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Target Optical was founded by the Cole National Corporation in 1995 [1] in Cleveland, Ohio. In 2004, the Cole National Corporation was acquired by the Italian Luxottica S.p.A. along with other Cole National Corporation holdings such as Pearle Vision. Luxottica folded Cole's operations into its North American Retail Group and the Cole structure ...
Grand Met expanded Pearle Vision to more than 1,000 locations worldwide by 1990, but profits became elusive. In 1996, Grand Met sold the Pearle stores in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico to Cole National Corporation, which operated optical departments inside such retail stores as Sears, BJ's Wholesale Club and Target. [5]
LensCrafters had just three locations when U.S. Shoe purchased it; by 1989, there were 350 locations, and LensCrafters was generating 40% of U.S. Shoe's operating income. [12] In 1992, LensCrafters surpassed Pearle Vision to become the largest chain of eyeglass retailers in the United States, with roughly $660 million in annual revenue. [8]
Luxottica is the largest optical retailer in the United States, with 7.3% of US retail sales in 2015. [45] With its merger with Essilor in 2018 the company owns Coastal/Clearly, an online contacts and glasses retail giant bought in 2014 that ships to over 200 countries beside its original North American market.
The Akron Press joined in 1925 with Akron Times to be The Akron Times-Press.; The Barberton Herald (1923-2022) [2]; Celina Democrat (1895–1921) [3]; The Cedarville Herald (from July 1890 to December 1954) [4]
Cleveland. [1] On April 1, 1840 the Israelitic Society petitioned Cleveland's City Council for a half-acre Jewish section of the city's Erie Street Cemetery. That request denied, on July 7, 1840 it purchased 1 acre (4,000 m 2) of land on Willett Street (now Fulton Street) in the Ohio City neighborhood of Cleveland, west of the Cuyahoga River ...
Ries with raw block of optical crystal at Schott Optical. Ries's sculptures are noted for their changing internal optical compositions and technical proficiency. Ries's primary medium is clear lead crystal, a glass with an unusually high refractive index, extreme light transmission in the visual range, and outstanding homogeneity.
In 1919, the company's founders donated their private observatory in East Cleveland, Ohio to Case Western Reserve University. Today's Warner and Swasey Observatory grew from that facility. The company's 50th-anniversary book [ 10 ] describes the firm's giant-telescope-building work as unprofitable overall but a labor of technological love.