News briefs – Page 36
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Pearle Vision, a division of Luxottica Retail in the U.S.,...
Pearle Vision, a division of Luxottica Retail in the U.S., has named Srinivas (Srini) Kumar to be its senior vice president and general manager. He is tasked with expanding Pearle Vision's franchise network, much as he did in his previous position as president and chief operating officer of Baskin-Robbins International. ...
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Gilda Mehraban has been promoted to be director of brand...
Gilda Mehraban has been promoted to be director of brand management at REM Eyewear. She was previously the brand manager of Tumi and Jones New York, having joined REM just six months ago. She will oversee all the brands, which also include John Varvatos and Converse. Her background is in ...
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Having moved to direct distribution in the U.K., the German...
Having moved to direct distribution in the U.K., the German company Heidelberg is working on building up its own team there. It has selected Kenny Boyle and Tosh Vadhia as regional business managers, handling the north and the south, respectively. Phill Ennion is the sales and technical support manager for ...
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Bob Hughes has stepped down suddenly from his position at...
Bob Hughes has stepped down suddenly from his position at the helm the country's Association of Optometrists, but according to Optician, he doesn't want to go into specifics about why. When the British magazine tracked the British industry veteran down for details, all he would say was that his reasons ...
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Orange 21 is bringing Jim Pritts on board to be...
Orange 21 is bringing Jim Pritts on board to be a consultant for its Spy Optic brand. He will help push research and development for lens technologies and also work with Spy Optic on product design and development, sourcing, quality, technology communication, intellectual property, and marketing and training. Pritts has ...
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Jim McGrann will take over as president of VSP Vision...
Jim McGrann will take over as president of VSP Vision Care as of Jan. 1. Until now he has been the chief technology officer for VSP Global – a role he will continue – and the chief executive of Eyefinity. Before joining VSP in 2008, he was senior vice president ...
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Alain Afflelou, the French optician who still owns a large...
Alain Afflelou, the French optician who still owns a large minority stake in the optical retail network named after him, has become president of Aviron Bayonnais, one of the leading rugby teams in France, where he is the major shareholder. He is said to have invested €4 million annually into ...
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REM Eyewear recently signed a new distribution contract for the...
REM Eyewear recently signed a new distribution contract for the promotion of Converse eyewear products in Germany. The new partner, Freudenhaus, produces its own eyewear brands and also distributes brands such as Nine, Gorge, Gina & Lucy and La Loop accessories. Freudenhaus owns four stores in Munich, where it also ...
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Hoet, an eyewear producer from Belgium, will be exhibiting at...
Hoet, an eyewear producer from Belgium, will be exhibiting at Opti in January, presenting new models from its Cabrio sunglasses collection and new accessories for optical stores, following a change in its distribution model. Hoet's business activities fall into three different categories: the Hoet collection of premium eyeglasses, which is ...
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Moscot has signed a deal with its Mexican distributor, Independent...
Moscot has signed a deal with its Mexican distributor, Independent Eyeware, to take its products to several countries in South America. Moscot, the New York-based eyewear retailers and supplier, is the company of The Moscot Originals, Moscot Originals Sun and Moscot Spirit collections. Through the expanded partnership, they will be ...
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Salmoiraghi & Viganò has named Roberta Sambinello to be its...
Salmoiraghi & Viganò has named Roberta Sambinello to be its new director of franchising. She started out with the leading Italian optical retail group as manager of its flagship store in Florence, moving up to area manager and regional manager. In 2009, she joined the company's franchising unit. Her goal ...
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The new president of the Swiss Optics Suppliers Association (SOV)...
The new president of the Swiss Optics Suppliers Association (SOV) is Thomas Fischer, managing director of Knecht & Müller, a 31-year-old Swiss surfacing laboratory for corrective lenses that produces about 250,000 units per year. The association stems for a merger in 2006 of the organizations that represented suppliers of contact ...
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Gilbert Le Nouvy quits as general manager of Charmant France,...
Gilbert Le Nouvy quits as general manager of Charmant France, a post that he has occupied for five years. Pending the nomination of a successor, Taki Mizukami, president of Charmant for Europe, is taking over his responsibilities, assisted by two top managers of the French sales subsidiary.
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Carol Montgomery, the chief executive of Orange 21, is relinquishing...
Carol Montgomery, the chief executive of Orange 21, is relinquishing that title to join the company's board of directors. Orange 21's president, Michael Marckx, will take on the CEO title in addition to the presidency. Michael Angel, who has been interim chief financial officer and treasurer, will take on those ...
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Unilens Vision has named No. 7 Contact Lens Laboratory to...
Unilens Vision has named No. 7 Contact Lens Laboratory to be its exclusive U.K. distributor for its C-Vue Advanced Hydravue line of custom silicone hydrogel contact lenses. No. 7 will also distribute the products in the the rest of the European Union. Unilens, based in Delaware, said the partnership will ...
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Baumvision will handle North American distribution and support for the...
Baumvision will handle North American distribution and support for the aluminum-based frames of Kilsgaard, the Danish eyewear company, under a new agreement. The collection will be sold in the specialty sun and high-end optical stores where Baumvision distributes.
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Mario Casini, who formerly ran the training programs of AIO,...
Mario Casini, who formerly ran the training programs of AIO, the Italian Association of Opticians, is the new president of this organization, one of the two Italian optical retailers' associations, which that claims to be representative of the opticians as individual professionals. The other organization is Federottica. Casini takes over ...
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Petra Eckhardt has left as managing director of the European...
Petra Eckhardt has left as managing director of the European Sunglass Association, and its board is looking at two-three candidates to succeed her. The board has regularized ESA's accounting, returning to a positive cash position, and legally registered the nonprofit organization in France. It wants to create more benefits for ...
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Safilo has appointed Cristina Andresano to the new position of...
Safilo has appointed Cristina Andresano to the new position of worldwide head of public relations and communication. She will report to Luca Fuso, head of the group's licensed brands division. She will be based in Milan and will coordinate Safilo's 24 press offices wordwide. Andresano previously ran the public ...
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Manfred Dahn has been promoted to the top position at...
Manfred Dahn has been promoted to the top position at Polycore Optical Europe, replacing the former general manager, Andreas Linz, who had been with the company for 23 years. Dahn, who had previously run Margrander, a supplier of specialty glasses, joined Polycore four years ago as manager in charge of ...
