All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 21 No. 16+17 – Page 3
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ArticleEssilorLuxottica, Facebook plan to launch Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2021
EssilorLuxottica and Facebook plan to launch a pair of Ray-Ban branded smart glasses in 2021. The two companies have entered a multiyear collaboration to develop the next generation of smart glasses. The announcement was made by Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and chief executive of the online social media group, during ...
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New Look and Sea2See launch joint campaign
The Canadian optical chain New Look Eyewear is embarking on a marketing campaign with the Sea2See brand. Conducted in English and French, the campaign will feature the latest Sea2See eyewear, all of which is designed for the circular economy. The frames are made in Italy and entirely from marine plastic ...
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ArticleSafilo secures €108.0 million government-backed financing
Safilo signed of a new term loan facility totaling €108.0 million which provides it with additional liquidity to finance its working capital and investment needs for activities located in Italy. The financing is guaranteed at 90 percent by the Italian export credit agency Sace. On April 8, the Italian government ...
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Raen hires Jeffrey Ishmael as CFO
Raen, a California-based brand of eyewear, has appointed Jeffrey Ishmael as chief financial officer (CFO). He will be based in the company’s global Oceanside headquarters and report to brand chief executive, Jeff Fitzhugh. He most recently served three years as CFO at the cybersecurity company Obsidian Security. Prior to that, ...
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Air_Art offers luxury eyewear cases
Air_Art, a new French luxury eyewear brand has signed an exclusive partnership for a collection of eyewear cases with Emmanuel Kirsch, a French designer brand of leather accessories. The collection includes cases in precious animal skins like crocodile, iguana or python and retail from €149. Launched last year by Frédéric ...
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Revo partners with Jeep on an eyewear collection
Revo has introduced a capsule collection that combines its polarized lenses – which draw from lenses developed at NASA to protect satellites from the sun – with design elements from the Jeep automotive brand. The Revo x Jeep Collection comprises four styles: Desert, an acetate navigator with a rubber Jeep ...
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ArticleMarcolin signs on Max Mara
Unsurprisingly, Marcolin has signed a licensing agreement for the design, production and worldwide distribution of Max Mara sunglasses and eyeglasses. The partnership with the Italian fashion house has a five-year duration starting from Nov. 1, and enlarges Marcolin’s product offer for the womenswear market. It follows last year’s license agreements ...
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New board at the French LEOO industry association
Sandra Timon, marketing director of the French eyewear brand Minima, last week was elected president of the French industry association Les Entreprises de l’Optique Ophtalmique (LEOO). Jenkiz Saillet, general manager of Novacel, Jérôme Colin, Oxibis’ associate director and Jean-Charles de Lemps, president of Modern’Optique complete the board of the association. ...
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Silmo Istanbul 2020 is cancelled
Comexposium and 24 Saat Fuarcılık, co-organizers of the Silmo Istanbul show have announced the cancellation of this year’s edition of the trade show because of the increasing number of Covid-19 cases in Turkey and abroad. The eighth edition of Silmo Istanbul was scheduled to take place from Nov. 19 to ...
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Mister Spex hires Sebastian Dehnen as CFO
The German optician and eyewear retailer Mister Spex has appointed Sebastian Dehnen as chief financial officer, replacing Tobias Steffer, who has taken over the newly created position of chief data and corporate development officer. Prior to joining Mister Spex, Dehnen was CFO at AutoGravity, a Californian company that created a ...
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De Rigo obtains Philipp Plein license
De Rigo has reached a worldwide license agreement for the design, manufacture and sale of sun and eyeglass frames with the Swiss-based fashion house Philipp Plein. The licence is effective immediately and the first collection is expected to be launched in the second half of 2021. The collections will be ...
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Black Peak Trading adds Spektrum to its portfolio
The British sales agency, Black Peak Trading, has added the Swedish performance eyewear brand Spektrum to its portfolio. Spektrum was co-founded by a group of snow sport athletes and over 60 percent of each product is created using plant-based biomaterials and recyclable material. Black Peak Trading is currently the U.K. ...
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ArticleAmazon: The Janus-faced company
The current Covid-19 crisis has accelerated Amazon’s consumer goods business exponentially. The Silicon Valley giant doubled its profits in the second quarter of this year and increased its turnover to nearly $89 billion. The share value has also nearly doubled since the middle of March. On Sept. 1, Amazon announced ...
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Formuleyes signs licensing deal with Formula 1
Formuleyes, a new eyewear company headquartered in Greater London, has signed a licensing deal with Formula 1 racing and will be producing a series of related collections. It will begin by celebrating Formula 1’s 70th anniversary with three models. The Titanium will be the first to market, making its debut ...
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EnChroma introduces new glare-reducing lenses
EnChroma of Berkeley, California, is releasing a new series of lenses and eyewear, called Lx Lens Technology, designed for those with visual impairment severe enough to be termed “low vision” (from cataracts, glaucoma, macular degeneration, etc.) and for people 50 and older who are particularly sensitive to glare or suffer ...
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ArticleLGBTQ collections become mainstream for the fashion, sportswear industry
The LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual and queer) fashion market has been growing over the last decade. In recent years, an unprecedented number of mainstream brands have begun to release LGBTQ collections.
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Novartis, Roche, Genentech fined €444.85 million in France in AMD treatment case
The French competition authority, Autorité de la concurrence, has fined the pharmaceutical groups Novartis, Roche and Genentech, a combined €444.85 million for abuse of dominant position to impose the use of the drug Lucentis over its cheaper alternative Avastin in the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Genentech, which is ...
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ArticleLuxottica produces anti-Covid masks for Italian government
Luxottica, the Italian unit of the Franco-Italian eyewear company EssilorLuxottica, said that it has started the large scale production of face masks to help prevent the propagation of the Covid-19 pandemic. The company has already delivered a first batch of 3.5 million items as part of a government-sponsored initiative. The ...
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ArticleCooperVision Q3 sales down by 12%
CooperVision (CVI) saw a 12 percent drop in sales to $449.3 million in the third quarter of CooperCompanies’ financial year, which ended on July 31, and the division’s gross margin narrowed to 61 percent from 65 percent a year earlier owing to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. At constant ...
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Amazon’s head of European retail is stepping down
Xavier Garambois, who has been running Amazon’s European retail operations for the past eight years, is leaving the company. According to The Telegraph, he will be replaced by Jorrit Van der Meulen, Amazon’s vice president for Europe, who has also been in charge of Amazon Devices (Alexa, Vesta, etc.) outside ...
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