All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 24 No. 1+2 – Page 2
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Opto Tech appoints new managing director
Optical equipment manufacturer Opto Tech has appointed Dr. Stefan Seifried as its new managing director. Seifried, who has worked for over twenty years in managing roles for international industrial companies, will be responsible for sales and technology and run the company together with Jens Schaefer who is overseeing administration and ...
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New VP of sales for Thélios in the U.S.
Luxury eyewear company Thélios has appointed Cedric Moreau as its new vice president of sales for the optical channel in the U.S. Moreau’s career in the eyewear industry luxury segment spans over 25 years. The French executive started his career at Alain Mikli and has been Mykita’s managing director for ...
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ArticleThe Vision Council sees a much bigger but flat U.S. market for 2022
The Vision Council has changed its view of the U.S. optical industry, after a revamping of its statistical methods, and has just published a retitled annual survey: the Market inSights Report. Available free of charge to the Council’s members, the report estimates data for product categories, market divisions and the ...
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ArticleIndustry top 5 average stocks' value up 11 % in Q4
Stock prices of public companies in the eyewear sector have confirmed their recovery in the last quarter of 2022, as the average value inched up by 0.3 percent in the period on a non-weighted basis. It is the first time that our quarterly chart shows an improvement in average value ...
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News briefsOrtho-k preferred myopia management method, study says
A recent study funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and CooperVision Specialty Eyecare suggests that orthokeratology (ortho-k) is, as Cooper’s press release puts it, the “preferred method of myopia management in physically active children and adults.” “Patient and Parent Perceptions of Myopia Modalities” (by L.J. Lattery, C. Chao, ...
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ArticleSpecsavers owners place company in family trust
Specsavers’ owners and co-founders Dame Mary Perkins and her husband Doug have announced that they had placed the company in a family trust in order to protect it from a potential acquisition by private equity funds in the future. “We are coming up to our 80th birthdays so we have ...
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ArticleA look at the year ahead
A year ago, things were looking brighter, or so it seemed, and one could have described the general eyewear industry mood as “cautiously optimistic.” After the initial COVID-19 shock in 2020, business conditions progressively returned to normal in all main optical markets, to the exception of China and other Asian ...
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News briefsOpticiens Mobiles densifies network in France
Les Opticiens Mobiles has extended its coverage to all 94 of the administrative “departments” in mainland France. The company says it maintains France’s largest network of opticians providing home and workplace service – its emphasis is on busy professionals and the elderly and infirm – and can now schedule appointments ...
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OUT OF widens coverage of its IRID lens technology
OUT OF, the Italian sport eyewear start-up, will be presenting at opti 2023 the second generation of its IRID electronic lenses, which will now also cover filter category S1 in addition to S2 and S3. The brand’s proprietary technology allows the lens to adapt to ambient light in less than ...
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ArticleMeta acquires 3D-printed ophthalmic lens company Luxexcel
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has discretely acquired Luxexcel, the supplier of 3D-printed prescription lenses, at the end of last year in a strategic move certainly aimed at enhancing the tech giant’s virtual reality (VR) portfolio. No official announcement was released by Meta but the investment, which ...
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ArticleAfflelou up 2.1% in Q1 with return to growth in France
The Afflelou group has posted a 2.1 percent year-on-year increase in network sales to €213 million for the first quarter of its 2022 financial year, ended on Oct. 31, with growth in all its markets in spite of the troubled macroeconomic environment. On a like-for-like basis, sales were up by ...
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ArticleFielmann expands Spanish business with new acquisition
The Fielmann Group is strengthening its presence in the Spanish market through the full acquisition of the retail, wholesale and manufacturing businesses of MFI Group, a leading optical and hearing-aid supplier in northern Spain. The transaction will be completed on Dec. 31, 2022. The investment comes after the takeover in ...
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ArticleExports jump and new projects for Italian eyewear but ANFAO warns of looming crisis
On the occasion of its annual general meeting last week, the Italian eyewear industry association ANFAO delivered positive interim export figures for 2022 and announced two new initiatives related to feminine empowerment and innovation in the industry. As reflected in our tables below, exports of Italian eyewear increased by 22 ...
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ArticleDownsized opti to focus on myopia management and sustainability
Opti organizers have had to reduce the exhibition space of their next edition of the show, scheduled to take place from next January 13 to 15 in Munich, after being faced with a wave of cancelations from several large eyewear industry players and usual exhibitors. Initially planned on four halls ...
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Horizons Optical opens new and larger headquarters
Horizons Optical, the Spanish-based supplier of lens designs, coatings and services, is moving its offices to a new location in Sant Cugat del Vallés, near Barcelona, trebling the surface of its headquarters. The new offices have a capacity of 80 employees,and include a showroom, an R&D laboratory and a space ...
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ArticleZeiss Vision Care up double digits in 2021/22
Zeiss Vision Care, the main business unit within the Consumer Markets segment of the ZEISS Group, has reported a double-digit increase in revenue at constant exchange rates for its 2021/22 fiscal year, ended Sept. 30, compared to the previous year, with market share gains in all regions. The company does ...
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News briefsEssilux and Ferrari stay together
EssilorLuxottica has extended the partnership it established in 2016 with Ferrari. The new multi-year agreement will be taking effect on Jan. 1. Essilux will continue to design, produce and market eyewear under the Scuderia Ferrari and Ray-Ban brands and will add a monobrand Ferrari collection. Meanwhile, the Ray-Ban logo will ...
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Marcolin appoints new communication director
Marcolin has appointed Clara Magnanini as its new group communication director. A graduate in Law with a master in communication, Magnanini joins the company after twenty years of experience in senior positions in the Italian luxury automotive sector at Maserati and Automobili Lamborghini. In her new role at Marcolin, she ...
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SILMO ACADEMY announces 2022 winner
SILMO PARIS has announced that Denis Sheynikhovich of the Institut de la Vision was the winner of the 2022 edition of SILMO ACADEMY’s scholarship, its educational program aimed at supporting ophthalmic professionals in their research. Sheynikhovich’s project looks at the improvement of visual information supporting elderly people in train stations. ...
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