All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 23 No. 7+8 – Page 2
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Marchon renews with Nike, signs with Shinola
Marchon Eyewear has signed two licensing deals. First, as Vision Monday reports, the VSP Vision-owned manufacturer and distributor has renewed its multi-year global deal with Nike to design, develop, produce and distribute ophthalmic eyewear and sunglasses under the Nike Vision brand. The original deal dates to 1999, and Marchon has ...
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Nicola Zotta to leave Marchon
Vision Monday reports that Nicola Zotta, president and CEO of Marchon, will leave the company on May 6. The Italian executive joined Marchon in 2009 as vice president and managaging director for EMEA, after nine years at Safilo. In 2016, he was appointed president of the U.S. eyewear group. Zotta ...
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ExpoÓptica holds its first show since 2018
According to Look Vision, ExpoÓptica closed out on a hopeful note its 33rd edition, which took place in Madrid on April 3-6. The optometry and audiology trade show drew an encouraging 6,456 visitors. The previous edition, in the pre-pandemic year of 2018, drew 8,300 visitors, along with 170 brands (up ...
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Multiópticas enters the audiology sector
Look Vision reports that Multiópticas has launched a brand of hearing aids, called Multisound, that will be exclusive to Spanish company’s audiology chain, Centros Auditivos Multiópticas. As CEO Carlos Crespo explained: “The acoustic contamination to which we are subject every day will in the future make audiology one of the ...
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ArticleChristopher Cloos swaps shares for ads with U.S. media group
Christopher Cloos, a Danish-based brand of sunglasses and prescription eyewear, has signed an unusual share deal with a360 Media, a U.S. publisher of magazines and websites focusing on celebrities’ news and health and fitness. The eyewear company has agreed to sell 9 percent of its shares to the media house ...
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Mitsui launches plant-derived 1.60 index lens material
Mitsui Chemicals is launching MR-160DG, a new plant-derived high index lens material that will complement its Do Green series. The new material has received the Biomass Mark certification of the Japan Organics Recycling Association, making it the first biomass-certified optical lens material with a refractive index of 1.60, the company ...
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New president at GIFO
Eric Lefort, the managing director of Marcolin France, has been unanimously elected as the new president of GIFO, the French eyewear industry association. He succeeds Léna Henry, former general manager of Essilor France, who had been at the helm of the organization since September 2020. Prûne Marre, who recently replaced ...
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A report on Vision Expo East
The four days of this year’s Vision Expo East – the first edition since 2019 – came to an end on April 3 in New York City. According to the organizers, exhibitors exceeded 360. This year’s VisionEd exceeded 230 hours of programs on business strategy, fashion, patient education and innovation, ...
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ArticleMykita fully switches to sustainable acetate
MYKITA and Eastman have jointly announced that the independent eyewear company would exclusively source the U.S. specialty chemical company’s Acetate Renew for all its acetate material needs, as of last March 30. While several other eyewear brands have joined Eastman’s Acetate Renew’s program in the last months, the Berlin-based eyewear ...
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News briefsFielmann to accelerate Italian store openings in 2023
Fielmann plans to accelerate the opening of stores in Italy from 2023, with 20 additional stores annually compared with 10 currently. In an interview with the daily Corriere della Sera, Marc Fielmann, the CEO of the German eyewear retailer and the son of the founder, Günther, said that the company ...
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Essilux sells stores in the Netherlands and Belgium to ORIG BENE
EssilorLuxottica and its unit GrandVision have completed the sale of 142 EyeWish stores in the Netherlands and 35 GrandOptical stores in Belgium to the Optic Retail International Group BENE (ORIG BENE), an entity of the Michael Pachleitner Group (MPG). The amount of the transaction was not disclosed. The disposals are ...
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Satisloh introduces lamination system for small labs
Satisloh says that its new method of film lamination can provide in-house coating at one-third the investment and ten times the speed of traditional hard & AR coating, with all equipment contained within five square meters of space and less water and energy consumed. The system, called Film Lamination Technology, ...
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Altair Eyewear to support clean-ups in the U.S.
Altair Eyewear – a division of Marchon Eyewear, itself a division of VSP Global – has established a partnership with the non-profit Keep America Beautiful (KAB) to support the Great American Cleanup, which consists of some 15,000 events attended every spring by some half-million volunteers. Altair’s donation will provide litter ...
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Optical Affairs to sell art online to benefit Ukraine
The designers Christian Roth and Eric Domège of Optical Affairs have launched an e-commerce platform for both their eyewear and a changing assortment of photography and art from their private collection. The first installment contains, for example, work by Kenny Scharf, Ben Vautier, Christopher Makos and Jean-Michel Folon. A quarter ...
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ArticleEyewear industry stock prices down 13% in Q1
The first quarter of 2022 was the worst quarter for global equity markets since the first quarter of 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic started spreading worldwide, leading to travel restrictions and lockdowns and prompting stock markets to collapse in March. Since the start of this year, the U.S. equity market ...
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News briefsMaterialise and Odette 3D print eco-friendly eyewear
The Belgian eyewear brand Odette Lunettes is releasing a collection in partnership with Materialise, a 3D-printing company, also headquartered in Belgium. Former professional cyclist Tom Boonen also collaborated to the project. Source: Materialise For this collection, Materialise has begun to use a raw material called Polyamide ...
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ArticleMister Spex looks to accelerate revenue growth in 2022
The Germany-based omnichannel retailer Mister Spex expects to bump up growth in its top line this year, forecasting a double-digit growth rate that is “slightly higher” than the 18 percent increase in revenues seen in 2021 and allows it to continue to grow faster than the market as a whole. ...
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New brand identity for Visottica Group
Visottica Group, the Italian-based supplier of micromechaninc components for the eyewear industry, has announced a new brand identity accompanied by a redesigned logo. The company said that the move was aimed at unifying all the companies of the group, Visottica Comotec, and the businesses of Ookii, Matrix and Eurodecori, all ...
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VSP rebrands
VSP Global has announced its rebranding to VSP Vision, introducing a new logo and brand identity and released a video on it. Founded 67 years ago, with headquarters in California, Ohio and New York, VSP providing eyecare services, eyewear solutions and practice solutions to about 85 million members and a ...
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Sunglasses by CFDA members to benefit LGBT center in L.A.
To celebrate Pride Month, in June, three Los Angeles members of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) are collaborating on a limited edition of sunglasses, part of whose revenues will go towards the non-profit Los Angeles LGBT Center, especially its services for the elderly. Barton Perreira is contributing ...
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