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Alcon offices in Johns Creek, Georgia. Alcon Inc. (German: Alcon AG) is a Swiss-American pharmaceutical and medical device company specializing in eye care products. It has a paper headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland but its operational headquarters are in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, where it employs about 4,500 people.
The name Alcon (/ ˈælkɒn /; Ancient Greek: Ἄλκων) or Alco can refer to a number of people from classical mythology: Alcon, a Laconian prince as the son of King Hippocoon, usurper of Tyndareus. He was one of the hunters of the Calydonian Boar. Alcon was killed, together with his father and brothers, by Heracles, and had a heroon at Sparta.
Alcon Entertainment, LLC is an American indie film and television production company, founded in 1997 by film producers Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove.Since its establishment, Alcon Entertainment has developed and financed films that are ultimately distributed – in the United States mostly, and internationally on occasion – by Warner Bros. Pictures, following a ten-year motion picture ...
Buenos Aires, Argentina. Occupation. Actor. Years active. 1955–2014. Alfredo Félix Alcón (Spanish pronunciation: [alˈfɾeðo alˈkon]; 3 March 1930 – 11 April 2014) was an Argentine theatre and film actor born in Buenos Aires. Widely regarded as one of the best and most important Argentine actors of the 20th century. [1]
The first contact lenses were made of glass, in 1888. Initially the glass was blown but soon lenses were made by being ground to shape. For the first fifty years, glass was the only material used. The lenses were thin, yet reports of injury were rare. In 1938 perspex (polymethylmethacrylate, or PMMA) began to replace glass in contact lens ...
Club career. Born in Rio de Janeiro to a Brazilian father and a Bolivian mother from La Paz, Alcón started his career playing futsal with Vasco da Gama, before a move to Fluminense. [2] Following a short spell with futsal team Bradesco, he returned to Vasco da Gama in August 2014. He returned to Fluminense, where he remained until 2018.
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Broderick Johnson. Broderick Johnson is the co-founder and co-CEO of Alcon Entertainment, [1] which he formed with his producing partner Andrew Kosove in 1997. Under his leadership, Alcon Entertainment has financed and produced and/or co-financed and co-produced over 30 films to date.