By Staff
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 12:18 AM
LONGARONE, Italy—
De Rigo and
Fila have announced the renewal of their licensing agreement for the design, production and distribution of Fila-branded prescription frames in the EMEA, the Americas, Australia and New Zealand.
By Staff
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 12:15 AM
NORTH CHICAGO, Ill.—Allergan, an
AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) company, has announced that it submitted a New Drug Application to the Food and Drug Administration for investigational AGN-190584 (pilocarpine 1.25%) ophthalmic solution for the treatment of presbyopia.
By Staff
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 12:24 AM
GENEVA, Switzerland—
Alcon (SIX/NYSE:ALC), a global leader in eyecare, reported Tuesday that its worldwide sales for the fourth quarter rose 2 percent on a reported basis to $1.9 billion. The increase was 1 percent on a constant currency basis.
By Staff
Thursday, February 18, 2021 12:21 AM
SAN RAMON, Calif.—
CooperVision Specialty EyeCare has named Marie-Christine Blanchard as global lead, irregular cornea.
By Staff
Tuesday, February 16, 2021 12:24 AM
LAVAL, Quebec—
Bausch Health Companies issued a statement Friday in response to the news that activist investor Carl Icahn had accumulated a sizable stake in the health care company, as Icahn Capital noted in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing late last week.
By Staff
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 12:21 AM
LONGARONE/CASTIGLIONE OLONA, Italy and KINGSPORT, Tenn.—
Thélios has announced it is partnering with leading acetate-sheet manufacturer
Mazzucchelli 1849 and with specialty materials provider
Eastman to push forward sustainable innovation in the eyewear industry.
By Staff
Wednesday, February 3, 2021 4:30 PM
CHARENTON-LE-PONT, France, and SAN RAMON, Calif.—
EssilorLuxottica (Reuters: ESLA.PA) and
CooperCompanies (NYSE:COO), two of the world’s leading vision care companies, said late Wednesday that they have entered into an agreement to create a 50/50 joint venture for the acquisition of
SightGlass Vision, a U.S.-based life sciences company focused on developing innovative spectacle lenses to reduce the progression of myopia in children. EssilorLuxottica and CooperCompanies will leverage their shared expertise and global leadership in myopia management to accelerate the commercialization of SightGlass Vision spectacle lenses.
By Staff
Thursday, January 28, 2021 12:27 AM
PADUA, Italy—The board of
Safilo Group has examined and reported the Group’s preliminary net sales for the financial year ended Dec. 31, 2020. The Board will approve the full year annual results on March 11, 2021.
By Staff
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 12:13 AM
SAN RAMON, Calif.—To support the education of countless future eyecare professionals,
CooperVision has committed funding for the new eyecare clinic at The Ohio State University College of Optometry. Contact lens services provided by the clinic include soft contact lens fittings for the correction of myopia, astigmatism, and presbyopia, as well as myopia management for children through CooperVision’s Brilliant Futures Myopia Management Program featuring MiSight 1 day.
VMAIL previously reported on Ohio State’s College of Optometry’s new clinic, which has a retail eyewear gallery with more than 3,000 frames,
here.
By Staff
Thursday, January 21, 2021 12:21 AM
SAN RAMON, Calif.—
CooperVision Specialty EyeCare said this week that it plans to make investments in its Gilbert, Ariz., and Sherbrooke, Quebec, manufacturing facilities. The moves are in response to the growing adoption of the company’s specialty contact lenses by eyecare professionals, the announcement noted. The Gilbert site—in suburban Phoenix—currently produces Paragon CRT contact lenses and materials. The group’s ambitious expansion plans will grow the facility to more than 45,000 square feet by 2025, with a refurbished shipping and warehouse center, and a substantially larger specialty lens manufacturing floor.
By Staff
Tuesday, January 19, 2021 12:27 AM
TROY, Mich.—
I-Deal Optics is kicking off the new year with a celebration of its 25th anniversary. Originally founded in 1996 by Mort Feldman and current president and CEO, Michael Feldman, I-Deal Optics began as a 300 square foot workspace within a lab located in Ferndale, Michigan.
By Staff
Friday, January 15, 2021 12:21 AM
DENVER and UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J.—Outskirts Press, Inc. has published
Making A Difference: How a Little Upstart Eyewear Company Changed the Optical Industry by Al Berg as told to Frank Giammanco, a book which hosts the recollections about Marchon and the optical industry by Berg, former president and CEO of the eyewear company, who passed away in March, 2019.
By Staff
Thursday, January 14, 2021 12:21 AM
CARROLLTON, Texas—This year,
A&A Optical is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Originally founded as a two-person shop serving the Texas optical market, A&A Optical is now a third-generation organization serving optometrists, ophthalmologists and eyecare retailers throughout the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Latin America, South America, and the Caribbean.
By Staff
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 12:27 AM
DALLAS and NEW YORK—
EssilorLuxottica is launching the first commercial product leveraging the strength of the new Group by strategically combining the expertise of Essilor and Luxottica and tapping the brand appeal of its most popular lines. The company's senior executives said that its latest edition of Ray-Ban Authentic "represents the perfect match of Ray-Ban’s legendary style and Essilor’s expertise in sight."
By Staff
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 12:24 AM
NEW YORK—The organizers of the
Eyewear ArtWalk (EWAW) have announced the first 2021 EWAW tour in Texas on Jan. 18 in Houston, Jan. 19 in Austin and then Jan. 20 in Dallas.