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Hawkers has opened its 16th store in Portugal, located in...
Hawkers has opened its 16th store in Portugal, located in Lisbon, as well as its eighth store in Madrid, a 60-square-meter shop in the Islazul shopping center. Both stores currently sell sunglasses under the company's own labels – Hawkers, Miss Hamptons, Northweek and Wolfnoir – and will soon be offering ...
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Jimmy Fairly, a fast-growing French eyewear retailer with a presence...
Jimmy Fairly, a fast-growing French eyewear retailer with a presence also in the U.K. and Germany, plans to enter the Belgian, Swiss and South Korean markets, after which it is aiming to expand in Italy and Spain. The company was created in 2011 by Antonin Chartier and Sacha Bostoni as ...
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In its first move outside of its domestic market, Tanaka...
In its first move outside of its domestic market, Tanaka Optical, a Japanese-based retail chain with about 115 stores, has acquired a chain of 10 optical shops in Singapore, trading under the Frames Lenses, Emperor Optics, Ocular and other banners, which will be kept by Tanaka. Salena Watanabe, ...
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Charmant opened its first flagship store this summer in Ginza,...
Charmant opened its first flagship store this summer in Ginza, the luxury shopping district of Tokyo
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Nau!, the dynamic Italian optical retail chain, has opened a...
Nau!, the dynamic Italian optical retail chain, has opened a store at the Milanofiori mall south of Milan, increasing to 57 the number of shops in the Lombardy region. Another store was opened at the Itaca shopping center in Formia, raising the number of stores in the Lazio region to ...
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Persol, one of the house brands of Luxottica, has opened...
Persol, one of the house brands of Luxottica, has opened its first store in Italy. Measuring 120 square meters and located at via Fiori Chiari 16 in downtown Milan, it is close to the Brera art gallery, and its interior echoes the architecture of the district. There customers can personalize ...
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Better-than-expected revenues for EssilorLuxottica
EssilorLuxottica – alias Essilux – reported revenues for the third quarter that exceeded its guidance, and confirmed its objectives for 2019. They jumped by 8.4 percent to €4,310 million on a pro-forma basis, with growth of 5.2 percent in local currencies, which was above a previously set annual objective of ...
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After opening two new brick-and-mortar stores in Frankfurt and Hamburg...
After opening two new brick-and-mortar stores in Frankfurt and Hamburg in September, Mister Spex added two others more recently in Cologne and Hannover, raising the total number of its physical stores in Germany to 14. The German omni-channel eyewear retailer has declared its intention to have 40 stores in operation ...
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Fielmann opened its 24th store in Italy. The German chain...
Fielmann opened its 24th store in Italy. The German chain opened the 200-square-meter shop in Udine and plans to open a further three stores in Italy by the end of the year.
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Viu has opened its first physical stand-alone shop in the...
Viu has opened its first physical stand-alone shop in the U.K., and has reportedly already signed for a second store. The first store is located in London's Soho, at 5 Upper James Street. For this new 850-square-foot space, the Swiss eyewear brand has decided to continue its tradition of developing ...
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Nau!, the dynamic Italian eyewear retailer, has opened two more...
Nau!, the dynamic Italian eyewear retailer, has opened two more domestic stores. One was inaugurated about 20 kilometers north of Padua in the Le Centurie shopping mall, increasing Nau!'s fleet in the Veneto region to 13 units. The company opened the second store in Livorno, Tuscany. Nau! now has 162 ...
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On Sept. 5, Mykita inaugurated its first store in Taiwan...
On Sept. 5, Mykita inaugurated its first store in Taiwan in its capital, Taipei. The 80-square-meter store is the German eyewear brand's second in Asia, after the one in Tokyo, and the 15th globally. Mykita also announced a collaboration with the Austrian, but New York-based, designer Helmut Lang. The eyewear ...
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L.G.R has opened its first monobrand store in Rome and...
L.G.R has opened its first monobrand store in Rome and the second one in Italy after Milan. The company plans to open other stores in Italy and abroad.
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An Italian sunglass producer, Eyepetizer, is opening its first flagship...
An Italian sunglass producer, Eyepetizer, is opening its first flagship store in Milan, at via Malpighi 8. The 20-square-meter store aims to revive the atmosphere of a 1950s café. Previously the brand opened pop-up stores in Mykonos and Formentera and a store in Polignano, in the southern Italian region of ...
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Persol, the upscale home-brand of the EssilorLuxottica group, is scheduled...
Persol, the upscale home-brand of the EssilorLuxottica group, is scheduled to open a new concept store in Milan in September. It will be the first one in Europe. The 100-square-meter store will be located at via Fiori Chiari 16, in the Brera district. The brand already has a store on ...
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Demenego, a medium-sized Italian eyewear manufacturer that makes its own...
Demenego, a medium-sized Italian eyewear manufacturer that makes its own frames and others under license in the region of Belluno, has just opened its 15th store in northeastern Italy
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Coburn Technologies has launched a revamped e-commerce site for optical...
Coburn Technologies has launched a revamped e-commerce site for optical consumables and spare parts at www.ShopCoburn.com. The transformed website features a new design and is said to be more user-friendly, thanks to easy navigation and a simple check-out process. The main offerings on the site include digital surfacing, traditional surfacing, ...
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LensMaster, the large Russian optical retail chain owned by GrandVision,...
LensMaster, the large Russian optical retail chain owned by GrandVision, is aiming to expand its retail network in the country by offering franchising agreements to other retailers except in the downtown areas of Moscow and St. Petersburg, where it wants to operate directly. At the beginning of this year, LensMaster ...
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Mister Spex has recently opened a new learning center for...
Mister Spex has recently opened a new learning center for apprentices of ophthalmic optics in North Rhine-Westphalia. The learning center, on 120 square meters, is located directly above Mister Spex' physical store in Münster, which was opened a year ago. Seven new apprentices will start working at the learning center ...
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On June 27, Fielmann opened its 23rd Italian store in...
On June 27, Fielmann opened its 23rd Italian store in the town of Treviso. So far, the German group has opened its Italian stores in the northern regions of Piedmont, Lombardy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna. Fielmann is scheduled to open a further three stores in Italy this year. Its ...
