All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 20, Issue 6-7 – Page 2
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Good quarter and big plans for Fielmann
Marc Fielmann, who took over the reins at the big, eponymous German retail chain from his father a few months ago, has big plans for the company, particularly in the areas of digitalization and international expansion.He is expected to be more specific in August, when he will lay out the ...
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Twenty-two retail companies that belong to Optic Society, a German...
Twenty-two retail companies that belong to Optic Society, a German buying and marketing group, have teamed up for a common social media and online marketing campaign called “Face Looks.” The affiliated opticians aim to launch joint promotions four times per year via face-looks.de, a recently created online platform through which interested customers ...
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Bausch + Lomb records high organic growth
Bausch Health posted first-quarter revenues for the Bausch + Lomb/International segment that were one percent higher than in the first quarter of last year, while on an organic basis, they jumped by 8 percent. The segment, which includes the group's contact lenses and solutions businesses, comprised about 55 percent of ...
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Controversy drives out Etnia Barcelona’s CEO
Cristina Trujillo has left Etnia Barcelona, the Spanish optical brand. She had been the chief executive since December 2017. David Pellicer, who founded Etnia Barcelona in 2000 and ran it until Trujillo took charge, has taken over again in the leading role.According to various reports, Trujillo's departure seems to have ...
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Mark Macus is coming back to the Bühler Group as...
Mark Macus is coming back to the Bühler Group as its chief financial officer. He will take the place of Andreas Herzog, who is set to retire on Sept. 1 after 17 years with the company. Macus had already served at Bühler as head of corporate controlling for five years ...
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Mykita has won the Red Dot award in the product...
Mykita has won the Red Dot award in the product design category for the “Elgard” frame of its Mykita Lite eyewear collection, which combines two materials, acetate and stainless steel
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Dresden, an Australian producer of modular frames, has opened its...
Dresden, an Australian producer of modular frames, has opened its third Canadian store in Toronto, where it already has two locations. The store is located in Toronto's new shipping container marketplace called “Stackt.” Founded in 2014, Dresden claims to run a zero-waste business and to have cut CO2 emissions by ...
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Atol, a French voluntary group of opticians whose name stands...
Atol, a French voluntary group of opticians whose name stands for Association of Optical and Spectacle Technicians, has taken its stores in a more digital and omnichannel direction. With a strategy called “La Totale Atol,” the French cooperative has sought to lend its stores a greater sense of space, through ...
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A French court appoints a mediator for Essilux
A Paris-based commercial court has appointed its former president, Frank Gentin, as special representative (mandataire ad hoc) to broker peace at the EssilorLuxottica (Essilux), which is bogged down in a power struggle between its executive chairman and main shareholder, Leonardo Del Vecchio, and its executive vice-chairman, Hubert Sagnières.We understand that ...
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Maui Jim has appointed Nathan McKinley as head of U.S....
Maui Jim has appointed Nathan McKinley as head of U.S. ophthalmic sales, a newly created position. The move is part of the plan by the sunglass and eyeglass maker to strengthen its ophthalmic branch, which it launched in early 2018. Prior to joining Maui Jim, McKinley worked with Kaenon Polarized ...
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The market has apparently rewarded Modo's ecological shift, both for...
The market has apparently rewarded Modo's ecological shift, both for its funding of environmental initiatives and its production processes for eyewear. In India the company helped the Seva Foundation provide eye exams and, if necessary, surgery or therapy for a million children. Modo contributed part of its profits from the ...
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For the United Nations' fifth annual Road Safety Week, Essilor and...
For the United Nations' fifth annual Road Safety Week, Essilor and Groupe Renault have signed a two-year memorandum of understanding, pledging to raise the public's awareness the importance of good vision for driving and to work on technologies designed to improve it. Among other things, they will be conducting awareness campaigns ...
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GrandVision has announced Willem Eelman is to be its future...
GrandVision has announced Willem Eelman is to be its future chief financial officer. He will replace Paulo de Castro, who has resigned from this role after seven years to pursue another career opportunity. Eelman is the former chief financial officer and chief operations transformation officer of C&A Europe. Prior to ...
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Kirk & Kirk has appointed Hugh Clark, a member of...
Kirk & Kirk has appointed Hugh Clark, a member of the family behind the Clarks shoe brand, as its new chairman. While taking over the new position at the British eyewear brand, Clark will also remain a shareholder in the footwear group. Clark is joining Kirk & Kirk as part ...
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Study highlights dramatic rise of myopia among children
The number of children around the world affected by myopia is expected to increase from an already worrying 300 million today to 500 million by 2050. The revised figure was presented at Sightgeist, the international conference on eye-care that took place in London on March 28, which gathered many stakeholders ...
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MSK, a French company that already distributes the Matsuda and...
MSK, a French company that already distributes the Matsuda and Marni eyewear collections in its country, has agreed to become the French distributor of Kirk & Kirk, the original line created by Jason Kirk. The British designer was previously selling it directly to French retailers.
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Allan Comploier has re-established on a new continent the optical...
Allan Comploier has re-established on a new continent the optical firm of his great-great-grandfather, the Prussian engineer August Emil Julius Kohls. The original Kohls, which was founded in 1869 and opened its first laboratory in 1914 in Berlin, ceased production after the First World War. The new one, Óticas Kohls, ...
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Aspex Eyewear has agreed to pay a financial settlement to...
Aspex Eyewear has agreed to pay a financial settlement to VSP Global to set aside their disputes, and the Canadian firm will be reinstated as an in-network frame provider under VSP's insurance policies. This brings to a close a series of lawsuits and countersuits pitting Aspex against VSP, Marchon Eyewear, ...
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Julbo is searching for a new marketing director after the...
Julbo is searching for a new marketing director after the departure of Benjamin Thaller, who held that role for the past 12 years
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After two and a half years of work, researchers at...
After two and a half years of work, researchers at the Flexible Electronics department of the Centre Microélectronique de Provence – part of the French engineering school IMT Atlantique – have incorporated a battery into a contact lens and used it to power an LED for hours at a time. ...
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