Wesley Jessen, the largest maker of colored contact lenses, said its agreement last month to buy a disposable contact maker Ocular Sciences Inc. for about $386.2 million remains in effect.
She is a firm shaker of hands, a professional-grade eye-contact-maker and active listener.
Now we want to connect awareness to action and to get people to contact policy makers".
Johnson & Johnson said yesterday that it had agreed to pay up to $60 million to settle claims by 32 states that accused contact lens makers of colluding to inflate their prices.
Dr. Hum and his team contacted the makers of BIG-IV in California.
Wesley Jessen Visioncare, Des Plaines, Ill., to Publicis & Hal Riney, Chicago, part of Publicis S.A., to handle the account of the contact lens maker, which had been at Crowley Webb & Associates, Buffalo.
Wesley Jessen VisionCare Inc., which has received a hostile takeover offer from a rival contact lens maker, Bausch & Lomb Inc., said it was talking with an undisclosed third party.
In contrast, laser techniques fit well with the identity of Bausch & Lomb, a contact lens maker that defines itself as an eye health company.
The eye-care company Bausch & Lomb raised its bid yesterday for the specialty contact lens maker Wesley Jessen VisionCare to $35.55 a share, or about $667 million, describing it as its best and final offer.
The offer came just three days after Wesley, based in Des Plaines, Ill., proposed buying Ocular Sciences, a big Bausch rival, for $413 million, a move that would create the world's second-largest soft contact lens maker.
