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    Kering issues dual-tranche bond

    2022-05-05T10:46:00Z

    Kering announced on April 29 that it had issued a dual-tranche bond, each tranche being worth €750 million. One has a three-year maturity and a 1.25 percent coupon, the other an eight-year maturity and a 1.875 percent coupon. The group says the issue is in accordance with its active liquidity ...

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    Kering Eyewear to acquire Maui Jim

    2022-03-14T13:32:00Z

    Kering Eyewear is acquiring Maui Jim, the world’s largest independent brand of high-end sunglasses. The deal is subject to approval by regulators but should be complete by the second half of 2022. Speaking at a press conference this morning, Kering Eyewear’s president and CEO, Roberto Vedovotto, did not wish to ...

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    Zeal Optics plants trees for every eyewear product sold

    2020-11-18T12:58:00Z

    U.S. eyewear brand Zeal Optics celebrates its fifth annual “ Buy A Zeal, Plant A Tree ” campaign, applicable site-wide on zealoptics.com and throughout more than 1,000 retailers globally. In partnership with the National Forest Foundation (NFF) and 1% For The Planet , the brand will ...

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    Zeal releases sunglasses made of grass and PET

    2020-08-27T06:34:00Z

    Zeal Optics of Boulder, Colorado, is launching a line of sunglasses with frames made of a material the company calls Sea Grass : a blend of grasses (straw, hemp, flax, rice) drawn from agricultural waste and recycled plastic bottles. Pellets of the material are manufactured in a process fueled ...

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    Zeal Optics revives its ocean-plastic campaign

    2020-06-08T08:10:00Z

    Zeal Optics is restarting “ Shades For Seas ” campaign for World Oceans Day, on June 8. For every pair of sunglasses, goggles or accessory lenses sold anywhere in the world through the end of June, the company and its retailers pledge to remove five pounds (2.3 kg) of ...

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    Zeal Optics inaugurates ocean plastic program

    2020-05-06T05:46:00Z

    Zeal Optics of Boulder, Colorado, chose the 50th annual Earth Day, on April 22, to inaugurate its “ Shades For Seas ” campaign, which pledges to remove 50 pounds of plastic from the oceans for every pair of sunglasses, goggles or accessory lenses sold on zealoptics.com. To this end, ...