All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 20, Issue 9-10 – Page 3
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VSP has appointed a new chief marketing officer, Wendy Hauteman,...
VSP has appointed a new chief marketing officer, Wendy Hauteman, to succeed Mark Ginsberg, who has become VSP's “chief giving officer”
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Specsavers Audiology is expanding to New Zealand. The announcement was...
Specsavers Audiology is expanding to New Zealand. The announcement was made at the New Zealand Audiological Society Conference, held in Queenstown in early July. The company carried out a similar expansion two years ago in Australia, where Specsavers optical shops have been operating since 2008. According to Nick Taylor, head ...
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Julbo Eyewear has announced an exclusive eyewear partnership with the...
Julbo Eyewear has announced an exclusive eyewear partnership with the Garmin Dirty Kanza, the bicycling challenge held on the gravel roads through the Flint Hills of central Kansas
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Dragon has announced the release of its first eco-friendly eyewear,...
Dragon has announced the release of its first eco-friendly eyewear, based on plant resin. Beginning this autumn, all the new and key carryover injected sunglasses and ophthalmic frames of the performance eyewear brand will be made using the bio-based material. Plant-based resin is derived from castor-bean oil, a renewable alternative ...
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Outdoor Sports Valley (OSV), the French-based association based in Annecy,...
Outdoor Sports Valley (OSV), the French-based association based in Annecy, has appointed Benjamin Thaller as its new managing director. He replaces Anne Schott, who has left the organization to pursue other professional opportunities after 30 months in the role. Thaller was previously marketing director at Julbo and, prior to that, ...
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Enot Amsterdam, a Dutch lens manufacturer, has appointed Michael Keip...
Enot Amsterdam, a Dutch lens manufacturer, has appointed Michael Keip to the position of managing director. He succeeds his father, Lorens Keip, and is the family's fourth generation to join Enot's management. He began working for the company in 2012, after graduating from the Hult Business School. For its 100th ...
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Sales of contact lenses by Johnson & Johnson declined by...
Sales of contact lenses by Johnson & Johnson declined by 0.3 percent in the second quarter to $842 million. Operational growth, which excludes currency fluctuations, reached 2.4 percent, driven by daily disposable and astigmatism lenses from the Oasys range. For the whole of J&J's vision care division, sales were down ...
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Gentle Monster and Ambush have teamed up on a sunglass...
Gentle Monster and Ambush have teamed up on a sunglass capsule collection with a futuristic look. The Zip Tie features a full-acetate frame, available in three translucent colorways: orange, purple and clear. The capsule collection is an extension of Ambush's autumn/winter 2019 collection, inspired by David Bowie's science-fiction movie The ...
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Alcon has recently announced its cooperation with Marcel Nguyen, a...
Alcon has recently announced its cooperation with Marcel Nguyen, a top German gymnast, for its Dailies Total 1 One-Day contact lenses. Nguyen will be wearing Alcon's one-day contact lenses while competing in the German Gymnastics Championships on Aug. 3-4 in Berlin and in the World Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart on Oct. ...
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VSP Global has reached a definite agreement to buy Visionworks,...
VSP Global has reached a definite agreement to buy Visionworks, a Texas-based company with more than 700 stores in nearly 40 U.S. states and Washington, DC. It is the single largest retail acquisition in VSP's 65-year history. Vision Monday has ranked Visionworks as the sixth largest retailer in the U.S. ...
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Afflelou has made Anna Bordes chief executive of Optical Discount...
Afflelou has made Anna Bordes chief executive of Optical Discount in replacement of Olivier de Mendez. She will be tasked with reinforcing the low-cost French chain's territorial presence and spurring its digital development. Prior to joining Optical Discount, Bordes was a manager at Amazon Retail. She also worked for four ...
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Alain Afflelou is now selling branded sunglasses through its e-commerce...
Alain Afflelou is now selling branded sunglasses through its e-commerce website, afflelou.com. The site receives some 200,000 visits per month. In early July, to steer those potential customers toward its brick-and-mortar stores, the French optical brand took 312 pairs of sunglasses from 11 top brands – plus items from Alain ...
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U.S. President Donald Trump announced via Twitter that his administration...
U.S. President Donald Trump announced via Twitter that his administration will introduce an extra 10 percent duty on $300 billion worth of Chinese imports, including eyewear. The Vision Council stated that the tariffs will also affect Chinese-made spectacle lenses, spectacle frames, sunglasses, reading glasses, eyeglasses, safety glasses, goggles and many ...
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GrandVision acquires another Swiss chain
GrandVision has been growing quickly over the years through acquisitions, particularly in Europe. However, because of the anti-trust investigation that the European Union and other jurisdictions are going to launch into its planned takeover by EssilorLuxottica, group executives indicated that its external growth may slow down. GrandVision has nevertheless just ...
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Safilo books big charges but stops burning cash on accelerating sales
The Safilo Group underwent a massive clean-up of its balance sheet in the second quarter. As a result, the group posted a net loss of €246.7 million for the first half of the year compared with a €7.9 million loss a year earlier. The results cover only continuing activities and ...
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Ambra Nobre Sinkoc has been named executive director of Abióptica,...
Ambra Nobre Sinkoc has been named executive director of Abióptica, the Brazilian eyewear industry association, which has 80 members representing 95 percent of the industry. The corporate governance of the 20-year-old association was reorganized after the recent resignation of its former president, Bento Alcofrado. An extraordinary general meeting has established ...
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On May 9 in Kappelrodeck, near Offenburg, Flair received a special...
On May 9 in Kappelrodeck, near Offenburg, Flair received a special award for marketing & communications from the German manufacturer's association, which has about 600 members
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Invu says it is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the...
Invu says it is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing with two rounded polarized sunglasses
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CooperVision has invited 30 students and three lecturers from the...
CooperVision has invited 30 students and three lecturers from the Ernst-Abbe University of Jena, Beuth University of Berlin and the Higher Technical School for Ophthalmic Optics of Cologne to the “Center of Innovation” in Budapest on Oct. 31. The one-day event aims to draw students' attention to contact lenses, informing ...
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The Silmo show, scheduled for Sept. 27-30 at Paris Nord...
The Silmo show, scheduled for Sept. 27-30 at Paris Nord Villepinte, will feature the first Silmo Hackathon, in which five international, multidisciplinary teams of five people will spend 24 hours imagining “tomorrow's retail world.” The Hackathon is open to professionals in optics, distribution, merchandising, design, social sciences, marketing and production, ...
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