All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 24 No. 19+20 – Page 2
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Akoni adds optical frames to Valentino
Luxury eyewear group Akoni is launching a first optical collection for its Valentino eyewear license. The initial range includes six models in a total of eighteen colors but the company said it would expand it with its SS24 collection. The frames, which are all made exclusively in Japan from Japanese ...
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New general manager at Indo
The Rodenstock Group has promoted Luis Elzaurdia to the general manager position for Spain, overseeing the business of both the Indo and Rodenstock brands in the Spanish market. Indo Optical was acquired by the German lens manufacturer in 2022 and, earlier this year, the company launched Rodenstock’s range of biometric ...
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ZEISS partners with Boehringer Ingelheim on vision loss prevention
ZEISS Medical Technology and Boehringer Ingelheim, a German-based bio-pharmaceutical group with operating in the Human Pharma and Animal Health markets, have announced the signature of a long-term strategic agreement. The partnership is aimed at developping predictive analytics to enable early detection of eye diseases and more personalized treatments to prevent ...
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Blackfin founder has passed away
Blackfin has announced the death of Maria Luisa Pramaor, founder of the Pramaor company in 1971. Earlier, Maria Luisa Pramaor was one of the very first employees of Luxottica at the time when the company was just starting. Nicola Del Din, her son, is the current CEO of Pramaor.
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iVision Tech sees 36% sales boost in H1
Italian eyewear supplier iVisionTech generated sales of €4.4 million in the first half of 2023, up by 36.1 percent compared to the year earlier, while the total value of production grew by 2.0 percent to €4.9 million. iVisionTech, whose shares have been listed on the Euronext Growth Milan segment of ...
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ArticlePPG partners with lens coatings’ 3Dprint start-up
PPG has announced that it has signed an exclusive agreement with Flö-Optics, a start-up specializing in additive manufacturing of ophthalmic lenses’ coatings. Under the terms of the partnership, PPG will supply its HI-GARD scratch-resistant coatings, which are said to make lenses four to six times more resistant to abrasion, to ...
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WCO announces leadership changes
The World Council of Optometry (WCO) has announced the installation of Dr. Sandra S. Block (U.S.) as president of the organization for the 2023-25 period. Dr. Block is a Professor Emeritus at Illinois College of Optometry and has held previous leadership roles at the National Center for Children Vision and ...
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Safilo expands portfolio and partnership with Tapestry
Safilo Group is expanding its partnership with Tapestry by adding a license agreement with the U.S. luxury fashion group’s Stuart Weitzman brand of women footwear. Safilo will design, produce and distribute globally Stuart Weitzman-branded sunglasses and prescription frames until June 2029 and starting with the Fall/Winter 2024 season. It is ...
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ArticleMeta and Ray-Ban beef up smart glasses with influencers in mind
Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday at the group’s developer conference the launch of the second generation of smart glasses developed in collaboration with EssilorLuxottica and its Ray-Ban brand. For this second generation of the smart glasses, the partners have significantly upgraded several key features from the initial product, the ...
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Zenni Optical to supply lenses for Meta Quest 3
Zenni Optical, which presents itself as “the world’s leading online eyewear retailer,” has announced that is has signed a partnership with Meta for the supply of prescription lens inserts for Meta Quest 3, the new $500 VR headset presented by Mark Zuckerberg, along with the new generation of Meta Ray-Ban ...
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ArticleLafont celebrates French “savoir-faire”, Parisian chic and family legacy on 100th anniversary
It’s not necessarily an easy task to summarize a century of history and the essence of a company in just a few words, but when we asked Matthieu Lafont, CEO of Lafont, the answer was short and quick to come. “We are since 2023 an independent family business and eyewear ...
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Vuzix opens new waveguides factory
Vuzix, a key player in the burgeoning smart eyewear market, has completed the construction of its new optical waveguides production facility. The U.S. tech company said that it has started sampling waveguides, which are targeted for use in products based on its Ultralite platform, for both in-house and OEM programs ...
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EssilorLuxottica launches new and united practice management platform
EssilorLuxottica has announced the launch of HELIX, a new division of the company that will focus on leveraging modern technology for eye care professionals (ECPs) to improve the efficiency of their practices. The new web-based service will unite existing online tools of EssilorLuxottica - including VisionWeb, CLX, Patient Care and ...
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ArticleItalian OEM group acquires Henry Jullien
iVisionTech, the Italian-based OEM eyewear supplier, has announced that it was acquiring French eyewear company Henry Jullien, after a competitive sale process managed by a French Commercial Court. The process followed the entry into liquidation proceedings of the L’Amy Luxe group, of which Henry Jullien was part since 2017. ...
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News briefsSmart eyewear about halfway to consumer awareness, according to report
More than a third of Americans plan to buy smart eyewear within the next year, according to the 2023 edition of The Vision Council’s report Focused inSights Smart Eyewear. Keenest to buy are men aged 18 to 44, city-dwellers and early adopters of the tech. American consumer awareness of smart ...
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Fittingbox adds PD measurement to toolbox
French tech company Fittingbox is launching its new pupillary distance (PD) measurement online tool. The software, whose measurements are based on the company’s card protocol in which a credit card is used as reference for calculations, is mobile-first, does not require the installation of a smartphone application and can be ...
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ArticleFrench optical market flattish in 2022, official report says
The French optical market inched up by 0.2 percent year-on-year to €7,272 million according to the new report by the national research and statistics office, the Direction de la recherche, des études, de l’évaluation et des statistiques (DREES). The small hike in market value follows two years of strong COVID-related ...
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Innovatek gears up to start operations at Longarone plant
The Italian eyewear company Innovatek plans to begin eyewear finishing work in November at the Longarone, Italy plant, which it is acquiring from Safilo Group. This will happen after the first 30 Safilo employees it has agreed to take on as part of the transaction agreement, start working on Nov. ...
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SightGlass Vision releases first white paper on DOT
SightGlass Vision, the myopia management glasses joint venture between EssilorLuxottica and CooperVision, has released on its website its first white paper on its Diffusion Optics Technnology. Aimed at eye care professionals, the document provides information on the relationship between artificially high contrast signals at the retina and myopia progression, on ...
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ArticleAmazon smart eyewear range upgrade includes Safilo partnership
Amazon has announced the upgrading of its smart eyewear collection with the launch of seven new styles, including five Echo Frames models, its proprietary brand, and two designs by Carrera, a house brand of Safilo Group. It is the first time that the Italian eyewear company partners with Amazon. All ...
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