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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 ...
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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 interested customers ...
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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 ...
