NEW YORK--The Great Varilux Giveaway contest, sponsored by Essilor and Lab-Italee, concluded earlier this month at Vision Expo East. The contest, which ran from Oct. 1, 2004 through Jan. 31, 2005, provided Italee collection dealers an opportunity to earn game pieces with any full service Varilux order. Additional pieces were earned for Crizal and Crizal Alize coating. Faces Optical of Appleton, Wis. won the $10,000 grand prize. Other winners included International Optique of Denver, Colo., Fortuna Optical of Marlton, N.J. and WL Wiggs Opticians of Stony Brook, N.Y.

Mike Daley, president of Essilor Lenses (left) and Bart Vander Velde, national sales director of Italee, draw the winners of The Great Varilux Giveaway contest last month at Vision Expo East.