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Renowned eyewear manufacturer, Essilor Luxottica, has entered into a collaboration with Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta for the creation of a more affordable range of AI glasses, targeting price-conscious customers. This move follows the successful release of AI…
Patrizio Bertelli, the current CEO of the premium brand, will be chosen chairman at the annual shareholder meeting next spring. He will succeed Paolo Zannoni, who will be proposed for the position of executive vice chairman of the group and chairman of Prada…
Italian eyewear firm Luxottica Group has entered its second partnership with China Duty Free Group and Sunrise Duty Free to offer the latest Miu Miu sunglasses collection. The travel retail exclusive has opened in selected airports and other Chinese travel…
Luxottica announced a decrease in first-quarter sales for fiscal 2018, hurt by a slump in European revenues due to bad weather, and distribution restructuring in China. The maker and distributor of luxury eyewear said first-quarter revenue plummeted 10.7…
Oakley China has its first dedicated store, in Xinjiekou’s Deji Plaza, Nanjing. The Nanjing store follows the opening in Shanghai of a one-of-a-kind store for the group, being half Oakley and half Ray-Ban. “This Nanjing store is the first Oakley-only store in…
The Commerce Commission has granted clearance for Essilor International (Compagnie Générale d’Optique) S.A. and Luxottica Group S.p.A to merge their business activities in New Zealand. The proposed global merger brings together a supplier of prescription…
France’s Essilor and Italy’s Luxottica have agreed to terms of a 46 billion euro (US$49 billion) merger, creating a global eyewear powerhouse with annual sales of more than 15 billion euros. Essilor and Luxottica said they will be focusing on boosting sales…
Luxottica says the opening of its Ray-Ban shop-in-shop at Hong Kong International is part of a strategy to differentiate the sunglasses offer in travel retail. The company worked with DFS Group to open the first of its kind shop-in-shop in Asian travel retail…
JD.com says it is going to associate with eyewear producer Luxottica to retail a variety of sun shades bearing a few of the best-known international luxurious manufacturers. Clients of the Chinese language web site will be capable of buy sun shades from…
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