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Silmo celebrates 40 years

Silmo has come a long way in 40 years. Rory Brogan discovers that October's show will be bigger and better than ever

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Show organisers held an anniversary event attended by optical journalists from across the globe last week in France, which included a fashion trends presentation, an exhibition by Lunettes de France featuring companies from Alain Mikli and François Pinton to Parasite, and a conference on innovation.

At the latter conference in Bordeaux, Silmo's Eric Lenoir explained that the four-day exhibition will be held in four halls at the Porte de Versailles and the show area has expanded at the request of exhibitors by 10 per cent to 95,400sq m. The anticipated number of visitors is 48,000, while the total number of exhibitors has also increased to 1,100, 67 per cent of whom are from outside France.

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