All Eyewear Intelligence articles in Volume 27 No.4 – Page 2
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Silhouette to complete natural gas phase out at its main site this year
Silhouette Group is planning to fully phase out fossil natural gas at use at its main facility in Linz, Austria. Following the switch to renewable electricity – most of it produced on site – at its coating production line last year, Silhouette will do the same at its eyewear manufacturing ...
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The Most Influential Women in Optical program launches a European edition
Jobson Optical Group, publisher of Vision Monday and 20/20, is joining forces with 20/20 Europe to launch a European edition of its Most Influential Women in Optical program, which was launched in the US in 2003. The initiative is aimed at recognizing and celebrating the impact of women in the ...
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ArticleVSP Vision announces Innovation Challenge winners and finalists
The VSP Vision Innovation Challenge at this year’s Vision Expo – organized by RX and The Vision Council in collaboration with VSP Vision – has yielded two winners and two finalists, all start-ups. They not only pitched live but also exhibited at Vision Expo’s new Innovation Center, a showcase for ...
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EssilorLuxottica gradually increases its stake in Nikon
EssilorLuxottica has been steadily building up its stake in Nikon Corporation, since the Japanese authorities greenlighted an up-to-20-percent stake for the Franco-Italian group in October last year. The authorization was necessary as several Nikon businesses – lenses, sensors, and lithography – are considered “core” to the national security. ...
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ArticleNew white paper looks industry sustainability issues in the eye
Frame the Future, a newly established non-profit sustainability organization, is launching its activities by publishing The Catalyst Study, a 38-page white paper examining the structural barriers that hinder sustainability progress in the eyewear industry. The challenge, they argue, is more structural than technical. The report draws primarily on 19 in-depth ...
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ArticleAI startup takes aim at eyewear e-tail shortcomings
Eyvero.AI, a Balkans-based IT startup, is launching several AI-powered tools, covering areas such as virtual try-on, or rather “anatomic immersion” as the company puts it, progressive lens fitting analysis, and the creation of digital frame images and marketing materials. Eyvero.AI was founded by Artem Yukhnovskiy and Vladimir Meniailenko, two ...
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ArticleAFFLELOU slows down in Q2
AFFLELOU GROUP network sales increased by 2.5 percent to €244.9 million in Q2 FY2026, decelerating from the 5 percent growth reported for the first quarter and for FY2024. All markets, France, Spain and Other Countries saw their growth pace roughly halved quarter on quarter. The franchisor group ended ...
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Mondottica Group signs new eyewear licence with Italian men’s fashion brand
Mondottica Group and Antony Morato are partnering to launch the first eyewear collection under the Italian men’s fashion brand. It features four models available in ten colors that will exclusively be available at Antony Morato’s stores and e-commerce website for the first season, before expansion to online and offline wholesale channels and travel retail. Founded in 2007 and operating in ...
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GlassesUSA.com parent company increase capacity
Optimax Eyewear Group, the operator of GlassesUSA.com, is expanding the manufacturing capacity of its Atlanta facility by 50 percent by investing “heavily in automation and optical precision.” The move follows a 30 percent year-over-year surge in orders, the company said, stressing the positive impact of three of its satellite businesses: OTTICA, a multi-brand luxury eyewear online shop, FORK Eyewear, a sunglasses brand and United Vision ...
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News briefsLeading French retailer unveils new store concept
Krys, France’s leading optical retailer, is unveiling Twice, a new store concept designed to “redefine the customer experience” and “revolutionize optical and hearing aid retail.” At the center of the concept is the Studio, a carousel-shaped space offering multiple experiences: personalized eyewear styling based on face shape, a “lens bar” ...
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Innovative Eyewear reports sales jump but remains largely in the red
Innovative Eyewear, the Florida-based audio glasses company, has reported a 63 percent year-on-year jump in revenue to $2.7 million in fiscal 2025. The momentum was driven by Lucyd Armor, the company’s smart safety glasses house brand, which accounted for approximately half of volumes sold. Innovative Eyewear also develops audio glasses under license from Authentic Brands Group (Reebok, Nautica, Eddie Bauer). The ...
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ArticleMister Spex turnaround plan yields higher margins but break-even still distant
Quality over quantity, offline over online, premium prescription eyewear over sunglasses and Germany over international markets; the shift in priorities introduced in the summer of 2024 by the new management team has started to pay off in 2025 with significant margin improvements, Mister Spex stressed in its full-year financial results ...
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ArticleMeta reportedly renouncing the launch of its AR glasses in the EU, for now
Meta is, for now, renouncing the launch of its Meta Ray‑Ban Display AR glasses in the European Union (EU), according to an anonymous source “with knowledge of the situation” quoted in a Bloomberg article last week. In January, Meta officially announced a pause in the rollout of the product outside ...
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ArticleMade in Italy and inspired by Africa, L.G.R. looks to increase its global footprint
The Italian eyewear brand L.G.R. traces its roots back to Eritrea, where the grandfather of its founder Luca Gnecchi Ruscone lived for decades and imported photographic equipment and eyewear for the local market. Since Ruscone set up the brand in 2008, L.G.R. has gained a name among celebrities and royalty ...
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ArticleNew Essilux-Meta glasses on the way, FCC filings suggest
The grantee known to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as 2AYOA, and to us as Luxottica Group, has filed documents pertaining to what appear to be two new models of Ray-Ban smart glasses – as reported first by Janko Roettgers’ Lowpass newsletter and then by Road to VR and ...
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JINS opens AI-equipped, multilingual flagship store in Tokyo's Ginza
Jins Holdings is launching a flagship eyewear store in Tokyo’s upscale Ginza district, incorporating a multilingual (Japanese, Chinese, English) generative AI system to assist customers—especially foreign tourists—in selecting glasses. Opening on Saturday, the 456-square-meter location spans two floors, featuring 700 eyewear models. The basement floor offers advanced vision-testing equipment with ...
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UK's Optical Suppliers Association joins Healthcare from the Eye
The UK’s Optical Suppliers Association (OSA) has announced it has joined The Alliance for Healthcare from the Eye to promote the ethical adoption of oculomics, the leveraging of ocular data for earlier disease risk identification. The organzation stressed that the new field is fostering a shift from reactive treatments to ...
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Rodenstock acquires Croatian longtime distribution partner
Rodenstock has acquired DEA Lens Project and NI-VA Lens, its longtime partners in Croatia and the leading suppliers of lenses and optical devices in Croatia, according to the company. The German-based lens manufacturer stressed that the move would help accelerating its expansion in Eastern Europe. DEA Lens Project’s equipment portfolio ...
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Atol announces ambitious midterm objectives after flattish 2025 performance
French voluntary retail group Atol has reported €468 million in annual sales for 2025, flattish from the €465 million in 2024. Recent estimates by research companies GfK and Xerfi have put the optical market growth in France last year at around 1-2 percent. We calculate that Atol sales grew at ...
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Menicon EMEA has a new CEO
Menicon has appointed Oxana Pastushenko as its new CEO for the EMEA region, effective today. Pastushenko joins the Japanese-based contact lens maker from HOYA Vision Care where she was serving as Chief Marketing Officer. Her previous experiences include marketing and commercial leadership roles at Bausch+Lomb and CooperVision.
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