Zuzhou And Sover

Suzhou (ROSA)

Suzhou Paradise Optics Spectacles Co. is located in the northeast of Suzhou City, miles away from Tiger Hill, and which was Suzhou NO.1 state optics factory. These technicians who worked for Suzhou NO.1 state optics factory, now are serving on producing CR-39 resin lens. So far, there are over 70 workers and technicians working together. Every year, we produce more than 1 million pairs resin lenses, majority of which are exported

The company produces:

• Flat top bifocal lenses

• invisible bifocal lenses

• progressive lenses

• Photochromic Flat top bifocal lenses

• photochromic invisible bifocal lenses

Sover (GIANK)

Sover was founded in 1962 at Soverzene in the Province of Belluno, in an area well-known worldwide for the production of glasses.

SOVER ranks among the top ten Italian eyewear manufacturers, with its production of frames and sunglasses in acetate, metal and in combination of the two materials. The factory is located in the Belluno area, where about 2000 frames are produced daily. The constant updating of the plants and the application of new technologies keeps the production figures rising year by year. Since its inception in 1962, SOVER’s sales have continuously grown as a result of a very successful marketing program.

SOVER is part of a Group of the same name which consists of a production unit in Italy plus three commercial joint-ventures located in Eastern Europe in Prague, Moscow* and Bucharest**. Sover Group personnel is made up of about 300 people – 80 at the main production plant in Soverzene. The Group operates in more than 70 foreign markets.

The distribution network is an efficient selling system based on the co-operation of the most professional wholesalers, distributors, retail chain and buying groups all around the World. Not to forget, of course, its own network of exclusive agents in Italy and other European Countries, as well as the direct ownership of fifteen shops in Romania driven by the sister company Sover Optica.

Sover choice aims to the luxury market with products and marketing solutions of high-profile and undisputed quality. The main brands carried by Sover (Alviero Martini-1st Class, Mariella Burani, Baldinini and Kiton) are definitely part of the most exclusive end prestigious "made in Italy". Sover is specialized in the use of leather, a precious and natural material. A special touch of class, elegance and originality for those who are looking for something really beyond the usual eyewear.

PROBLEM (GABY)

In june 1991, Sover S.P.A, a small italian spectacles maker, proposed to liquidate its 50% - owned sunglasses Factory in Suzhou, China. The company alleged that its Chinese partner, Suzhou spectacles No. 1 Factory, sold pirated copies of the joint venture’s product in the domestic market. The Chinese partner

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