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EssilorLuxottica

Eyewear and eye care · France

EssilorLuxottica makes prescription lenses and sunglass and eyeglass frames, owns brands such as Ray-Ban and Oakley, and sells through eye doctors and about 18,000 stores.

What makes it different

Its smart glasses with Meta sold over 7 million.

>7MAI glasses soldFY2025

Ray-Ban and Oakley frames carrying Meta's AI became the group's fastest-growing new line in a single year.

How big it is

How big is EssilorLuxottica?

€28.5BRevenueFY2025
17,750Stores2025
203,791Employees2025
How it makes money FY2025

Half from shops, half from opticians.

  • Direct to Consumer52%€14.9B
  • Professional Solutions48%€13.6B
How the business works

Own the lens, the brand and the shop.

  1. 1Lenses and frames in-house
  2. 2Own and licensed eyewear brands
  3. 3To opticians and in own stores

Selling both wholesale and through its own stores means one product reaches shoppers by two routes, and the group sees what they buy.

Brands and businesses

More than EssilorLuxottica.

Who owns it
  • Non-resident institutional investors47.5%
  • Delfin S.à r.l.32.42%
  • Resident institutional investors12.5%

CEO: Francesco Milleri

Who it competes with
KeringSSafiloZZeissHHoyaWWarby Parker
Key moments
  1. 1849Essel, Essilor's root, is founded in Paris
  2. 1961Leonardo Del Vecchio founds Luxottica
  3. 1988First fashion licence with Giorgio Armani
  4. 1999Luxottica acquires Ray-Ban
  5. 2018Essilor and Luxottica combine
Sources

Every number on this page comes from EssilorLuxottica's own reports.

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What EssilorLuxottica tracks40 metrics
Company-operated stores
Total stores
Prescription lenses produced
Results, quarter by quarterwith a chart
Revenue
Profit
Margin
Where the money comes from4 regions
North America
EMEA
Asia-Pacific
The full timeline20 moments
2024
2025
2026
EssilorLuxottica vs Keringside by side
Revenue
Profit
People
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