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Wilhelm Anger, the founder of Optyl and Carrera, has passed...
Wilhelm Anger, the founder of Optyl and Carrera, has passed away at the age of 88. Anger was a pioneer in the eyewear sector through his early involvement in the licensing of fashion designers and his technical achievements. After World War II, he went door-to-door selling welding equipment to manufacturers ...
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Robert J. Morrison, the American who helped invent the first...
Robert J. Morrison, the American who helped invent the first soft contact lens in the 1960s, has passed away at the age of 90. He based his work on material technologies developed in the Czech Republic. The related patent was bought by Bausch+Lomb and used for the launch of the ...
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Francis Jean, founder and president of Iris The Visual Group,...
Francis Jean, founder and president of Iris The Visual Group, the leading Canadian optical retailing group, died while riding a bicycle in the Iris Challenge, an event organized by the company to raise money for cancer research. He was 56 years old. Together with other optometrists, Jean founded the Iris ...
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David Challinor, who was news editor of Optician for 10...
David Challinor, who was news editor of Optician for 10 years and a former editor of Optometry Today, died of a heart attack on May 29 at the age of 50. After studying English and media at Bournemouth University in the U.K., he worked for five years at the publisher ...
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CORRECTION: Oliver Goldsmith Spectacles is not changing the distribution of...
CORRECTION: Oliver Goldsmith Spectacles is not changing the distribution of its products in Europe, as reported in our last issue. It's Oliver Godsmith Sunglasses, the British company run by Oliver Goldsmith's niece Claire, that is selling directly to the opticians.
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Silhouette International is mourning the loss of its co-founder, Arnold...
Silhouette International is mourning the loss of its co-founder, Arnold Schmied, Sr., who passed away on Jan. 31 following a long illness. He was 89. Schmied and his wife, Anneliese, founded the company in 1964 with the objective of turning what were once considered medical, visual aids into fashion accessories. ...
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Joseph Hatchiguian, the founder and chief executive of Sporoptic Pouilloux...
Joseph Hatchiguian, the founder and chief executive of Sporoptic Pouilloux from 1957 to the end of 2009, when it was sold to Alain Mikli International, passed away last July 25 at the age of 78. In 1966, he created the brand of sunglasses, Vuarnet, named after French skiing Olympic champion ...
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Cari Zalloni, the creator of Cazal Eyewear, died at the...
Cari Zalloni, the creator of Cazal Eyewear, died at the age of 74 on July 3, following heart surgery. Cazal was born in 1975 and appealed then to inner-city youths, who liked the bold, gold-trimmed design. Its appeal expanded over the years and Cazal Eyewear has been seen on such ...
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Bob Smith, the founder of Smith Optics who invented the...
Bob Smith, the founder of Smith Optics who invented the modern double-lens, anti-fogging ski goggle, died last month at the age of 78. A former orthodontist, he developed the goggle in the 1960s because as an avid skier, he was constantly frustrated with fogged-up goggles. He founded the company in ...
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The Insight magazine reported the death last Nov. 6 of...
The Insight magazine reported the death last Nov. 6 of Michael McInerney at the age of 53, after an 18-month battle with cancer. He spent the last eight years with Younger Optics Australia and became its managing director last July.
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Elbert E. (Jody) Stone Jr., 65, died of a heart...
Elbert E. (Jody) Stone Jr., 65, died of a heart attack on Oct. 26, VMail reports. He was a journalist and the editor of several optical trade publications. For seven years in the 1980s he was lead editorial executive at Jobson Publishing. He was the founding editor in chief of ...
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Derek McLaren, former managing director of Grafton Optical and Silhouette...
Derek McLaren, former managing director of Grafton Optical and Silhouette UK, passed away last month after a long illness. A well-known member of the British eyewear industry, he acted as a trustee of the Eyecare Trust and as chairman of the Optical Frame Importers Association within the U.K. Federation of ...
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Robert A. Amato, former president of Jobson Publishing/Jobson Medical Information,...
Robert A. Amato, former president of Jobson Publishing/Jobson Medical Information, died on Sept. 19 at the age of 80. His family said he had a stroke and lapsed into a coma, and never recovered. Amato started his publishing career with General Binding Corporation, then took a sales position at ...
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Derek McLaren, a dispensing optician who was a managing director...
Derek McLaren, a dispensing optician who was a managing director for Silhouette and Grafton in the U.K., has died. He was also a trustee of the board of the Eyecare Trust and worked with the Federation of Manufacturing Opticians.
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Jesse W. Devlyn, 71, has passed away. He was executive...
Jesse W. Devlyn, 71, has passed away. He was executive vice president and a major shareholder of the Devlyn Optical Group. Based in Mexico, it is the leading optical retail company in Latin America, with over 920 stores in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and the U.S.
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Peter Bateman, the former chairman and managing director of the...
Peter Bateman, the former chairman and managing director of the GC Bateman group, has died from cancer at the age of 82. He was a past chairman of the Society of Opticians and Optical Information Council, and joined the family business in 1957. He also helped establish the Federation of ...
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Newton K. Wesley, 93, an optometrist who suffered from keratoconus,...
Newton K. Wesley, 93, an optometrist who suffered from keratoconus, died on July 21 from congestive heart failure. Wesley was told at a young age that his vision problems would eventually worsen and he would become blind. His vision was improved by large glass contact lenses, but they were too ...
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Olaf Göttgens, who worked for one year as chief executive...
Olaf Göttgens, who worked for one year as chief executive officer of Rodenstock from the end of 2009, died at 45 years of age from a heart attack at the beginning of June. His departure from the German company reportedly followed the failure of Rodenstock's takeover by the luxury goods ...
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Jacques Morel, who was very involved with the French eyewear...
Jacques Morel, who was very involved with the French eyewear company bearing his family's name since 1948 and until his retirement, has passed away at the age of 83
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Nathalie Dangre, who helped to found Alliance Optique in 1988...
Nathalie Dangre, who helped to found Alliance Optique in 1988 and ran the French optical retail cooperative until 1997, has died at the age of 47
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