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Pearle Vision in deals for 13 new locations in California, Colorado
Pearle Vision, the North American network of franchised optical retailers owned by Luxottica, has signed 13 new license agreements in California and Colorado. Satheesh Rangappan and Apurva Pancholi are the newly licensed owners in East Bay, California, with an agreement for five locations. Lee Walters is the owner in Colorado ...
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National Vision’s revenues collapse in March, refinances its debt
National Vision’s comparable store sales fell sharply in March as it temporarily closed stores due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The company is issuing a $350 million convertible note to refinance its debt.
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Viu opens common store with Copenhagen Studios in Düsseldorf
On April 24, in partnership with Copenhagen Studios, Viu Eyewear opened its first shared physical stand-alone shop in Düsseldorf, Germany. The 100-square-foor store, which is located on Carlsplatz, offers sneakers and boots from the Copenhagen Studios brand in addition to Viu’s eyewear. The fast-growing Swiss retail chain has decided to ...
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ArticleItalian eyewear industry reopens amid hopes that demand will pick up
Despite having had the right to operate stores during the industry lockdown that is now being lifted in Italy, as eyeglasses were considered an essential medical device, the Italian eyewear industry has remained largely closed for lack of demand.
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Invu's owner provides protective eyewear
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the Swiss Eyewear Group (SEG) has been manufacturing and delivering protective eyewear to hospitals, first responders, government organizations, public transport and charities to shield them from coronavirus infection. As businesses reopen, the group is shifting the supply of protective eyewear to the general public. The items ...
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Mister Spex reopens its stores
Mister Spex has gradually reopened its physical stores under strict hygiene requirements. Initially, 13 of the existing 22 stores have been opened with limited opening hours. From April 29, the German omni-channel retailer opened the remaining stores and expanded the opening hours. The focus remains on previously set up appointments ...
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Customers are afraid of visiting opticians in Russia
Almost all of the provinces of the Russian federation have softened quarantine measures introduced because of Covid-19, and most of them have allowed eyewear retailers to open their stores again. In Moscow, however, which accounts for roughly 50 percent of all Covid-19 cases recorded in Russia, visiting the optician has ...
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National Vision plans to open all stores by early June
National Vision Holdings, one the largest optical retailers in the U.S., aims to have reopened all its physical stores by early June. They were closed following a nationwide lockdown applied in certain states to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.
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ArticleEssilorLuxottica’s Q1 sales drop by 10%
EssilorLuxottica’s first-quarter revenues were down by 10.1 percent from the year-ago quarter to €3,784 million, or by 10.9 percent in constant currencies, due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. But, the company is confident that pent-up demand will underpin sales when the crisis is over. Thanks to its financial ...
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Kazakh eyewear retailer mulls over international expansion
The biggest eyewear retailer in the market of Kazakhstan, Actual Optic, is considering franchising its operation in Russia and Turkey, according to the local edition of Forbes magazine. Actual Optic is running 25 stores in 10 cities of Kazakhstan offering more than 100 eyewear brands. Anna Yakovleva, general director ...
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De Rigo REM partners with OMG!Optical
De Rigo REM, the U.S. unit of De Rigo, has set up a partnership with OMG!Optical Marketing Group/Contentlinq that will enable De Rigo REM to offer new omni-channel marketing tools to its customers. The companies have created a range of visual merchandising packages to suit different customer needs. Contentlinq’s cloud-based ...
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Smarteyes releases eyewear collection with Oscar Jacobson
Smarteyes, a Swedish chain of optical retail store, has launched an exclusive collection of eyewear in collaboration with Oscar Jacobson, a well-known Swedish brand of menswear. Smarteyes has 80 stores in Sweden, Denmark and Germany.
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Shamir Optical partners with Paris Miki
Shamir Optical has concluded a partnership with a big Japanese optical retailer, Paris Miki, whose annual turnover is said to be close to $500 million. Shamir will use its InoTime technology to supply its stores with customized lenses within 24 hours, setting up a dedicated lab in Tokyo. Shamir has ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
