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Marchon Eyewear has filled its new position of vice president,...
Marchon Eyewear has filled its new position of vice president, global house brands, with Micha Siebenhandl. In this role he will oversee the company's house brands, which include Marchon, Flexon, AutoFlex, Tres Jolie, Disney, X Games and Disney Princess. He will report directly to Mark Ginsberg, senior vice president, global ...
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Greg Pollock is the new vice president, business development for...
Greg Pollock is the new vice president, business development for New York Eye, supporting the continued growth of the company into new markets and brands. He will report to Arthur Jankolovits, the company's president. Pollock was previously senior director of sales in Luxottica's independent and sun specialty division and also ...
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Paul Clapton is the new director of the U.K. subsidiary...
Paul Clapton is the new director of the U.K. subsidiary of De Rigo. He has been a national accounts manager in contact lenses for seven years, and was formerly national sales manager for Signet Armorlite/Kodak Lens, where he helped expand the Kodak Lens Vision Center program in the U.K.
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Dori Carlson has been elected president of the American Optometric...
Dori Carlson has been elected president of the American Optometric Association, the first time ever a woman has held the position. She succeeds Joe Ellis. Carlson, who practices in North Dakota, said that she plans to focus on promoting eye exams, not just screenings, for children to be included in ...
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Xavier Fontanet, chairman of Essilor International, told shareholders at the...
Xavier Fontanet, chairman of Essilor International, told shareholders at the annual meeting that the time seems to have come for the company's current chief executive, Hubert Sagnières, take over his place and become chairman and CEO. The move will be discussed at the next meetings of the board of directors ...
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Mathias Schmidt is the new managing director of Essilor Deutschland,...
Mathias Schmidt is the new managing director of Essilor Deutschland, replacing Stefan Schicke, who has left the company after five years in the job. Schmidt, 45, acted as managing director of Hoya in Germany until 2004. Most recently, he was a top manager at Flemming Dental, a German company dealing ...
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Pierre Fay, the president for the e-commerce business at Essilor...
Pierre Fay, the president for the e-commerce business at Essilor International on a global basis, has left the company, VMail reports. He will be pursuing other interests. Fay joined the company last spring to take up the newly created position, overseeing FramesDirect and the MyOnlineOptical business of Essilor of America. ...
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Mario Zimmermann, 26, is now joint managing director of Brille24,...
Mario Zimmermann, 26, is now joint managing director of Brille24, a German e-commerce operation in the eyewear sector. He will work together with Matthias Hunecke, founder of the company in Oldenburg. Zimmermann was one of the founders of Brands4friends, the digital shopping club that was taken over by eBay at ...
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Anthonie Klijn, a 47-year-old manager who ran Luxottica in Germany...
Anthonie Klijn, a 47-year-old manager who ran Luxottica in Germany for eight years after setting up its South African subsidiary in the late 1990s, has joined the advisory board of Mister Spex, the fast-growing German online retailer of ophthalmic glasses and frames. He will be particularly involved in the planned ...
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Two executives are moving up at VSP Optics Group. Warren...
Two executives are moving up at VSP Optics Group. Warren Meyer, vice president for laboratory operations since 2009, is being promoted to senior vice president of the same division. Meyer is the founder of CustomEyes (1989) and Perfect Optics (2006), and also held a management position at Essilor Labs. He's ...
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Fielding Eyewear, a U.S. company specializing in camouflage eyewear for...
Fielding Eyewear, a U.S. company specializing in camouflage eyewear for shooting and other purposes that was recently acquired by Sportsquest, has picked Jim Spangler to be its new vice president for marketing and brand development. Formerly he was the president of World Axis Group, an advertising agency in the state ...
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Tura has named Debbie Forstenzer to be its new vice...
Tura has named Debbie Forstenzer to be its new vice president for product development, after two years of consulting for the company. She will be responsible for design and product development with an eye on new strategies and profitability.
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Luca Zangrandi, the key accounts manager for sport optics at...
Luca Zangrandi, the key accounts manager for sport optics at Bushnell Italia, has been promoted to country manager for Italy. The 32-year-old joined Bushnell last year.
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Fabio Patrizi, former head of marketing at Marcolin, has been...
Fabio Patrizi, former head of marketing at Marcolin, has been appointed general manager at Inottica, a position previously held by Giuseppe Losapio, the group's chairman. Patrizi took up his job on April 1. Inottica's head office is based near the Italian town of Brescia and the company specializes in eyewear ...
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Free Optik, an Italian buying group with over 200 member...
Free Optik, an Italian buying group with over 200 member opticians, has a new chairman. Sandro Kichelmacher, who founded the group 18 years ago, is retiring after 60 years in the optical business. On April 3, the group's annual general meeting approved the nomination of his 45-year-old son, Marco Kichelmacher.
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Ulrich Krauss has left the management of Carl Zeiss Meditec...
Ulrich Krauss has left the management of Carl Zeiss Meditec to join the management of Carl Zeiss Vision. The move would seem to confirm the possibility of stronger interaction between these two components of the Carl Zeiss group in the future. Thomas Simmerer has taken Krauss' place at Carl Zeiss ...
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James Harrison, a 40-year-old manager who has worked for Asics...
James Harrison, a 40-year-old manager who has worked for Asics and Nike before, has been named brand manager at Oakley Europe for apparel, footwear and accessories. He takes the place of Urs Egli, who becomes global category manager of Oakley for technical outerwear.
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Mike Hundert, co-owner and chief executive of REM Eyewear, has...
Mike Hundert, co-owner and chief executive of REM Eyewear, has appointed his son Kevin manager of new business development for the U.S. based company. Kevin, who graduated from a college in Boston last year, has the assignment to modernize the remeyewear.com website, to launch an aggressive internet marketing campaign, and ...
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Tifosi Optics, the U.S.-based maker of high-tech eyewear for athletes,...
Tifosi Optics, the U.S.-based maker of high-tech eyewear for athletes, has named Bob Bartlett to the new position of operations manager. His previous experience includes stints with Dunlop Maxfli, Srixon Sports USA, US Kids Golf and PowerBilt Golf. He will be in charge of inside sales and warehouse operations at ...
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Victor Scrooby is the new group clinical director for Ocuco,...
Victor Scrooby is the new group clinical director for Ocuco, also overseeing the company's business in the Asia-Pacific region from his base in Brisbane, Australia. Scrooby is an optometrist who set up the U.K. Classic Eyes chain, which has stores in the U.K. and South Africa. He was one of ...
