All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 22 No. 15+16 – Page 3
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J & J Vision creates myopia education leadership role
Johnson & Johnson Vision is appointing Dr. Chandra Mickles to the newly created position of North America Professional Education Lead, Myopia. Coming from the academic sector, Mickles will be in charge of the company’s education programs around myopia for eye care professionals. The appointment follows recent announcements by Johnson & ...
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ArticleLuxexcel accelerates in smart prescription lenses
Luxexcel, the Dutch-based supplier of 3D-printed lenses, announced yesterday the launch of its new platform for the manufacturing of prescription lenses for smart glasses. The announcement comes only a few months after the company partnered with WaveOptics, a U.K-based supplier of waveguides. Called Vision Platform 7, the new solution supplied ...
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ArticleEssilux opens smart eyewear innovation center in France
EssilorLuxottica announced earlier this week the creation of a smart eyewear innovation center in France. Located at the group’s production site in Dijon, the new Smart Eyewear Technologies Center aims at reinforcing the company’s expertise and expanding its capabilities in electrochromic – electronically-powered and automated change of the tint of ...
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ArticleHans Anders to start using new AI tool for style recommendations
Hans Anders will start using STYLE PTTRNS, a style recommendation tool for prescription eyewear created by Eindhoven-based startup PTTRNS.ai, on its Dutch e-commerce website starting July 15. The company’s program is presented as a service to assist online and in-store customers in the time-consuming and often challenging selection of their ...
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Marcolin opens fully-owned branch in China
After seven years of presence in China through a joint-venture company with the Ginko Group, Marcolin has just opened a new and fully-owned subsidiary in the country. The investment is part of the Italian eyewear maker’s larger strategic plan that calls for a direct presence in its key markets. In ...
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Ocuco to boost R&D following €40m refinancing
Ocuco, the Irish-based provider of eyecare software for opticians, optometrists and laboratories, announced on July 12 the completion of a €40 million refinancing, including €25 million from Wells Fargo Capital Finance and a total of €15 million in two instalments from the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, a national organization supporting ...
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Brunello Cucinelli and Oliver Peoples partner
Brunello Cucinelli, the Italian luxury fashion brand renowned for its cashmere apparel, is launching its first capsule eyewear collection in collaboration with Oliver Peoples, a brand of the EssilorLuxottica group. Made in Italy, the co-branded collection will include five styles and will be distributed from September this year through both ...
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U.S. optical market slightly above 2019 level in Q1
According to the quarterly VisionWatch market report by The Vision Council, vision correction industry sales in the U.S. jumped by 16.5 percent year-on-year in Q1 2021 to $11.6 billion, also representing a small 1.9 percent hike from 2019 levels. The number of U.S. adults using prescription eyewear rose by 0.4 ...
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ArticleKering Eyewear acquires Lindberg
Kering Eyewear, an entity of the French luxury group Kering, announced on July 8 the acquisition from the Lindberg family of 100 percent of the share capital of LINDBERG, the Danish-based independent eyewear company. The details of the transaction, which is expected to complete later this year after regulatory clearance, ...
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Marcolin inaugurates new offices in Milan
Marcolin inaugurated on July 6 its new offices in Milan, in connection with the company’s 60th anniversary and its broader corporate development strategy. Presented as a contemporary space for dialogue and located in a neoclassical building on the Corso Venezia, the two-floor offices include rooms for collections’ showcase, private working ...
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CECOP extends international footprint with French acquisition
Spanish-based CECOP Group is entering the French independent optical market through the full acquisition of CERCLE OPTIQUE, a national buying group created in 2009 that boasts about 600 members in the country. This brings the number of countries in which CECOP Group is operating to ten, adding France to Spain, ...
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ZEISS donates €5 million to Deutsches Museum
ZEISS, which is celebrating its 175th anniversary this year, has donated €5 million to the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany. The donation is part of a larger €50 million founding program aimed at modernizing the museum, with which ZEISS has been partnering for more than 100 years. Karl Lamprecht, president ...
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Cione launches new web portal for members
Cione, one of the leading buying groups in Spain and Portugal, is launching a new shopping website for its 900 members. Called MyShop, the online platform is said to offer a simplified purchase process for opticians, with the integration on a single page of the key information for each frame, ...
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ArticleFielmann business recovery accelerated in H1
The Fielmann retail group released preliminary figures for the first half of the current financial year during its annual general meeting on July 8. The company said that its business’ recovery accelerated in Q2 thanks to declining Covid-19 incidences on the optical market and to its ongoing internationalization and digitization ...
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EssilorLuxottica renews FIA partnership
EssilorLuxottica and the Fédération International Automobile (FIA) have announced the extension of their partnership aimed at raising awareness of the importance of good vision for all road users. Road safety has been picked by the United Nations as a pillar of its Sustainable Developments Goals’ program as the organization is ...
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CECOP held first National Optics Award
CECOP, the Spanish-based buying group, held the first edition of its National Optics Awards (NOA) online, remitting awards to industry suppliers in eighteen product categories based on criteria such as product innovation, design or service to the optician. The awarded companies include Essilor, Hoya, CooperVision, Luxottica, Marcolin, Eschenbach and Mark’Ennovy ...
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ArticleGLCO to boost DTC under new ownership
Garret Leight Califiornia Optical (GLCO), the Los Angeles-based eyewear brand, has announced a strategic investment by The Untitled Group, an investment company specializing in consumer brands based in New York. According to the terms of the agreement, Untitled is investing $20 million in exchange for a majority share in the ...
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