All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 22 No. 7+8 – Page 3
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ArticleSafilo to use Eastman sustainable materials from 2022
Safilo has announced that it would start using Eastman ’s sustainable materials for its eyewear collections starting from 2022. The Italian maker selected the Eastman Tritan Renew , a copolyester made of 50 percent recycled content, for use in both sunglasses and eyeglasses of its proprietary ...
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Silhouette accelerates digital investments
Silhouette International , the Austrian-based manufacturer of high-end eyewear, is stepping up its investments in the digital field with the launch this month of an online showroom for its business partners. The new web platform will allow the brand to showcase its collections to eye care professionals, in particular through ...
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J&J takes part in a $36m round for the development of presbyopia correction eye drops
Visus Therapeutics , an American pharmaceutical company based in Seattle, announced yesterday the completion of a $36 million financing round to fund the company’s research on its Brimochol product, an eye drop drug designed to correct the effects of presbyopia with one daily application. The drug is currently in ...
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Atol opens a flagship store on the Champs-Élysées
Atol , a French voluntary group of opticians with about 750 retail locations, opened a new flagship store for its premium format last week in the Galerie des Arcades, a famous shopping acade on the Champs-Élysées avenue in Paris. The 85-square meter showcases the sunglasses’ collection on the first floor ...
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Japanese optometrists get the highest salaries
Compiling data from several web sources, Lenstore, a U.K.-based online retailer of contact lenses, calculated that the average annual salary for an optometrist was the highest in Japan, with £98,252 (€114,093-$135,823) per year. In second and third positions came Denmark and the U.S. with £97,066 (€112,711-$134,178) and £95,768 (€111,204-$132,387) respectively. ...
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Zeiss Vision Care takes over a U.S. Vision lab
Zeiss Vision Care announced last week the takeover of U.S. Vision’s laboratory in New Jersey, according to a report by Vision Monday . Details of the transaction have not been disclosed but the company said it would keep 150 former U.S. Vision employees onboard. U.S. Vision manages about 370 ...
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Bollé signs new partnerships in amateur and pro cycling
Bollé Brands announced a new series of sponsorship deals in the professional and amateur cycling sectors. The brand will sponsor and equip the professional team B B Hotels p/b KTM (BBK) with both helmets and sunglasses, a premiere in its history. BBK is one of the 22 teams ...
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Allergan wants to market presbyopia-treating eye drops
Allergan , a division of the American biopharmaceutical company Abbvie , announced at the end of February that it has filed a new drug application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for eye drops aimed at treating presbyopia. The ophthalmic solution has already been tested successfully with ...
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French social security expects more impact from its eyecare reform in the future
In a roundtable with a French journalists’ association last week, Frank von Lennep, the country’s social security director said that 14 percent of eyeglasses’ frames and 12 percent of corrective lenses sold had been picked from the Class A products’ list since the implementation of the 100% Santé healthcare reform ...
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