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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 ...
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Optique Le Cartier, a high-end optical retailer in Montreal, has...
Optique Le Cartier, a high-end optical retailer in Montreal, has joined the Visique network of FYidoctors, which claims to be the world's largest eye care company owned by optometrists
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Moscot, the venerable New York eyewear brand, has opened its...
Moscot, the venerable New York eyewear brand, has opened its first French store in the Marais neighborhood of Paris. The family-owned manufacturer already has four stores in its home city of New York and one each in Rome, London, Tokyo and Seoul. To complement its selection of frames, the Paris ...
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Nau!, the Italian-based eyewear retailer, has announced the opening of...
Nau!, the Italian-based eyewear retailer, has announced the opening of its first store in the Baltic region. It is located in the T1 Mall of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, described as the biggest shopping mall in the region. The franchising chain is also entering the Turkish market with a ...
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The German-based eyewear manufacturer Markus T has teamed up with Luneau...
The German-based eyewear manufacturer Markus T has teamed up with Luneau Technology, the company behind the Visionix and Weco brands of diagnostic equipment and eye screening, for a series of lectures and workshops for opticians, which will start this autumn. At the opti show in Munich in January, both companies had a ...
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Tom Davies plans to open two new stores in London...
Tom Davies plans to open two new stores in London and one store in the U.S. next year. The British eyewear brand, which has its own factory in London, currently owns and manages five stores in the British capital. The first Tom Davies store was opened four years ago. Sales ...
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Mykita, the Berlin-based eyewear company, will open its first store in...
Mykita, the Berlin-based eyewear company, will open its first store in Barcelona by the end of this year. This will be a company-owned store, and Mykita's 14th mono-brand store. Mykita has two stores in Switzerland (Zermatt and Zurich), three stores in the U.S. (Washington, New York and Los Angeles), two stores ...
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Nau!, the international Italian-based chain of optical stores, has landed...
Nau!, the international Italian-based chain of optical stores, has landed in Mexico with a store in Mexico City. The chain has just passed the threshold of 150 directly operated and franchised stores around the world. Aside from the new store in Mexico, they are located mostly in Italy, but also ...
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For Art's Sake is opening its first store in London...
For Art's Sake is opening its first store in London in early November. The London store, located in Covent Garden's Market Building, will be followed shortly by a second shop in Shanghai's XinTianDi Mall a few weeks later. More locations are scheduled for opening by 2020, including in Hong Kong, ...
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After the takeover of Tesco Opticians last year, Vision Express,...
After the takeover of Tesco Opticians last year, Vision Express, a British optical retailer that belongs to GrandVision, is implementing further synergies with Tesco. For National Eye Health Week in October, Vision Express announced that it will offer all Tesco Clubcard members a £10 eyesight exam at any of its ...
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For the third consecutive year, Alain Afflelou has taken the...
For the third consecutive year, Alain Afflelou has taken the top spot in Viséo Conseil's annual ranking of the best customer service in France
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Ultra Limited, the Italian eyewear brand owned by Italy-based 450,...
Ultra Limited, the Italian eyewear brand owned by Italy-based 450, has opened its first mono-brand store in Brazil. The store, which was officially inaugurated on Oct. 19, is located at the Caesar Business Conference Center in Belo Horizonte. Distribution in Brazil is made possible by a partnership between Ultra Limited ...
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Rudy Project, the Italian eyewear and helmets brand based in...
Rudy Project, the Italian eyewear and helmets brand based in Treviso, has unveiled a new website at www.rudyproject.com. The revamped website is described as offering an easy and user-friendly experience to the consumer regardless of the device on which it is being viewed, whether a computer, tablet, smartphone or web ...
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The U.K.'s first Marks and Spencer (M&S) Opticians was officially...
The U.K.'s first Marks and Spencer (M&S) Opticians was officially inaugurated at Westfield London in White City on July 31. The company said that right after opening, bookings for the following two weeks filled up quickly. The practice is run by Galaxy Optical, the former operator of Tesco Opticians. Customers ...
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Selfridges, the British department store, has opened a big eyewear...
Selfridges, the British department store, has opened a big eyewear store in the country as part of the revamped accessories hall on its ground floor of its flagship store on London's Oxford Street, which has been enlarged to cover a total space of 5,580 square meters following an investment of ...
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Luxottica plans to open its first Australian mono-brand store in...
Luxottica plans to open its first Australian mono-brand store in the Westfield Doncaster shopping center of Melbourne in October, similar to the experience stores it recently inaugurated in New York, London, Tokyo and Milan
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Chanel has launched an online store for its eyewear in...
Chanel has launched an online store for its eyewear in the U.K., coinciding the re-opening of a four-year-old store at Burlington Arcade in London that has been renovated to function as a dedicated boutique for the brand's eyewear, fragrances and cosmetics. Customers can reserve a pair of glasses and collect ...
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Foto Ottica Carminati, an optical retail store in the village...
Foto Ottica Carminati, an optical retail store in the village of Calusco d'Adda near Bergamo, is the first Italian retailer to have ordered and installed the EzFit lens edger developed by MEI. Customers have responded favorably to the fact that the equipment is on display in the store.
