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Essilor reported a good first half of the year. Revenues increased with 7,9% to 2.780 million euro. Like-for-like sales increased with 3%, acquisitions like those of Transitions and Coastal accelerated the growth. Coastal realized sales of 38 million in the second quarter of this year proving the importance of large scale online business. Europe still […]

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When HAL, earlier this year, announced to investigate a possible IPO, it already created some turbulence in the financial world resulting in a lot of interesting publications like the one in the Dutch Financial Daily. Now that the investment company has definitely decided to a partial IPO, it is even more interesting. All publications show […]

More profit for Safilo

augustus 8, 2014
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In the first half of 2014 Safilo sales increased slightly to 606,3 million euro. In the same period profit increased with almost 45% from 20,4 million in the first half of 2013 to 29,5 million in the first half of this year. It might be clear that improvement of the overall performance is the main […]

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Luxottica buys Spanish stores

juni 23, 2014
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Luxottica wants to strengthen its direct presence in the so-called Sun-Belt countries. These are countries characterized by a high percentage of sunny days, a large tourism industry and a relatively fashion and luxury driven population. For that reason the company recently acquired 10 Spanish sunglasses stores. The stores will gradually be rebranded into Sunglass Hut […]

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