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2004
Optivision, Inc. & VisionWeb O.N.E. Connect to Speed the Optical Ordering Process
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Austin, TX (Nov.10, 2004) VisionWeb, the online service that helps eyecare providers streamline their practices, and Optivision, Inc., a software company offering a complete ophthalmic laboratory management system, have teamed up to give optical suppliers and laboratories a more efficient method of processing orders.
This integration will allow all labs running Optivision software to send orders electronically to other VisionWeb O.N.E.-connected laboratories regardless of the management software the receiving laboratory is running. Optical laboratories running the Optivision software will have the ability to transfer spectacle lens orders to other labs in an automated electronic protocol, without the use of phone or fax. This is great news for the optical industry, because the more labs that are connected, the more orders that can be processed with greater efficiency, speed, and accuracy.
Mike O’Malley, CFO and VP of Business Development for VisionWeb said,” VisionWeb is happy to be working with Optivision and will be able to provide VisionWeb O.N.E. to all their labs. We’re continuing to add efficiencies to every aspect of the spectacle lens ordering and procurement process.”
Bruce Krymow of Marketing & Operations at Optivision, Inc. added, “Optivision takes pride in providing our ophthalmic laboratories with a management system that meets all the technical and management needs of the lab. Our integration with VisionWeb O.N.E. is another step in providing increased efficiencies for the optical laboratory.”
Connections with initial labs will be complete at the end of 2004 with remaining labs connecting in early 2005.
About Optivision, Inc.
Based in Phoenix, Arizona, Optivision, Inc. has offered comprehensive ophthalmic management systems and software solutions since 1989. Accommodating full-service and finishing laboratories, AR coating manufactory, and remote order entry and tracing, Optivision develops software that was designed in the ophthalmic laboratory environment by lab people for lab people. Optivision has provided solutions built in to programs for a multitude of requirements, the result being a software system that works the way a lab does. For more information about Optivision, please visit www.optivisioninc.com.
About VisionWeb
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, VisionWeb, LP is the online service to help eyecare providers simplify and streamline their practices. VisionWeb offers online multi-payer insurance transaction processing; convenient and direct-to-supplier online ordering; one-stop access to ophthalmic clinical news and information; customizable eyecare practice websites and other benefits for opticians, optometrists, ophthalmologists, optical manufacturers, laboratories, distributors, and patients.
JOHNSON & JOHNSON VISION CARE, INC. ENHANCES ACCESSIBILITY OF DEFINITYTM PROGRESSIVE LENSES THROUGH VISIONWEB
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ROANOKE, Va - Aug. 20, 2004- The Spectacle Lens Group of Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. today announced that it has entered into an agreement with VisionWeb, LP, an online service that helps eye care professionals streamline and simplify their practice, to allow direct ordering of DEFINITYTM Progressive Lenses online at www.visionweb.com.
VisionWeb, which provides convenient, user-friendly and direct-to-supplier electronic ordering, has added The Spectacle Lens Group as a supplier. With this addition, eye care professionals now have access to DEFINITYTM Lenses, the exclusive GEMCOATTM Multicoating System and the patented DUAL ADDTM technology through VisionWeb.
"By making DEFINITYTM Lenses available through VisionWeb, we can enhance the overall customer experience for eye care professionals who are looking for ways to expedite the ordering process," said John Hogan, president of The Spectacle Lens Group. "We are excited about the new offering because it gives us an opportunity to continue on our path of making DEFINITYTM Lenses the progressive lens of choice and providing eye care professionals with the resources they need to order DEFINITYTM Lenses efficiently in a method that best suits their individual needs."
In addition to the online ordering component, VisionWeb provides other features and benefits to help eye care professionals manage their practice. Eye care professionals can gain access to multi-payer insurance transaction processing, customizable eye care practice websites, accredited CE and CME courses, and industry and clinical news.
"We are excited about the opportunity to provide eye care professionals who carry DEFINITYTM Lenses a convenient, electronic ordering method to improve the productivity and profitability of their practice," said Jeffrey B. Saddington, VisionWeb president and CEO. "At VisionWeb our goal is to provide our customers with the most convenient method for placing orders with their preferred suppliers. The addition of The Spectacle Lens Group’s DEFINITYTM Lenses allows us to continue offering the best products and services available on the market to our members."
About The Spectacle Lens Group
The Spectacle Lens Group of Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc., and the DEFINITYTM Lenses laboratory, are located in Roanoke, Va. Committed to employing state-of-the-art technology to improve vision options in the spectacle lens arena, The Spectacle Lens Group develops, manufactures and distributes technologically advanced spectacle lenses.
About VisionWeb
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, VisionWeb, LP is the online service to help eye care providers simplify and streamline their practices. VisionWeb offers online multi-payer insurance transaction processing; convenient and direct-to-supplier online ordering; one-stop access to ophthalmic clinical news and information; customizable eye care practice websites; and other benefits for opticians, optometrists, ophthalmologists, optical manufacturers, laboratories, distributors and patients.
VisionWeb Appoints New Personnel
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Austin, Texas - September 9, 2004 - VisionWeb, LP, the online service to help eyecare providers streamline and simplify their practices, announced today that it has appointed two new sales and marketing managers, and a new integration coordinator to account for VisionWeb’s growth in the eyecare industry.
Since its inception VisionWeb has been expanding its product offerings to bring more value to eyecare providers and their practices. With thousands of users on VisionWeb today, adding new personnel to key business areas was imperative to answer the increasing demand for VisionWeb products.
New Sales and Marketing Managers
Michael J. Herbers comes to VisionWeb from Corning Ophthalmic, where he spent the last 5 years in sales with increasing levels of responsibility. Most recently, Herbers served as the western regional sales manager. Herbers will assume the responsibility for field sales and marketing of VisionWeb Essential and VisionWeb Enhanced to integrated retailers and buying groups. He holds a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Oregon. Herbers resides in Beaverton, Ore. and is married with 2 children.
Gregory K. Stone comes to VisionWeb from Essilor Lenses, with over 20 years experience in the Optical industry as a Sales Consultant, Sales Manager, Technical Manager, and Trainer. Most recently, Stone served as Manager of Sales Training for Essilor Lenses Brand Group Division in St. Petersburg, FL. Stone will assume responsibility for field sales and marketing of VisionWeb Essential and VisionWeb Enhanced to eyecare providers, joining VisionWeb’s existing field sales and marketing team. He holds a B.S. in Marketing from Ferris State University and currently resides in Raleigh, NC.
"We welcome Michael and Greg to the VisionWeb team," said Ron Barnes, VisionWeb vice president of sales and marketing. "Greg’s and Michael’s diverse and long-standing sales experience in the optical industry helps position VisionWeb for a strong future."
New Integration Coordinator
Michael A. Bonacci comes to VisionWeb with almost 20 years of experience in the optical industry in lab management, technology support, and customer support. Most recently, Bonacci served as general manager of Sunstar Optical in Salt Lake City, Utah. As a part of the integration team, Bonacci will be responsible for integrating labs and suppliers with VisionWeb.
"I am excited to have Michael join VisionWeb, and I welcome him to the team," said Eric Muzy, VisionWeb CTO. "I am confident that Michael’s diverse experience in technology and customer support in the optical industry will complement our existing team, and help advance VisionWeb’s ability to connect additional labs to the VisionWeb service."
ABOUT VISIONWEB
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, VisionWeb, LP is the online service to help eyecare providers simplify and streamline their practices. VisionWeb offers online multi-payer insurance transaction processing; convenient and direct-to-supplier online ordering; one-stop access to ophthalmic clinical news and information; customizable eyecare practice websites; and other benefits for opticians, optometrists, ophthalmologists, optical manufacturers, laboratories, distributors and patients. For more information, please visit www.visionweb.com.
VisionWeb is a service mark, and "Streamline. Simplify. Succeed." is a trademark of VisionWeb, Inc.
VisionWeb Adds New Features to Product Ordering and Tracking
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Austin, Texas - September 9, 2004 - VisionWeb, LP, the online service to help eyecare providers streamline and simplify their practices, announced today that it will begin expanding its VisionWeb Essential product ordering capabilities to include the ability to redo or resubmit an order, and automatic order archiving.
"We listened to our customers and are creating new functionality that will make placing and tracking orders on VisionWeb even more useful and convenient," said Ron Barnes, vice president of Sales and Marketing.
This new redo/resubmit functionality will allow users to pull up the patient and prescription information from orders that have already been sent, edit them, and resubmit the order as either a new job or a redo. The result is improved efficiency and time-savings, as users will be able to access old orders and revise them without having to re-enter patient and prescription information.
The new automatic order archiving functionality will make tracking orders even simpler by automatically archiving orders that have been shipped and are no longer active. This feature will remove out-of-date information and archive it for the user 4 weeks after the job was shipped, unless it was already archived. This will help users more easily track active orders and organize archived orders.
Eyecare providers who are interested in learning more about this new functionality, as well as other VisionWeb services, can visit the VisionWeb Cyber Café in booth #10109 at the International Vision Expo West, at The Sands Expo & Conference Center, from September 9-11, 2004 in Las Vegas, NV.
ABOUT VISIONWEB
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, VisionWeb, LP is the online service to help eyecare providers simplify and streamline their practices. VisionWeb offers online multi-payer insurance transaction processing; convenient and direct-to-supplier online ordering; one-stop access to ophthalmic clinical news and information; customizable eyecare practice websites; and other benefits for opticians, optometrists, ophthalmologists, optical manufacturers, laboratories, distributors and patients. For more information, please visit www.visionweb.com.
VisionWeb is a service mark, and "Streamline. Simplify. Succeed." is a trademark of VisionWeb, Inc.
VisionWeb Completes Integration with Digital Vision Inc.’s Lab Management Software
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Integration Further Automates Lab-to-Lab Orders
Las Vegas, Nevada - September 9, 2004 - VisionWeb, L.P., the online service to help eyecare providers streamline and simplify their practices, announced today that it has completed an integration with Digital Vision, Inc. (DVI) to automate lab-to-lab eyecare product orders through VisionWeb and the DVI lab management system.
"We are very happy to be working with Digital Vision, Inc.," said Ron Barnes, vice president of sales and marketing of VisionWeb. "The added ability for labs running DVI’s lab management software to send outsource orders via VisionWeb to the labs of their choice further helps DVI’s lab management customers streamline their operations."
This software interface allows labs running DVI’s lab management software the ability to electronically transmit orders for spectacle lenses to other labs outside the DVI system through VisionWeb. The software eliminates the need for labs to fax or re-key orders that need to be routed to another lab.
"We are excited to have completed this first phase of our integration with VisionWeb," said Gordon Keane, president of Digital Vision, Inc. "Together with VisionWeb, we have built a tool to help our customers increase the efficiency of their businesses. We look forward to our continued relationship with VisionWeb creating value-added services, which we can jointly offer our customers."
DVI and VisionWeb are working to roll out the new software in the coming weeks.
ABOUT DIGITAL VISION, INC.
Headquartered in Portland, Ore., Digital Vision, Inc. is a software consulting company specializing in optical manufacturing systems, applications and research. DVI’s OLA Award of Excellence VISION software system includes RxWizard, an Internet component for eyecare providers and laboratories, as well as complete manufacturing Rx processing and extensive reporting for business management. DVI’s staff has broad experience in opticianry, computer software and scientific and business applications, and OLA Award Winning Customer Support backs ongoing product development, research and customer training. For more information, please visit www.thedvi.com.
ABOUT VISIONWEB
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, VisionWeb, L.P. is the online service to help eyecare providers simplify and streamline their practices. VisionWeb offers online multi-payer insurance transaction processing; convenient and direct-to-supplier online ordering; one-stop access to ophthalmic clinical news and information; customizable eyecare practice websites; and other benefits for opticians, optometrists, ophthalmologists, optical manufacturers, laboratories, distributors and patients. For more information or to register, please visit www.visionweb.com.
VisionWeb Essential to Remain a Free Service to Eyecare Providers at www.visionweb.com
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Austin, Texas - September 9, 2004 - VisionWeb, LP, the online service to help eyecare providers streamline and simplify their practices, announced today that VisionWeb Essential, its basic online ordering service for eyecare providers, will remain a free service at www.visionweb.com.
"Since our launch, we’ve waived the anticipated $9.95 monthly fee for eyecare providers to access VisionWeb Essential, our online product ordering service, in order to allow every eyecare practice to experience the value of streamlining this aspect of their business," said Jeffrey B. Saddington, President and Chief Executive Officer of VisionWeb. "It now appears that we have become ‘essential’ to thousands of practices, and feel that this offering needs to remain a no-cost service to our members."
VisionWeb’s other services, such as VisionWeb Enhanced, which enables eyecare providers to conduct insurance-related transactions online, in real-time, will continue to carry monthly subscription fees.
Eyecare providers who are interested in learning more about ordering products online, as well as other VisionWeb services, can visit the VisionWeb Cyber Café in booth #10109 at the International Vision Expo West, at The Sands Expo & Conference Center, from September 9-11, 2004 in Las Vegas, NV
ABOUT VISIONWEB
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, VisionWeb, LP is the online service to help eyecare providers simplify and streamline their practices. VisionWeb offers online multi-payer insurance transaction processing; convenient and direct-to-supplier online ordering; one-stop access to ophthalmic clinical news and information; customizable eyecare practice websites; and other benefits for opticians, optometrists, ophthalmologists, optical manufacturers, laboratories, distributors and patients. For more information, please visit www.visionweb.com.
VisionWeb is a service mark, and "Streamline. Simplify. Succeed." is a trademark of VisionWeb, Inc.
VisionWeb Completes Integration with VisionStar’s Lab Management Software to Further Automate Lab-to-Lab Orders
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Austin, Texas – June 17, 2004 – VisionWeb, LP, the online service to help eyecare providers streamline and simplify their practice, and VisionStar, LLC, a leading provider of laboratory management software, announced today the launch of a successful interface for automating the routing of orders from a VisionStar Laboratory Management system to outsource labs.
“We are excited to be working with VisionStar,” said Ron Barnes, vice president of sales and marketing of VisionWeb. “VisionStar is one of the first laboratory management system vendors to be connected through VisionWeb with the ability to route orders from the lab management system to outsource labs. This relationship provides our lab customers with greater flexibility in ordering, and helps us achieve our goal of not only connecting eyecare providers with their choice of labs but also connecting labs with their choice of outsource labs.”
Prior to this new service, in March 2003 VisionWeb and VisionStar created an interface to route orders directly from the eyecare practitioner's office to participating VisionStar labs, eliminating the re-keying of patient data and enabling labs to provide more timely order processing and order status to their customers.
“Our ongoing relationship with VisionWeb has given us the ability to provide our customers with an automated system, which enables orders to be received electronically, eliminates frame to come orders, provides online order status for eyecare practitioners and now enables orders to be outsourced electronically to the preferred laboratory,” said Robin Cassidy, EVP of VisionStar. “Our goal to remain current with technology has been greatly enhanced by our relationship with VisionWeb.”
ABOUT VISIONWEB
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, VisionWeb, LP is the online service to help eyecare providers streamline and simplify their practices. VisionWeb offers online multi-payer insurance transaction processing; convenient and direct-to-supplier online ordering; one-stop access to ophthalmic clinical news and information; and other benefits for opticians, optometrists, ophthalmologists, optical manufacturers, laboratories, distributors, and patients. For more information please visit www.visionweb.com.
ABOUT VISION STAR
Located in Portland Oregon, VisionStar, LLC has been providing optical lab automation software and associated services to some of the industry’s largest enterprises since 1972. VisionStar's newest product, VisionStar LMS V04, embodies the commitment to bring state of the art manufacturing technology to the optical industry. For more information please visit www.visionstarllc.com.
VisionWeb Announces Availability of Services to Eyecare Providers in Puerto Rico, Guam and the US Virgin Islands
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Austin, Texas – March 26, 2004 – VisionWeb, LP, the online service to help eyecare providers streamline and simplify their practices, announced today that eyecare providers in Puerto Rico, Guam and the US Virgin Islands can now take advantage of the VisionWeb Essential benefits.
“We are excited to expand our services to cover this new market,” said Ron Barnes, vice president of sales and marketing. “We have expanded our service area as a result of feedback from eyecare providers in Puerto Rico, Guam and the US Virgin Islands, and are looking forward to them joining the VisionWeb family.”
With VisionWeb Essential, eyecare providers can order spectacle lenses, contact lenses, and frames from more than 130 suppliers in one convenient online location, www.visionweb.com. Eyecare providers can also receive a customizable eyecare practice website, access online industry news and clinical information, and complete online CE and CME classes. For more information or to register, eyecare providers in Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands and the United States should visit www.visionweb.com or call VisionWeb customer service at 1-800-874-6601.
ABOUT VISIONWEB
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, VisionWeb, LP is the online service to help eyecare providers simplify and streamline their practices. VisionWeb offers online multi-payer insurance transaction processing; convenient and direct-to-supplier online ordering; one-stop access to ophthalmic clinical news and information; customizable eyecare practice websites; and other benefits for opticians, optometrists, ophthalmologists, optical manufacturers, laboratories, distributors and patients. For more information, please visit www.visionweb.com.
VisionWeb Appoints New Vice President of Sales and Marketing
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Austin, Texas - January 19, 2004 - VisionWeb, LP, the online service to help eyecare providers streamline and simplify their practices, announced today that it has appointed Ron Barnes as the new vice president of sales and marketing.
"I welcome Ron Barnes to the VisionWeb team," said Jeffrey Saddington, VisionWeb president and CEO. "I am confident that Ron's unique mix of industry experience and insight, as well as his demonstrated creativity in this marketplace, will complement VisionWeb's current management team and help ensure VisionWeb's future success."
Barnes comes to VisionWeb following 10 years at Essilor of America, the nation's leading manufacturer and distributor of spectacle lenses, where he held multiple management positions with increasing areas of responsibility. Most recently Barnes served as director of marketing for Essilor Laboratories of America, where he managed the marketing functions of the Essilor Laboratory network representing 75 laboratories and $450 million in annual sales.
"VisionWeb's unique position as a neutral industry leader attracted me to the company," said Ron Barnes, VisionWeb's new vice president of sales and marketing. "I am excited to be joining VisionWeb and am looking forward to the challenges ahead."
Barnes will assume the responsibility for all of VisionWeb's sales and marketing activity, including overseeing marketing and sales strategy and efforts for both VisionWeb Essential, a service where eyecare providers can place orders for spectacle lenses, contact lenses, and frames, and VisionWeb Enhanced, the new multi-payer insurance transaction processing service. He holds a B.S. in Marketing from Ball State University. Barnes will be relocating to Austin this spring from the Dallas metropolitan area and is married with 2 children.
ABOUT VISIONWEB
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, VisionWeb, LP is the online service to help eyecare providers simplify and streamline their practices. VisionWeb offers online multi-payer insurance transaction processing; convenient and direct-to-supplier online ordering; one-stop access to ophthalmic clinical news and information; customizable eyecare practice websites; and other benefits for opticians, optometrists, ophthalmologists, optical manufacturers, laboratories, distributors and patients. For more information or to register, please visit www.visionweb.com.
HOYA VISION CARE Enters Agreement with VisionWeb to Electronically Expedite Lens Ordering for Eyecare Practitioners
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Austin, Texas and Dallas, Texas - January 15, 2004 - HOYA VISION CARE announced today they had entered into an agreement with VisionWeb, LP, the online service to help eye care providers streamline and simplify their practice, to allow direct ordering of Rx and ophthalmic lens products through VisionWeb's electronic ordering platform.
Under this agreement, eyecare practitioners will be able to order their Rx from any of the 16 HOYA laboratories electronically. This will allow the practices to transmit Rx orders directly to HOYA via www.visionweb.com. Orders can be placed with the frame trace, allowing for more accurate and timely delivery of the Rx.
"VisionWeb's electronic ordering capability is the perfect way to allow maximum ease of ordering," said Syl Ghirardi, president and COO of HOYA VISION CARE. "This represents a breakthrough in speed and accuracy for eye care professionals and, ultimately, cost savings and improved service for their practices."
"We are excited that HOYA VISION CARE shares our goal of providing eyecare providers with the ability to place orders in a method that is most convenient to them," said Jeffrey Saddington, VisionWeb president and CEO. "Through this relationship, HOYA VISION CARE can provide an alternate method for placing eyecare product orders, helping their customers streamline and simplify their practices."
ABOUT HOYA VISION CARE
HOYA VISION CARE, North America, is a global leader in premium lens designs, materials, and coatings. Through 16 HOYA labs, over 1,200 employees are dedicated to providing products and services that support eyecare professionals and advance the optical health of their patients.
ABOUT VISIONWEB
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, VisionWeb, L.P. is the online service to help eyecare providers simplify and streamline their practices. VisionWeb offers online multi-payer insurance transaction processing; convenient, direct-to-supplier online ordering; one-stop access to ophthalmic clinical news and information; customizable eyecare practice websites; and other benefits for opticians, optometrists, ophthalmologists, optical manufacturers, laboratories, distributors and patients. For more information or to register, please visit www.visionweb.com.
VisionWeb Begins Integration with Digital Vision Inc.'s Lab Management Software
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Integration to Further Automate Lab-to-Lab and Eyecare Provider Orders
Austin, Texas - January 12, 2004 - VisionWeb, L.P., the online service to help eyecare providers streamline and simplify their practices, announced today that it is working with Digital Vision, Inc. (DVI) to automate eyecare product orders through VisionWeb and the DVI lab management system.
"We are excited to be working with Digital Vision, In'c.," said Jeffrey Saddington, president and CEO of VisionWeb. The ability for labs running DVI's lab management software to send and receive orders via to the VisionWeb service will provide our customers an even greater flexibility in their choice of labs. This relationship brings VisionWeb one step closer to realizing our goal of connecting eyecare providers with their choice of labs in a method that is most convenient to them."
Initially, this software interface will allow labs running DVI's lab management software the ability to electronically transmit orders for spectacle lenses to other labs outside the DVI system through VisionWeb. The second phase will enable these labs to electronically receive orders directly from eyecare providers who are VisionWeb members.
"VisionWeb and DVI share a common goal of offering our customers solutions to help increase the efficiency of their businesses," said Gordon Keane, president of Digital Vision, Inc. "We look forward to the added efficiencies in the receiving and sending of prescription orders that we will be able to offer our customers as a result of our relationship with VisionWeb."
ABOUT DIGITAL VISION, INC.
Headquartered in Portland, Ore., Digital Vision, Inc. is a software consulting company specializing in optical manufacturing systems, applications and research. DVI's OLA Award of Excellence VISION software system includes RxWizard, an Internet component for eyecare providers and laboratories, as well as complete manufacturing Rx processing and extensive reporting for business management. DVI's staff has broad experience in opticianry, computer software and scientific and business applications, and OLA Award Winning Customer Support backs ongoing product development, research and customer training. For more information, please visit www.thedvi.com.
ABOUT VISIONWEB
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, VisionWeb, L.P. is the online service to help eyecare providers simplify and streamline their practices. VisionWeb offers online multi-payer insurance transaction processing; convenient and direct-to-supplier online ordering; one-stop access to ophthalmic clinical news and information; customizable eyecare practice websites; and other benefits for opticians, optometrists, ophthalmologists, optical manufacturers, laboratories, distributors and patients. For more information or to register, please visit www.visionweb.com.
Transitions Optical, Inc. Becomes Equity Investor in VisionWeb
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Austin, Texas - January 7, 2004 - VisionWeb, L.P., the online service to help eyecare providers streamline and simplify their practices, announced today that Transitions Optical, Inc., the market leader in photochromic technology, has joined VisionWeb as its seventh equity investor.
"We are excited to be joining VisionWeb as an equity investor and are looking forward to a strong future together," said Transitions Optical, Inc.'s president Rick Elias. "In VisionWeb, we see an organization creating innovative technology to drive our industry forward, and Transitions Optical shares that vision. Transitions is pleased to play a key role in an initiative that will help drive efficiencies for lens manufacturers, laboratory partners and eyecare professionals."
"We welcome Transitions to the VisionWeb family," said VisionWeb's president and CEO Jeffrey Saddington. "The new relationship with Transitions helps strengthen VisionWeb by adding another visionary market leader to the VisionWeb board of directors. Transitions will now have a seat at the table and be able to help steer the future direction of VisionWeb."
In addition, VisionWeb will become the exclusive sponsor of the Cyber Café for attendees at the Transitions Academy through 2008. Transitions Academy is an annual training conference designed to provide business-building education to Transitions? industry partners. VisionWeb will sponsor and host a Cyber Café for industry professionals attending Transitions Academy. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed.
Transitions joined VisionWeb's six other equity investors: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc., manufacturer of the world's three best-selling contact lens brands; Essilor of America, Inc., the nation's leading manufacturer and distributor of spectacle lenses; Advanced Medical Optics, the respected producer of ophthalmic pharmaceuticals and other products; Jobson LLC, the top publisher of ophthalmic industry and clinical information; Marchon Eyewear, Inc., the world's largest privately owned producer and distributor of fashion eyewear, as well as the largest provider of practice management software to the US market; and the American Optometric Association, a professional association representing more than 33,000 doctors of optometry, students of optometry, and paraoptometric assistants.
ABOUT TRANSITIONS OPTICAL, INC.
Transitions Optical, headquartered in Pinellas Park, Fla., was the first to successfully commercialize a plastic photochromic lens in 1990. The company is the leading supplier of photochromic lenses to optical manufacturers worldwide. Transitions Optical offers the most advanced photochromic technology and the widest selection of lens designs, materials and brand names.
Transitions Optical has manufacturing operations in Pinellas Park; Tuam, Ireland; Laguna, Philippines; Sumare, Brazil; and Adelaide, Australia. Sales offices are located in Toronto, Canada and nine other countries. For more information about the company and Transitions Lenses, visit www.transitions.com or contact Transitions Optical Customer Service at 1-800-848-1506.
ABOUT VISIONWEB
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, VisionWeb, L.P. is the online service to help eyecare providers simplify and streamline their practices. VisionWeb offers online multi-payer insurance transaction processing; convenient and direct-to-supplier online ordering; one-stop access to ophthalmic clinical news and information; customizable eyecare practice websites; and other benefits for opticians, optometrists, ophthalmologists, optical manufacturers, laboratories, distributors and patients. For more information or to register, please visit www.visionweb.com. |
