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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 ...
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Mackey Opticians is opening its first franchised practice in Carnmoney,...
Mackey Opticians is opening its first franchised practice in Carnmoney, County Antrim, at the end of July. The company is the largest independent optical chain in Northern Ireland.
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Sunglass Hut has opened a new 1,875-square-foot store on Lincoln...
Sunglass Hut has opened a new 1,875-square-foot store on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, Florida, its largest shop in the U.S. The sunglasses collection is more than 2.5 times larger than in the chain's average store. It also uses dispensing, try-on and tablet technologies to improve the customer experience, and ...
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Hans Anders has decided to start offering hearing aids at...
Hans Anders has decided to start offering hearing aids at its 90 stores in Belgium gradually, starting next September, but reportedly, it will not engage in a similar diversification for its 50-odd stores in France in the foreseeable future. The low-cost Dutch retailer has sold hearing aids in the Netherlands ...
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Specsavers has introduced a mobile app that allows users to...
Specsavers has introduced a mobile app that allows users to check their vision, raising awareness of eye health. Developed by a professor of optometry and visual science at City University London, the free Sight Check app provides a reading test, a visual acuity test and a fan test for astigmatism.
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Salmoiraghi & Viganò, the leading Italian chain of optical retail...
Salmoiraghi & Viganò, the leading Italian chain of optical retail stores, has launched a new in-house collection of spectacles made from carbon fiber, called 53VNEXT Vista
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Italia Independent has opened its fourth Italian concept store in...
Italia Independent has opened its fourth Italian concept store in the city of Bergamo. The company claims that the other three stores – in Alassia, Alessandria and Courmayeur – have had excellent results. The group's network of shop-in-shops inside independent optical stores is also giving good results, the plan being ...
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The Italian franchised retail chain Nau! has opened its 44th...
The Italian franchised retail chain Nau! has opened its 44th store in Naples. After a similar opening in the Milan's central station, the new store is located in the Naples' equally busy central station. Nau! has other stores in various Italian railway stations and airports.
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The German online retailer Mister Spex works currently together with...
The German online retailer Mister Spex works currently together with a more than 100 partner opticians in Germany, up from 56 at the end of January, and the total is expect to reach 200 by the end of June. The program began in August last year. Mister Spex offers customers ...
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Lissac has opened its 200th store. The French optical retail...
Lissac has opened its 200th store. The French optical retail chain, which consists mainly of franchised stores, doubled in size in the last two years and wants to double again by 2015. One of its unique services is the opportunity for the customer to test a pair of progressive lenses ...
