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Ron Kroll is going to head up Innovations Digital Lens...
Ron Kroll is going to head up Innovations Digital Lens Company, a joint venture of CC Systems and Ocuco that provides private-label free-form lens designs to laboratories. His role is operations director, handling all functions related to sales and service. Innovations Digital is taking care of integrating the Innovations Lens ...
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Roy Williams is the new buyer and product developer for...
Roy Williams is the new buyer and product developer for Ryders Eyewear. He most recently worked in product development for Norco Bike Products and Serfas Eyewear. He also brings his own experience as an avid cyclist to the athletic performance eyewear company, which is based in North Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Christian Roth is hoping to establish a presence in the...
Christian Roth is hoping to establish a presence in the Asian market through a new licensing agreement with BDC Korea Company (Beyond Cliché Design), which will manufacture and distribute sunglasses and prescription frames under the Christian Roth brand throughout Asia. The five-year deal, which goes into 2016, has an option ...
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Heidelberg, the German producer of optical instruments, has set up...
Heidelberg, the German producer of optical instruments, has set up its own subsidiary in the U.K., thus ending its longtime distribution partnership with Haag-Streit UK. The new unit, Heidelberg Engineering, was set up in Hemel Hempstead to distribute the company's imaging and perimetry products. Haag-Streit UK will have responsibility for ...
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Werner Grau, CEO of the Uvex sports group, will be...
Werner Grau, CEO of the Uvex sports group, will be retiring after 33 years in the family business and leaving the company at the end of July next year. From January 2012, Katharina Le Thierry will assume the post. Born in 1964, she has had a long management experience in ...
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Gregor Dietachmayr, a former managing director of Fischer Sports, doesn't...
Gregor Dietachmayr, a former managing director of Fischer Sports, doesn't have to worry anymore whether there is going to be enough snow on the ground as the new international sales manager of Silhouette International. The 45-year-old Austrian manager has replaced Markus Wall after three years in the position. Dietachmayr worked ...
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Some new faces will be in top positions at CooperVision...
Some new faces will be in top positions at CooperVision as of Nov. 1. Dennis Murphy, president for the Americas, will be the executive vice president for global sales and marketing. Andrew Sedgwick, currently the president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, will be taking up Murphy's old job, ...
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Schneider Optical Machines has chosen Kevin Cross to be its...
Schneider Optical Machines has chosen Kevin Cross to be its new director of sales for North America. Cross has a decade of experience in the optical industry, more recently as manager of U.S. ophthalmic sales and marketing for Leybold Optics. He has also worked with Carl Zeiss Vision and Northeast ...
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Douglas Perkins, 68, and his 67-year-old wife, Mary, founders of...
Douglas Perkins, 68, and his 67-year-old wife, Mary, founders of Specsavers, were recently listed among the new British billionaires in the 2011 Rich List of the Sunday Times of London. The combined wealth of the couple and their family rose in 2010 by 42 percent to £1,150 million (€1,298m-$1,882m). The ...
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Didier Chevalier, who has worked for Krys Group and its...
Didier Chevalier, who has worked for Krys Group and its predecessor, Guildinvest, for 21 years, has been promoted to be general manager of the French optical retail group, where he was most recently in charge of network operations. The 56-year-old manager takes the place of Arnaud Ploix, who ran the ...
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Delphine Ansquer, 43, has been appointed French country manager of...
Delphine Ansquer, 43, has been appointed French country manager of Rodenstock after working for the French subsidiary for 13 years, most recently in charge of marketing for lenses. She replaces Gilles Sauvanaud, who is leaving for Singapore for family reasons. Separately, Johannes Burtscher has left the position of chief financial ...
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Eugene J. Midlock, 67, has announced that he plans to...
Eugene J. Midlock, 67, has announced that he plans to retire as chief financial officer of the Cooper Companies as of Dec. 16. The company is working on finding his replacement, who will be named when he steps down. In a few other changes, Carol R. Kaufman, currently senior vice ...
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Richard Clompus is taking the newly created position of vice...
Richard Clompus is taking the newly created position of vice president for global professional relations with PixelOptics. He will help develop and manage PixelOptics' partnerships with eye care professionals, reporting to Larry Rodriguez, senior vice president for global sales and marketing. Clompus most recently held the same title at CooperVision, ...
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Schneider Optical Machines has taken on Kevin Cross to be...
Schneider Optical Machines has taken on Kevin Cross to be its new director of sales for North America. Cross has a decade of experience in the optical industry, most recently coming from Leybold Optics, where he was manager of U.S. ophthalmic sales and marketing. He's also held positions with Carl ...
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Luca Biondolillo, head of international communications, has left Luxottica after...
Luca Biondolillo, head of international communications, has left Luxottica after seven years to join Benetton Group. He joined the eyewear company in 2004 supervising corporate and financial communications out of Milan. In 2007, he become head of the group's international communications, moving to New York in 2009. At Benetton, a ...
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MasterImage 3D is going to provide premium 3D eyewear for...
MasterImage 3D is going to provide premium 3D eyewear for Marchon3D under a new distribution agreement. Marchon' EX3D line of glasses will be the centerpiece of a European and Asian rollout of in-theater displays and vending machines. EX3D are circular polarized glasses that sell of €20-60 in theaters and at ...
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Hans-Wilm Sternemann, who founded IGA Optic 30 years ago, has...
Hans-Wilm Sternemann, who founded IGA Optic 30 years ago, has been elected as the new president of the supervisory board of this German cooperative of 450 affiliated opticians. The entrepreneur, who is now 59 years old, was campaigning for this post two years ago. He will oversee the group, which ...
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Jean Félix Biosse Duplan, the official who has been running...
Jean Félix Biosse Duplan, the official who has been running the communication department of BBGR for many years, is taking on the job of external communications director of its parent company, Essilor International. This is going to be a new position within a team led by Kate Philipps, recently appointed ...
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Alex Versteeg has been promoted to the position of commercial...
Alex Versteeg has been promoted to the position of commercial director of Essilor Benelux. He has thus taken on some of the responsibilities of Ron de Bruijn. A veteran of Essilor who has been running its operations in Benelux for many years, de Bruijn was promoted last Jan. 1 to ...
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Dave Cole has moved up from his role as chief...
Dave Cole has moved up from his role as chief operating officer at Transitions Optical to be the company's new president. He has been with the company since it started in 1990, and was named COO last October. Before joining Transitions, he was with PPG Industries in various sales and ...
