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Laboratory offers complete listing ... Optinet draws Oldham winner ... Bag some Boss-branded give-aways ... Ted Baker is the brand to watch ... Batemans sets the scene for Bob's TV comedy show ... Gourmet trip for BBGR winners

Laboratory offers complete listing

  • Surfacing and glazing laboratory Eye Index has launched two glazed Rx product/price lists, one for sports and fashion wraparound sunglass lenses and another for complete rimless frame and lens glazed products.

    For Base 8 curvature product the company said it was committed to clear service times, with glazing in single-vision, bifocal and progressives, all with tints and mirror coating. Complete rimless piece options included Silhouette, Minima, Marchon, Stepper and International Eyewear.
  • Call: 01480 499600.


    Optinet draws Oldham winner  Optinet winner.jpg
  • Optinet launched the fourth version of its easy-to-run practice management software at Optrafair and offered a free draw to win a personal computer. More than 500 visitors tried their luck, but Joanne Bradburn, a dispensing optician from John Clegg Opticians of Oldham, was the winner. Her entry was pulled from the hat by Optrafair Committee chairman Malcolm Polley (right) and David Longley (left) Optinet general manager.


    Bag some Boss-branded give-aways  

  • Hugo_Boss_Gifts.jpgTo celebrate the new 2005 Eyewear Collection, Charmant has launched a spring gift promotion for the Boss Hugo Boss range, starting this month.

    Practices will receive a set of high quality Boss Hugo Boss branded gifts, including cosmetic purses, baseball caps and key-rings to give away to their customers when they purchase any Boss Hugo Boss frame.

    To accompany the promotion, Hugo Boss has produced a range of promotional display material to help each practice announce the offer, including a window display case, frame display blocks and an explanatory showcard.

    The promotion aims to help practices draw the attention of customers to the new Boss Hugo Boss eyewear collection.  This comprises 32 men's models and a specific collection for women of 24 models. There is also a sunglass range and all the collections come with point-of-sale material and display stands.
  • Details from Charmont on 020 8992 9222.


    Ted Baker is the brand to watchTedBaker.JPG

  • Mondottica has announced the winner of a promotion at Conlons' Ranelagh Street practice in Liverpool, where a full collection of Ted Baker and Ted Woman frames were on show for a month. In a staff promotion, dispensing optician Sue Judic was presented with a Ted Baker watch as the prize from Mondottica sales director Andrew Wilkinson. 'The promotion was a huge success and gave the opportunity for customers to choose from the entire collection, rather than a limited range. It is something we are considering running at other practices based on this success,' said Wilkinson.

    Also pictured are practice manager Simon Moores and assistant manager Bridget Wallwork.


    Bob Mortimer at Batemans.jpgBatemans sets the scene for Bob's TV comedy show
     

  • Television celebrity and producer Bob Mortimer had the cameras rolling at Batemans Opticians in Maidstone's Gabriel's Hill last week. Mortimer was filming a new pilot comedy skit - Tittybangbang, a female-led comedy show which has a scene set in an opticians. Pet Productions, based in Maidstone, approached Batemans about using the practice and manager Kevin Shaxted was delighted to agree, said Batemans. The BBC 3 programme is due to be screened this autumn.


    Gourmet trip for BBGR winners 

  • Warrington practitioner Richard Shaw and his wife, Janet, were the lucky winners of the BBGR scratch-card competition held at the lens manufacturer's stand at Optrafair last month.BBGR-shaw.jpg

    The couple, pictured above with BBGR account manager Mark Culshaw, won a luxury break  in the Alps at the Relais & Chateau hotel in Chamonix. They will be treated to a gourmet meal at the 'gastronomic' two Michelin-star restaurant and free treatments at the hotel's health salon.


     

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