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Two new franchises take the Italian Nau! chain's total number...
Two new franchises take the Italian Nau! chain's total number of stores to 95. One has been opened in Udine by a franchisee who joined the chain in 2006 with an outlet in Pordenone. The other one is located in Bolzano, where Fielmann recently set up its first store in ...
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Valli Holdings, parent company of Valli Opticians, says it has...
Valli Holdings, parent company of Valli Opticians, says it has doubled the number of its stores in the U.K. by acquiring AH Mertons, a chain of seven stores in Lancashire and Cheshire. It has also nearly trebled its turnover. Run by Moin Valli and based in Huddersfield, the independent retail ...
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Vinyl Factory has re-launched its website, which includes its e-shop....
Vinyl Factory has re-launched its website, which includes its e-shop. Besides the product catalog, it features a photo gallery of well-known people wearing its glasses.
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Cutler & Gross has opened its second store in London,...
Cutler & Gross has opened its second store in London, which is located in the Old Spitalfields Market in East London. The British firm already has a flagship store in the Knightsbridge area of London as well as shops in Bath and Leeds. Early last month, Cutler & Gross also ...
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Specsavers has announced the details of a new electronic patient...
Specsavers has announced the details of a new electronic patient record (EPR) tool which links customers' vision and hearing information with retail. The tool has been built by U.S.-based eClinicalWorks after signing a deal to work with Specsavers globally. The new cloud-based platform is designed to hold patients' optical records ...
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Consorzio Italian Vision (CIV) is a new buying group formed...
Consorzio Italian Vision (CIV) is a new buying group formed in Italy at the beginning of this year. It has federated so far ten small optical retail chains: Barello, Fbl, Ilop, Lisi & Bartolomei, Milleocchiali, Salva, Semedo, Tutto a Vista, Vision Optika and +Vista. Led by Fabrizio Lambertini, the consortium ...
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Lafont has opened a new store in the French city...
Lafont has opened a new store in the French city of Rouen
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The third Oakley store in Germany has opened in a...
The third Oakley store in Germany has opened in a very sporty area of Munich. The 130-square-meter store is located on the central Sendlinger Strasse, right next to The North Face. It is operated by a retailer who also has a Nike shop in the same area. Oakley's two other ...
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Optic 2000 has been awarded the Janus du Commerce 2015...
Optic 2000 has been awarded the Janus du Commerce 2015 by the French Design Institute (Institut Français du Design) for its new store concept, developed in collaboration with BrandImage. The Janus label is recognized by the French Ministry of Industry and Trade. Optic 2000's new store concept, which was launched ...
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Cutler & Gross has opened its first store in Los...
Cutler & Gross has opened its first store in Los Angeles, the second for the British brand in the U.S. The new 1,200-square-foot shop is located on Melrose Avenue, in West Hollywood, near Balenciaga, Diane von Furstenburg and Marc Jacobs. The shop sells the brand's full range of eyewear and ...
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Vision Group, an Italian buying group with over 1,500 retail...
Vision Group, an Italian buying group with over 1,500 retail members, has decided to reorganize its range of in-house contact lenses and contact lens solutions. They will now all be sold under a single brand called Visio. The Visio contact lens range will be divided into three categories - Gold, ...
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De Rigo Vision's top house brand, Police, has opened its...
De Rigo Vision's top house brand, Police, has opened its first concept store at 47 Corso Buenos Aires in the center of Milan. The 50-sqm store offers consumers the entire range of Police branded items. Launched as an eyewear brand in the '80s, Police now includes a wide range of ...
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Optical Center, a French retailer and franchisor, is planning to...
Optical Center, a French retailer and franchisor, is planning to open 70 stores in Israel over the next ten years. Laurent Lévy, the founder of the banner, lives in Israel. In an interview for the i24 News website, Lévy said he is aiming at the top spot in France by ...
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Mister Spex is now also available in the Netherlands, effective...
Mister Spex is now also available in the Netherlands, effective June 30. After expanding to Switzerland in March, the Berlin-based online eyewear shop, which sells designer glasses and sunglasses directly, is further increasing its market share in Europe. Customers in the Netherlands and Flanders, the northern Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, ...
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Italia Independent is opening its second American store in the...
Italia Independent is opening its second American store in the new Wynwood Block mall in Miami, Florida. The company's first U.S. store was inaugurated in New York last November.
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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 ...
