All Retail articles – Page 28
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At Salmoiraghi & Viganò in Italy, it is now possible...
At Salmoiraghi & Viganò in Italy, it is now possible to book the annual eye examination online. The company claims it is the first optical chain in Italy to offer this service. The examination can be booked on the website www.salmoiraghievigano.it, where the customer selects a store as well as ...
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Chilli Beans, a big Brazilian brand of eyewear and accessories,...
Chilli Beans, a big Brazilian brand of eyewear and accessories, will open a store in the Dubai Mall, the big shopping center in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, through a local franchisee, the F3 group, that already sells its collection in Kuwait
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Coastal Contacts, the Canadian-based online retail platform acquired by Essilor...
Coastal Contacts, the Canadian-based online retail platform acquired by Essilor International a year ago, is changing its name in various countries. The Canadian website, which had already be rebranded as Clearly Contacts, will be called simply Clearly. In the U.S., Coastal will be renamed as Coastal.com by Clearly, in Japan ...
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Mister Spex, the leading internet eyewear retailer based in Germany,...
Mister Spex, the leading internet eyewear retailer based in Germany, opened a new website in Switzerland three months ago, using a solution supplied by Intershop, which also helped to relaunch its French and Spanish web stores at the beginning of this year. Mister Spex has just won the ECMOD Direct ...
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Nau!, the Italian eyewear franchise chain, has opened its first...
Nau!, the Italian eyewear franchise chain, has opened its first store outside its domestic territory in Barcelona. The store is located in the Anec Blau shopping mall on the sea front. The store sells sun and prescription eyewear for men, women and children, as well as contact lenses and related ...
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Reportedly, Chanel is planning to start selling its eyewear online...
Reportedly, Chanel is planning to start selling its eyewear online in the U.S. at the end of this year, as a test for the launch of an e-commerce website for all its products
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Luxottica has decided to team up with the internet marketplace...
Luxottica has decided to team up with the internet marketplace of jd.com, the biggest competitor of Alibaba in China, to sell its eyewear online in the country
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JINS Eyewear, the big Japanese brand, has opened its first...
JINS Eyewear, the big Japanese brand, has opened its first store in the U.S., along with an e-commerce operation with a click & collect function. Located at Union Square in San Francisco, it features a robot that edges the lenses on-site within 30 minutes. Founded in 2001, JINS Eyewear has ...
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Geraldine Wood has replaced Mark Ross has managing director of...
Geraldine Wood has replaced Mark Ross has managing director of Black & Lizars, an optical retail chain with 24 stores in Scotland and one in Belfast. The company reportedly made an improved pre-tax profit of £761,000 (€1.03m-$1.16m) last year on 9 percent higher sales of £13.9 million (€18.8m-$21.2m).
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Luxury Optical Holdings is moving its Morgenthal Frederics flagship store...
Luxury Optical Holdings is moving its Morgenthal Frederics flagship store in Manhattan to the historic Carlton House nearby, at 680 Madison Avenue. According to VMail, the company has also acquired Ruhle Opticians, a luxury optician in Warwick, New York. Last year, LOH had acquired two other retailers, Specs Optical and ...
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Evioo.com, the French online optical retailer, is planning to open...
Evioo.com, the French online optical retailer, is planning to open 100 bricks-and-mortar stores over the next three years, according to reports in the information portal acuite.fr. The stores will be relatively small in terms of surface, between 5 and 40 square meters, and highly technical, equipped with artificial intelligence devices. ...
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Swiss Eyewear Group is launching a new proprietary polarizing display...
Swiss Eyewear Group is launching a new proprietary polarizing display for its Invu ultra polarized collection using LCD TV technology. As opposed to the static, black and white graphics that most suppliers use to demonstrate polarization, consumers can watch a movie through Invu ultra polarized sunglasses, which is supposed to ...
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Dita has opened a new store in New York, the...
Dita has opened a new store in New York, the first for the Los Angeles-based luxury eyewear brand on the U.S. East Coast. The 900-square-foot, glass-enclosed space is located in the heart of SoHo, at 273 Lafayette Street. The store features exposed-wood ceilings, concrete walls, industrial steel, and hand-finished furnishing. ...
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The first Italia Independent store has opened in the U.S,...
The first Italia Independent store has opened in the U.S, following on from Paris, as part of a “leading points of sale” project that the brand aims to launch in strategic markets where it is already present. Italia Independent also has a new headquarters in the heart of Milan, at ...
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Glassing will be using a yacht as a stand at...
Glassing will be using a yacht as a stand at Mido which will be then officially opened to the public as a store this summer, reaching the harbors of exclusive holiday destinations in the Mediterranean. It is said to be the first optical boat shop in the world. The store ...
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In collaboration with GfK, the German opticians' association, ZVA, is...
In collaboration with GfK, the German opticians' association, ZVA, is developing a pilot project in geomarketing to help its members to position themselves better against the local competition. The first 26 participants in the project joined a workshop last November to implement it in the course of 2015. Each one ...
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Six fire crews were called to a fire at the...
Six fire crews were called to a fire at the Specsavers building in Coventry, U.K. recently. One firefighter was hospitalized for heat stress as a result of the heat in the building. The cause of the fire was identified as a faulty LED light. Specsavers has arrange alternative premises for ...
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Lissac, the higher-end banner of France's Optic 2000 group, has...
Lissac, the higher-end banner of France's Optic 2000 group, has inaugurated a new store concept that highlights the technical expertise of the affiliated opticians. It was inaugurated last month at a location on rue de Vaugirard in Paris. It will be rolled out to all the 215 corporate and franchised ...
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Electric, the American brand of sunglasses and accessories owned by...
Electric, the American brand of sunglasses and accessories owned by the French Kering group through Volcom, has extended its e-commerce operations from the U.S. and Canada to an initial series of European countries: France, Germany, the U.K., Spain, Italy, Belgium and Austria. The 14-year-old brand, which is based in California, ...
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Nau! has won the AZ Franchising Award from the Italian...
Nau! has won the AZ Franchising Award from the Italian magazine about franchising for the second time, having won previously in 2010. The Italian chain of franchised optical stores has a total of 74 outlets, 17 of which were opened in the past year, and continues to expand, partly through ...
