Luxottica Group - Fashion Company Profile
Luxottica is the Milan-based eyewear group founded in Agordo in 1961 - designer, manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer of fashion, luxury, sports and performance eyewear, owner of Ray-Ban and Oakley, and since October 2018 part of EssilorLuxottica.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- Operating as part of EssilorLuxottica - Luxottica has been a subsidiary of the combined group since the Essilor-Luxottica merger completed on 1 October 2018
- Type
- Subsidiary of EssilorLuxottica S.A., listed on Euronext Paris (EL)
- Headquarters
- Milan, Italy (Luxottica); the parent group is based in Paris, France and Milan, Italy
- Founded
- 1961, in Agordo, Italy, by Leonardo Del Vecchio
Company Profile
As a group company, Luxottica carries no Amazon/eBay shop box here - its brands' and stores' own sites are the destinations, and the Luxottica site is linked above. The big change since the earlier record was written is the merger: on 1 October 2018 Luxottica combined with the French lens maker Essilor to form EssilorLuxottica, and the eyewear business described in the record - the wholesale network, the store chains and the brand portfolio - now sits inside that group. The earlier record, with its period store and country counts and its photograph, is kept in full on the history page.
That combination is the profile's first lesson: Luxottica sells eyewear to other retailers through wholesale and to the public through its own stores at the same time, in the same markets. A group that both supplies and competes with optical retailers occupies a distinctive position in the trade, and the record presents the two networks as complementary halves of one footprint rather than as separate businesses. The store count and country count are the record's own figures, kept as recorded; this rebuild adds no later totals and asserts no changes since that record was written.
Luxottica Group History
The earlier record for this company - its history, past brand line-ups, figures and photographs from the periods described - is kept on a separate page for historical reference.
Luxottica Group History & Historical Profile →Common Questions
Who owns Luxottica now?
EssilorLuxottica, the group formed on 1 October 2018 by the merger of Luxottica with the French ophthalmic optics company Essilor; Luxottica is its subsidiary for frames, brands and eyewear retail.
When was Luxottica founded?
In 1961, in Agordo, Italy, by Leonardo Del Vecchio; the company is headquartered in Milan.
Which brands does Luxottica own?
Its best-known proprietary brands are Ray-Ban, Oakley, Persol and Oliver Peoples, alongside Vogue Eyewear, Alain Mikli and Arnette; it also makes eyewear under licence for many fashion and luxury houses.
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