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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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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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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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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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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 www.neimanmarcus.com. Vintage Frames was founded ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 ...

