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Leonardo Del Vecchio

Italian industrialist who founded the eyewear maker Luxottica in 1961 and was chairman of EssilorLuxottica until his death in 2022.

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  1. 1961 Leonardo Del Vecchio founded Luxottica
  2. until 27 Jun 2022 Leonardo Del Vecchio chair of EssilorLuxottica
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  1. Italian billionaire Leonardo Del Vecchio, luxury eyewear maker for Prada and Chanel, dies at 87, The Globe and Mail (Associated Press), 27 Jun 2022. Scholarship & press
    the northeast region where Del Vecchio started his business in 1961 in an Alpine valley town
    EssilorLuxottica announces with deep sorrow the passing of Chairman Leonardo Del Vecchio
  2. Sticker shock: Why are glasses so expensive? (60 Minutes script, first aired 7 October 2012, rebroadcast 15 June 2014), CBS News, 15 Jun 2014. Scholarship & press
    Luxottica started here as a small tool shop in Agordo, a dot of a town in the Italian Alps, when frames were still made of mountain goat horns.
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