All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 25 No. 19+20
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PDF NewsletterEyewear Intelligence: Vol 25 - No 19+20
Essilux and Meta announce long-term partnership | Meta advances Ray-Ban Meta, introduces Orion | Latest Spectacles from Snap not yet a product | SILMO Paris back to cruising speed with an increased focus on new tech | Silmo reports slight attendance increase, celebrates Silmo d’Or 30th anniversary | Italian eyewear exports fall in Q2, sector’s full year showing seen in line with 2023 | Specsavers profitability keeps declining | New alliance in the Middle East optical retail sector | Rodenstock to repurpose main German site as engineering center and transfer lens production to Czech plant | ZEISS invests in light field display technology startup with vision care platform in mind | Innovation, digitization, sustainability and selective retail on 60 year-old Silhouette’s agenda | MYKITA signs unexpected partnership with an LVMH brand | Inspecs topline down 5% in H1, rebound expected in H2 | Hong Kong-based Icare to open eyewear factory in France | Price reductions and Southeast Asian competition pressure Arts Optical ODM business | Japanese upmarket retail group JEH shows no signs of slowing down | The Vision Council reports on ‘Made in the USA’ | Blenders makes it to ‘Prime Time’
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ArticleMeta advances Ray-Ban Meta, introduces Orion
The company’s Connect conference for 2024 confirms a devotion to computing through eyewear.
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ArticleSilmo reports slight attendance increase, celebrates Silmo d’Or 30th anniversary
Organizers of SILMO Paris have announced that 32,125 visitors took part in the 2024 edition of the show that took place from Sept. 20 to 23, improving from the 31,337 who came last year and inching up closer to the pre-COVID levels (approximately 35,000). A little over half (52 percent) ...
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Eyemart Express launches new e-commerce website
Eyemart Express, a US optical retailer operating 250 stores across three banners (Vision 4 Lens, Visionmart Express, Eyewear Express), has announced the launch of a new e-commerce website (eyemartexpress.com), through which customers will be able to schedule their eye exams and order prescription glasses for nationwide delivery within a few ...
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National Vision and Pair Eyewear expand partnership
National Vision, the third largest optical retail group in the US, is expanding its exclusive partnership with Pair Eyewear, a brand of customizable eyeglasses and sunglasses for children and adults. After a successful test at approximately 100 stores earlier this year, National Vision will expand Pair Eyewear’s distribution through “store ...
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J.F. REY appoints new general manager
French-based designer eyewear brand J.F. REY has announced the appointment of Fabrice Albert as its new General Manager, who will report to CEO and co-owner Walter Pirinoli. As previously reported, Pirinoli, together with Ralf Kmoch and Dan Levi, both from Visibilia, acquired the company in 2021. Albert’s main mission will ...
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WCO studies scope of optometry practice in 39 countries
The World Council of Optometry (WCO) has published here a new study on the optometric demographics within its 39 member countries, gathering information on the scope of practice and legislation. Among the main findings, the organization stressed that an optometrists serves 23,200 persons on average in the countries surveyed and ...
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ArticleItalian eyewear exports fall in Q2, sector’s full year showing seen in line with 2023
Exports for the half year inched down by 0.3 percent, dragged down by a double-digit drop in the America region.
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ArticleNew alliance in the Middle East optical retail sector
MAGRABI Retail Group, the leading optical retailer in the Middle East region, has announced that it will take over 89 Rivoli Vision stores across the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain in what was described as a merger and an historic partnership. The alliance of the two multi-brand retailers will expand ...
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ArticlePrice reductions and Southeast Asian competition pressure Arts Optical ODM business
Eyewear manufacturer Arts Optical has reported mixed results for the first half of fiscal 2024. While the topline maintained a high-single digit growth pace, reaching $606 million Hong Kong dollars (€70 m), the group’s key Original Design Manufacturing (ODM) division underperformed. Furthermore, profitability continued to decline at both gross and ...
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ArticleThe Vision Council reports on ‘Made in the USA’
What the label means and what the public thinks are separate things.
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ArticleZEISS invests in light field display technology startup with vision care platform in mind
CREAL, a display technology startup based in Switzerland, has announced that ZEISS will license its light field display technology and integrate it into its vision care devices. By replicating real-world light to provide digital imagery with genuine depth, CREAL’s light field 3D display technology enables the digital replication of any ...
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ArticleLatest Spectacles from Snap not yet a product
The tech is there but the Lenses are not, according to CEO Spiegel.
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All Mister Spex resolutions approved at extraordinary general meeting
Mister Spex has announced that all the resolutions proposed by its supervisory board were adopted by its shareholders during an extraordinary general meeting held online last week.These included the confirmation of the general resolutions passed during the group’s annual general meeting in June, whose confirmation had become legally necessary following ...
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Newsweek ranks US optical retailers’ customer service
Zenni Optical and Warby Parker respectively top the e-commerce and brick-and-mortar eyewear retail category rankings.
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CooperVision promotes global and EMEA commercial directors from within
CooperVision has promoted Debbie Olive to the position of Chief Commercial Officer, from which she will oversee the company’s global commercial functions. Olive joined CooperVision in 2013 and has served in several positions including Vice President of Marketing for Europe and, most recently, President of EMEA. Her previous experiences includes ...
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Marchon adds Canada Goose to license portfolio
Made from sustainable materials, the eyewear collections will be launched in Spring 2025.
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Fittingbox adds 3D viewer function to virtual try-on
The French-based IT company Fittingbox is enhancing its virtual try-on (VTO) software with 3D Viewer, a new functionality that enables online eyewear shoppers to look at a frame from every angle, rotating it and zooming in and out on specific parts for a more detailed view. They can also switch ...
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ArticleJapanese upmarket retail group JEH shows no signs of slowing down
JEH Holdings, operator of the Kaneko and 999.9 retail chains, posts another strong quarter as inbound tourism keeps boosting sales volumes and average prices.
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News briefsEssilorLuxottica to establish new global HQ in Paris
EssilorLuxottica will move its global headquarters to the Austerlitz district in Paris by late 2027, bringing up to 2,000 people under the same roof.
