All Retail articles – Page 29
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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 ...
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Italia Independent has opened its first concept store outside Italy,...
Italia Independent has opened its first concept store outside Italy, in Paris's St Germain des Prés, and has three U.S. openings in the pipeline for later this year, in New York, Los Angeles and Miami. The Italian company will also have a pop-up store in a fashion floor of the ...
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CooperVision is launching an e-commerce service for contact lens orders....
CooperVision is launching an e-commerce service for contact lens orders. Now in its U.S. beta release, the service, called LensFerry, allows wearers to order replacement contact lenses from any manufacturer via their mobile devices, tablets or computers. The prescribing practice gets the sales revenue as if the lenses had been ...
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Sunglass Hut Iberia, a subsidiary of Luxottica, has agreed to...
Sunglass Hut Iberia, a subsidiary of Luxottica, has agreed to take over Inveroptic, a Spanish retailer that operates ten stores under the Cottet Sol banner. They are mostly located in Barcelona and in travel retail areas such as the airports of Madrid and Barcelona. They will gradually be rebranded as ...
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Lesca Lunetier and MeilleurAmi, a French company selling leather bags...
Lesca Lunetier and MeilleurAmi, a French company selling leather bags and accessories, have opened a joint shop in Paris. The 25-square-meter boutique is located at 33, rue Notre Dame de Nazareth, in the trendy Marais neighborhood, although not at the heart of it. The new shop has been designed by ...
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The biggest German online retailer, Mister Spex, is expanding its...
The biggest German online retailer, Mister Spex, is expanding its cooperation with physical stores to the Austrian market. Customers of Mister Spex in Austria can now adjust their contact lenses at local partner opticians. Up to now, only partner opticians in Germany have been taking care of adjusting glasses and ...
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Boots Opticians is simplifying its offer. Customers who are buying...
Boots Opticians is simplifying its offer. Customers who are buying a pair of frames at the British retailer's stores will not have to pay extra for UV protection on the lenses. Dual-sided UV coatings on the lenses will be offered as a standard at no extra cost.
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The click-and-mortar concept is spreading in the eyewear sector. Direct...
The click-and-mortar concept is spreading in the eyewear sector. Direct Optic, a small, low-cost French online store for frames and lenses, has started to open a series of physical stores to complement its activities, which began in 2008. After opening five small outlets of around 60 square meters, Bien Vu ...
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CrossEyes has revealed plans for a nationwide network of franchised...
CrossEyes has revealed plans for a nationwide network of franchised optical retail stores in the U.K., just months after opening its first U.K. operation in Clerkenwell, London. As reported by the Optician magazine, the Danish group, which has six franchised stores in Denmark, has targeted the British market and is ...
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Mykita opened its second store in Berlin in May. The...
Mykita opened its second store in Berlin in May. The store is based in the renovated concept mall “Bikinihaus,” an architectural standout in Berlin, which includes boutiques, concept and flagship stores, pop-up stores, which can be rented for up to a year to food and service providers. The Mykita store ...
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Pro Optic, one of the biggest ophthalmic optics retailers in...
Pro Optic, one of the biggest ophthalmic optics retailers in Germany, recorded total sales of more than €100 million in 2013. As compared to the previous year, sales increased by 16.9 percent, presenting the biggest increase in sales of all ophthalmic optics retailers in Germany. Pro Optic manages and owns ...
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Optiker Bode, the German chain of optical shops, reports that...
Optiker Bode, the German chain of optical shops, reports that it plans to increase the number of shops from the current 74 to 100 in the medium term. New shops are planned in North Rhine Westphalia, Berlin and Hamburg. In North Rhine Westphalia, where the chain has been represented since ...
