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Marks and Spencer (M&S) has announced that it will be...
Marks and Spencer (M&S) has announced that it will be trialing in-store optician practices in five of its stores. The five locations include: London, Westfield White City; Manchester, city center; Bolton, Deansgate; York, York Vangarde; and Derby, Intu Derby Centre. The concessions, branded as M&S Opticians, will be run by ...
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Sunglass Hut has signed an exclusive partnership with Bass Pro...
Sunglass Hut has signed an exclusive partnership with Bass Pro Outdoor World, a big American outdoor retailer, to open shop-in-shops in its Bass Pro Shops and Cabela's stores and e-commerce platforms. The agreement covers 160 stores in the U.S., which will be refitted between now and the end of September. ...
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Specsavers has been named as the leading online performer in...
Specsavers has been named as the leading online performer in the U.K. glasses retail sector in a recent marketing study by Inside Online, a digital marketing agency with offices in Chester and London. The 2018 Glasses Retailer Market Performance Report ranks 49 websites according to their online performance, which is ...
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Mister Spex opened its ninth brick-and-mortar store in Essen last...
Mister Spex opened its ninth brick-and-mortar store in Essen last month. In April, Mister Spex had already opened two new brick-and-mortar stores, one in the Main-Taunus shopping center in Sulzbach, near Frankfurt, and another one in Erfurt. In its new store in Essen, which covers 110 square meters, the German ...
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Vuarnet is selling five models of sunglasses in the single-brand...
Vuarnet is selling five models of sunglasses in the single-brand stores of Fusalp, another iconic French brand of skiwear and lifestyle apparel that was recently taken over by members of the Lacoste family.
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Specsavers has launched Frame Styler, a new frame recommendation technology...
Specsavers has launched Frame Styler, a new frame recommendation technology designed to help customers to choose their frames in the shops. The system makes a 180 degree scan of the wearer's face and submits in one second a selection of 12 Specsavers frames, based on their own characteristics but also ...
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The Think About Your Eyes campaign reportedly generated 3.4 million...
The Think About Your Eyes campaign reportedly generated 3.4 million eye exams in 2017. Think About Your Eyes, presented by The Vision Council and the American Optometric Association, is a campaign raising awareness in the U.S. of the importance of an annual comprehensive eye exam. According to an announcement from ...
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The 800 members of the French voluntary group had an...
The 800 members of the French voluntary group had an average growth of 0.4 percent last year in a slightly declining market.
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According to the latest Optical Business Barometer (OBB), the index...
According to the latest Optical Business Barometer (OBB), the index of the independents' sentiments about their business was down to 3.92 in the first quarter of 2018, as compared to 3.94 in the first quarter of 2017. A positive exception came from the independents' assessment of eye exams, which showed ...
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After four months of renovation works, Alain Afflelou reopened its...
After four months of renovation works, Alain Afflelou reopened its flagship store on the prestigious Champs Elysées avenue in Paris. First opened thirty years ago, this store welcomes an average of 800 visitors daily and reportedly brings five time higher revenues than the average optical shop. It remains open every ...
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ZVA, the German's opticians' association, reports that the German optical...
ZVA, the German's opticians' association, reports that the German optical retail market increased by 3 percent to €6.12 billion in 2017, as compared to the previous year. Excluding online retail sales, the market recorded a turnover of €5.9 billion in 2017, representing an increase of 2.7 percent. The number of ...
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Mister Spex opened a new brick-and-mortar store in the Main-Taunus...
Mister Spex opened a new brick-and-mortar store in the Main-Taunus shopping center in Sulzbach, near Frankfurt, as well as a new store in Erfurt. In its new store in Frankfurt, covering 108 square meters, Mister Spex offers more than 1,000 prescription frames and sunglasses. The store in Erfurt measures 119 ...
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Mister Spex is expanding its multichannel concept to Sweden. The...
Mister Spex is expanding its multichannel concept to Sweden. The German online retailer, which is already working with 500 local retailers in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands, is now starting to cooperate with local Swedish opticians. It is beginning with 17 partnering opticians in Sweden, mostly in and around ...
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Italy's Vision Group had 274 directly integrated Vision Ottica stores...
Italy's Vision Group had 274 directly integrated Vision Ottica stores at the end of 2017, or 14 more than a year earlier. Adding other operations including those of the Occhibelli group, which was acquired in 2016, the number of affiliated stores rose by about 500 to 2,100 points of sale, ...
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Nau! plans to boost its franchising program in Italy this...
Nau! plans to boost its franchising program in Italy this year, while expanding in Spain, Mexico, Malta, Russia, Dubai and India. The Italian optical retailing company announced a 16 percent increase in sales at its stores to €35 million in the past year, after opening 22 new doors, 18 in ...
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Sunglass Hut expects its revenues from e-commerce to outperform those...
Sunglass Hut expects its revenues from e-commerce to outperform those of its brick-and-mortar stores in the coming years, generating 8-10 percent of the banner's total revenues by 2021
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Alain Affellou extended its footprint to a 17th country at...
Alain Affellou extended its footprint to a 17th country at the end of last year with the opening of its first Afflelou Paris shop in Vietnam at Nha Trang, a seaside and tourist city of 300,000
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Optical Discount, the low-cost French banner that was taken over...
Optical Discount, the low-cost French banner that was taken over by Alain Afflelou in 2015 announced last month the opening of its first shop in Tunisia, in the city of Sfax. The retailer has more than doubled its number of stores since the takeover with a current total of 182 ...
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Vision Express, the British optical retailer that took over Tesco...
Vision Express, the British optical retailer that took over Tesco Opticians last year, has inaugurated its first Vision Express at Tesco store in Thurrock, east of London. The shop, that is located within a Tesco Extra in a large retail park, is one of the first to adopt the refreshed ...
