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June 30, 2016April 24, 2018

Our Children’s Vision – Canada

Optometry Giving Sight is pleased to be part of a new global campaign called Our Children’s Vision.

Our Children’s Vision is a call to action with the following objectives:

To deliver appropriate, accessible and quality screening, refraction and referral services to 50 million children and adolescents by 2020.

To integrate child eye health into existing child and adolescent health and education systems.

To create awareness of the risk of Myopia to children’s vision.

To learn more please watch the video and visit our website.

June 29, 2016April 24, 2018

Elegant Shadow Play by OWP

With the full-framed style 1407 (photo) and style 1408; its nylor variant, two new, subtly modern stainless steel styles are added to the OWP Ladies’ collection. The frame design is a noteworthy feature –the fine, wavy embossed inside of the frames plays around with shade, contrast and delicate constructions, while shiny matte fluctuations on the outside create subtle variance.

Distributed by Lanctôt: www.rlanctôt.com

June 29, 2016April 24, 2018

New Colour Now Available for Transitions® Signature® VII Bifocal Lenses

Torrance, Calif., June 2016 – Transitions Signature Flat Top 28 polycarbonate composite lenses are now available in both gray and brown. This means even more bifocal wearers can enjoy the unsurpassed photochromic performance of Transitions Signature VII lenses.

Why is this expansion important for eye care practices? Transitions Signature brown is the colour of choice for many patients, both for fashion and to enhance contrast. This new lens provides an opportunity for eye care professionals to significantly heighten the satisfaction of patients who wear polycarbonate bifocals. Eight out of 10 patients prefer Transitions Signature lenses to clear lenses, and now eye care professionals don’t have to find another option when bifocal wearers request a Transitions brand lens. They can dispense authentic Transitions Signature lenses in a polycarbonate composite material.

Just how significant is the market for bifocal lenses? Approximately one in five pairs of lenses sold today are segmented multi-focals, and a majority of those are bifocals.

What is unique about this product? “Younger Optics and Transitions Optical have developed a polycarbonate composite lens that incorporates a thin photochromic front surface bifocal layer made of Trivex^®—resulting in a lens delivering Transitions Signature VII performance and superb segment cosmetics in a product that is surfaced, polished, edged and dispensed just like a clear polycarbonate lens,” said David Rips, president and CEO of Younger Optics.

Transitions Signature polycarbonate composite flat top 28 lenses are now available in both gray and brown exclusively from Younger Optics.

To read full press release, click HERE.

June 29, 2016April 24, 2018

Sanaz Malekeh is New Executive Director – Essilor Mission in Canada

MONTREAL, QC – Essilor Group in Canada is pleased to announce the appointment of Sanaz Malekeh (formerly Sheila Bissonnette) to the position of Executive Director – Essilor Mission in Canada.

Essilor Group in Canada will enhance collaboration with eye care professionals, in order to create deeper advocacy and consumer awareness for the importance of vision health and eye protection. In her new role, Sanaz will assume the lead for Vision Impact Institute in Canada to establish advocacy and awareness for uncorrected refractive error (URE).

Our philanthropic outreach and activities will now be directed under Essilor Vision Foundation. Sanaz will act as Executive Director for the Vision Foundation of Canada, engaging network employees, partner organizations and our customers to make a meaningful and concerted effort in local communities by serving the most needy Canadian populations.

Sanaz’s expertise as Essilor Corporate Communications and Community Relations Director and her previous experience as the Executive Director of Canadian Coalition of Eye Care Professionals positions her as the ideal candidate for leading the group’s mission in Canada, through the acceleration of these four pillars.

The new role will report to Chief Strategic Officer for Canada and Essilor International Mission headquarters in Singapore.

For full press release, click HERE.

June 29, 2016April 24, 2018

Westgroupe Mixes Business with Pleasure

MONTREAL, QC – WestGroupe, a leader in the international eyewear industry, hosted its June Sales Meeting in Cancun, Mexico this year.

Following WestGroupe’s takeover of the US West coast in April of this year, this meeting was an opportunity to bring together 78 sales representatives from across North America to review the latest strategies and
market trends. The highlight of the meeting was the welcoming of 28 new sales reps into the WestGroupe family.

“These meetings are an opportunity to have all of our sales team together in one place and communicate valuable information to the entire group,” said Mike Debono, Executive Vice President of Global Sales. “This is
a more relaxed environment for the WestGroupe sales veterans and new team members to meet, share ideas and build relationships.”