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Ocuco and SpecCheck partner
Ocuco has announced the integration of SpecCheck into Innovations, its optical lab management system (LMS). Labs using the software in the US will be enabled to receive and process orders directly from SpecCheck users, receive digital payments through SpecCheck’s Lab Pay system, and communicate directly with eye care professionals through ...
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New Chief Commercial Officer at Magrabi
MAGRABI Retail Group has appointed Andrea Zaffin, a senior eyewear industry executive, as its new Chief Commercial Officer. Zaffin joins the Dubai-based group from Safilo where he has served as Commercial Officer for India, Middle East and Africa since 2019. Prior to that, he spent over 20 years working in ...
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Arkema new Singapore plant comes online
Arkema’s new transparent polyamide factory in Singapore is now fully operational, the French-based specialty materials group has announced. The company stressed that the $20 million investment first announced in July last year will triple its production capacity for Rilsan Clear, a material used across different sectors including eyewear, AR/VR and ...
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News briefsTopcon partners with RemoniHealth on home monitoring
Topcon Healthcare has established a commercial partnership with RemoniHealth, creator of a remote-monitoring platform for in-home diagnostic and monitoring tests in eyecare. In its announcement Topcon speaks of a “pathway” to incorporate RemoniHealth’s services into its own cloud-based platform, Harmony. In the deal’s background, as the company says, is the ...
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ArticleMeta and Essilux reported AI glasses capacity doubling no easy task
Meta and EssilorLuxottica are discussing boosting their Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses annual production capacity to 20-30 million units to address growing demand, Bloomberg reported yesterday. The leak came from people familiar with the matter who asked to remain anonymous, which may also mean that it is a deliberate communication strategy ...
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Mondottica achieves B Corp status
Mondottica Group has announced that it has achieved the B Corporation status, a recognition of high social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency. The certification was awarded by B.Lab, after an 18-month review including 258 questions relating to the company’s operations. Ben Whitaker, Managing Director of Mondottica Group, stressed that ...
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ArticleKenyan retail startup aims for scale and impact in East Africa
Backed by Japanese and Indian investors and by a French optical retail veteran, Kenyan optical retail startup Mamy Eyewear plans to grow from five stores in Nairobi to over 100 locations in East Africa within five years, leveraging AI-powered eye exams and affordable pricing to address the region’s critical shortage of eye care services.
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Sponsored articleDigital infrastructure as a growth lever: NEOX-IT group brings integrated solutions to MIDO 2026
At MIDO 2026 in Milan, the NEOX-IT Group will present a coordinated technology stack designed to simplify digital complexity for retailers, suppliers and manufacturers.
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ArticleZEISS targets cognitive overload with clearer lenses
ZEISS Vision Care is unveiling several novelties at the opti trade show starting today in Munich, Germany, of which the most important is ZEISS NeurOptix, a new lens technology designed to reduce cognitive overload. The technology is at the core of ZEISS ClearMind, a new prescription lens aimed at 35+ ...
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Julbo partners with mountaineering and trail running star
Julbo is partnering with Killian Jornet, a long-distance trail runner and ski mountaineer global star with many victories in the most extreme endurance sport competitions in the world and close to 2 million Instagram followers. Aside from the marketing partnership, Jornet and the Jura-based sport eyewear company will collaborate on ...
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HOYA launches VTO service for ECPs in North America
HOYA Vision Care is launching HOYA LensPreview, a virtual try-on service for its premium lens ranges, in the US and Canada. The tool allows eye care professionals to show their patients a preview of their lenses in a true-to-color and interactive environment for products such as the Sensity Family, the ...
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Essilux presents two clinical studies on Nuance Audio Glasses performance
Up to 29 percent of Nuance Audio Glasses wearers reported improvement in speech understanding in challenging acoustic conditions, according to a study of the Western University in Canada with 21 participants, EssilorLuxottica has announced. Users also noted a “significant reduction in listening effort as measured through standardized rating scales,” the ...
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ArticleOpti finds momentum in stubbornly stagnant German optical market
The organizers of the opti trade show have announced that 21,972 trade visitors took part in the 2026 edition that took place from Jan. 16 to 18 in Munich, up by 4 percent from the previous year, confirming positive impressions from exhibitors. Visitors from outside Germany accounted for roughly 20 ...
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Kits Eyecare sales up 27 percent in FY2025
Kits Eyecare Q4 revenue rose by 20 percent year over year to $54 million Canadian dollars (€33m), the e-tailer’s preliminary results show. For the full year, sales amounted to C$203 million (€125m), up by 27 percent from fiscal 2024 with new customer additions jumping by 30 percent year on year ...
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Europa Eyewear long-time president retires
Jerry Wolowicz will retire as President of Europa Eyewear at the end of February after over four decades of service but will remain involved in the US eyewear business as member of the board of directors. He is replaced by Andy Skitmore, an industry veteran who joins the company from ...
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MYKITA switches to recycled material for its demo lenses
MYKITA has announced that it will switch all its optical frames demo lenses from plastic to Eastman Tritan Renew, an ISSC PLUS certified copolyester made at 50 percent from recycled material. The Berlin-based eyewear company calculates that the move will divert the equivalent of 150,000 single-use water bottles from landfills ...
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ArticleItaly’s eyewear sector ramps up export promotion efforts
Italy’s eyewear industry has ramped up efforts to promote its products overseas, as tariffs, geopolitical tensions and economic uncertainty bite, but new markets also provide opportunities. “Internationalization has always been a priority, but we understood that it was time to push more in the current situation,” Davide Degl’Incerti Tocci, the ...
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ArticleJohnson & Johnson Q4 contact lens sales grow 7.6%
Johnson & Johnson generated sales from its contact lens business of $1,008 million in the fourth quarter of 2025, up by a reported 7.6 percent compared to the year earlier and 5.3 percent higher at constant currency rates. Sales growth was driven by market growth, the continued strong showing of ...
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Carl Zeiss Meditec to review guidance after difficult Q1
Carl Zeiss Meditec has had a difficult start to its new 2025/26 fiscal year. Q1 revenue declined by 4.7 percent year on year to €467 million and EBITA margin fell by 5.4 percentage points to 1.7 percent. The company attributed its difficulties to several factors, including currency headwinds, strong deliveries ...
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Turkish competition authorities investigate EssilorLuxottica
Rekabet Kurumu, the Turkish market-competition watchdog, is opening an investigation into EssilorLuxottica’s commercial practices after a preliminary inquiry at the end of last year. The agency suspects that the eyewear group “has created de facto exclusivity via various practices in the markets for the wholesale of ophthalmic lenses, wholesale of ...
