Luxottica Group is a leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of fashion, luxury, sports and performance eyewear. Luxottica’s 2018 financial performance confirms the Company’s ability to continuously pursue growth while achieving key strategic and organizational goals.
The Company’s total net sales were approximately Euro 9 billion, net income was 900 million and headcount as of year-end was approximately 82,000 employees. Founded in 1961 by Leonardo Del Vecchio, Luxottica is a vertically integrated organization whose manufacturing of sun and prescription eyewear is backed by a wide-reaching wholesale organization and a retail network located primarily in North America, Latin America,
Asia-Pacific and Western Europe.
Product design, development and manufacturing for frames take place in Luxottica’s six production facilities in Italy, three factories in China, one in Brazil, one facility in the United States devoted to sports and performance eyewear and two small plants in Japan and India, the latter serving the local market.
In 2018, the Group’s worldwide production of frames reached approximately 87 million units. Luxottica has also produced sun and ophthalmic lenses for more than 20 years. The Company has increased its lens manufacturing capacity since the end of 2016 with the addition of three new laboratories in Europe, NorthAmerica and Asia-Pacific, which are completely integrated with its logistics hubs.
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