All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 20, Issue 15-16 – Page 2
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HUUB, a leading British supplier of swim goggles, has launched...
HUUB, a leading British supplier of swim goggles, has launched a prescription version of its Altair model for short-sighted people
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Morel is decreasing the number of brands used for its...
Morel is decreasing the number of brands used for its sunglasses from three – 1880, Koali and Öga – to one, called Azur, supplying them with new high-performance lenses through an exclusive partnership with Divel Italia. The French frame producer has nevertheless split its singular Azur collection into three segments. ...
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Chloé, the French fashion brand licensed by Marchon, has launched...
Chloé, the French fashion brand licensed by Marchon, has launched its first snow goggle in partnership with its California-based Dragon operation
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Opticien Qui Bouge, a French optical retailer that makes house...
Opticien Qui Bouge, a French optical retailer that makes house calls for optical exams and other services, plans to be operating in 30 of France's departments by January. The founder, Gwenaël Merlio, revealed to Acuite.fr that his company's geographic reach would be extended to two new cities per month in ...
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Bollé Brands has promoted Luca Zangrandi as sales director for...
Bollé Brands has promoted Luca Zangrandi as sales director for Europe, handling the optical and sports retail channels for the company's brands – Bollé, Serengeti and Cébé – in the markets of Italy, France, Spain, the U.K., Germany and Austria. The company says his promotion follows excellent results reached by ...
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Pantone has chosen Classic Blue as the color of the...
Pantone has chosen Classic Blue as the color of the year for 2020. A French company, Afternoon, has the global eyewear license for Pantone.
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Germany remains the biggest importer in Europe
According to the latest report on European trade flows published by Spectaris, the German ophthalmic optics industry association, Germany was once again the European Union’s biggest importer of ophthalmic optics products in 2018, reaching a level of €1.43 billion. France remained in second place with an import value of €1.38 ...
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Komono, the Belgian brand of prescription eyewear and sunglasses, is...
Komono, the Belgian brand of prescription eyewear and sunglasses, is coming out with its first line of snow goggles
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Marc Fielmann becomes sole CEO
With a unanimous vote, Fielmann's supervisory board endorsed the resignation of Günther Fielmann, who is now 80 years old, as chief executive of the company on Nov. 21 and the transfer of all his responsibilities to his 40-year-old son, Marc Fielmann, who has already started to make waves on the ...
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Wöhlk, the German contact lens company formerly owned by Bausch...
Wöhlk, the German contact lens company formerly owned by Bausch & Lomb, is replacing Bach Optic as the distributor of UltraVision contact lenses in Germany
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Etnia Barcelona has introduced two new models of sunglasses, Ziggy...
Etnia Barcelona has introduced two new models of sunglasses, Ziggy Stardust and The Thin White Duke, to celebrate David Bowie, the British singer, composer and actor who died at the beginning of 2016. The Ziggy style is based on the costumes worn by Bowie during the so-called Glam period, including ...
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The German Design Council, the authoritative German body for branding...
The German Design Council, the authoritative German body for branding and design, has conferred the German Design Award 2020 on Jos. Eschenbach for two of its latest eyewear models, made of titanium and acetate
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As in previous years, Spectaris, the German optical industry association,...
As in previous years, Spectaris, the German optical industry association, has held its trend Forum in Berlin. This year's edition – the 17th – was on Nov. 11 and addressed the subject of courage. Participants were invited to present new, innovative ideas in three categories: glasses, contact lenses and marketing ...
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Jacques Ledieu, a former president of Sidol, France's association of...
Jacques Ledieu, a former president of Sidol, France's association of distributors and importers in the optics and optical industry, has died at the age of 82 after a long illness. His wife, Micheline, died on the previous day. Although trained as an optician, Ledieu first went into business as a ...
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Standard Ethics has assigned an “EE-” rating to EssilorLuxottica, indicating...
Standard Ethics has assigned an “EE-” rating to EssilorLuxottica, indicating that the group's sustainability strategies and extra-financial reporting appear to be adequately aligned with the international voluntary guidelines proposed by the United Nations, the OECD and the European Union. It noted that, following the merger of Essilor and Luxottica, “a ...
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Safilo buys into Blenders, gets the Under Armour license
Safilo, the Italian eyewear group that owns Smith Optics, has bought a 70 percent stake in a fast-growing Californian firm, Blenders Eyewear, that targets Millennials and Generation Z customers with cool sunglasses and snow goggles and has a great website.Safilo also reported that it has signed an eyewear licensing agreement ...
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Cazal Eyewear has appointed Katharina Schlager as chief executive and...
Cazal Eyewear has appointed Katharina Schlager as chief executive and creative director, effective in January. The designer replaces Beate Obersteiner, who is retiring, as the head of the German company. Obersteiner will continue to support the company as a consultant. Klaus Lippert, who has been general manager since 2015, will ...
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Lena Henry has been appointed chief executive of Essilor France,...
Lena Henry has been appointed chief executive of Essilor France, from Dec. 1. She replaces Alexandre Montague, who decided to pursue opportunities outside the group. Henry has been with the Essilor group for nearly seven years. According to her LinkedIn account, she was previously regional vice president of Essilor, based ...
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Christoph Bojinski has been appointed as the new sales director...
Christoph Bojinski has been appointed as the new sales director for Germany, Austria and Switzerland for Luneau Technology, the company behind the Visionix and Weco brands of diagnostic equipment and eye screening. The 53-year-old will be responsible for the company's sales strategy in the German-speaking markets. He worked previously as ...
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