All Retail articles – Page 31
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Adlens has added an e-commerce facility for U.S. customers, claiming...
Adlens has added an e-commerce facility for U.S. customers, claiming unprecedented demand for its variable-focus eyewear in the country. The U.K.-based company has also announced a cooperation with the American Diabetes Association in the predentation of its eyewear as a safe solution to manage vision complications caused by diabetes. Many ...
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Rodenstock has opened a concept store in the Paradise shopping...
Rodenstock has opened a concept store in the Paradise shopping center of Sofia in partnership with its new exclusive Bulgarian distributor, Dynamed, which was appointed last January. There are already Rodenstock concept shops in nine other countries – Germany, the U.K., Croatia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Slovenia and the United ...
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Mykita partnered with Dover Street Market for the development of...
Mykita partnered with Dover Street Market for the development of a shop-in-shop concept within the London premises of the renowned concept store. To support the opening, Mykita has created a limited edition of sunglasses for the current spring/ summer season. Two models from Mykita's ‘decades' collection were given a new ...
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Vision Express in the U.K. has bought 12 out of...
Vision Express in the U.K. has bought 12 out of the 18 British stores of Crown Eyeglass, the optical retailer based in Blackburn. Vision Express, however, is to close eight of those 12 shops, thus bringing its overall store network to 331 units. The remaining four Crown Optical Centre stores ...
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Alain Afflelou is investing heavily in the hearing aid sector,...
Alain Afflelou is investing heavily in the hearing aid sector, feeling that it is at a similar stage of development as optical retailing 30 years ago, with challenges in terms of recruitment and consumer awareness. In an interview with Bien Vu, the French entrepreneur said he plans to add about ...
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Ceralp, a French optical retailer with about 31 stores, has...
Ceralp, a French optical retailer with about 31 stores, has joined SAPMM, the buying group belonging to Schertz. Before this new arrival, the group had 26 members with 120 sales outlets. The various cooperatives in the fields of optical and hearing aids that make up Schertz include Luz Optique, Luz ...
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The expansion of Eyes + More will continue this year....
The expansion of Eyes + More will continue this year. On Feb. 16, Eyes + More opened a new store in Augsburg, managed on a franchise basis. The company currently counts 73 stores in Germany, 39 in the Netherlands and one in Vienna. Only 20 stores are managed on a ...
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Specsavers has signed a licensing deal to distribute the EyeDispense...
Specsavers has signed a licensing deal to distribute the EyeDispense app for iPads, following trials in three of its stores. The agreement gives the British retailer multiple unlimited rights to distribute the app across all of its stores worldwide. Specsavers is the biggest optical retailer in the U.K. and Ireland. ...
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Smarteyes, a Sweden-based optical retail chain with 40 stores in...
Smarteyes, a Sweden-based optical retail chain with 40 stores in Sweden and Germany, continues its expansion on the German market. On Jan. 15, Smarteyes opened a new store in Stuttgart, encompassing 125 square meters. The German headquarters of the company will be moved into that same building from its current ...
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Safilens will use the Opti fair in Munich to launch Ottiko, a...
Safilens will use the Opti fair in Munich to launch Ottiko, a new website for the German-speaking countries that was launched first in Switzerland on Jan. 1. It allows its registered dealers in the region to visualize and select online any of the lenses in the Italian company's range, and to order them with a ...
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Smarteyes, a Swedish-based optical retail chain with 40 stores in...
Smarteyes, a Swedish-based optical retail chain with 40 stores in Sweden and Germany, continues its expansion on the German market. The Swedish company plans to open several new stores in Germany during the next year. Its website has been revamped to emphasize the heritage of the company. Until now, the ...
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Atol, one of the major French cooperatives of opticians, announced...
Atol, one of the major French cooperatives of opticians, announced earlier this month that it has reached the objective of annexing more than 800 points of sale, compared with 770 one year ago. The retail sales of the affiliated stores have grown by 3 percent so far this year.
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Marc Le Bihan has inaugurated a new concept store in...
Marc Le Bihan has inaugurated a new concept store in Paris, at 39 rue Etienne Marcel. In the new shop, located just a few steps from the optician's historic boutique in the first district, a 60-square-meter case displays the new trends and creations by hip designers. The store's décor swings ...
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The Optical Express chain in the U.K. is reportedly planning...
The Optical Express chain in the U.K. is reportedly planning to close 40 high-street stores, which have been affected by a decline in traffic as customers are trending toward shopping malls
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Brille24 has signed a strategic partnership agreement with a German...
Brille24 has signed a strategic partnership agreement with a German hair salon chain, the Essanelle Hair Group. Since August, Essanelle's clients can use reading glasses from Brille24 in the waiting area and for personal image consulting. With the first offline presentation of its products, Brille24 aims to gain new clients ...
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Salmoiraghi & Viganò has launched an iPhone app which allows...
Salmoiraghi & Viganò has launched an iPhone app which allows users to access its collections of sunglasses and eyeglasses, choosing from hundreds of templates, directly from their iPhone. The project has been implemented in partnership with Ideolo, the Italian agency specializing in proximity and digital marketing for the retail sector. ...
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Jean-François Rey, the French eyewear designer, has opened the first...
Jean-François Rey, the French eyewear designer, has opened the first physical J.F. Rey store. Located on square Delambre in Paris, it has taken the place of a former optical store called Lunetiers Delambre, which is now only a website selling the collections of J.F. Rey and other designers over the ...
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Brille 24, one of the major online stores for eyeglasses...
Brille 24, one of the major online stores for eyeglasses in Germany, has added contact lenses by major suppliers to its offerings
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Apollo Optik, the German optical retail chain owned by Hal,...
Apollo Optik, the German optical retail chain owned by Hal, is going to open a flagship store of around 580 square meters on four floors next winter on the Schildergasse, the major shopping street of Cologne. It will be located close to the Fielmann Supercenter opened by its main competitor ...
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Jimmy Fairly opens its first boutique in Paris. Thus far,...
Jimmy Fairly opens its first boutique in Paris. Thus far, the French brand of designer eyewear had been exclusively available on the internet. The store is located at 64 rue Vieille du Temple, in the fancy Marais district of the French capital. Jimmy Fairly prides itself on having all its ...
