All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 20, Issue 11-12
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New management for Silhouette
Silhouette International Schmied, the Austrian manufacturer of ophthalmic lenses, corrective frames and sunglasses, has announced a change in the structure of its executive board, making two new key appointments.From Nov. 1, Reinhard Mahr takes over the position of chief financial officer. Mahr has 30 years of management experience in national ...
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Invu launches a new “Magic Mirror”
The Swiss Eyewear Group has incorporated recent advances in liquid-crystal display (LCD) technology into a new mirror for the optician's sales floor that should attract many customers. Its so-called “Magic Mirror” simulates better than before the experience of wearing its Invu sunglasses with ultra-polarized lenses. It will be one of ...
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Viu has opened its first physical stand-alone shop in the...
Viu has opened its first physical stand-alone shop in the U.K., and has reportedly already signed for a second store. The first store is located in London's Soho, at 5 Upper James Street. For this new 850-square-foot space, the Swiss eyewear brand has decided to continue its tradition of developing ...
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Fedon and Genetier, the group's subsidiary for the French market,...
Fedon and Genetier, the group's subsidiary for the French market, will present several interesting novelties at Silmo in Paris on Sept. 27-30. They will present their set of eco-friendly eyewear cases, made with recycled cork, vegetable oil and plastic materials at the end of their lifecycle. Also, they will showcase ...
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New financing round for expanding Mister Spex
Mister Spex, which claims to be Europe's leading online optician, completed a round of financing for over €65 million at the end of August. The Büll Family Office, based in Hamburg, led the equity financing round with the participation of existing investors, among them Grazia Equity, Stephan Schambach and Ehssan ...
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Etudes Studio is launching its new line of glasses. The...
Etudes Studio is launching its new line of glasses. The collection is designed in Paris, where the brand is based, and made in China. It is distributed by Peter & May, which also produces eyewear for Jacquemus. The glasses are characterized by minimal structures with a unisex spirit. The temples ...
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Essilux outlines progress in its integration
The management of EssilorLuxottica, or Essilux as many call it now for short, shared with financial analysts some aspects of the progress that the group is making in the integration of Essilor with Luxottica at a Capital Market Day in London yesterday.The first steps being undertaken in this process include, ...
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Essilux reportedly has a smart glass partnership with Facebook
The big U.S.-based social network has turned to EssilorLuxottica to help it develop smart glasses, according to the U.S. broadcaster CNBC, which cited people familiar with the matter. According to CNCB, Facebook has been seeking to develop augmented-reality glasses for the past couple of years. Internally codenamed Orion, the glasses ...
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Fielmann enters Slovenia
A few days ago, Fielmann announced its acquisition of a 70 percent stake in Optika Clarus, a chain of 26 optical retail stores that claims a 30 percent market share in Slovenia. The takeover was described as an important step in the Vision 2025 program outlined by the group's new ...
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EyeCare Partners (ECP), a U.S. network of medical optometry and...
EyeCare Partners (ECP), a U.S. network of medical optometry and ophthalmology practices, has bought Nationwide Vision, an Arizona-based vision care provider, from the Refac Optical Group, as first reported by Vision Monday. The disposal will enable Refac to focus on U.S. Vision, an eyewear wholesaler and retailer. The terms of ...
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Nau!, the dynamic Italian eyewear retailer, has opened two more...
Nau!, the dynamic Italian eyewear retailer, has opened two more domestic stores. One was inaugurated about 20 kilometers north of Padua in the Le Centurie shopping mall, increasing Nau!'s fleet in the Veneto region to 13 units. The company opened the second store in Livorno, Tuscany. Nau! now has 162 ...
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Spektra has obtained the exclusive rights to distribute the Treboss...
Spektra has obtained the exclusive rights to distribute the Treboss collection in Greece from FM Optics of Israel. Founded in 2014, Spektra has a network of agents covering the whole of Greece as well as the Greek part of Cyprus. FM Optics will show its Treboss collection at Silmo Paris ...
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The organizers of DaTE, the small four-year-old designer eyewear show...
The organizers of DaTE, the small four-year-old designer eyewear show in Florence, plan to stage an international event in Milan next spring about the culture that surrounds the world of eyewear. The most recent edition of the Florence show, which ended on Sept. 25, saw a small drop in exhibitors ...
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CVI starts a lens recycling program in Sweden
CooperVision (CVI) has launched an initiative in Sweden that offers consumers a service for the free collection and recycling of soft contact lenses, including those of other brands and manufacturers. It aims to reduce plastic waste by providing a convenient way for wearers to recycle lenses, as well as blister ...
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Messy Weekend, a Danish sunglass firm, is continuing its international...
Messy Weekend, a Danish sunglass firm, is continuing its international expansion by entering the Colombian market through a collaboration with a local apparel and footwear group, Brahma. With this partnership, Messy Weekend's sunglasses will be sold online in the country through Brahma's website and will be available in the stores ...
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Fielmann’s results continue to improve
Fielmann confirmed its positive performance in the first half of 2019, reporting a pre-tax profit of €127.6 million and net income of €88.3 million for the period on 6.6 percent higher consolidated sales of €386.4 million. Including VAT, external sales rose by 7.5 percent to €884.4 million, but the actual ...
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Delfin, the holding company of Leonardo Del Vecchio's family, has...
Delfin, the holding company of Leonardo Del Vecchio's family, has acquired a 6.94 percent stake in a big Italian investment bank, Mediobanca. Created in 1946, Mediobanca was for many years, under the guidance of its co-founder Enrico Cuccia, the linchpin of private domestic capitalism. Its shareholders included some of Italy's ...
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OH Holding Limited, a mysterious European company registered in Cyprus,...
OH Holding Limited, a mysterious European company registered in Cyprus, has filed an application to the Ukrainian Antimonopoly Service to purchase LuxOptika, one of the biggest Ukrainian eyewear retailers. LuxOptika partly belongs to Boris Lozhkin, a Ukrainian businessman who served as head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine between 2014 ...
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Safilo has launched a new collection of Havaianas sunglasses for...
Safilo has launched a new collection of Havaianas sunglasses for Brazil's spring/summer 2019/20 season. The collection, based around four models, will be available in Europe later for the spring/summer 2020 season.
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Oakley has won a legal challenge in the European Court...
Oakley has won a legal challenge in the European Court of Justice over its elliptical logo. The highest court of the European Union overturned an earlier decision by the European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) which ruled that a logo registered by a Chinese individual, Xuebo Ye, did not infringe on ...
