All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 22 No. 23+24 – Page 3
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Hilco acquires Simovision
Hilco Vision, the U.S. supplier of vision care products and solutions, has announced the acquisition of Simovision, a Belgium and Netherlands-based company specializing on the distribution of ophthalmic products, including consumables and equipment for retractive, cataract and retina surgery and dry eye patients. Hilco Vision commented that, while ophthalmic products ...
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ArticleSunglasses and contact lenses drove Mister Spex’ growth in Q3
Mister Spex, the German-based omnichannel retailer, has reported a double-digit increase in Q3 sales as compared to the same period last year, however falling below its own growth expectations as the prescription glasses’ business, which accounts for about 80 percent of the group’s revenues, underperformed. Total quarterly revenues stood at ...
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ArticleVisottica Comotec consolidates group structure
Visottica Comotec, the Italian supplier of eyewear components, has announced that it had just completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Ookii and Matrix, two businesses in which it invested in 2017. Founded in 1994 and also located in the Belluno district, Ookii is specializing in the production of ...
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Safilo to open subsidiary in Poland
Safilo has announced the opening of a new subsidiary in Poland, from Jan. 1, 2022. The company said the decision was based on the potential of the Polish market, with an interesting customer base in the premium, contemporary and lifestyle segments, and that it would focus on optical products. A ...
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Julbo reinforces direct distribution in Europe
Julbo is pursuing the expansion of its direct distribution strategy in Europe with the switch to a direct model in the Nordics. The French company has recruited several managers in Norway, Sweden and Finland, and said that the new teams were now fully operational. Julbo is already distributing its products ...
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Top management reshuffle at CooperCompanies
CooperCompanies announced earlier this week that Jerry Warner, executive vice president of Americas and global sales, would be promoted to the position of president of CooperVision, effective Feb. 1, 2022. Warner, who spent 11 years at Bausch + Lomb in product marketing and management before joining CooperVision in 2012, will ...
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ArticleFast-growing Mykita opens first shop in South America
MYKITA, the upscale independent eyewear brand, announced last month the opening of a new store in Mexico, its first retail location in South America. The opening of the store comes about ten years after MYKITA entered the country. Moritz Krueger, founder, said that Mexico City had come to play an ...
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Paris Miki dragged down by Japanese market in Q2
Paris Miki Holdings, the Japanese-based optical retail group, reported a 11.2 percent year-on-year drop in revenues to 11,494 million Japanese yen (€88.5m-$100.5m) for its second quarter, as a strong decline in its domestic market could not be offset by an improved performance overseas. As compared with 2019, total sales for ...
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ZEISS celebrates 175th anniversary
ZEISS celebrated its 175th anniversary on Nov. 16 with a virtual event held at the Volkhaus in Jena, the German company’s founding city. During the event, Dr. Karl Lamprecht, president and CEO of the group, celebrated the company’s past achievements and reaffirmed its commitment to building a bright future through ...
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New recycling initiative in France for optical wastes
Optic For Good, a French sustainability label and consultancy focusing on the eyewear industry, is launching Recycloptics, a non-profit organization that will collect and recycle wastes from the sector, in particular from optical shops, Opticien Presse reports. The association estimates that 78 tons of demo lenses are going to landfill ...
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ArticleKits Eyecare slows down in Q3
Kits Eyecare, the Canadian-based eyewear pure online retailer that we started to follow a few months ago, announced that it has reached a record number of 640,000 two-year active customers, up 41 percent from the same number last year. However, Kit’s revenue growth came to a halt in the last ...
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B+L has recycled more than 41 million contact lenses
Bausch + Lomb (B+L) says that its “One by One” and “Biotrue Eye Care Recycling” programs have processed 41,358,603 units, or 248,516 pounds, of used contact lenses and other eye- and lens-care materials. One by One deals with contact lenses, which are typically too small for standard recyclers to handle ...
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The DESIGN EYEWEAR GROUP and Pascal Jaulent part ways
Pascal Jaulent, chief creative officer for the DESIGN EYEWEAR GROUP since 2015, has left the Danish company last summer. The French eyewear designer was one of the key players in the creation of the DESIGN EYEWEAR GROUP in 2014 following the alliance of his French company EXPRESSIONS, that owned the ...
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Charmant Europe moves into new logistics center
The European subsidiary of the Charmant Group has moved to a new central warehouse in the German-French border region in Willstätt near Strasbourg. The new logistics center, run with 17 employees, is intended to create synergies in the region as a central warehouse for Europe and the U.K. to enable ...
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