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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 ...
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Mister Spex, Germany's biggest online eyewear retailer, has expanded into...
Mister Spex, Germany's biggest online eyewear retailer, has expanded into Sweden. The e-commerce retailer from Berlin launched its first Swedish online shop for contact lenses, frames, corrective lenses and sunglasses on April 17. As Sweden has the biggest population of all Scandinavian countries, Mister Spex chose it for entering the ...
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The Sun on Sunday, a new U.K. tabloid, recently ran...
The Sun on Sunday, a new U.K. tabloid, recently ran a consumer finance article that predicted that glasses and contact lenses would be the center of the next big supermarket price war. The article found that prices could be four times cheaper in supermarkets than in standalone opticians' practices. It ...
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Groupe All, the French buying group that services opticians affiliated...
Groupe All, the French buying group that services opticians affiliated with Alliance Optique and Rev, has signed an exclusive distribution agreement for Seiko's Pentax lenses
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A British appellate court has affirmed a ruling in favor...
A British appellate court has affirmed a ruling in favor of Specsavers, saying that the claim of “spec savings at Asda” by that supermarket infringed on Specsavers' trademark. Specsavers says it will pursue a claim for damages.
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Occhibelli Group, the buying group in Northern Italy, met its...
Occhibelli Group, the buying group in Northern Italy, met its goal last year of adding 100 members to its total, now more than 350, making it the most important purchasing group in the northern part of the country. It says that it has avoided losing members by offering high-added-value services ...
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Coastal Contacts of Vancouver says it has set a new...
Coastal Contacts of Vancouver says it has set a new service record by shipping prescription eyeglasses to customers within one day – 0.7 days, to be exact – of the order being placed. It can do this thanks to its own in-house manufacturing facility, which is open 24 hours a ...
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Italia Independent has inaugurated its second Italian concept store in...
Italia Independent has inaugurated its second Italian concept store in Alessandria, in the Piedmont region, in partnership with a retailer called Gruppo Ottica Ottobelli. The first store was opened in nearby Liguria, in the holiday resort of Alassio. The store offers the group's complete product range, from eyewear to clothing, ...
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Luxottica's latest idea for a pop-up store holds water …...
Luxottica's latest idea for a pop-up store holds water … or rather, water holds it. The company recently set a Sunglass Hut concept store afloat in Sydney Harbor in Australia. In late November, the company located the floating store in three different locations in the harbor, and donated 10 percent ...
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Matthias Thoma, a Swiss optician, has decided to sell only...
Matthias Thoma, a Swiss optician, has decided to sell only Tom Davies products in his new store in Thun. The new Optik Thoma will offer TD Tom Davies custom-made products as well as the British company's Couture and Natural Horn collections. The store features a fully branded design and portfolio ...
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The seventh Ottico E.Leclerc-Conad store has opened in the futuristic...
The seventh Ottico E.Leclerc-Conad store has opened in the futuristic A12 shopping center near Turin. As it is located next to the new Juventus football stadium, it features a special selection of sports eyewear, including special styles by Smith Optics, among some 1,200 different models of prescription frames and sunglasses. ...
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Acuitis, the new Swiss-based chain of optical retail stores founded...
Acuitis, the new Swiss-based chain of optical retail stores founded by Daniel Abittan and Marcel Cézar, has received an award as the Golden Banner for 2011
