All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 10
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ArticleLGBTQ collections become mainstream for the fashion, sportswear industry
The LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual and queer) fashion market has been growing over the last decade. In recent years, an unprecedented number of mainstream brands have begun to release LGBTQ collections.
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ArticleLuxottica produces anti-Covid masks for Italian government
Luxottica, the Italian unit of the Franco-Italian eyewear company EssilorLuxottica, said that it has started the large scale production of face masks to help prevent the propagation of the Covid-19 pandemic. The company has already delivered a first batch of 3.5 million items as part of a government-sponsored initiative. The ...
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ArticleSelfridges launches Project Earth
Selfridges has launched Project Earth, an initiative which explores “more sustainable ways to shop” by setting new sourcing standards and creating repair, resale and rental businesses. Under the scheme, the British department store pledges that by 2025 it will only stock products that respect its new sourcing standards on cotton, ...
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Clearly, IAPB to merge in 2021
On Jan.4, 2021, Clearly, a charity founded in 2016 by the Hong Kong-based philanthropist James Chen, will merge into the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), an alliance of civil society organizations, private sector, and professional bodies promoting eye health through advocacy, knowledge and partnerships. The move ...
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Essilor partners with Tencent to publicize eyecare
Essilor has established a three-year partnership with Tencent of Shenzhen, China, to publicize corrective vision. According to Essilor’s press release, somewhat less than half of the people in China’s vast population have impaired vision and are largely unaware of both the problem and the solutions. In addition, says Essilor, the ...
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ArticleEssilorLuxottica sees first signs of recovery
EssilorLuxottica is seeing the “first signs of recovery” as lockdowns introduced worldwide to slow down the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic are lifted. In a prepared message delivered to shareholders at the company’s annual general meeting, the executive chairman Leonardo Del Vecchio and executive vice-chairman Hubert Sagnières indicate that the ...
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Essilor Italia donates extra 3,000 protective goggles to hospitals in Lombardy
Essilor’s Italian unit has donated an additional 3,000 protective goggles to about 10 hospitals in the Italian region of Lombardy as part of the effort to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. In March, the lens manufacturer had already distributed more than 700 goggles it had in stock to health facilities in ...
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News briefsFielmann active in Covid-19 combat
Fielmann, the German optical retailer, and the Fielmann family, which owns it, have been active in taking part in the combat against the Covid-19 pandemic. The family donated 1 million surgical masks to each of the states of Brandenburg, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. The 3 million masks were bought through the ...
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Novacel gets Covid-19 certified
Novacel, the French lens laboratory partly owned by Essilor, announced that it is the first company in the eyewear industry to obtain the Covid-19 standard by AFNOR (L’Association Française de Normalisation), a French-based control and standardization organization. The Covid-19 certification is based on an onsite verification of 93 points focusing ...
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Desio and Sightsavers Italia extend partnership to fight blindness
Desio, the color contact lens brand produced by Italian manufacturer Qualmed, is continuing its partnership with the Italian arm of Sightsavers, a non-profit focused on eye health, for the second consecutive year. In the first year of the partnership, Desio donated enough to fo treatments against trachoma, the world’s leading ...
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De Rigo donates €100,000 and frames in anti Covid-19 initiatives
De Rigo has taken part in two initiatives with the local authorities of the Veneto region, where it is based, as part of its efforts to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. The company donated €100,000 to the ULSS n1 Dolomiti local health and social care facility in Belluno through an agreement ...
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Zeal Optics revives its ocean-plastic campaign
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 plastic from the ...
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ArticleWGSN sees three major consumer groups emerging from the crisis
The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated societal changes and is forcing industries worldwide to adapt to the resulting changes in consumption, and WGSN has set out to predict what consumers will be looking for in the next couple of years.
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Foster Grant launches new Sofia Vergara collection
Foster Grant, a brand of Essilor International’s wholly-owned unit FGX International, has teamed up with Colombian-American actress Sofia Vergara for a new collection of reading glasses, sunglasses and trademark SunReaders. The Sofia Vergara x Foster Grant line comes in 24 styles personally curated by Vergara and available in a variety ...
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Luxottica joins forces with Padua university to manage Covid-19
Luxottica is intensiving measures to combat Covid-19. A new protocol, including blanket testing and sensors to maintain and monitor social distancing, is being implemented in Italy and will be extended to all of its facilities worldwide.
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Charmant starts to produce face masks
Charmant has started to produce face masks and will be making them available from mid-May. The first 5,050 face masks and 2,000 protective glasses will be donated to medical staff in Japan. The capacity will be increased in stages to produce 50,000 face masks by the end of May, 200,000 ...
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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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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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Zeal Optics inaugurates ocean plastic program
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, it is working ...
