Prizes of the Grand Prix MSOO Award Presented in Moscow

MOSCOW - During the 14th International Salon of Ophthalmologic Optics held at
Expocentre (Moscow) prizes were handed to the nominees of the Second National
Optical Award Grand Prix MSOO.

In 2008 opticians and consumers of optical products got their
first opportunity to choose the aces of the aces. A popular optical Internet
project Ochki.Net together with Expocentre, the largest exhibition
organization of Russia, announced the foundation of the National Optical
Award (Grand Prix MSOO).

The laureates of the first National Optical Award Grand Prix MSOO were
announced pursuant to the results of the universal and open vote at
special sites. Everybody wishing to participate was able to join the vote: a
professional optician or a consumer, that is why one can say that the best
and most popular brands became the winners of the contest.

A new stage of Internet voting, which determined the nominees
and laureates of the Second National Optical Award Grand Prix MSOO, was
launched on October 1, 2008 by the www.grandprix-msoo.ochki.net site.
The award was conferred in two categories: ‘The Best Optical Product’
(consumers’ voting in nominations ‘Sunglasses’, ‘Frames’, ‘Spectacle
Lenses’, ‘Contact Lenses’ ‘The Best National Optical Network’) and ‘The
Best Optical Company’ (professional voting in the nominations ‘Frames and
Sunglasses’, ‘Sports Glasses’, ‘Spectacle Lenses’, ‘Contact Lenses’,
‘Process Equipment’, ‘Sales Equipment’, ‘Optical Education’).

More than 9 000 votes were taken into consideration during the Internet
voting.

Such manufacturers as Luxottica (sunglasses), Balero (frames),
Seiko (spectacle lenses), Johnson & Johnson Vision Care (contact lenses),
Ochkarik (optical networks) were declared winners in different nominations of
the category ‘The Best Optical Product.’

In the category ‘The Best Optical Company’ the winners were
determined as follows: OptoVISTA (frames and sunglasses), Optic DIAS (sports
glasses and spectacle lenses), MED-IN (contact lenses), Luis Optica (process
equipment), STORMOFF group of companies (ophthalmologic equipment), Barbus KB
(sales equipment), the St.-Petersburg Medical-technological College (optical
education).

For more than ten years the International Salon of Ophthalmologic Optics
(MSOO), a major show of this kind in Russia and Eastern Europe, has been
gathering at the Central Exhibition Complex Expocentre the best Russian and
foreign companies working in the field of manufacture and sales of optical
products.

More than a hundred companies from twelve countries took part
in the exhibition ‘Ophthalmologic Optics - MCOO - 2009′.

Source: Expocentre

Arkadiy V. Didevich, Head of Press Centre, didevich at expocentr.ru, +7-499-256-74-50