Bausch & amp; Lomb Inc . abandoned its pursuit of Wesley Jessen VisionCare Inc . after the Des Plaines, Ill .-based cosmetic contact lens maker revealed it had accepted a $ 785 million buyout offer from CIBA Vision.
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Wesley Jessen VisionCare Inc . ( WJCO ) stock rose as much as 1 3 / 4 to 16 3 / 4 in its first day of trading after the specialty contact lens maker's initial public offering of 2.45 million shares.
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In addition, Bausch & AMP; Lomb's acquisition in February of Award Plc, a Scottish contact-lens maker, will make the company more competitive by letting it introduce lower-priced and better contact lens products, the ratings company said.
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It spent $ 3.7 million attempting to take over cosmetic contact lens maker Wesley Jessen VisionCare Inc . The Des Plaines, Ill .-based company revealed in May it had accepted a $ 785 million buyout offer from Atlanta-based CIBA Vision.
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Bausch & amp; Lomb Inc . abandoned its 10-week-long pursuit of Wesley Jessen VisionCare Inc . after the Des Plaines, Ill .-based cosmetic contact lens maker revealed Tuesday it had accepted a $ 785 million buyout offer from CIBA Vision.
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Some lens makers, such as Pinkham-Smith and Busch Nicola Perscheid ( see Nicola Perscheid ), intentionally designed lenses to take advantage of these flaws and, as color became available, chromatic aberration was less desirable, but well-managed spherical aberration was desirable.
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Negotiations had been under way for a few weeks when Wesley Jessen, preferring to take its own expansionist route, announced March 20 it had agreed to buy Ocular Sciences Inc ., a rival contact lens maker in South San Francisco, for $ 413 million in stock.
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But Lincoln Kirstein once cited a family interest in craftsmanship _ his grandfather was a lens maker, his mother was fascinated by lacemaking and his father by the tailoring of Savile Row _ as precedent for his own passion for the craft of choreography and the technique of classical dance.
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Made in focal lengths of 24 mm, 28 mm, and 35 mm, the Ang�nieux retrofocus lens inspired other lens makers to produce wide-angle lenses of this type for almost every 35mm SLR, and helped to make it the definitive camera type of the late 20th century.
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Bausch & AMP; Lomb Inc . rose 2 1 / 4 to 35 1 / 2 on speculation the contact-lens maker could be the target of a $ 48-a-share bid from Johnson & AMP; Johnson, which added 3 / 4 to 52 1 / 8.
