eyeglasses News Archive

27-Feb-2009

 

  • Fielmann Profit Gains 38% as Consumers Buy Discount Eyeglasses (Bloomberg)
    Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Fielmann AG , Europe?s largest chain of optical stores, said full-year profit rose 38 percent as consumers in Germany, Switzerland and Austria bought more of its discount eyeglasses from an increased number of outlets.


  • Lions Club Grateful For Eyeglasses (Garden City News)
    The Garden City Public Library is a collection site for used eyeglasses for the Recycle for Sight Program, which is run by a local Lions Club. Library patrons have been very generous donating their used eyeglasses. The Lions Club has expressed its appreciation to the Library for continuing to serve as an ongoing collection site for the Recycle For Sight Program.


  • Facing German Suffering, and Not Looking Away (New York Times)
    The discovery of a World War II mass grave in Poland has revealed that an understanding of civilian suffering in former German territories is starting to gain traction.


  • Facing German Suffering, and Not Looking Away (New York Times)
    The discovery of a World War II mass grave in Poland is revealing signs that an understanding of the civilian suffering in former German territories is beginning to gain traction.


  • Uncle Sam Must Learn to Slow the Brain Drain (Washington Post)
    Youth. Youth. Youth. Does everything have to be for people who have only one prescription in their eyeglasses? Sometimes it seems the world of business and employment is totally focused on the under-35 set. That's a critical demographic, no doubt. But if Uncle Sam wants to get the jump on his pri...


  • Designer Focuses on Marketing Adjustable Eyeglasses at $1 a Pair (Scientific American)
    More than 153 million people around the world with poor or no eyesight either don't have access to or can't afford vision correction, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Ninety percent live in low- or middle-income countries, WHO reports, where optometrists are harder to come by and individually crafted lenses cost too much for many. [More]


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