All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 19, Issue 8-9 – Page 3
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The International Opticians Association (IOA) has announced the re-election of...
The International Opticians Association (IOA) has announced the re-election of Fiona Anderson as its president. Anderson, who is the former president of the Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO), will serve a further two-year mandate as president of the IOA. She was elected alongside Donald Crichton, the president of the ...
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The Marcolin Group has announced the signing of an exclusive,...
The Marcolin Group has announced the signing of an exclusive, global license agreement with Bally, the Swiss high-end producer of leathergoods whose eyewear was previously licensed by L'Amy. The contract with Marcolin will take effect in early 2019 and last for an initial period of five years, with an option ...
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Wires Glasses has announced a seed investment from True Ventures,...
Wires Glasses has announced a seed investment from True Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, which will help launch an innovative, modular eyewear collection. The amount of the investment has not been disclosed. Wires Glasses was founded in 2017 by Yair Neuman, a London-based designer. The company ...
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Som Eyewear has announced the signing of an exclusive global...
Som Eyewear has announced the signing of an exclusive global license agreement for the production and distribution of the eyewear collection of Aeronautica Militare, the iconic brand of Italy's Air Force, which is already widely sold as a sportswear label in the country. The collaboration is set to last ten ...
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Spy has announced the passing of Seth Hamot, its former...
Spy has announced the passing of Seth Hamot, its former chief executive. Hamot died on March 22, after a long battle against lymphoma. He served as chairman of Spy's board of directors and chief executive from 2015 until late 2017. In Nov. 2017, Fir Geenen, an active member of Spy's ...
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Andrea Milletti has taken the place of Paola Rizzetto as...
Andrea Milletti has taken the place of Paola Rizzetto as Italian country manager for CooperVision. The manager has held senior leadership roles in food and pharmaceutical groups like Nestlé, Angelini and Arkopharma.
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The organizers of Brille & Co., the regional German eyewear...
The organizers of Brille & Co., the regional German eyewear show held in Dortmund, have announced that their next edition will take place on January 19 and 20, 2019, just a few days before Opti in Munich, the major German eyewear trade fair. Like this year, but contrary to previous ...
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Safilo North America has appointed Stephen Wright as chief commercial...
Safilo North America has appointed Stephen Wright as chief commercial officer, replacing Henri Blomqvist who is leaving to pursue new opportunities after two years in the post. Wright has held various positions of increasing responsibility at VSP Global, including those of president of Altair Eyewear and senior vice president for ...
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The first contact lens convention for Latin America was organized...
The first contact lens convention for Latin America was organized last month by Contamac in Bogota, the capital of Colombia, attracting a total of 1,150 specialists
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The Opti show in Munich, which had already expanded from...
The Opti show in Munich, which had already expanded from four to five halls last January, will again expand to six halls for the next edition of the fair on Jan. 25-27, filling all the halls on the C side of the fairgrounds, which measure a total of 60,000 square ...
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Earnings double at the former Allison
AVM 1959, or Allison Volta Mantovana, closed 2017 with a clear improvement in profits. According to the management, its Ebitda doubled to 10 percent of turnover, and the forecasts for 2018 calls for further growth. Sales grew by 2 percent to around €20 million.The company's return to profitability was one ...
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The European contact lens market grew again last year
In 2017, sales of soft contact lenses to eye-care professionals in Europe increased by 5.7 percent to €1,789 million, according to an annual study by the European Federation of National Associations and International Companies of Contact Lens and Lens Care Manufacturers (Euromcontact). The organization, which has been running a syndicated ...
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Only a few days after the takeover of the French...
Only a few days after the takeover of the French Hans Anders stores, Acuitis announced last month that it had acquired the business of Direct Optic. Initially launched in France as a pure player in 2008, Direct Optic has developed into an omni-channel, low-cost optical retail operation with the opening ...
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Four months after the inauguration of the first Vision Express...
Four months after the inauguration of the first Vision Express at Tesco, the British optical retailer has completed the banner change of the 210 Tesco Opticians to the new format with the last two stores in Inverness, Scotland
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Abom has announced the release of an advanced anti-fog technology...
Abom has announced the release of an advanced anti-fog technology optimized for augmented and virtual reality. The Abom Heet AR/VR goggle anti-fog solution features the second generation of Abom's heated goggle technology, improving upon the brand's patented Abom technology. Improvements have been made specifically for the integration and optimization for ...
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In 2017, Belluno, the Italian industrial cluster of Belluno, which...
In 2017, Belluno, the Italian industrial cluster of Belluno, which specializes in eyewear, registered a 0.7 percent drop in exports to €2,768 million. The decline accelerated in the last quarter of the year to reach 1.0 percent, according to a survey carried out by the Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo. Belluno ...
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Vision Monday has come out with the 2017 edition of...
Vision Monday has come out with the 2017 edition of its annual report on the Top 50 Optical Retailers in the U.S., which shows a new ranking following the acquisition of independent and regional operators through private equity investment funds. The 50 leading retailers had revenues of $34.8 million in ...
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Safilo posts 6.9% higher sales in Q1
Safilo posted an encouraging 6.9 percent sales increase to €250.9 million in the first quarter of 2018, beating market expectations by nearly €12 million, and its profitability improved. At constant currency rates, sales were up by 15.4 percent and the increase reached 16.9 percent when excluding the Gucci business.The growth ...
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