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GLBL UNVEILS


          GIBSON & MINIONS




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                he GLBL Eyewear Group is
                a cutting-edge speciality
          Teyewear company that owns
          and distributes its own brands Eye
          Respect and London-based fashion
          brand LDNR, and also has licensing
          agreements with Formula Eyes
          (the official licensee for Formula 1
          eyewear) and specialist children’s
          eyewear label, ZooBug.
             The UK-based company is an
          operational arm for international
          eyewear ventures into wholesale
          and retail. The latest update from
          the GLBL Eyewear Group is the
          expansion of its fast-growing
          portfolio of eyewear collections
          with the addition of two new
          license agreements: Gibson and
          Minions. The agreements for both        with a unisex sunglasses collection, while Minions
          new brands were signed in August        unveiled its speciality line of kid’s frames.
          this year.
                                                     Gibson is world-famous as a musical instrument
             As with all the Group’s brands,      company and a master crafter of guitars. The
          these too are high on style             brand’s first collection of sunglasses presented eight
          and optical quality. The debut          sunglasses in four colours with distinctive designs
          collections for both Gibson and         that call to mind the fundamental tenets of the iconic
          Minions were presented for the          American guitar brand.
          first time at Silmo in Paris during
          the third week of September this           Founded in 1894 and headquartered in Nashville,
          year. Gibson launched at the show       Tennessee, the Gibson brand is a very big name to


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