All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 20, Issue 13-14 – Page 2
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Red Circle, the investment firm of Renzo Rosso and his...
Red Circle, the investment firm of Renzo Rosso and his son Stefano, has increased its stake in Retrosuperfuture to a controlling interest of 51 percent. Through Red Circle, the Rosso family already controls important fashion brands such as Diesel, Maison Margiela, Marni and Viktor & Rolf. It also has investments ...
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Charmant opened its first flagship store this summer in Ginza,...
Charmant opened its first flagship store this summer in Ginza, the luxury shopping district of Tokyo
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Nau!, the dynamic Italian optical retail chain, has opened a...
Nau!, the dynamic Italian optical retail chain, has opened a store at the Milanofiori mall south of Milan, increasing to 57 the number of shops in the Lombardy region. Another store was opened at the Itaca shopping center in Formia, raising the number of stores in the Lazio region to ...
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JINS, a Japanese low-cost optical retail chain, posted revenues of...
JINS, a Japanese low-cost optical retail chain, posted revenues of 61.9 billion yen (€512m-$570m) for its 2018/19 financial year ended in August, a 12.8 percent increase as compared to the previous year in absolute terms and a 3.8 percent rise on a comparable store basis. The company's overseas business grew ...
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Eyecity, the Japanese chain of contact lens stores owned by...
Eyecity, the Japanese chain of contact lens stores owned by Hoya Corporation, says it has collected a total of 3.3 million tons of empty cases made of recyclable polypropylene, contributing to a reduction in C02 emissions of 9.1 million tons. The entire proceeds of 7.9 million yen (€65k-$73k) have been ...
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MIC-Made in Cadore is launching a limited-edition style of sunglasses...
MIC-Made in Cadore is launching a limited-edition style of sunglasses dedicated to Tiziano Vecellio (Titian), considered the most important painter of the 16th-century Venetian school. Titian was born in Pieve di Cadore, just 2.5km from Calalzo di Cadore, where the eyewear brand is headquartered. The “Tiziano,” designed by Tiziano Tahacchi, ...
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Working with Statista, the German-based statistical portal, the French business...
Working with Statista, the German-based statistical portal, the French business magazine Capital has released a ranking of French consumers' preferences for certain retail brands in 137 sectors, including opticians. Some 20,000 anonymous consumers were asked to rate the banners of 1,600 retail companies online based on three criteria: attention to ...
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Persol, one of the house brands of Luxottica, has opened...
Persol, one of the house brands of Luxottica, has opened its first store in Italy. Measuring 120 square meters and located at via Fiori Chiari 16 in downtown Milan, it is close to the Brera art gallery, and its interior echoes the architecture of the district. There customers can personalize ...
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Bollé Brands reorganizes
Bollé Brands is rationalizing the operations of Bollé, Cébé, Serengeti and H2 Optics taken over by A&M Capital from Vista Outdoor last year and investing in new managers and new systems and processes to improve products and services. It is centralizing operations in Europe and the U.S., where it taking ...
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Hoya has expanded the executive board of its German subsidiary,...
Hoya has expanded the executive board of its German subsidiary, appointing Oliver Fischbach and Mirijam Rösch as general managers for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Fischbach has been chief executive of Hoya Lens Germany since 2009 as well as vice president of the Hoya Vision Care subsidiaries in Western Europe, responsible ...
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Morel has partnered with Nathalie Blanc for an exclusive capsule...
Morel has partnered with Nathalie Blanc for an exclusive capsule collection that was launched at the last edition of Silmo. The Morel par Nathalie Blanc collection includes four optical glasses and sunglasses whose retail prices are set at €229 and €279 to €299 respectively. The capsule collection will be distributed ...
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Better-than-expected revenues for EssilorLuxottica
EssilorLuxottica – alias Essilux – reported revenues for the third quarter that exceeded its guidance, and confirmed its objectives for 2019. They jumped by 8.4 percent to €4,310 million on a pro-forma basis, with growth of 5.2 percent in local currencies, which was above a previously set annual objective of ...
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Lissac, the high-end retail banner belonging to the French Optic...
Lissac, the high-end retail banner belonging to the French Optic 2000 group, has appointed Jean-Luc Favene as its new general manager
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Smith wins a Silmo d’Or Award
Safilo's house brand of sports eyewear won the Silmo d'Or in the sports category last week with its Attack MTB sunglasses, which retail in Europe at a recommended price of €229. The model can be fitted with two different proprietary ChromaPop lenses, “Black ChromaPop” for high sun exposure and “Light ...
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Gregory Glasian has been appointed as the new chief executive...
Gregory Glasian has been appointed as the new chief executive of Anne et Valentin, the French designer eyewear brand, taking over the position of Christophe Gilabert, who died in an avalanche earlier this year. According to his LinkedIn profile, Glasian is new to the eyewear industry but has extensive experience ...
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Julbo has appointed Stéphanie Dugas as its new marketing director,...
Julbo has appointed Stéphanie Dugas as its new marketing director, replacing Benjamin Thaller who left a few months ago to become the managing director of Outdoor Sports Valley, the French cluster of outdoor companies. Dugas spent the last 20 years at Nikon Corporation, starting as product manager in France before ...
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Julbo has appointed Erhard Kappel as its new sales manager...
Julbo has appointed Erhard Kappel as its new sales manager for Germany. Kappel has worked at Julbo since 2012, initially as account manager and from 2016 as key account manager Germany. In his new position, he will be responsible for Julbo's sales team in Germany and brand development in the ...
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Shopko Optical has appointed Russ Steinhorst as chief executive officer,...
Shopko Optical has appointed Russ Steinhorst as chief executive officer, replacing Jim Eisen, who held the position in an interim capacity after a bankruptcy court approved the $8.5 million takeover of the American optical retail chain by an investment firm, Monarch Alternative Capital, in May. The company will be opening ...
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Another CEO for loss-making Italia Independent
Italia Independent has appointed Marco Cordeddu as its new chief executive to replace Mario Pietribiasi, who resigned unexpectedly after six months in office over a divergence of views with the board on the company's strategy. His departure was effective on Oct. 9.Cordeddu has served as chairman of Stalam, an Italian ...
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Spectaris, the German ophthalmic industry association, published an annual report...
Spectaris, the German ophthalmic industry association, published an annual report in September reviewing the European ophthalmic optics market, its consumers and future trends. Published only in German, the report identifies the biggest importer of ophthalmic optics products and the biggest exporter of ophthalmic optics products in Europe for 2018. It ...
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