All Retail articles – Page 29
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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 ...
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Optical Express is launching a state-of-the-art personalized eye care report...
Optical Express is launching a state-of-the-art personalized eye care report named iScan. The service, which is based on an eye health initiative developed for some Premiere League football clubs in the U.K., will be available with all eye examinations and refractive surgery consultations at all of the multiple's practices. It ...
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Traction Productions, a French design eyewear company, opened its third...
Traction Productions, a French design eyewear company, opened its third store in Paris last June. It's the company's first franchise. It will be followed next spring by a new company-owned store in Beaune, in the Burgundy region of France.
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Luxottica has launched a dedicated web shop for Ray-Ban in...
Luxottica has launched a dedicated web shop for Ray-Ban in Brazil, now that its main brand is manufactured locally. The products will be shipped to customers within two days to a week, depending on the location, and they can be exchanged free of charge within 30 days. The web shop ...
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Gold & Wood inaugurated today its first “flagship” shop-in-shop” in...
Gold & Wood inaugurated today its first “flagship” shop-in-shop” in The House of Eyewear, the high-end optical store of Sandrine Pereira on Paris' exclusive rue François Premier
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A recently created new eyewear brand from Switzerland, Viu, opened...
A recently created new eyewear brand from Switzerland, Viu, opened its first mono-brand store in Zürich. Viu is a start-up business, founded in October 2013 by Kilian Wagner and Peter Käser in cooperation with the design duo Aeberhard and Kaegi from Switzerland and a partnering optician from Zurich. A family-owned ...
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Fleye has launched a new customizable wall display that gives...
Fleye has launched a new customizable wall display that gives optical shop owners the possibility of designing their own display. The new wooden wall display, that the Danish firm has created to present its eyewear collections in high-end optical shops, allowing them to highlight a specific frame by removing the ...
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Fedon has opened new stores at airport terminals in Rome...
Fedon has opened new stores at airport terminals in Rome and Olbia, on the island of Sardinia, and in a shopping mall of Jakarta
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Luxottica is to open permanent display areas for Ray-Ban collections...
Luxottica is to open permanent display areas for Ray-Ban collections in certain Italian optical stores. The group's country manager for Italy, Paolo Pezzuto, explained to B2eyes Today that the operation is part of a larger Ray-Ban marketing operation and that some 50 to 60 stores have been identified to date ...
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Nau !, the largest Italian chain of franchised optical retail...
Nau !, the largest Italian chain of franchised optical retail shops, has opened a new store at Parco Leonardo, a shopping mall near Rome's Fiumicino Airport. This is the third opening in Rome after two others in the historic center of the capital. The chain has grown to about 70 ...
