COTI Vision
COTI was founded by friends and former colleagues Julie and Nancy to combat the frustration of never having reading glasses when needed. The acronym COTI is “Chuckle On The Inside” and is Julie & Nancy’s view on life and all things associated with encouraging others to live their best mid-lives.
COTI is a creative and colourful lifestyle brand that combines fashion with function to help make reading the small print easier. All of COTI’s Amore Italia chains are handmade in Italy from Recycled Material as they aim to incorporate recycled or eco-friendly components in all aspects where possible.
Julie & Nancy’s Vision was to make wearing glasses fun, fashionable and always at your fingertips. Featured on Dragons’ Den in April 2021 and today COTI is seen as a market leader that undoubtedly revolutionised the glasses chain. As Deborah Meadon stated, “they brought an important bit of kit out of the dullness into the light”.
With Offices in the UK and Italy COTI serves distributors in 8 countries and wholesale accounts in more that 40 countries. Recently awarded for the second year running as finalists for the Travel Retail Awards as voted by Shoppers and Frontier Awards Finalists. COTI glasses chains make the perfect travel companion.
COTI Vision’s TRC Member is:
Julie Hawkins
Consultant / Entrepreneur / Co-founder Coti Vision Ltd
Having previously worked for some of the world’s leading eyewear companies Julie works as a consultant and is co-founder of COTI Vision Limited; created to combat the frustration of never having reading glasses when needed. This saw her successfully featured on UK’s Dragons’ Den in April 2021.
Julie is well known in travel retail having previously worked for Mondottica Ltd as their National Accounts & Travel Retail Director successfully launching sunglass brands such as Ted Baker & Converse working with global airlines and retailers. In her consultancy capacity, she has more recently been responsible for the successful launch of Ben Sherman into UK Airport stores.
