All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 21 No. 13-14 – Page 3

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    Thélios in license agreement with Rimowa

    2020-07-12T17:58:00Z

    Thélios, the Italian joint venture between the French luxury goods group LVMH and the Italian eyewear manufacturer Marcolin, has entered an exclusive design, production and distribution partnership with Rimowa, a German manufacturer of high-quality luggage which has been part of the LVMH group since 2016. It is Rimowa’s first eyewear ...

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    ​Google snaps up smart glass group North

    2020-07-12T08:04:00Z

    U.S. tech giant Google has acquired Canadian smart glasses producer North for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2012 and originally called Thalmic Labs, North initially focused on new forms of interaction with Myo, a gesture-based input device that directly coupled neuro-muscular impulses into signals computers could understand. It then shifted ...

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    Swiss Lens takes over Lunelle from CooperVision

    2020-07-11T06:53:00Z

    Swiss Lens, a supplier of made-to-order contact lenses, will be taking over the production and international distribution of the complete Lunelle range of contact lenses from CooperVision from Nov. 1. The Swiss company has been supplying Lunelle Toric RX contact lenses to CooperVision for more than 20 years. The product ...

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    Fielmann’s first-half sales drop to €611 million

    2020-07-09T17:53:00Z

    Fielmann’s first-half sales declined to 3.1 million glasses from 4.1 million a year earlier, while consolidated revenues dropped to a preliminary estimate of €611 million from €758.2 million due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. External sales, including value-added tax and inventory, slipped to €710 million from €884.4 million. ...

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    Boots Opticians to close 48 stores in U.K.

    2020-07-09T17:44:00Z

    Boots Opticians, the U.K. optical retailer owned jointly by U.S. pharmacy chain Walgreens Boots Alliance and Italian eyewear producer De Rigo, is closing 48 stores and laying off staff as part of a wider restructuring at Boots UK accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic. The majority of Boots Opticians stores were ...