All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 21 No. 11-12 – Page 3
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ic! berlin names Sylvia Jensch as sales and marketing head
German eyewear brand ic! berlin has chosen Sylvia Jensch as its chief sales and marketing officer. Before joining ic! berlin, Jensch had spent the last 16 years of her career at the hotel cosmetics firm ADA Cosmetics International, most recently serving as its chief sales and marketing officer. She has ...
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Novacel gets Covid-19 certified
Novacel, the French lens laboratory partly owned by Essilor, announced that it is the first company in the eyewear industry to obtain the Covid-19 standard by AFNOR (L’Association Française de Normalisation), a French-based control and standardization organization. The Covid-19 certification is based on an onsite verification of 93 points focusing ...
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Optic 2000 partners with Oney to offer financing solutions
Optic 2000 has signed a partnership with the French-based Oney, a subsidiary of the larger BPCE banking group and Auchan Holding. that presents itself as a bank with a retailer DNA, in order to offer credit facilities to clients for their optical and hearing aids’ equipment needs. Starting June 11, ...
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Vision Expo West opens registrations, unveils safety protocols
Registrations for Vision Expo West 2020 have opened, with health and safety protocols taking center stage as eyecare and eyewear professionals prepare to meet in Las Vegas Sept. 23-26. The show’s organizers, the Vision Council and Reed Exhibitions, have created a task force to implement Covid-19 prevention and response practices ...
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ArticleItaly considering a €50 voucher to buy eyeglasses, contact lenses
The Italian government is expected to examine a proposal put forward by the non-profit organization Commissione Difesa Vista (CDV) to distribute by the end of the year to Italian taxpayers a €50 voucher to buy eyeglasses or contact lenses. CDV promotes vision and eye health and was founded by trade ...
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Michael Pachleitner Group extends distribution of Red Bul SPECT
Red Bull SPECT Eyewear, a brand of the Austrian group Michael Pachleitner Group, is expanding its sales network. From this autumn, the brand will be available in most stores of the Austrian retailer Blue Tomato as well as at the chain Intersport Austria and Switzerland.
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Schneider to absorb Team H&K
Team Henrich & Krall, the manufacturer of optical equipment acquired by Germany’s Schneider Group in 2013, will merge into Schneider GmbH & Co. effective Oct. 1, 2020. Team H&K has been operating as an independent company but its operations were restructured after Jürgen Krall, its managing director and co-founder, left ...
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Desio and Sightsavers Italia extend partnership to fight blindness
Desio, the color contact lens brand produced by Italian manufacturer Qualmed, is continuing its partnership with the Italian arm of Sightsavers, a non-profit focused on eye health, for the second consecutive year. In the first year of the partnership, Desio donated enough to fo treatments against trachoma, the world’s leading ...
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Bausch prepares for launch of Infuse contact lenses after U.S. clearance
Bausch + Lomb, the eyecare business of Bausch Health, is preparing to launch in the U.S. the sale of its trademark Bausch + Lomb Infuse daily disposable silicone hydrogel (SiHydaily) contact lenses in the second half of the year, after receiving clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). ...
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Andy Wolf ramps up production
Andy Wolf Eyewear, the Austrian brand of designer eyewear, has told us that, to protect employees, it switched its production sites in Hartberg, Austria, and Jura, France, to emergency care in the first couple of weeks of the coronavirus lockdown. The company is now restarting operations step by step, setting ...
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ArticleGrandVision sales in reopened stores drop by 13% early June
GrandVision is enjoying a recovery in sales as its stores reopen, but the company has noted that consumers are continuing with e-commerce purchases, especially for contact lenses.
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Two large Italian retailers obtain government-guaranteed loans
The Italian retailers OVS and Rinascente have obtained government-guaranteed loans as part of the so-called liquidity decree to support large companies affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. The measure applies to firms with more than 5,000 employees in Italy and annual revenues above €1.5 billion. Economy Minister Roberto Gualtieri agreed to ...
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News briefsEnglish retailers reopen in a climate of caution
Non-essential stores reopened in England on June 15 amid concern that consumers will be absent, as a majority of people, 54 percent, remain opposed to the reopening. They are particularly reluctant to returning to shopping centers.
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Safilo’s credit rating downgraded to B3 by Moody’s
Like many other companies, Safilo is seeing its credit rating cut because of the impact of the coronavirus. But, the eyewear manufacturer was already weakened prior to the health crisis by the loss of the Dior license and a further downgrade is a possibility.
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