Christian Holz and Edward J. Wang, have filed a patent for a pair of glasses that can monitor the wearer's blood pressure. Called Glabella, the device incorporates optical sensors, processing, storage and communication components. According to the tech giant, Glabella continuously measures and stores the user's pulse ...
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Jonathan Lawson, chief executive of Vision Express, will leave his...
Jonathan Lawson, chief executive of Vision Express, will leave his position at the end of the year after more than seven years at the helm of the British optical retailer, which is part of the GrandVision group. Under his management, Vision Express acquired Tesco Opticians last year, bringing its overall ...
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Higher sales and margins for Hoya Vision Care
Hoya Corporation's revenues grew in its Life Care segment by 8.5 percent to 91.3 billion yen (€703.7m-$821.1m) for the first quarter of its financial year in reported terms, and by 10 percent on a currency-neutral basis. This segment, which represented around 65 percent of the Japanese group's quarterly revenues, includes ...
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Girts Cimermans, executive officer and president of Hoya Vision Care,...
Girts Cimermans, executive officer and president of Hoya Vision Care, has resigned, citing family reasons. The Dutch executive had joined the company in 2013 as chief operating officer for Hoya's Life Care segment before becoming Hoya Vision Care's CEO one year later. The group praised some of his major achievements, ...
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Waldo, a London-based brand of daily contact lenses sold online,...
Waldo, a London-based brand of daily contact lenses sold online, has secured a £5 million (€5.6m-$6.5m) in additional funding from various financial investors to accelerate its international expansion. It went through an initial £1.3 million (€1.4m-$1.7m) financing round last year when the company was created by Ashleigh Hinde, a 29-year ...
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Raen, a U.S. brand of eyewear, is creating a subsidiary...
Raen, a U.S. brand of eyewear, is creating a subsidiary in Germany as a platform for its expansion in Europe. It will either be called Raen Optics or Raen Europe. Christian Grund, founder of Raen's former European eyewear distributor, Eyegents, will manage the new subsidiary. He was responsible for the ...
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Denmark's Design Eyewear Group is introducing a new brand, called...
Denmark's Design Eyewear Group is introducing a new brand, called Nifties, specifically designed for people with a small inter-pupillary distance and fine facial features
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Lunor, the stylish German eyewear brand, has taken many measures...
Lunor, the stylish German eyewear brand, has taken many measures in recent years to reduce its CO² emissions. Since this summer, the company compensates for all of them, cooperating with a German non-governmental organization, Fokus-Zukunft. In order to compensate for the values determined of the so-called CO² footprint, Lunor supports ...
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Citroën, the French car manufacturer, partnered with Boarding Ring, a...
Citroën, the French car manufacturer, partnered with Boarding Ring, a French start up, to launch a new pair of glasses designed to eliminate motion sickness, for adults and children over 10. According to BVA, a French research company, motion sickness affects 39 percent of the passengers on the road and ...
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Selfridges, the British department store, has opened a big eyewear...
Selfridges, the British department store, has opened a big eyewear store in the country as part of the revamped accessories hall on its ground floor of its flagship store on London's Oxford Street, which has been enlarged to cover a total space of 5,580 square meters following an investment of ...
