All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 23 No. 7+8 – Page 3
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ArticleAfflelou sales rebound in Q2 after Q1 drop
The Afflelou group has reported a slight year-on-year increase in network sales for the second quarter of its 2022 fiscal year, ended Jan. 31, rebounding from a 4.9 percent drop in the previous quarter. The growth was limited to 3.2 percent versus 2021 as the stores’ activity was still impacted ...
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News briefsOcuco to rebrand, release new software
Ocuco is shifting to a “more contemporary, refined version of its original brand” – to reflect, it says, its expansion from single-solution applications into omnichannel native systems. The optical software producer has been developing and acquiring management systems for laboratories, independent opticians and optical chains for 29 years. Of late ...
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SIOF postponed over Covid
This year’s edition of SIOF, scheduled for April 22-24 at Shanghai’s Suzhou International Expo Center, has been postponed over new pandemic regulations. The trade show is organized by the China Optometric & Optical Association, Sinolight International Holdings Corporation and Orient International Exhibition Company, with support from the China National Light ...
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ArticleFedon annual revenues rise as demand rebounds from Covid pandemic
Italian eyewear case and leather goods specialist Fedon has reported a rise in annual revenue as trading rebounded from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns around the world. Group revenue rose 18.8 percent year-on-year to €50.1 million in 2021, but remained siginificantly lower than the €64.2 million ...
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Executive changes at Cooper and Essilux JV SightGlass
In connection with the freshly established joint venture between CooperCompanies and EssilorLuxottica, SightGlass Vision has made three executive appointments. First off, Andrew Sedgwick, until now CooperVision’s senior vice president of commercial strategy, is now CEO of SightGlass. He had been with CooperVision for about two decades, serving also as president ...
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FGX to use Eastman’s recycled copolyester
FGX International – the Essilux-owned designer and marketer of nonprescription reading glasses, optical frames and sunglasses – has signed a procurement deal to use Eastman’s Tritan Renew copolyester throughout its product portfolio. The first frames to make the switch will be those under the Foster Grant brand. Half of the ...
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Luxexcel partners with a reflective waveguide tech company
Luxexcel, the pioneering company specializing in the 3D-printing of prescription lenses, has announced a new partnership with Lumus, an Israel-based optics company producing AR transparent displays. Both partners have co-developed a prototype of a prescription lens that embeds a reflective waveguide and a projector and delivers high-quality images as the ...
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GrandVision’s remaining Eye Wish stores switch to Pearle Studio banner
GrandVision will be switching all its remaining 118 Eye Wish stores in the Netherlands to the upscale Pearle Studio banner before the summer, according to Retail Trends and other Dutch trade publications. The first rebranded Pearle Studio location opened in the Gelderlandplain mall in Amsterdam a few days ago. According ...
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Ray-Ban Stories released in parts of Europe
Ray-Ban and Meta, the former Facebook, launched Ray-Ban Stories in Spain, in Austria, in Belgium and online on March 17. France will be next, on April 14. New frame and lens colors and software features are due in the coming weeks, and the country count should soon thereafter reach ten. ...
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Satisloh is a century old
Satisloh has reached its centennial. Founded by Wilhelm Loh in Wetzlar, Germany, the company began in 1922 as a producer of canning machines and cast-iron lapping tools for nearby optical factories. It now has 12 locations in nine countries, with 200 technicians and 900 employees. The Satisloh Group comprises Satisloh ...
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ArticleKRYS GROUP announces €50 million investment plan
The KRYS GROUP reported a 18.5 percent year-on-year increase in network sales of optical products and hearing aids to a total of €1,199 million, including VAT, for 2021. As compared to the pre-Covid 2019 reference year, stores sales were up by 7.8 percent. The hearing-aids Krys Audition unit saw its ...
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Julbo to produce Olympic sunglasses
Julbo will be producing two sunglass collections under license from the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Paris 2024 line, with gold lenses, consists of 12 models subdivided under the names Fury, Renegade and Renegade M, Meta, and Cruiser and Fury S. The Equipe de France line, with Spectron ...
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GV’s planned acquisition of SmartEyes under scrutiny in Sweden
According to the Swedish paper Market, the Swedish Competition Authority has reservations about GrandVision’s acquisition of SmartEyes and has opened a special investigation into its potentially anti-competitive nature. SmartEyes is a national chain of 68 optical shops, with operations in Germany and Denmark as well and headquarters in Gothenburg. It ...
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Marchon and Calvin Klein celebrate 30 years with a capsule
Marchon Eyewear and Calvin Klein are celebrating the 30th anniversary of their licensing deal with a capsule collection and dedicated marketing campaign. Consisting of five eyeglass and four sunglass models, the capsule will pay homage to the original collection’s spare and modern aesthetic. All models will be unisex, made of ...
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Essilux hires from within for new head of Spain, Portugal
EssilorLuxottica has promoted Antonio Nemola from director of Luxottica Iberia to director of all Essilux operations in Spain and Portugal. He is taking over these duties from Marco Caccini, Essilor’s general manager for southern Europe, and will be reporting to Chrystel Barranger, president of EMEA and of Transitions Optical. Nemola ...
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Millmead partners with designer Yair Neuman
Jai Kudo Lenses, one of Millmead Optical Group’s brands, has embarked on a partnership with Yair Neuman, a Dutch eyewear designer in London whom we profiled last year. Neuman holds the patent on a material called Delerex, made entirely from discarded demo lenses fused together in a series of press ...
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