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Optic 2000, the French cooperative of independent opticians, has added...
Optic 2000, the French cooperative of independent opticians, has added 500 more Afnor-labeled stores to its network. The group now makes up for 71 percent of France's optical stores having received AFNOR's quality label for optics, created in 2011. The group's banners include both Optic 2000 and Lissac. With 1,200 ...
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TD Tom Davies has opened its first shop. Located on...
TD Tom Davies has opened its first shop. Located on London's Sloan Square, the two-level store is said to be the first in the U.K. to benefit from a full suite of clinical and dispensing equipment supplied by Carl Zeiss.
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Hans Anders saw comparable sales jump 25 percent in France...
Hans Anders saw comparable sales jump 25 percent in France in 2013 versus 2012. The Dutch group, which has 35 percent of the domestic market, had never performed so well in France, where it has been present since 2006. To adapt to the French market and accelerate its development, the company ...
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Rudy Project has inaugurated its first Italian concept store. It...
Rudy Project has inaugurated its first Italian concept store. It is a shop-in-shop within a rather futuristic optical retail store in Montebelluna, VisionOttica Duemme. Designed by Rudy Project's own creative team, it shows all the eyewear products of the company and its helmets. Rudy Project already has many mono-brand stores ...
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TD Tom Davies, the British eyewear brand, has established a...
TD Tom Davies, the British eyewear brand, has established a system whereby opticians get frames on consignment, provided that they order at least 200 units. If the sales target is achieved during the first year, the process continues free-of-charge in the following year. The company will open its first mono-brand ...
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Mykita opened its second store in Switzerland in December in...
Mykita opened its second store in Switzerland in December in Zermatt. The store has a focus on Mykita's Mylon collection. A franchise partner, who also partly owns and runs the German brand's store in Zürich, will manage the unit in Zermatt. Mykita already has stores in Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Tokyo ...
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After opening its first Canadian physical store in its hometown...
After opening its first Canadian physical store in its hometown of Vancouver, Coastal Contacts has signed a lease for a second one in Canada, located on Queen Street in Toronto
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John Lewis, a British chain of department stores, is said...
John Lewis, a British chain of department stores, is said to be considering setting up optical counters and opening restaurants, barber's shops and postal services at 30 of its locations. Asda, the supermarket chain owned by Walmart, already has many optical counters in its stores.
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Safilo has opened a new showroom in the center of...
Safilo has opened a new showroom in the center of Milan and its tenth Solstice Sunglasses boutique in New York. The new 370-square-meter showroom, inaugurated on Nov. 14, is located at via Manzoni 38, in a prestigious building. The showroom has been relocated from its previous address in via Montenapoleone, ...
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Salt City Optics has launched a new online store specializing...
Salt City Optics has launched a new online store specializing in prescription eyewear for outdoor activities. SaltCityOptics.com offers prescription eyewear to cyclists, skiers, hikers, fishermen, skateboarders and other outdoor enthusiasts. The company, based in Salt Lake City, claims to be the first online retailer to specialize in the niche. Its ...
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Oberalp, the Italian-based parent company of Salewa, Dynafit and Wild...
Oberalp, the Italian-based parent company of Salewa, Dynafit and Wild Country, has agreed to represent Julbo, the 125-year-old French brand of technical sports eyewear, on the Italian market. Major synergies are expected between Salewa and Julbo in this important market. For the past 15 years, Julbo has been distributed in ...
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Oakley plans to have 210 mono-brand stores in place worldwide...
Oakley plans to have 210 mono-brand stores in place worldwide by the end of this year. There are 158 of them already in the U.S., with an average space of about 200 square meters. Eyewear represents 68 percent of the product mix. The rest is clothing, footwear and accessories. Customers ...
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While studying a possible investment in northern Europe, Alain Affelou...
While studying a possible investment in northern Europe, Alain Affelou will shortly enter the Algerian market. Its first store in the country will be in a shopping mall near the international airport of Algiers. Algeria will be the tenth country where the franchised optical retail banner will be trading. Interestingly, ...
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Nau!, a fast-growing Italian chain of franchised stores, has just...
Nau!, a fast-growing Italian chain of franchised stores, has just launched its online shop, www.nau.it, in Italian and English, and is considering possible master franchising agreements abroad. The company currently has 28 optical outlets, mainly in northern Italy, but it plans to have 60 in place by the end of ...
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TD Tom Davies plans to open its first mono-brand store...
TD Tom Davies plans to open its first mono-brand store on London's Sloane Square next month, according to Optician. It will feature an eye testing room and a glazing laboratory in the basement.
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Luxury Optical Holdings (LOH) has acquired Leonard Opticians, a high-end...
Luxury Optical Holdings (LOH) has acquired Leonard Opticians, a high-end optical operation with two stores in New York and one in Los Angeles. As reported by Vision Monday, the deal became effective on Sept. 16. Leonard's management team will remain in place while Arthur Leonard, Leonard's president, will continue as ...
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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 local partner opticians to include contact lenses. Customers of Misters Spex have now the possibility to adjust their contact lenses at local partner opticians. Up to now, partner opticians only took care of adjusting glasses and refraction. The ...
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Leclerc is launching a new online sales platform for contact...
Leclerc is launching a new online sales platform for contact lenses, starting off with the ones that it already sells through its physical stores. The French cooperative of supermarkets already counts 69 specialty optical stores in its domestic market, called Leclerc Optique, and optical counters in some 300 supermarket stores. ...
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Pearle Vision, a division of Luxottica Retail, has agreed to...
Pearle Vision, a division of Luxottica Retail, has agreed to convert 13 company-owned stores in the U.S. to licensed operations. According to VMail, this is part of its plans to license out 34 stores to independent opticians in ten different states and to enlist other licensees. In the longer term, ...
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Randazzo, an Italian optical retail chain with 188 outlets trading...
Randazzo, an Italian optical retail chain with 188 outlets trading under the Optissimo and Corner Optique banners, generated sales of €103.4 million in 2013, down by 3 percent. The result is highly positive, considering the fact the Italian eyewear market fell by an estimated 7 percent and that the company ...
