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News Bits From the Industry

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Marcolin Group and Swiss luxury watchmaker OMEGA will embark on an exclusive collaboration to create OMEGA-branded sunglasses. The first summer collection will be available exclusively in OMEGA boutiques globally starting this month.

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Smart Vision Labs has announced the appointment of Wallace Lovejoy to the company’s board of directors. Lovejoy’s experience in the optical industry includes 28 years on the leadership team at Luxottica.

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The National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness and the National Institute for Children’s Health Quality have selected Arizona, Ohio, and Wyoming to participate in a collaborative aimed at improving the systems supporting children’s vision and eye health. The work will have a special focus on reducing the prevalence of vision problems in hard-to-reach populations of young children.

CooperVision has opened an energy-efficient manufacturing plant at Coyol Business Park in Costa Rica.

Optima, a PFO Global brand, has relocated its Connecticut facilities to PFO’s national headquarters in Dallas to increase efficiency for shipping and ordering processes.

Envision has announced its collaboration with the Wichita-based entrepreneurial group e2e to bring more tech jobs to Wichita, KS—specifically for the blind and visually impaired.

Practical Systems, Inc. (PSI) is now the authorized distributor of The DON Company, LTD’s hard coat, AR, and hydrophobic consumables in North, Central, and South America. PSI has hired Todd Nachbar as its AR specialist to provide the technical expertise of implementing AR into its product line.

In honor of National Sunglasses Day, hosted by The Vision Council, Safilo’s Eden Wexler took part in a segment on finding the perfect pair of summer shades that aired on KYW-TV in Philadelphia on CBS 3’s “Eyewitness News This Morning.”

WestGroupe hosted its June sales meeting in Cancun, Mexico, bringing together 78 North American sales representatives to review the latest strategies and market trends. The highlight of the meeting was the welcoming of 28 new sales reps.

Safilo’s Eden Wexler, left, with Brooke Thomas of CBS 3

WestGroupe’s sales meeting in Cancun

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Prevent Blindness has presented Bruce Moore, O.D., professor of pediatric studies at the New England College of Optometry, with the 2016 Jenny Pomeroy Award for Excellence in Vision and Public Health at the Eye Health National Summit.

Essilor International has been ranked No. 5 in Newsweek’s 2016 Green Rankings, which assesses 500 of the largest publicly traded companies in the U.S. and abroad on their environmental performance.

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In our June issue, Page 56: The product shown from Liberty Sport (incorrectly identified as Liberty Optical) is the company’s new Sport Shift style, which is a product in the F8 Collection.