All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 23 No. 13+14 – Page 2
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ArticleLeonardo Del Vecchio passes away at 87
Leonardo Del Vecchio, the founder of Luxottica and chairman of French-Italian group EssilorLuxottica, has passed away at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan. He had been hospitalized with non-Covid-19 pneumonia a few weeks ago, Adnkronos has reported. A father of six, he was 87 years old.EssilorLuxottica said in a statement ...
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Zenni to use robots for order fulfillment
Zenni is automating the “last meter” of fulfillment at its logistics hub in Novato, California, as Vision Monday has reported. The specialist in online prescription eyewear has sold 45 million pairs of glasses in its 19 years of operation. According to its director of distribution, Simon Goh, the company is ...
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Tree Spectacles expands internationally
Tree Spectacles, the Italian designer eyewear brand launched in 2011, has announced a steady organic growth in its business as it continued to expand its international presence. The company outlined significant strides in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and the U.K. as well as the signature of a new agent in ...
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KRYS GROUP creates optical training program to tackle staff shortage
In a move designed to soften the impact of the shortage of skilled optical staff in France, KRYS GROUP has announced that it would launch its own training center for apprentice opticians in September this year. The French voluntary group, which boasts a retail network of close to 1,500 doors, ...
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CooperVision expands production and distribution capacity
In order to meet increasing demand, CooperVision has started construction works for the expansion and modernization of two of its main production and distribution sites in Scottsville and West Henrietta, New York, from where it dispatches over one billion contact lenses per year to customers around the world. The biggest ...
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Encouraging results for Sightglass Vision’s myopia glasses
Interim data from the first 24 months of a CYPRESS clinical trial suggest that glasses with SightGlass Vision’s Diffusion Optics Technology reduce both axial length and cycloplegic SER progression in six- and seven-year-old children. A paper on the trial – titled “Two Year Effectiveness of a Novel Myopia Management Spectacle ...
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Marcolin earns ISO certification
Marcolin has obtained ISO 13485:2016 certification, which, according to International Organization for Standardization itself, “specifies requirements for a quality management system” for medical devices and related services at any stage of the product life-cycle, be it design, development, production, storage, distribution, installation or servicing. The certification is valid for three ...
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ArticleParis Miki to invest €50m in 3-year turnaround plan
Paris Miki revenues inched up to 44.1 billion Japanese yen (€308m) in its fiscal year ended in March 2022, a 0.5 percent increase compared to the previous year. It is only the second time in the last decade that the retailer saw its sales go up year-on-year as the group’s ...
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Specsavers opens 2,500th franchise shop
Specsavers has opened its 2,500th franchise store, this time at the Guildford Town Centre in Surrey, Canada. The franchisee there is the optometrist Dr. Mannie Dhillon. Founded 40 years ago in the U.K. by the married couple Doug and Mary Perkins, Specsavers made its debut in Canada in 2021 and ...
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ArticleEschenbach launches online Academy to grow low vision segment
Eschenback Optik, a market leader in the low vision segment, is about to launch the Eschenbach Academy, a multilingual online training and information platform for eye care professionals (ECPs), but also for end consumers. In the words of Matthias Anke, managing director of the Optics division at Eschenbach, the move ...
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Kering launches two-year collaborative campaign
Kering Eyewear has launched the “Kering Eyewear Through Their Eyes” project, a two-year marketing campaign of collaborations with designers and artists in various parts of the world. Each season will feature a different one. First up is Camilla Falsini, an illustrator, muralist and multimedia artist working in Rome. Her contribution, ...
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Immagine98 appoints French distributor
Immagine98, the Italian eyewear company behind the X-IDE, RYE&LYE and MIC brands, has appointed ArtMonium as its exclusive distributor for France. Until now, the company was distributing its collections directly in the country. ArtMonium has been active in the French optical market for over 30 years and its current portfolio ...
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Kubota Glass hits the U.S. market in New York
Manhattan Vision Associates (MVA) of New York will be the first eyecare shop to prescribe Kubota Vision’s myopia-management glasses in the U.S. As we have reported, the U.S. subsidiary of Kabuta Pharmaceutical Holdings registered its device with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration earlier this month. Registration with Taiwan’s Ministry ...
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New eco-friendly eyewear brand from Switzerland
Veteran action sports designer Tony McWilliam is the driving force behind Attika, a new eco-friendly sports eyewear manufacturer that uses only biopolymers and recycled materials instead of virgin plastic and offers a repair service and used product (end-of-life) collection. Based in Verbier, Switzerland, Attika says its management team includes seasoned ...
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ArticleItalia Independent plans cash call, restructuring after losses widen in 2021
The Italia Independent Group announced plans to seek fresh capital from shareholders and carry out a restructuring after losses in 2021 jumped to €24.0 million from €2.8 million the year earlier. Losses for the year came after €18.1 million in writedowns and provisions compared to €2.0 million in 2020. Italia ...
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The Vision Council reports on U.S. consumer choices
The Vision Council has released its first report on consumer decision-making with respect to eyecare. Titled Focused inSights 2022: Consumer Choices, the report covers in particular eye exams and eyewear. It is available for purchase on the Council’s website. The main reasons for American adults to take eye exams are ...
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New share buyback plan at EssilorLuxottica
EssilorLuxottica has announced the launch of a share buyback program for the purchase through a mandated investment services’ provider of up to 2,500,000 of its shares, or about 0.6 percent of all outstanding shares, between June 17 and August 2022. The right to launch such programs was authorized by the ...
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Global soft contact lens market estimated at $9.5 billion
At the group’s investor presentation day earlier this week, CooperCompanies said that its CooperVision unit outpaced the global contact lens market growth in recent years, with annual sales increasing at an average annual rate of 6.4 percent since 2016. Based on independent research and management estimates, the company estimates the ...
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ArticleArts Optical up 55% in 2021, back in the black
Hong Kong-based eyewear manufacturer Arts Optical has reported a 55 percent year-on-year increase in annual revenues to 1,1152 million Hong Kong dollars (€140 m) in 2021, mainly driven by the rebound in global demand for eyewear products following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions. The company topped its 2019 sales total ...
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Younger Optics launches NuPolar 1.74
Younger Optics is launching its NuPolar polarized lens for high index 1.74 lenses in the U.S., Canada and Latin America. The new lens is made from Mitsui’s MR-174 material, offered in four base curves and covers the -13.00 D to +9.00 D Rx range. According to David Rips, CEO of ...
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