All Retail articles – Page 30
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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 ...
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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, ...
