All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 19, Issue 14-15 – Page 2
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Tom Davies plans to open two new stores in London...
Tom Davies plans to open two new stores in London and one store in the U.S. next year. The British eyewear brand, which has its own factory in London, currently owns and manages five stores in the British capital. The first Tom Davies store was opened four years ago. Sales ...
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CORRECTION: DaTE, the successful eyewear show held in Florence twice...
CORRECTION: DaTE, the successful eyewear show held in Florence twice a year, is a joint venture between the larger Mido show in Milan and its two founders, Dante Caretti and Cristina Frasca. The new DaTE fair that is due to take place in California next year will be organized by ...
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Copenhagen Specs, the trade show for eyewear that took place...
Copenhagen Specs, the trade show for eyewear that took place for the first time five years ago in the Danish capital, has recently expanded its trade show concept to Berlin. The first so-called Copenhagen Specs in Berlin show took place on Oct. 20-21 at the Arena hall, a former bus ...
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Mark'ennovy, the European producer of contact lenses, secured debt and...
Mark'ennovy, the European producer of contact lenses, secured debt and equity funding from two new investors in September. Bond Capital Partners, a London-based investment and advisory firm for SMEs, has acquired a substantial stake in the company, while Alantra, a global investment bank and asset manager, is helping to finance ...
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GrandVision’s comparable sales soar
GrandVision achieved its highest quarterly comparable growth performance in more than three years in the latest quarter, driven by strong sales in the G4 and Americas & Asia segments.Revenues rose in the third quarter by 10.5 percent from the year-ago period to €948 million, but would have increased by 13.3 ...
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Morel, the French eyewear company, opened a subsidiary in Portugal...
Morel, the French eyewear company, opened a subsidiary in Portugal in May
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Mykita, the Berlin-based eyewear company, will open its first store in...
Mykita, the Berlin-based eyewear company, will open its first store in Barcelona by the end of this year. This will be a company-owned store, and Mykita's 14th mono-brand store. Mykita has two stores in Switzerland (Zermatt and Zurich), three stores in the U.S. (Washington, New York and Los Angeles), two stores ...
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Silhouette International has launched a new collection of extravagant sunglasses...
Silhouette International has launched a new collection of extravagant sunglasses in its Neubau line, named Sigmund & Carl after the famous psychologists Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung
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Nau!, the international Italian-based chain of optical stores, has landed...
Nau!, the international Italian-based chain of optical stores, has landed in Mexico with a store in Mexico City. The chain has just passed the threshold of 150 directly operated and franchised stores around the world. Aside from the new store in Mexico, they are located mostly in Italy, but also ...
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Cash generation is Safilo’s next milestone
According to its own projections, Safilo will be able to generate free cash flow on average for the whole of 2019. Because of the cyclical nature of its business, the company's cash flow is predicted to be negative at the start of the year, with the build-up of working capital, ...
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Vanni's showroom in Turin's piazza Carlo Emanuele II hosted the...
Vanni's showroom in Turin's piazza Carlo Emanuele II hosted the exhibition “Il Design dell'Occhiale” on Oct. 12-20, during the 2018 edition of Torino Design of the City. The exhibition was organized in collaboration with “Museo dell'Occhiale,” the eyewear museum in Pieve di Cadore, and Anfao, the Italian eyewear industry association. ...
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Tom Davies will launch a new product segment, called Tom...
Tom Davies will launch a new product segment, called Tom Davies luxury, at the Opti show in Munich next January. The new premium collection, made of silver, gold and buffalo horn, will consist of 40 styles at first, priced from €1,200 to €5,000 and sold to about 25 select opticians ...
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Orgreen, the Danish eyewear brand, has set up new distribution...
Orgreen, the Danish eyewear brand, has set up new distribution in Canada. The brand's previous distributor in the Canadian market was the Prisme Optical Group. Orgeen's U.S. subsidiary took over its Canadian distribution directly in July 2018, using two sales representatives. Orgreen opened its U.S. subsidiary two years ago in Berkeley, ...
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Urband, the French brand that was won the Silmo d'Or...
Urband, the French brand that was won the Silmo d'Or 2018 for children's eyewear, expects to record a 30 percent increase in annual sales for 2018, but we could not obtain an idea of its size. The sales growth has been driven mostly by very positive results for the company's brand ...
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Coco Song, the eyewear brand whose manufactured creations recall the...
Coco Song, the eyewear brand whose manufactured creations recall the culture of East Asia, has launched a new communication campaign focusing on femininity in all its form. The new shots highlight a mix of colors and the reference to the natural world, to evoke the brand's spirit, as well as ...
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Disposable lenses boost J&J’s sales
Johnson & Johnson's Vision Care division saw revenues jump by 6.2 percent in the third quarter. The management said that the contact lens business continued to grow above market trends on the strength of the astigmatism and daily disposable lenses in the Oasys family. In Vision Surgical, the company's global ...
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Bollé Brands is born
Peter Smith has been appointed to the newly created position of president and chief executive for Bollé Brands, the new company formed by A&M Capital to run the Bollé Safety business and the consumer eyewear and helmet business of Bollé, Cébé and Serengeti recently bought from Vista Outdoor for $158 ...
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EssilorLuxottica is in the starting blocks
Essilor and Luxottica completed their €48 billion merger agreement on Oct.1, but there are a few more steps that have been taken since and that will have to be made before the corporate structure of the new combined entity, EssilorLuxottica, is finalized. The “combination” of the two industry giants comes ...
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Blake Kuwahara started to sell its collections of corrective frames...
Blake Kuwahara started to sell its collections of corrective frames and sunglasses in Thailand through a local sales agent in August.
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Blake Kuwahara, the U.S. brand of eyewear, was nominated for...
Blake Kuwahara, the U.S. brand of eyewear, was nominated for a Silmo d'Or in the category of corrective frames/eyewear design for its Johnson model, which was developed to honor the architect Philip Johnson. According to the brand, it takes about two months to laminate the inside structure of the acetate ...
