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Marchon Eyewear has set up a new management team for...
Marchon Eyewear has set up a new management team for Europe, the Middle East and Africa that will report to Nicola Zotta, managing director of the EMEA region. The former country manager for Spain and Portugal, Marco De Davide, is now regional business director for Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain and ...
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Nicola Brandolese has become the new president of Retail Optical...
Nicola Brandolese has become the new president of Retail Optical of Americas, a new position at Luxottica where he will supervise all the group's retail operations in North and South America. A former project director for the Boston Consulting Group and a former manager of Sky Italy at News Corporation, ...
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Jim Stepanek has been promoted to the position of executive...
Jim Stepanek has been promoted to the position of executive vice president of Spy. He was previously vice president in charge of its optical division, responsible for its RX business. Stepanek brings nearly 20 years of experience in the optical industry, including stations at Rem Eyewear, Revo and Signature Eyewear. ...
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Alessandro Lanaro, owner and global chief executive of Modo North...
Alessandro Lanaro, owner and global chief executive of Modo North America, has been taking care of its North American operations directly since Jan. 1. The move follows the departure of Pierre Fay, who had been running the company in North America since 2011. He has become CEO of a new ...
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The German opticians' association, ZVA, has a new chief executive...
The German opticians' association, ZVA, has a new chief executive from this month. Jan Wetzel succeeds Joachim Goerdt, who retires after working for 31 years at ZVA. Goerdt become managing director of ZVA in March 1983 and became chief executive in April 1990. Wetzel, who has been legal adviser to ...
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Hans Gottfried Schmidt, owner of Licefa, left the executive board...
Hans Gottfried Schmidt, owner of Licefa, left the executive board of the company in autumn last year. He is now a member of the supervisory board. Frank Alraun, former sales director at Licefa, and Thomas Lange, former technical director, form the new management of the company and started to act ...
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Sheetal Patel is the new manager of the Johnson &...
Sheetal Patel is the new manager of the Johnson & Johnson's Vision Care Institute in the U.K. She will be responsible for delivering education strategies that improve the way ECPs provide care to their patients, the institute said. Prior to her new role, Patel was an associate optometrist at a ...
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Jason Kirk, founder of Kirk & Kirk, has been appointed...
Jason Kirk, founder of Kirk & Kirk, has been appointed business development director at Inspecs. In his new role, he will concentrate on developing acetate production at the Inspecs-owned Algha Works factory in East London, which produces the Savile Row eyewear collection. Besides developing the Savile Row brand, the Algha ...
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Daniele Voltini is leaving as chief executive of Avanzi, the...
Daniele Voltini is leaving as chief executive of Avanzi, the Italian optical retail chain owned by Hal through GrandVision, to be in charge of business development at the group's Chinese retail company, GrandVision Shanghai. He will move to Shanghai next February after more than a year of preparation. At Avanzi, ...
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Ludovic Mathieu is the new managing director of Essilor France,...
Ludovic Mathieu is the new managing director of Essilor France, replacing Nicolas de Lambert who is going to take on new responsibilities at the European level within the Essilor International group. Mathieu worked as a consultant before joining Essilor France in 2005, in charge of promoting vision care.
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Joaquin Murillo Perez assumes the post of country manager for...
Joaquin Murillo Perez assumes the post of country manager for the German market at Smarteyes, a Swedish-based optical retail chain with more than 40 stores in Sweden and Germany. Murillo Perez previously worked as area manager for a French fashion retail chain, Pimkie, and as German country manager for Grupo ...
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Peter Williams, member of the board of director of Asos,...
Peter Williams, member of the board of director of Asos, the online fashion retailer from Great Britain, assumed on Dec. 2 the newly created post of chairman of the supervisory board of Mister Spex, the biggest German online eyewear retailer. Williams, a former chief executive of the British Selfridges department ...
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Holly Rush has been appointed by Luxottica as president of...
Holly Rush has been appointed by Luxottica as president of its wholesale operations in North America, replacing Andrea Dorigo who is planning to do something outside the group. Rush will report to Paolo Alberti, Luxottica's global executive vice president of wholesale operations. She joined the group's North American subsidiary in ...
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Over the next year, Wim Somers, owner and manager of...
Over the next year, Wim Somers, owner and manager of the Belgian eyewear brand Theo, will pass the management of the company on to his three sons, Toon, Mik and Jan. Toon, who previously worked as an agent for the Danish market, will from now on cover sales in Australia, ...
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Logo Eyewear has hired Bernard Rony as vice president in...
Logo Eyewear has hired Bernard Rony as vice president in charge of industrial matters in order to improve the supply chain. He has spent 12 years with ST Dupont, managing the French company's manufacturing operations for lighters and eyewear, after working in the area of automotive components. Richard Vives, who ...
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The Michael Pachleitner Group (MPG) has appointed Mauro Maloberti as...
The Michael Pachleitner Group (MPG) has appointed Mauro Maloberti as area sales manager for the Swiss Optic brand . He is responsible for the introduction of Swiss Optic to the Middle East and North Africa, including Turkey since last September. Maloberti worked for 15 years for LTL Lenses in Italy ...
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Poc Sweden, a specialist in creative sports helmets, is investing...
Poc Sweden, a specialist in creative sports helmets, is investing more in its eyewear line, which was first presented at the Mido show in Milan last year. It has hired a new global marketing director for its eyewear business unit, Jonas Söderqvist, replacing Sarah Laurell in this function. The 40-year-old ...
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Karavan & Co. of France hired Jessy Tissot for the...
Karavan & Co. of France hired Jessy Tissot for the newly created position of export manager last month. Previously, he worked as export manager for Marius Morel. The most important export market for the French company is Germany, followed by Belgium and the Netherlands. As previously reported by Eyewear Intelligence, ...
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Mathias Schmidt, chief executive of Essilor Germany, left the company...
Mathias Schmidt, chief executive of Essilor Germany, left the company at his own request at the beginning of October. Bernhard Nüsser, senior vice president for Central and Northern Europe, has assumed the post of chief executive of the German subsidiary on an interim basis.
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Justus Felix Wehmer is the new chief executive of Carl...
Justus Felix Wehmer is the new chief executive of Carl Zeiss Jena since Oct. 1. He takes over the responsibilities and tasks of Peter Popp, former CEO and commercial director of this subsidiary of the Carl Zeiss group, who left the company at his own request. Together with Thomas Polzer, ...
