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Luxottica founded in Agordo (1961)
Leonardo Del Vecchio started Luxottica in 1961 in Agordo, a village in the Dolomites.
- Dates
- 1961
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- 1961 Luxottica founded in Agordo (1961)
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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
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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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