All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 22 No. 3+4
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Brexit weighs on U.K., EU trade | Essilor, Luxottica’s joint product | Essilux to buy 50% of SightGlass | CooperVision expands mfg. | Safilo’s Q4 sales rise | Italia Indep. sees 2024 sales of €42m | Recovery and record profits for Hoya | GrandVision maintains sales growth | Pro Optik goes online | GlassesUSA.com raises $45m | Vision Expo, 100% Optical reschedule
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ArticlePro Optik goes online, plans to add 200 stores by 2025
Pro Optik , a German optical retail chain with about 150 stores, opened its first e-commerce website in January, offering direct purchase and delivery for most of its ranges as well as live consultations with opticians. Products offered online include single vision glasses, sunglasses, contact lenses and eye care products. ...
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Zenni solves the mask-fog problem
Zenni says that it has found an affordable way to eliminate one of the annoyances of the Covid-19 era. The online eyewear retailer is offering lenses with an anti-fog and anti-relective coating for $12.95. Each pair comes with a lens cloth that “activates the anti-fog properties”. Lenses wiped with ...
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French opticians in large malls ordered to close
As part of the new Covid-19 regulations implemented by the French government on Jan. 30, all shops operating in malls of 20,000 square meters and more have to close, to the exception of food retailers and pharmacies, but not opticians. All optical shops, regardless of their locations, had been considered ...
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Red Bull SPECT Eyewear sponsors Mathilde Gremaud
Since the beginning of the year, Red Bull SPECT Eyewear is the new ski goggle sponsor of the Swiss free style skier Mathilde Gremaud . SPECT Eyewear is a brand of the Austrian firm Michael Pachleitner Group (MPG) , which has been working in collaboration with the Austrian ...
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44% of EssilorLuxottica’s employees are shareholders
EssilorLuxottica announced that a record 44 percent of its employees are shareholders at the end of its 2020 international employee share ownership campaign called Boost 2020. The subscription rate reached over 62 percent of eligible employees. Following the campaign, about 63,000 EssilorLuxottica employees in 81 countries hold a ...
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News briefsHallmann opens new flagship, headquarters in Flensburg
The German optics and hearing aid retailer Optik Hallmann is opening a new flagship and headquarters in its hometown of Flensburg, in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein. The previous headquarters were also situated in Flensburg, which sits on the Danish border, but the move will enable the company to ...
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ArticleEssilux to buy 50% of SightGlass Vision from CooperCompanies
EssilorLuxottica will buy a 50 percent stake of SightGlass Vision , which focuses on developing lenses to reduce the progression of myopia in children, from CooperCompanies, the parent company of CooperVision. CooperCompanies held a minority ownership interest in SightGlass Vision and bought the company in January. Under ...
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Eastman to build world-scale polyester recycling plant
Eastman Chemical Company has announced that it will invest around $250 million over the next two years to build “one of the world’s largest plastic-to-plastic molecular recycling facilities.” The plant will be located at Eastman’s site in Kingsport, Tennessee, where the company is headquartered. Through methanolysis, this facility ...
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ArticleVision Expo, 100% Optical change plans
The Covid-19 and its new variants, as well as the uncertain completion dates of the current vaccination campaigns, are keeping trade show organizers under pressure to find solutions for their 2021 editions. While plans seem unchanged for the Milan-based Mido show which just started its visitors’ registration campaign for ...
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Brexit controls suspended in Northern Ireland
Controls introduced in Northern Ireland due to Brexit were suspended Monday evening in the ports of Belfast and Larne due to threats to personnel. Mid and East Antrim council on Monday night announced it was withdrawing 12 of its staff at Larne port with immediate effect due to concerns ...
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Giro will introduce a smaller version of its Contour goggle
Giro Sport Design has announced the launch of the Contour RS (RS for “reduced size”), a new version of its Contour goggle designed for skiers and snowboarders who have smaller-than-average faces. The Giro Contour RS is said to deliver the same level of performance and crisp visibility as ...
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ArticleU.K., EU trade heavily affected by Brexit, worse may be ahead
Brexit has complicated life for merchants in the European Union exporting to the U.K., which highlights new paperwork requirements, higher administrative costs, delivery delays and uncertainty about what the rules of the game are now that the U.K. is no longer a member of the single market since Jan. 1. ...
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Oakley introduces custom eyewear
Oakley is permitting customers to configure their eyewear to match their favorite ( NFL or MLB ) sports team, their equipment or their stylistic preference. Between the frames, the lens tints, the lens etchings, the icons, the ear socks, the stems and various decorations, there are more than ...
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Thélios launches the eyewear brand 9.81
Thélios , the joint venture between the French luxury goods conglomerate LVMH and Marcolin , launched the men’s luxury eyewear brand 9.81 , its first independent label. So far, the Italian eyewear manufacturer, which was created in 2017, has produced collections for LVMH brands. The eyewear-only brand ”tells the ...
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Sales of J&J contact lenses down 5.3% in Q4
Johnson Johnson’ s global sales of contact lenses fell by 4.4 percent year-on-year in the fourth quarter to $796 million. At constant currency rates, the decline widened to 5.3 percent as sales continued to be impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Lower levels of stocking in the U.S. also ...
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News briefsInspecs’ 2020 sales fall to $46.2m
Inspecs ended 2020 with revenues of $46.2 million, down from $61.2 million a year earlier despite two acquisitions. The performance was in line with the company’s expectations in a year when the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit affected demand. The British eyewear company bought the assets of The Norville ...
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Dragon Eyewear introduces women’s collection
The Californian brand Dragon Eyewear is releasing its first sunglass collection for women. According to Susan Moniello – vice president of design and product development at Marchon Eyewear, which produces the brand – this is a natural next step after the release in September of a stand-alone ...
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Porsche Design has a new brand ambassador
Porsche Design has signed an endorsement deal with Patrick Dempsey . The actor, motorsports enthusiast – himself the co-owner of a Porsche customer racing team – will be appearing in the 2021 Porsche Design Eyewear image campaign, which will promote four eyeglass models. The first of these is the ...
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Ferrino will distribute Spektrum eyewear in Italy
Ferrino has announced a new partnership with Spektrum, the Swedish eco-friendly brand of sports goggles and accessories, which makes the outdoor company the distributor of Spektrum eyewear in Italy. Spektrum’s frames are made of plant-based non-food derivates from corn. The details on Spektrum’s frames are made out of non-food resin ...
