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Mister Spex, Germany's biggest online eyewear retailer, opened its second...
Mister Spex, Germany's biggest online eyewear retailer, opened its second bricks-and-mortar store in Berlin. Its first offline store had been opened in Berlin's Alexa shopping center a year ago. The new store is located on the Schlossstrasse in Berlin-Steglitz, the second-biggest shopping mall in Berlin. The interior of the new ...
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Moscot, the New-York based eyewear brand had a busy week...
Moscot, the New-York based eyewear brand had a busy week in Italy last month. Only a few days after its first participation in the Mido fair in Milan with its own stand, the American company opened a new directly-operated store in Rome. It is the seventh unit of the brand ...
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Alain Afflelou, the big French franchisor in the optical retail...
Alain Afflelou, the big French franchisor in the optical retail sector, has planted its flag in its 17th country with the opening of its first franchised store in Burkina Faso. It is located at Ouagadougou, the biggest city in the African country, where more than 2,700 French expatriates live.
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TD Tom Davies, the British brand of designer eyewear, has...
TD Tom Davies, the British brand of designer eyewear, has opened a fourth store in London in the prestigious Royal Exchange building in the City
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Komono, the Belgian eyewear and watches company, will open its...
Komono, the Belgian eyewear and watches company, will open its first directly-owned flagship store in Antwerp in April 2017, adding to its network of seven franchises worldwide
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Galaxy Optical Services, a privately owned company based in the...
Galaxy Optical Services, a privately owned company based in the U.K. that offers a wide range of products and services to eyecare professionals, from manufacturing and supplying lenses and frames to IT and point-of-sale design, acquired a chain of 27 optical stores in eastern Europe in September 2016. The newly ...
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An international eyewear retail chain based in Germany, Eyes +...
An international eyewear retail chain based in Germany, Eyes + More, opened a new store in the Elbe shopping center of Hamburg earlier this month, thus reaching a current total of 100 stores in its home country. The retail chain has opened a new store every two weeks since the ...
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Vuarnet is opening a boutique in Paris' 8th district to...
Vuarnet is opening a boutique in Paris' 8th district to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the brand. The 100-square-meter shop will replace Vuarnet's Concorde Optique at 28, rue Boissy d'Anglas. It is at that address that Roger Pouilloux, Vuarnet's founder, had his first workshop. The boutique is scheduled for opening ...
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A Specsavers store in Newport, U.K. is now home to...
A Specsavers store in Newport, U.K. is now home to the Austin Friars Eye Treatment Centre, the first specialist eye treatment centre integrated with a high-street optician in the U.K. The facility was inaugurated by Vaughan Gething AM, the Welsh Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Sport, on Jan. 16. ...
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La Shaperie, a location in Paris best known for being...
La Shaperie, a location in Paris best known for being both an optical and a barber shop, has opened a second boutique in the French capital. The new boutique is located at 312 rue Saint-Martin, in the 3rd district of France's capital city. The other boutique is located in rue ...
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Vuarnet is opening its first pop-up shop in New York,...
Vuarnet is opening its first pop-up shop in New York, located at 29 Spring Street in the heart of the Soho district
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Ipro, a developer of software solutions for opticians and dispensers...
Ipro, a developer of software solutions for opticians and dispensers of hearing aids, has launched a new online search service on behalf of about 100 German opticians who teamed up to co-finance the implementation of a common platform and its further development. Via Ipro's platform, customers can be transferred to ...
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Robert Frith Optometrists has taken over IJ Brown Opticians in...
Robert Frith Optometrists has taken over IJ Brown Opticians in the U.K. from partners Alun Bevan and Paul Wallis who will remain with the group before they retire. Founded in 1882 and employing 25 people, IJ Brown Opticians currently has four stores in the Dorset region and an in-house glazing ...
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Brillen-Profi, a Germany voluntary group of independent opticians that decided...
Brillen-Profi, a Germany voluntary group of independent opticians that decided to join forces to share experiences and best practices in the optical and hearing aids segments, has launched a new online platform, optichange.de, for the management of corporate succession in the optical sector. Brillen-Profi, whose members operate 1,850 points of ...
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Safilo revealed that Smith, the company's brand of helmets, goggles...
Safilo revealed that Smith, the company's brand of helmets, goggles and sunglasses, is achieving 14 percent of its global revenues via its own e-commerce platform. Across the group, online sales have reached 20 percent of overall sales when pure third-party e-commerce players are included in the tally. Products featuring ChromaPop ...
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Cutler and Gross has opened a boutique on Church Street...
Cutler and Gross has opened a boutique on Church Street in the Marylebone district in London. The new store showcases a large selection of vintage handmade designs from 1969 to the mid-2000s, together with a range of accessories. The Cutler and Gross Vintage boutique is to celebrate the 45 years' ...
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Oliver Peoples will open its first European store on London's...
Oliver Peoples will open its first European store on London's Sloane Street
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Specsavers has secured a deal to open optical counters in...
Specsavers has secured a deal to open optical counters in some of the Sainsbury's supermarkets in the U.K. A first series of three shop-in-shops is opening before the end of October, starting with Marsh Mills store in Plymouth. Others will be added depending on the results of the pilot ...
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Mykita opened a new mono-brand store in Los Angeles. The...
Mykita opened a new mono-brand store in Los Angeles. The store is based on Broadway, on the ground floor of the Eastern Columbia building, a towering art deco landmark in the historic center of downtown L.A. Mykita presented there a special edition of the Miki + Shades set to celebrate ...
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American Vision, the new Indian chain of franchised optical stores...
American Vision, the new Indian chain of franchised optical stores that we have already reported about, is introducing digital retinal photography through as part of their services, in a tie-up with an Indian teleophthalmology company, We-Care. A tonometry test will be added soon to check for glaucoma.
