All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 19, Issue 16-17 – Page 2
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DrOpsis, a device intended to simplify and control the dispensing...
DrOpsis, a device intended to simplify and control the dispensing of eye drops, has won the first prize in the Hackathon for Ophthalmology, a contest for innovation in the sector that has seen the participation of more than 110 doctors, psychologists, product developers and designers. Also called H4O, the contest ...
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Special’Eyes launches Dark Hole concept
Special'Eyes, a French provider of private label collections for optical buying groups and optical chains, has presented the Dark Hole concept, offering its clients a distinctive product that it believes could retail around €150-250 a pair.Dark Hole, which was a nominee for the 2018 Silmo d'Or award in the frame ...
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Safilo successfully completes its recapitalization
Safilo successfully completed its capital increase, raising €149.98 million excluding related costs. In the initial subscription period that ran from Dec. 3 to Dec.17, 80.7 percent of the rights were exercised. As previously announced, Multibrands Italy, a unit of the Curaçao-based conglomerate Hal Holding that controls GrandVision, fully subscribed its ...
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One Click Ventures, an e-tailer that sells prescription and non-prescription...
One Click Ventures, an e-tailer that sells prescription and non-prescription glasses online, has been acquired by FGX International, a division of EssilorLuxottica, for an undisclosed amount. The transaction was publicly announced on Dec. 4, although it was closed in the third quarter of 2018. One Click's brands include felix + ...
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A Norwegian ski champion launches glasses and gloves
A Norwegian cross-country skiing star, Petter Northug, has launched his own brand, called Northug. The first products set to be launched in 2019 will be a line of sports glasses designed by an award-winning industrial designer, Bård Eker, and Eker Design. Eker is best known for the design of a ...
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Optique Le Cartier, a high-end optical retailer in Montreal, has...
Optique Le Cartier, a high-end optical retailer in Montreal, has joined the Visique network of FYidoctors, which claims to be the world's largest eye care company owned by optometrists
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EssilorLuxottica's executive chairman, Leonardo Del Vecchio, said that he calls...
EssilorLuxottica's executive chairman, Leonardo Del Vecchio, said that he calls the new company Essilux to shorten its name. An international trade magazine, Optical World, has been calling it Luxilor, even before its final creation. We like Del Vecchio's abbreviation. Essilor and Luxottica merged on Oct. 1.
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Movitra, an Italian eyewear manufacturer, has patented what it calls...
Movitra, an Italian eyewear manufacturer, has patented what it calls the Movitra locking system. Thanks to a rotating hinge on the bridge, half of a Movitra frame will flip upside down, allowing the folded temples to protect both sides of the lenses. Movitra eyewear is hand-crafted in Italy with acetate ...
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Food for thought on bringing licenses in-house?
The documentation revealed that Safilo allocated the equivalent of 6.8 percent of its revenues to pay license royalties in the first half of this year. The percentage averaged 6.5 percent for the whole of 2017 and 8.6 percent in 2016, the last year of the Gucci license. Considering the drop ...
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Moscot, the venerable New York eyewear brand, has opened its...
Moscot, the venerable New York eyewear brand, has opened its first French store in the Marais neighborhood of Paris. The family-owned manufacturer already has four stores in its home city of New York and one each in Rome, London, Tokyo and Seoul. To complement its selection of frames, the Paris ...
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Vision Direct, the online retailer of contact lenses bought by...
Vision Direct, the online retailer of contact lenses bought by Essilor in 2016, announced on Nov. 19 on its website that the personal and financial details of some of its customers had been stolen, adding that the breach had been resolved. It said that it had taken the necessary steps ...
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Daily silicone lenses boost CVI’s revenues
Thanks to strong sales of daily silicone hydrogel lenses, CooperVision (CVI), which is part of The Cooper Companies, posted revenues for its fiscal fourth quarter ended on Oct. 31 that were up by 9 percent from the year-ago quarter to $480.6 million. On a pro forma basis and in constant ...
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Blackfin is putting out a new line of ophthalmic frames...
Blackfin is putting out a new line of ophthalmic frames
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Essilor will be collaborating with the Royal Government of Bhutan...
Essilor will be collaborating with the Royal Government of Bhutan and the Central Monastic Body to help eradicate uncorrected poor vision in Bhutan. The company will train men and women to become primary vision care providers and micro-entrepreneurs, and will support qualified students to open up optical stores in their ...
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The digital channel is becoming more important
We already discussed in our last issue the criteria that consumers in the main European countries are using to choose a pair of glasses, based on the latest release of the semi-annual Optical Monitor (OMO) survey conducted by GfK. Sponsored by the Mido and Silmo shows, it was presented at ...
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Pete Lothes is to become the new global president and...
Pete Lothes is to become the new global president and chief technology officer (CTO) of Satisloh, the Swiss-based optical-equipment manufacture owned by Essilor. Lothes became president of Select Optical – his family's retail and wholesale lab company in Columbus, Ohio – in 1991 and served in that post for 17 ...
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Luxottica is authorized to buy Barberini
The Italian anti-trust agency, the AGCM, has authorized Luxottica's €140 million acquisition of Barberini, attaching some conditions. Under the terms set by the regulator, Luxottica will have to allow all market players wishing to buy lens blanks and non-corrective mineral lenses from the Italian mineral glass specialist without any obligations ...
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Revo appoints two senior managers
Revo, the brand of sunglasses licensed by B. Robinson since 2013, has announced two important additions to its executive team. Based at a new office in London, Gabor Kereszturi is filling the new position of European managing director, while Linda Laube is being given the newly created role of senior ...
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Mister Spex has appointed Christan Hoya to the position of...
Mister Spex has appointed Christan Hoya to the position of chief marketing officer. The 33-year-old succeeds Jens Reich, who had held the position since March 2016. Jens Reich will move to the U.S., where he aims to promote his professional career. Hoya will be part of Mister Spex' executive board ...
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Safilo has appointed Connie Lai Sin Ching as commercial head...
Safilo has appointed Connie Lai Sin Ching as commercial head of Asia Pacific and Greater China. She will report to Safilo's chief executive, Angelo Trocchia. During the past five years, she served as managing director of Asia Pacific for Marchon Eyewear. Prior to that, she was group general manager Greater ...
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