Glimpses
LUXOTTICA
WHOLESALE N.A.
ANNOUNCES A NEW
CUSTOMER CENTRIC
SALES
Luxottica Wholesale North America,
which serves over 20,000 customers
in the U.S. and Canada, is perfecting
its commercial structure by creating
dedicated teams focused on the
Optical and Premium Sun markets.
Ludo Ladreyt has been appointed
to the newly-created role of Senior
Vice President, Sales for the N.A.
Optical Channel. Ludo most recently
served as Vice President of Sales
and Marketing for Canada. Under
his leadership, the organization
delivered record growth last year
in Canada during a key transitional
moment. Prior to Canada, Ludo
successfully built the US Key Account Channel to serve the growing
needs of both National and
Regional accounts.
All optical customers from Independent to Key Account will now be
served under one dedicated and
customer-centric sales structure.
Reporting to Ludo will be Alessandro
Baronti and Nicola Perini (US
Independents), Alessandro Lucanto
(Key Accounts), Jennifer Brown
(Business Development) and the
Canadian Independent and Key
Account channels.
Leading the further development of
the Premium Sun category in N.A.,
Peter Guthy, will continue as Vice
President of Sales for Department
Stores. Peter and his team also oversee the Boutique, Premium and fast
growing e-commerce channel for
Luxottica.
HOYA VISION CARE
CANADA CELEBRATES
THE GRAND-OPENING
OF THEIR NATIONAL
TRAINING CENTRE
The HOYA Vision Care NTC
Grand-Opening was the place to
be last Wednesday, May 27th, a
large part of the parking lot outside
of their National Training Centre
and laboratory was turned into
Proudly Supporting
Eyecare Professionals since 1988
We are one of Canada's
largest Optical Buying Groups.
a Carnival which included games,
treats andVision Care tours
HOYA food trucks. Lab Canada celebr
and training seminars were offered
Training Centre with an outdoor
throughout the evening to the over
200 in attendance.
employees.
“HOYA’s National Training Centre
will be the location of Juneand cliMississauga, ON – staff 3rd, 2015 – The H
ent training. This will 27th, a large part of th
Wednesday, May be combined
with opportunities turnedour state Carnival wh
laboratory was to tour into a
of the art lab in Toronto” said Ahmos
training seminars were offered throughou
Henry, President, HOYA Vision
Care Canada. “Our NTC reinforces
“HOYA’s National Training Centre will be t
our ALLY OF THE INDEPENDENT
with opportunities to tour our state of the
position in the industry. We will
Care Canada. “Our NTC reinforces our A
empower the independent ECP
with science, technology and ECP with scienc
empower the independent
innovation.”
Also under their new NTC umbrella is H
strategy sessions and vision therapy and re
their Sales & Marketing office in Toronto is
ABOUT HOYA
HOYA Vision Care Canada is a division of H
Japan with sales of approx. $5 Billion (CDN
4% of total revenue. HOYA Corporation is
the world and a leading supplier of inno
advanced optics technologies. HOYA is ac
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