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... blackenterprise.com Home email Highlights: - Experienced senior management team and strong Board of Directors - Leading store within a store retailer with 517 locations in host stores throughout 47 states and Canada - Organic and acquisition growth potential Refac Optical Group (AMEX: REF) announced today that it has completed its acquisitions of U.S.

Vision, Inc.

("U.S.

Vision") and OptiCare Health Systems, Inc.

("OptiCare") announced in August 2005.

The Company also changed its name to Refac Optical Group to better reflect its new businesses.

As a result of these acquisitions, Refac Optical Group has become a leader in the retail optical industry and the sixth largest retail optical chain in the United States.

It operates at 543 locations in 47 states and Canada, consisting of 517 licensed departments, eight freestandin...

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Markets Economy/Politics Commentary Sports Culture Bloomberg RSS RESOURCES: Bloomberg TV Bloomberg Radio Markets Canada E-Mail This Story Printer-Friendly Format Carlyle/Riverstone to Buy EnCana's Gas Storage Business for $1.5 Billion Research In Motion Shares Rise After Settlement of BlackBerry Patent Suit Canada's Dollar Falls Most in 3 Weeks a Day Before Central Bank Sets Rates Canadian Stocks Decline With Oil, Copper; Petro-Canada Drops March 6 (Bloomberg) - Canadian stocks fell for the first day in four as drops in oil and copper prices sent energy producers such as Petro-Canada and raw-materials companies including Inco Ltd.

lower.

Shares of Research In Motion Ltd.

surged, after the maker the BlackBerry e-mail device settled a patent dispute.

Today ``is all about commodity prices,'' said Raymond Steele, who helps manage C$600 ($524 million) at Mavrix Fund Management in Toronto.

``They're a double-edged sword for the Canadian market'' he said, because energy and materials stocks account for 43 percent of the Standard & Poor's/TSX Composite Index's value.

The S&P/TSX dropped 93.43, or 0.8 percent, to 11,885.25 as of 3:14 p.m.

in Toronto.

It is down 1.6 percent from a record on Feb.

6.

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