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PADOVA, Italy—Safilo Group S.p.A. (SFL.MI) has filed with Borsa Italiana S.p.A., the Italian stock exchange, two lists of candidates to be considered for appointment to their board of directors.
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Signet Armorlite is launching a sales promotion which kicks off April 1
and ends June 30, 2010.
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The 20/20 Opticianry Study Center has launched a newly redesigned Web
site 2020mag.com/ce to offer optical professionals an enhanced user
experience for all their continuing education needs.
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Augen Optics has launched the Trivex material e-training guide for
eyecare professionals on its Web site at www.augenoptics.com.
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NEW YORK—Many in the optical community know Mark Sachs as the product
manager, vision and life at Blue Shield of California.
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Industry Internet portal VisionWeb is joining up with the
Opticians Associations of America to create a royalty program for
opticians, similar to a program VisionWeb has offered to American
Optometric Association members for a number of years.
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TLCVision Corporation announced that on Feb. 12 the U.S. Bankruptcy
Court for the District of Delaware approved an amended plan sponsor
agreement backed by affiliates of Charlesbank Capital Partners and
H.I.G. Capital, LLC regarding a new plan of reorganization that would
result in the payment in full of all outstanding amounts owing to the
company’s senior secured lenders under its credit facility.
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FGX International, based here, reported that net sales rose to $64.7
million in its fourth fiscal quarter ending Jan. 2, 2010, up 5 percent
from a year ago.
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Liberty Sport has named Alternative Eyewear the exclusive
distributor of the company’s protective sports eyewear and performance
sunwear in Canada.
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Carl Zeiss Vision reported that it is in talks with lenders on
restructuring of its financing due to a covenant breach based on the
financial results of FY 2008/09, which is related to certain aspects of
the covenants.
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Independent Doctors of Optometric Care (IDOC), has been growing its
membership rapidly, according to the IDOC’s president and CEO, Mark
Feder, OD.
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Viva International Group launched its redesigned
interactive Web site, www.vivagroup.com, on March 1.
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Essilor International (ESSI.PA: Reuters) reported that it made
significant gains in 2009, despite the recessionary economy and what the
company characterized as “an unprecedented slowdown in the ophthalmic
optical market.”
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SoloHealth, which currently has nearly 100 self-service EyeSite kiosks
offering vision screenings to consumers in seven U.S. markets, will add
three more cities this year while enhancing the kiosks’ technology,
company officials said recently.
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Leybold Optics has appointed Antonio Requena as general manager of its
optics division.
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Safilo Group S.p.A announced that the chairman of the board of
directors, Vittorio Tabacchi; executive vice chairman, Massimiliano
Tabacchi and independent director, Ennio Doris have resigned.
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In an organizational announcement, San Antonio-based Eye Care Centers of
America (ECCA) said it has brought its ophthalmic lenses and contact
lens business operations under the watch of the company’s merchandising
and sales development area, headed by ECCA VP Kelly Carter, who joined
the company in August 2009.
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With Luxottica Group’s business currently improving in most parts of the
world, CEO Andrea Guerra recently singled out the U.S. market as
“showing solid signs of a turnaround” in the first two months of 2010.
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on March 3 that it has
reached a settlement with Transitions Optical that bars Transitions
Optical from using allegedly anticompetitive practices to maintain its
monopoly and increase prices on photochromic lenses.
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