Eye ware suppliers

• Adhoc Eyewear - Manufacturer and distributor of high quality alloy sports glasses.
• BMI Eyewear - Providing custom sunglasses to gasoline station retail stores. Includes product description, photos and contact information.
• Big Line - Producer of glasses for fashion and sporting applications. Located in Italy.
• Black Flys - Producer of sunglasses, goggles and clothing. Based in Costa Mesa, CA.
• Blue Gem Sunglasses - Manufacturer and distributor of sunglasses and goggles. Headquarters in Carpinteria, CA.
• Bocu Vision - Manufacturer and distributor of sunglasses from China and Japan.
• Body Specs Eyewear - Providing 100% UV protection and a life-time warranty for athletic or fashion-oriented individuals.
• Bollé - Sport-specific and general recreational sunglasses.
• Christian Roth - Designer of fashion sunglasses. Offices in New York, Tokyo and Europe.
• Costa Del Mar - Manufacturing polarized sunglasses for extreme outdoor environments.
• Coyote Eyewear - Offers polarized, premium optical and polycarbonate lenses with anti-glare protection and unbreakable lenses, includes photos and links to authorized dealers. Requires JavaScript.
• Dragon Optical - A wide range of sunglasses and goggles for sports enthusiasts.
• Fitovers - Manufacturer of polarized Fitovers.
• Foster Grant - Produces a wide variety sunglasses, non-prescription reading glasses and eyewear accessories. Dealer locator, FAQs, and career opportunity listings.
• Gatorz - Maker of Gatorz brand sunglasses, goggles, watches, shoes and apparel.
• Gin Optics - Features this organisation's collection, dealer directory and their contact information.
• Global Vision Eyewear - Wholesaler of sunglasses, goggles and safety glasses.
• HB Sunglasses - Styles for men, women and children sold in one dozen minimums.
• Hobie Polarized Sunglasses - Offers a variety of products and styles. Includes photos and contact information.
• Jeevice - Designer of ladies glasses and goggles. Includes a dealer locator.
• KW Sunglasses - Wholesaler supplying boutiques, department stores and specialty chains with the latest fashions.
• L.A. Wholesale - Wholesale replica sunglasses sold in dozen lots. Situated in Santa Fe Springs, CA.
• Lipopsun - Manufacturer and wholesale distributor of sunglasses, reading and sport glasses.
• Live Eyewear - Manufactures Cocoons, Live Eyes, PolarEyes and EyeSights brands that fit over prescription eyewear. Includes photo gallery of products.
• Marchon Eyewear, Inc. - Produces designer eyeglass and sunglass frames.
• Maui Jim - Offers a wide selection of lightweight fashion and performance styles.
• Mundaka Optic - Manufacturer of sport and fashion glasses. A dealer locator is included.
• NYX Golf Sunglasses - Providing a 3-lens system that allows golfers to adapt to any sunlight condition.
• NativeEyewear - Offering a vast selection of sunglasses and polarized eyewear.
• NoIR Medical Technologies - Manufactures and sells eye protection for low vision applications. Includes catalog, photographs, and facility for commercial and retail ordering. South Lyon, Michigan, USA.
• Oakley - Sports sunglasses and goggles.
• Olympic Eyewear - Selling wholesale replica glasses and goggles in one dozen lots. Offers international delivery.
• Reptile Polarized Sunglasses - Manufacturer of titanium polarized lenses that offer a triple protection advantage. Details of technology.
• Rudy Project - Manufacturer of sport helmets and sunglasses for use in competitive sports.
• Ryders Eyewear - Sport-specific and performance eyewear, including urban styles and goggles.
• Safilo Group - Multinational firm in the field of sunglasses, fashion and sports eyewear.
• Scott - Sports-specific sunglasses and goggles for wintersports, motocross, paintball and general recreational wear.
• Serengeti Eyewear, Inc. - Manufacturers and distributes Serengeti brand sunglasses.
• Smith Sport Optics - US manufacturer of sunglasses and goggles for sports and leisure.
• Soda Sunglasses - A variety of sunglass designs and colors. Includes photos and online contact form.
• Solar Bat - Noctular Lens providing UVA and UVB filter with polarization.
• Sover - A producer of sunglasses and spectacle frames in Italy. Offers brands including Lotto and Alviero Martini.
• Spy - Offering sunglasses, shirts and goggles for extreme sport applications.
• Sunrayzz Imports - Online distributor of wholesale replica designer sunglasses and accessories. Canada.
• TG Sunglasses - Active sports and fashion sunglass supplier. Located in the UK.
• TecSpecs - Manufacturer and retailer of sunglasses that stay in place while playing aggressive sports.
• The Vision Council - U.S. trade association for sunglass manufacturers.
• Trade Sunglasses - UK-based wholesaler and distributor of glasses.
• VMD Australia - Distributing various brands of sunglasses to Australian and New Zealand businesses.
• VonZipper - Sunnies, goggles and a dealer locator.
• Vuarnet France - Worldwide supplier of glasses under the Vuarnet label.
• Zerorh+ - An Italian selection of eyewear and apparel.

Luxottica Business Model

Our Business Model

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Luxottica operates in a continually evolving and highly competitive global market.

Quality of products, plants on the cutting edge, unique retail and wholesale distribution. This is Luxottica Group, a worldwide integrated leader.

Luxottica's products are distinguished by the excellent design and the high quality and they are known all over the world thanks to a strong and well balanced brand portfolio.

Among the house brands are listed Ray-Ban, the most known sunglasses brand at worldwide level, Oakley, Vogue, Persol, Oliver Peoples, Arnette, REVO and Alain Mikli while the licensed brands include Armani, Bvlgari, Burberry, Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Donna Karan, Polo Ralph Lauren, Prada, Salvatore Ferragamo, Tiffany and Versace.    

The wholesale distribution touches 130 Countries in all the 5 continents and makes use of 20 logistic centers and more than 40 commercial subsidiaries , that allows a direct presence in the most important markets.

Particularly revealing is the penetration in the emerging markets, as well as in the new channels represented by the shopping centers, the airports and the stations.

Together with the direct control on wholesale, Luxottica has the most extended worldwide retail network, being leader in the optical retail business through leading brands such LensCrafters and Pearl Vision in North America, in Asia Pacific with OPSM, Laubman & Pankand and Budget Eyewear, in China with LensCrafters.

As of December 31, 2012, Sunglass Hut operated a retail network of 2,713 stores worldwide, including 2,610 corporate stores across North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe, South Africa and Latin America and 103 franchise locations in the Middle East, India, the Philippines and Thailand. 

Finally the control of Oakley, global icon for sports eyewear, allows a strong garrison of the market and channel of sport, in which Luxottica is present both at wholesale and retail level, through the one brand shops chain O’ stores.

THE MARKET

Luxottica operates in a continually evolving and highly competitive global market.

Luxottica operates in a continually evolving and highly competitive global market.

We are committed in mature markets on a day-to-day basis and are engaged in all the challenges that have arisen in the last three years. We strive constantly to adapt to and anticipate change in each market, often managing to guide such developments.

In the emerging world, Luxottica puts it leadership potential at the service of local markets. We are convinced that through its knowledge of these markets Luxottica can further improve its distribution platform. This is why we have made substantial investments in the last few years and intend to expand and strengthen our operations in these countries.

COMPETITIVE POSITIONING

Luxottica’s success is based on a perfect combination of and interaction between key factors.

Luxottica’s success is based on a perfect combination of and interaction between the following key factors:

• global leadership in manufacturing;
• the strongest and most successfully balanced brand portfolio in the industry;
• wholesale distribution operations in 130 countries;
• lens finishing capability;
• over 7,000 stores worldwide;
• leadership in the sports segment;
• technological supremacy in sunglass lenses.

Recon Jet is the $499 Google Glass alternative for athletes and exercisers

by Kevin C. Tofel

 

JUN. 27, 2013 - 12:45 PM PDT

Google’s Project Glass may have started the trend for wearable smart glasses, but for now, it’s too expensive. Say hello to a similar product priced at $499 and targeted for exercise tracking with real time date.

Upset that you didn’t get in on the $1,500 fast track for Google’s Glass eye wear? Don’t fret: You’ve got another chance to buy a similar product, and it only costs one-third of the price. Recon Jet, a set of smart sunglasses, is available to order now for the early-bird price of $499. Deliveries are expected in December and if you want until after July 21 to order, you’ll have to shell out an additional $100.

When I look at Recon Jet, I imagine the love child between a pair of Oakley shades and Google’s Glass. The glasses have high-performance polarized lenses in an athletic look along with a rather intelligent set of processors, radios, sensors and a heads-up display (HUD). The actual “smarts” of the wearable device appears quite small and, unlike Google Glass, fits on the bottom portion of a lens due to the HUD.

So what makes Recon Jet so smart? Inside the small brains are many of the pieces in today’s smartphones:

• A 1 GHz dual-core Cortex A9 processor
• 1 GB of memory and 8 GB of internal flash storage
• A trio of 3D sensors: accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer
• Sensors to read pressure, touch and ambient temperature
• 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, ANT+, GPS and Apple MFi connectivity
• An HD video camera and microphone

The display itself appears modeled after another Recon product, the Snow. It’s a HUD for snow goggles that also includes sensors to track speed, height and other metrics for winter activities. On the Jet, Recon says the HUD will appear as a virtual HD widescreen image of 30-inches diagonal as viewed from 7 feet away. This allows for the wearer to read the display without having to refocus away from their environment.

Jet looks great — arguably better than Google Glass, but as we all know external appearances aren’t everything. The user experience is also important: Cramming too much information onto a small floating screen usually isn’t ideal. And what about apps that can actually use all the sensors? After all, if all those smart components can’t do anything, you have a very expensive set of shades with a camera and display.

That’s where developers come in. Recon already has an SDK and sample app for the Snow and it will have one for Jet as well. So third-party programmers can help bring Jet to its potential. For now Recon says Jet users can see their exercise data from the integrated sensors and can also access third-party sensors such as heart rate monitors. When paired to a smartphone, Jet can display caller ID and SMS.

Data can also be shared with other exercise tracking platforms through an export feature, which I’d expect to be in a smartphone app for Jet. And the device can be used for social networking; picture sharing would be a perfect use case, although I think it would be hard for me to snap a clear image during one of my races!