All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 19, Issue 6-7 – Page 4

  • News briefs

    After its acquisition of the Dutch B&F Group last year...

    2018-05-02T00:00:00Z

    After its acquisition of the Dutch B&F Group last year (see Eyewear Intelligence Vol. 18 n°1), Ocuco, the Irish eyecare software company, has also acquired OptiCommerce, a provider of websites and e-commerce solutions for the independent U.K. opticians with about 170 customers and £500,000 (€568,882-$684,248) worth of annual revenues. The company, ...

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    According to the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Luxottica will...

    2018-05-02T00:00:00Z

    According to the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Luxottica will be opening a “digital hub” in Milan in 2019. The site would host a showroom and some manufacturing activity. The digital hub would be located at 35, via Tortona, in an area that has become one of the hearts of ...

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    According to the latest Optical Business Barometer (OBB), the index...

    2018-05-02T00:00:00Z

    According to the latest Optical Business Barometer (OBB), the index of the independents' sentiments about their business was down to 3.92 in the first quarter of 2018, as compared to 3.94 in the first quarter of 2017. A positive exception came from the independents' assessment of eye exams, which showed ...

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    This year as part of its Silmo Academy program, the...

    2018-05-02T00:00:00Z

    This year as part of its Silmo Academy program, the Silmo show is offering again a €10,000 grant to support a research project in the field of optics and vision science. The winning project will be selected by Silmo Academy's scientific committee and announced at the next edition of the ...

  • Short stops

    The 800 members of the French voluntary group had an...

    2018-05-02T00:00:00Z

    The 800 members of the French voluntary group had an average growth of 0.4 percent last year in a slightly declining market.

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    Atol, a French cooperative that has about 800 members, will...

    2018-05-02T00:00:00Z

    Atol, a French cooperative that has about 800 members, will launch a new kind of smart glasses with Mondial Assistance, a French insurance company, to target isolated seniors. Branded Senior Care, the glasses include a receptor that is connected to a call box and sends an immediate signal to the ...

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    Warby Parker, the American eyewear retailer has just raised $75...

    2018-05-02T00:00:00Z

    Warby Parker, the American eyewear retailer has just raised $75 million in a new financing round from T. Rowe Price, a mutual fund, and other investors. Launched eight years ago by a group of students as a pure online player, the company had already raised $100 million in 2015, which ...

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    Optrafair, the U.K. eyewear trade show, celebrated its 40th anniversary...

    2018-05-02T00:00:00Z

    Optrafair, the U.K. eyewear trade show, celebrated its 40th anniversary at its last edition in Birmingham, which took place from April 14 to 16. The organizers announced that 150 exhibitors and over 7,000 industry professionals participated in the event. More precise figures could not be obtained at the time of ...

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    The Think About Your Eyes campaign reportedly generated 3.4 million...

    2018-05-02T00:00:00Z

    The Think About Your Eyes campaign reportedly generated 3.4 million eye exams in 2017. Think About Your Eyes, presented by The Vision Council and the American Optometric Association, is a campaign raising awareness in the U.S. of the importance of an annual comprehensive eye exam. According to an announcement from ...

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    Yuniku and Luxexcel have both been shortlisted for a 3D...

    2018-05-02T00:00:00Z

    Yuniku and Luxexcel have both been shortlisted for a 3D Printing Award, the annual competition organized by the media company 3D Printing Industry. Yuniku, the 3D eyewear project by Hoya in partnership with Materialise (see Eyewear Intelligence Vol. 17 n°14), has been selected in the 3D Scanning Project or Application ...

  • Article

    Marcolin finished 2017 strongly

    2018-05-02T00:00:00Z

    Addressing its bondholders, the Marcolin Group reported on a strong finish of its 2017 financial year. Sales jumped by 19.6 percent during the fourth quarter of the year, with a 25 percent jump in local currencies and double-digit growth in all the regions. Particularly strong performances were recorded by the ...

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    CORRECTION: In our last issue of Eyewear Intelligence (Vol.19, 4+5),...

    2018-05-02T00:00:00Z

    CORRECTION: In our last issue of Eyewear Intelligence (Vol.19, 4+5), we erroneously described Safilo's so-called “going forward brand portfolio.” For 2017, it comprised both its proprietary brands and its licensed brands but excluded the Gucci business. This year, the group's going forward brands will exclude Céline, whose license Safilo lost ...

  • Article

    Luxottica’s Q1 sales drop on currencies, weather, China

    2018-05-02T00:00:00Z

    Luxottica posted a 10.7 percent decline in first-quarter revenues to €2,136 million, due to adverse currency rates, poor weather in Europe and the impact of the reorganization of its distribution network in China. Financial analysts were expecting sales of at least €2,170 million. At constant currency rates, sales were down ...