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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 ...
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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.
