The Italian glasses empire not only owns Ray Ban and Oakley, as reported by The Wall Street Journal, but pretty much every single eyewear brand found in your local Sunglass Hut or LensCrafters, which, by the way, Luxottica also owns. Coach, Chanel, Oliver Peoples, Paul Smith, Ralph Lauren: All of them are designed, created, and manufactured by Luxottica. The entire glasses industry, besides a few emergent players like Warby Parker, is controlled by one company that also owns essentially all of the glasses stores and the world largest vision care plan, EyeMed.

Sales last year totalled 9.16 billion euros ($11.3 billion), up 2.2 percent net of currency moves, in line with a Thomson Reuters SmartEstimate analyst consensus.Luxottica had guided for a “low to mid” single digit growth in 2017 sales at constant currencies and forecast a broadly similar rise in its adjusted operating and net profit.”Adjusted net income (is) expected to grow strongly,” the company said on Monday.The group will publish full 2017 results on Feb. 26. Market.North America, where Luxottica owns retail chains LensCrafters and Sunglass Hut, is the biggest market for the Milanese group, accounting for 60 percent of group sales in 2016.

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Will drivers come for the ride? Of course, GM promising to go electric doesn guarantee success. There a lot of work ahead. But Mabee believes GM can reach its goal, suggesting big manufacturers have the kind of heft needed to make technological improvements in key areas such as battery life and efficiency.