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BLOOMINGTON, Ill.—Amid a challenging year for many businesses and health care providers in 2020, Keplr Vision said it finished the year with an impressive 40 new eyecare partnerships. With 65 practice locations added via those partnerships, the Keplr organization “now boasts 185 total clinical locations,” the group said in an announcement late last week. Keplr Vision said it primarily focused its expansion in the Midwest while taking stronger steps into Texas and the Pacific Northwest Read more.
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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. The founders’ original vision was “was to fill the emerging value frame market with good quality, good looking, low priced frames, backed up with the commitment to provide Read more.
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VIENNA, Va.—MyEyeDr. (MED) has announced this month that it has formed The MyEyeDr. OneFamily Community Fund. This charitable 501(3)(c) organization is an expansion of the initial work done through the company’s OneFamily Fund that was established last year to help their associates through the economic challenges of 2020. The Fund’s expanded mission is twofold: to provide care, assistance, and support to associates and others in need by administering a financial hardship and disaster Read more.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va.—The Vision Council and the Optical Women’s Association are joining together for an EYE2EYE Series webinar titled “Unleashing Your Leadership Potential – A Conversation With the OWA.” The webinar, which is open to everyone, is scheduled for today, Tuesday, January 19, 2021, at 12:00 P.M. Eastern. It marks the beginning of the EYE2EYE series for 2021. The webinar will focus on work-life balance, career growth, boosting confidence and goal setting. Panelists include Robyn Crimmins, OWA president and division vice president of commercial markets Read more.
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 The December retail results were an absolute disaster. Clearly, consumer spending slowed down sharply in November and December as the virus gained ground and forced closures of stores and restaurants in many key states.
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Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Amherst Pierpont Securities, writing late last week in a note to clients, as reported by Bloomberg in its story, “U.S. Retail Sales Post Surprise Monthly Drop to Cap Dismal Year.”
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EYECARE
The Easy Reader from Eschenbach
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Easy Reader
Top Line: The Easy Reader from Eschenbach is a versatile reading stand with multiple height adjustments that holds reading material upright and at an ergonomically correct position to make reading more comfortable especially when using a low vision device. It’s designed for use in the kitchen, bedroom, on the couch, or in the classroom. It can be used to prop up books and magazines, hold homework, sheet music and
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EYECARE
HEA Offers New COPE-Accredited CE for Optometrists
Product:
Powered Up Practice Education Series Event: New Treatment Paradigms For 2021.
Top Line: Healthy Eyes Advantage (HEA) announced its next Powered Up Practice Education Series Event (formerly the HEA Ocular Symposium): New Treatment Paradigms For 2021. The event will take place on Sunday, January 31st, 10:35 AM to 8:00 PM EST. This Live Event provides eight (8) hours of COPE-accredited continuing education to optometrists nationwide and will be presented in an interactive
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SUNWEAR COLLECTION
Essilor and Luxottica Launch Ray-Ban Authentic, Their First Joint Product Offering in U.S.
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Ray-Ban Authentic
Top Line: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" and will capitalize on the assets of both
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Rock Health, a venture fund dedicated to digital health, reported that venture capital funding for U.S. digital health companies hit an all-time high of $14.1 billion in 2020, a 72 percent increase from the previous high water mark set in 2018.
In a post on its website. Rock Health noted that $5.9B was raised in the first half of 2020, with the second half delivering the most funding in a half-year ever with $8.2 billion. Read more.
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NEW YORK—Across the country, COVID-19 vaccine rollout has kicked off. Most states are still in the early phases of vaccination, which usually includes older, more vulnerable members of the population, and certain frontline and health care workers. In many states, those health care workers include ECPs. For many, receiving a COVID-19 vaccine is a cause for hope, joy and celebration. To honor the science that got us here, many in the optical community have taken to social media to share the news of their vaccinations—and to share what The Cut is calling “The Vaxxie,” or the Vaccination Selfie. Here we take a look at The Vaxxie in the optical community.
Here we take a look at The Vaxxie in the optical community. Read More
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With the New Year upon us, we find ourselves once again facing the challenge of lost business with fearful patients cancelling appointments to avoid close contact, in both medical and retail environments. Lockdown and restrictions loom large. However, with all of the doom and gloom, it is a new and hope filled year. It is now time to stand together so that we can once again enjoy the freedom of movement to conduct business, socialize, attend trade shows and shop. I look forward to interacting with people and the simple pleasures of entertainment, travel and dining. I will never again take for granted the freedom to walk museum galleries, sit in crowded theaters, restaurants, pubs and sports arenas. Read More
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With a focus on respect for nature and for its resources, the new advertising campaign of Neubau Eyewear has been inspired by the four its elements, utilizing the paradox of nature’s resilience and fragility to create new eyewear styles for 2021. Read more.
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