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Mister Spex’ omni-channel strategy takes on new dimensions
To protect customers and employees during the current coronavirus crisis, Mister Spex has recently decided to switch its 21 stores in Germany to emergency care until further notice. Further new store openings, in Berlin and Munich, will be suspended. All Mister Spex online services will remain available to customers. ...
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Eyewear stores are temporarily closed in Russia
The Russian government is no longer recognizing corrective eyewear as essential products that should not fall under a nationwide retail lockdown. It has ordered all eyewear stores in the country to be shut down at least for one week from Monday, March 30. While they were excluded from a ...
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Oliver Peoples has opened its second store in Italy and...
Oliver Peoples has opened its second store in Italy and 40th in the world. The 100-square-meter shop is situated at Corso Venezia 12 in Milan. It was furnished to resemble an upper-class Milanese apartment of the 1950-60s. The brand, which is part of the EssilorLuxottica group, had already opened a ...
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In November, Mykita opened its first store in the Thai...
In November, Mykita opened its first store in the Thai capital of Bangkok. This is the German eyewear brand's third store in Asia, after those in Tokyo and Taipei, and its 17th globally. The other locations include Barcelona, Berlin, Cartagena, Copenhagen, Los Angeles, Monterrey, New York, Paris, Vienna, Washington, Zermatt ...
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Sunglass Hut has entered the marketplace of Farfetch, the fast-growing...
Sunglass Hut has entered the marketplace of Farfetch, the fast-growing internet portal specializing in personal luxury goods
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Opticien Qui Bouge, a French optical retailer that makes house...
Opticien Qui Bouge, a French optical retailer that makes house calls for optical exams and other services, plans to be operating in 30 of France's departments by January. The founder, Gwenaël Merlio, revealed to Acuite.fr that his company's geographic reach would be extended to two new cities per month in ...
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Italy's Vanni plans to open a store in Milan after...
Italy's Vanni plans to open a store in Milan after the one it already has in Turin
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Mister Spex has added two brick-and-mortar stores in Magdeburg and...
Mister Spex has added two brick-and-mortar stores in Magdeburg and Stuttgart. These follow the stores opened in Frankfurt and Hamburg in September and in Munich, Cologne and Hannover in November. The omni-channel eyewear retailer now operates 17 physical stores in Germany and has declared its intention to have 40 stores ...
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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, marketing ...
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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 ...
