2018: a year of innovation, collaboration and commitment at Essilor
Watch our video and look back at some of the highlights of this year, all of which have helped us advance our mission of improving lives by improving sight.
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2019.01.07
Discover the new Essilor See Change website and the updated See Change and SGD reports
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Hubert Sagnières’ recent interview on CNBC
Essilor Chairman Hubert Sagnières was recently interviewed live on CNBC’s Capital Connections program, where he answered questions about the French economy, trends for the optical market in China, the combination with Luxottica and the rise of myopia in Asia.
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Essilor launches new fellowship to extend reach of its social impact
Essilor has created a new prestigious and highly selective program - Essilor Base-of-Pyramid Fellowship (EBoP) to give talented young people the opportunity to collaborate with Essilor in developing projects that have a social impact in underprivileged communities.
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Essilor Vision Foundation ASEAN awarded ‘Champion of Good’ status 2018
This award comes as recognition of the foundation’s role as a leader and ambassador in corporate giving, employee volunteering and advocacy work as well as for encouraging other like-minded organisations to do their part to build and sustain a compassionate and collaborative society.
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Essilor gathers 700+ Mitra Mata together in Indonesia for the first time
Essilor’s inclusive business, 2.5 New Vision Generation (2.5 NVG), hosted its first ever Mitra Mata Convention in Indonesia which saw over 700 Mitra Mata come together to share best practices and to celebrate their achievements.
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Essilor introduces new visual health model at China International Import Exhibition
From 5 to 10 November, Essilor took part in the first CIIE (China International Import Expo). The event provided a perfect platform for Essilor to introduce a new eyecare model allowing for better management of visual health, as well as showcase some of its key solutions.
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2018 World Sight Day: a strong mobilization for an exceptional day
Once again, World Sight Day proved a great success and the Group’s employees and partners across the world got actively involved. The spirit of this emblematic day for our mission is summed up by this year’s campaign message: “We share the same world. Shouldn’t we share the same vision?”.
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Essilor encourages and supports its people through global learning programs
With Vision Essilor - an annual event bringing its leaders and managers together to finetune skills for tomorrow, and through the expansion of Essilor U - its digital learning platform, Essilor continues to provide an inclusive learning environment for its employees around the world.
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Essilor shines light on importance of good vision for World Sight Day 2018
Essilor is proud to be actively involved in World Sight Day 2018, a global event raising awareness about the importance of good vision.
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Silmo d’Or Awards for Essilor Instruments and BBGR at Paris International tradeshow
Two Essilor Group innovations were honored at Silmo international optics tradeshow: Essilor Instruments’ Vision-R™800, in the Material/Equipment category and BBGR’s BLUV® XPERT, in the Vision category. Congratulations to both teams.
