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Morel raises funds for local hospital
Morel is raising funds to help the hospital Léon Bérard in its home town of Morbier, in the French Jura region. The money will be used to buy medical equipment. The French eyewear manufacturer is also donating portable computers to elementary schools in the towns of Les Rousses and Morez, ...
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Maui Jim launches Nominate a Hero program
Maui Jim has launched Nominate a Hero, to celebrate people who are are “bringing positivity” to their community during the Covid-19 pandemic. Each day, during the month of May, the Hawaiian brand will give a pair of sunglasses to a selected hero.
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British opticians have a new working group to discuss Covid-19 exit
The Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO) has a new working group to discuss the exit phase from the Covid-19 lockdown and there after. The group will provide members with guidance and recommendations on protocol during the exit phase and when practices open again to provide routine eyecare. The working ...
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Vuarnet donates 20% of April revenues to healthcare personnel
Vuarnet will donate 20% of its April revenues to healthcare personnel involved in the struggle against Covid-19. The French sunglass manufacturer will give the money to the fund All United Against the Virus, which brings together the Pasteur Institute, the Fondation de France and the Assistance-Publique Hôpitaux de Paris. The ...
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French social security set to post record deficit
The deficit of the French social security is expected to reach a record €41 billion in 2020 because of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on public accounts, according to the budget minister Gérarld Darmanin. The social security system is expected to increase spending by €8 billion because of the ...
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Silhouette restarts production
On March 16, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the management board of Silhouette International ordered most of the company’s administrative staff to work from home, suspended production at the factory in the city of Linz and retained a skeleton staff for the dispatch warehouse. On April 27, with the ...
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Safilo sees coming weeks as critical to save sunglass season
The coming couple of weeks will be crucial to understanding if the sun season can be saved. If lockdowns are lifted in Europe and the recovery picks up in the U.S. the task can be achieved, according to Safilo.
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ArticleItalian eyewear industry reopens amid hopes that demand will pick up
Despite having had the right to operate stores during the industry lockdown that is now being lifted in Italy, as eyeglasses were considered an essential medical device, the Italian eyewear industry has remained largely closed for lack of demand.
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Invu's owner provides protective eyewear
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the Swiss Eyewear Group (SEG) has been manufacturing and delivering protective eyewear to hospitals, first responders, government organizations, public transport and charities to shield them from coronavirus infection. As businesses reopen, the group is shifting the supply of protective eyewear to the general public. The items ...
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Pro Optik donates corrective frames to doctors and nurses in Germany
Pro Optik, a chain of 140 mostly franchised stores in Germany, has paid tribute to doctors and nurses during the coronavirus crisis by giving corrective frames to people working in the health care system. Entitled are about 500,000 doctors and almost 1.1 million nurses who are in the forefront of ...
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CooperVision offers a drop-shipping service
CooperVision launched a new service for opticians, “CooperVision Direct,” aiming to support retailers during the coronavirus crisis. Opticians can get contact lenses ordered through CVI delivered straight to the end consumer or to any other desired address. Until June 30, CVI will also cover the shipping costs. The company plans ...
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Ital-Lenti proposes webinars
Ital-Lenti has been offering a series of online training sessions, in the form of webinars, on the latest technological developments in the ophthalmic lens segment. The online training program is aimed at all operators in the sector who wish to improve their skills, and participation is free of charge. The ...
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Oculus sells face shields at cost price
Oculus, the German manufacturer of ophthalmic instruments, is offering face shields at cost price via its online store. Face shields protect the entire face including the respirator with a large transparent disc. Oculus has developed tools for the company’s own injection molding machines in order to be able to produce ...
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Japan extends state of emergency to May 31
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that the country’s state of emergency will be extended to May 31, after government officials judged that it was premature to lift it given the progression of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country. The state of emergency was gradually introduced nationwide from April 7 ...
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Novacel helps opticians to relaunch their businesses
Novacel, the big French laboratory controlled by Essilor, is offering ways to help opticians relaunch their business after the French government announced that it would be relaxing a Covid-19 related lockdown on May 11.
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The German industry projects a drop of 23 to 34%
Spectaris, the German ophthalmic industry association, conducted an online survey among members of the German industry in mid-April. According to the report, 90 percent of the participating companies said that they had received fewer orders in the previous weeks, 75 percent said that their economic situation had worsened due to ...
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Customers are afraid of visiting opticians in Russia
Almost all of the provinces of the Russian federation have softened quarantine measures introduced because of Covid-19, and most of them have allowed eyewear retailers to open their stores again. In Moscow, however, which accounts for roughly 50 percent of all Covid-19 cases recorded in Russia, visiting the optician has ...
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ArticleGrandVision’s April sales down over 80% due to Covid-19
GrandVision suffered a drop of more than 80 percent year-on-year in revenues in the month of April, after already registering a severe decline in March, due to the lockdowns and restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Because of social distancing, moreover, the optical retailer does not expect a rapid recovery ...
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ArticleEssilorLuxottica’s Q1 sales drop by 10%
EssilorLuxottica’s first-quarter revenues were down by 10.1 percent from the year-ago quarter to €3,784 million, or by 10.9 percent in constant currencies, due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. But, the company is confident that pent-up demand will underpin sales when the crisis is over. Thanks to its financial ...
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ArticleFielmann’s Q1 sales and profits decline
(updated) Blaming the coronavirus outbreak, Fielmann reported a sharp 74.8 percent drop in net income for the first quarter of 2020, down to €11.8 million, on a 7.0 percent decline in consolidated revenues to €352.9 million for the first quarter of this year. The number of glasses sold fell by ...
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