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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For more information, please contact:
Jessica Clark
Senior Marketing Manager
VisionWeb
512-241-8561
jclark@visionweb.com
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Tracey Parsons and Mandy Miller
Euro RSCG Magnet
412-456-4300
tparsons@magnet.com
mmiller@magnet.com
JOHNSON & JOHNSON VISION CARE, INC. ENHANCES ACCESSIBILITY OF
DEFINITYTM PROGRESSIVE LENSES THROUGH VISIONWEB
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 Web sites, 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 Web sites; and other benefits for opticians, optometrists, ophthalmologists, optical manufacturers, laboratories, distributors and patients
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