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Nau! has opened three more stores, two in Lombardy and...
Nau! has opened three more stores, two in Lombardy and one in Tuscany. The Italian optical retail chain has about 170 stores, either directly operated or owned by franchisees , located in Italy, Spain, India, Iran, Malta, Mexico, Estonia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey.
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Ray-Ban has opened its first store in Paris, located in...
Ray-Ban has opened its first store in Paris, located in the heart of the city at 57, rue de Rivoli
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CDiscount, the French e-commerce site that is part of Casino,...
CDiscount, the French e-commerce site that is part of Casino, is entering the eyewear market. On June 6, the CDiscount marketplace launched its first online optical offer, in partnership with Sym'Optic, a German e-tailer. The consumer can choose from around 20 models of frames via a virtual fitting system. Only ...
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Viu opened a new store in Bielefeld, Germany, on May...
Viu opened a new store in Bielefeld, Germany, on May 16. With this opening, the fast-growing Swiss retail chain now has a total of 25 stores in Germany. The store design of Viu's new store in Bielefeld, which occupies 75 square meters, was developed in-house. Each store's design relates to ...
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On May 24, Carolina Lemke opened a new store at...
On May 24, Carolina Lemke opened a new store at the Portal San Ángel shopping mall in Mexico City. The Israeli eyewear brand now has 24 points of sale in the country, in states such as Jalisco, Yucatán, Chiapas, Estado de México, Puebla, Querétaro and Quintana Roo as well as ...
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LentesPlus was founded in 2014 as Latin America's first online...
LentesPlus was founded in 2014 as Latin America's first online optical shop, with a focus on contact lenses. This past May, however, the firm stepped into the non-virtual world by opening its first three “experience centers” in the Colombian cities of Medellín, Bogotá and Ibagué. These brick-and-mortar shops are equipped ...
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On May 17, Alain Afflelou opened a store at the...
On May 17, Alain Afflelou opened a store at the Jardín Plaza shopping mall in San José de Cúcuta, Colombia. The 80-square-meter shop is the French optical brand's second in the country and its first outside the capital city. It also reflects Allan Afflelou's expansion strategy. According to Angel Días ...
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Ray-Ban has opened a store in Verona, its fifth one...
Ray-Ban has opened a store in Verona, its fifth one in Italy. The first Italian Ray-Ban store was opened by Luxottica in Milan in December 2017. Overall, Ray-Ban had 213 stores worldwide at the end of 2018 and the tally is now estimated at over 220.
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Twenty-two retail companies that belong to Optic Society, a German...
Twenty-two retail companies that belong to Optic Society, a German buying and marketing group, have teamed up for a common social media and online marketing campaign called “Face Looks.” The affiliated opticians aim to launch joint promotions four times per year via face-looks.de, a recently created online platform through which ...
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Dresden, an Australian producer of modular frames, has opened its...
Dresden, an Australian producer of modular frames, has opened its third Canadian store in Toronto, where it already has two locations. The store is located in Toronto's new shipping container marketplace called “Stackt.” Founded in 2014, Dresden claims to run a zero-waste business and to have cut CO2 emissions by ...
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Atol, a French voluntary group of opticians whose name stands...
Atol, a French voluntary group of opticians whose name stands for Association of Optical and Spectacle Technicians, has taken its stores in a more digital and omnichannel direction. With a strategy called “La Totale Atol,” the French cooperative has sought to lend its stores a greater sense of space, through ...
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Mykita opened its first shop in Spain in a historic...
Mykita opened its first shop in Spain in a historic building centrally located on the Passeig de Gràcia in Barcelona on March 7, and it is moving to a new location in New York City. In its new store in Spain, the Berlin-based eyewear brand will present its full product ...
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Luxottica presented an innovative “digital vision” concept for retailers at...
Luxottica presented an innovative “digital vision” concept for retailers at the latest edition of the Mido show in Milan. It allows the store staff to give customers access to the group's entire catalog of products through a “smart shopper,” enhancing the in-store experience with an intuitive, intelligent navigation facility that ...
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Neiman Marcus, the U.S. chain of luxury department stores, has...
Neiman Marcus, the U.S. chain of luxury department stores, has signed a partnership with a Canadian-based luxury eyewear brand, Vintage Frames Company, which will design a capsule collection of 52 pairs of sunglasses ranging from $150 to $600. The collection will be available at select Neiman Marcus stores and on ...
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Nau! is entering the African continent with a store in...
Nau! is entering the African continent with a store in the capital of Egypt at the Cairo Festival City Mall. The investment has been made by Magrabi Retail, distributor and partner of the Italian store franchising group for the Middle East and North Africa.
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Optic 2000 has signed a six-month exclusive partnership with Ellcie-Healthy...
Optic 2000 has signed a six-month exclusive partnership with Ellcie-Healthy to distribute the start-up's smart glasses through its 1,200 Optic 2000 stores. The tech company has developed a range of seven glasses designed to prevent the wearers from falling asleep while driving. The frames are equipped with a series of ...
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A U.S. hedge fund, ESL Investments, has bought the struggling...
A U.S. hedge fund, ESL Investments, has bought the struggling Sears retail group in the U.S. for $5.2 billion in a bankruptcy auction. The assets include 223 Sears and 202 Kmart stores. ESL, which bought Sears through its affiliate Transform Holdco, said that the business it bought is made up ...
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For Art's Sake has set up shop at the Market...
For Art's Sake has set up shop at the Market Building of Covent Garden, in the eyewear brand's home city of London. The shop has a selfie station, pastel-hued interiors and “Instagram spots” – in a nod to the website that has helped expand the brand since its inception in ...
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Vision Group is launching a virtual try-on service at its...
Vision Group is launching a virtual try-on service at its stores as well as a revamped website for its national banner, VisionOttica. Based in Milan, Vision Group is the biggest distribution network for Italian opticians. The group currently has 2,042 affiliated optical centers across Italy, run by more than 1,640 ...
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Police, one of De Rigo's brands, has launched a virtual...
Police, one of De Rigo's brands, has launched a virtual try-on tool. By uploading a photo or turning on the webcam, users can see what different styles in the Police eyewear collections look like directly on their face and decide whether or not to visit their nearest optical shop for ...
