All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 20, Issue 6-7 – Page 3
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The Afflelou group will sponsor another major French football team,...
The Afflelou group will sponsor another major French football team, AS Saint-Etienne, starting with the current 2018-2019 season and until 2021. The group's logo will be on the players' shorts until the end of the 2018-2019 season. For the following two seasons, it will also appear on the back of ...
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With its acquisition of nine Black & Lizars shops, the...
With its acquisition of nine Black & Lizars shops, the Duncan and Todd Group has become the largest retail optical chain in Scotland. The deal increases the number of shops by about a third, expanding the staff by about 56 and adding seven locations, notably in the towns of Perth ...
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Alain Afflelou Acousticien, the hearing-aid division of the French eyewear...
Alain Afflelou Acousticien, the hearing-aid division of the French eyewear retailer Alain Afflelou, is sponsoring the second edition of the French Formula 1 (F1) National Roadshow as an official partner. The Roadshow allows people across France to experience the thrill of F1 cars outside the racetracks. The series of events, ...
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On April 8, Thélios, the joint venture between LVMH and...
On April 8, Thélios, the joint venture between LVMH and Marcolin, launched the first eyewear collection for a fifth LVMH brand, Berluti. Thélios has already developed and produced eyewear for four other brands of the group: Céline, Loewe, Fred and Kenzo. The Berluti collection is composed of six men's sunglasses ...
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Essilux grows by 7.5%
Combining the sales results of Essilor International and of Luxottica on a pro forma basis for the first quarter ended on March 31, the new EssilorLuxottica group (Essilux) painted a generally positive picture of its situation across the world, with the possible exception of North America, and came out with ...
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OXO Italia Optocoop, an optical retail consortium with 400 retailers...
OXO Italia Optocoop, an optical retail consortium with 400 retailers belonging to 15 cooperatives and operating 440 stores, has signed a co-marketing agreement with Pelikan, the historic brand of writing products. The purpose is to raise awareness among families with children in school of the importance of writing implements that ...
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Kering Eyewear enjoyed a 23 percent increase in its organic...
Kering Eyewear enjoyed a 23 percent increase in its organic sales during the first quarter of 2019, building up to a level of €128.4 million for the period, according to its parent company, Kering, which owns Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and other luxury brands. The group mentioned the excellent performance ...
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On May 23, the College of Optometry at the State University...
On May 23, the College of Optometry at the State University of New York (SUNY) will be conferring honorary degrees on Hubert Sagnières, chairman and chief executive of the Essilor International group and executive vice chairman of EssilorLuxottica, and Donald Hood, professor of psychology and professor of ophthalmic science at Columbia University. Sagnières, who ...
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On April 21, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)...
On April 21, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) issued a recall for Ray-Ban non-prescription brown tortoiseshell sunglasses sold by Big W Optical. The model in question reads “RB4175” on the left stem. The Australian regulatory authority claims that the glasses do not meet the requirements of Consumer Protection ...
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Hoya wants 20% of the lens market
In its latest quarterly report, which came out today, Hoya Corporation stated that it wants to raise its global market share in eyeglass lenses from the present rate of 17 percent to 20 percent over the medium term, mainly by gaining market share in the Americas and the Asia-Pacific regions.Hoya ...
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The German optical market grows by 2.2 percent
ZVA, the German's opticians' association, reports that the German optical retail market increased by an estimated 2.2 percent to €6.26 billion in 2017, as compared to the previous year. The number of spectacles sold went up by 0.8 percent to 12.84 million. Corrective lenses went up from 38.82 million to ...
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The Catherine de' Medici 1533 (CDM) line of eyewear is...
The Catherine de' Medici 1533 (CDM) line of eyewear is establishing itself on the international market, and it has started to turn a profit. The company that markets the line was founded by Giovanni Accongiagioco in 2017 after he left Italia Independent, of which he was also a founder. The ...
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Johnson & Johnson Vision has announced a €100 million expansion...
Johnson & Johnson Vision has announced a €100 million expansion to its Irish site in the National Technology Park, Plassey, Limerick. The investment is expected to create 100 new permanent jobs at the facility, which is devoted to contact lens manufacturing, along with the jobs created for the construction phase. ...
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100% Optical, the optical trade show in the U.K., has...
100% Optical, the optical trade show in the U.K., has announced further improvements to its newsfeed service, which provides the latest news about the optical industry, product releases, new technology and more. Thanks to a recent upgrade, the service is now said to be easier to browse. A readily accessible ...
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Waterhaul is launching a range of sunglasses made from 100...
Waterhaul is launching a range of sunglasses made from 100 percent recycled fishing nets. Waterhaul is a social enterprise based in Cornwall, England, that collects plastic from the oceans and transforms it into functional products, and is part of a collaborative scheme to intercept nets from European seas. Intercepted nets, ...
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