Organizational structure http://www.luxottica.com/en/about-us/company-structure http://www.luxottica.com/sites/luxottica.com/files/organizzazioneedipartimenti_eng.pdf
ORGANIZATIONS AND DEPARTMENTS
Investor Relations
The Investor Relations department manages relationships with analysts and investors as well as with regulatory bodies that oversee the financial markets.
Consequently, the department works closely with research analysts and fund managers to assist them in building models that support their stock recommendations and investment decisions.
At the same time, the department also interfaces with the Group’s top management for the purpose of sharing market insight and investor feedback.
Business Development
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Information Technology
Information Technology handles all Corporate IT activities and projects, especially the “Transformation” ones which have the aim to define new operating structures and IT platforms for the Group’s various manufacturing and commercial processes. It is also responsible for the co-ordination and delivery of the Group-wide projects and Group contract negotiations.
Retail divisions
Luxottica Group’s Retail divisions manage around 6,500 optical and sun stores in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, China, Europe and the Middle East.
In North America, Luxottica Group controls the two biggest prescription eyewear chains - LensCrafters and Pearle Vision - and the most relevant chains in the sun segment - Sunglass Hut and Ilori.
In South America Luxottica controls Multiopticas Internacional S.L. which manages over 470 eyewear stores operating under the Opticas GMO, Econopticas and Sun Planet retail brands in Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia.
In Europe, Luxottica manages all the European location of the largest sun wear chain in the world: Sunglass Hut.
Luxottica Retail Australiasia is the leading optical product business in Australia,
* Many shops in certain countries but few in others (Only 1 shop in Mexico)
In addition, the Director ensures metrics are met though regular monitoring, training, and oversight. Vigilance is required of the Director, in auditing the operational functions through data and market analysis, with the objective of cultivating potential enhancements and improvements. The stakeholder liaison relationship is an important one for the Director and requires the development of relationships with outside leaders and market influencers.
“Everything is worth what people will pay.” Luxottica is a company that owns several other companies, They bought the majority of the other stores for eye wear! for example the insurance company to be able to get the glasses. They bought Lenscrafters that sold the glasses. They also own majority of the expensive glasses around the world, like Coach, Prada, chanel, and etc. They also bought Oakley since they were going out of business. Ray and Ban went out of business, so some Italian’s bought the store and the store became very popular but is still considered an American store.
Asia Pacific: Includes the company’s operations in Australia, New Zealand, India, Japan, China, South Korea, Indonesia and Singapore across all of the company’s categories.
Luxottica Group S.p.A. is an Italian eyewear company founded 56 years ago in Agordo, Italy. This company based in Milan is the world's largest eyewear company. Furthermore, as a vertically integrated company, Luxottica is designing, manufacturing, distributing and retailing its eyewear brands including LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Apex by Sunglass Hut, Pearle Vision, Sears Optical, Target Optical, Eye med vision care plan, and Glasses.com. Its best-known brands are Ray-Ban, Persol, and Oakley. Luxottica also makes sunglasses and prescription frames for designer brands such as Chanel, Prada, Giorgio Armani, Burberry, Versace, Dolce and Gabbana, Miu Miu, DKNY and Tory Burch among others. Luxottica's mission is to protect the
From our offices in the United Kingdom, the Middle East and North America, we have forged strong links with leading retail chains. In other markets our extensive network of distributors and agencies supports our commitment to customer service.
Information Technology (IT): The hardware and software technologies a firm needs to achieve its business objectives (Kenneth C Laudon and Jane P Laudon., 2010).
Luxottica is now a vertically integrated organization (Hugos, 2006) whose manufacturing of prescription and sun frames is backed up by a wide-reaching wholesale distribution network and over 6,250 stores. Most of the company’s outlets are located in North America, Asia-Pacific and China.
what's more, Marcolin S.p.A. These are the stand out organizations ready to contend in the eyewear business sector on account of the considerable number of firms and retail locations they possess. In this business sector, having your own particular retailers is fundamental. An organization that just creates and plans, or one that no one but retails can't make due in this situation. De Rigo S.p.A. is behind Luxottica Group and Safilo Group eyewear organization around the world. Among the brands it possesses there are Sting, Police and Lozza, and its authorized names incorporate Fendi, Pirelli and Fila. Its retail system is assembled around General Optica, around the globe can be found around 200 of those. Safilo Group S.p.A. is Luxottica's "adversary" and the second around the world eyewear creator and advertiser. It was established in 1934 by the Tabacchi family, in Italy. Its retailers spread 130 nations and one of the greatest chain store claimed by Safilo is Solstice, which covers the U.S. market. This organization relies on its brands and authorized marks portfolio that incorporates Carrera, Polaroid, Marc Jacobs, Armani, Gucci and numerous others. Marcolin S.p.A. produces under marks, for example, Ferrari, Mont Blanc and Tom Ford and offers its products through a retail system in view of outlets in around eighty distinct nations. The Organization has a place with Della Valle
France: Leroy Merlin is the best-known DIY Retailer (69%) followed by Castorama (61%). It is the most purchased as well (31%
Sunlight, the original company, operates in the UK and Ireland and Berendsen operates in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and the Baltic countries) and in the continent (Germany, Austria, Holland, Poland and Check Republic). (The Davis Service Group Plc Report and Accounts 2007)
Interfacing with departments builds up an in-house marketing manager to be an expert on your product and sets them up for success in working cohesively with the rest of the team. Marketing managers can learn about the nitty-gritty details of how the product works from the development team so they can market it in a concrete way. They also have knowledge about the most common frustrations and the most popular features from the customer-care team.
Information Technology is very essential everywhere to run a business company. This is only one thing that facilitate a company’s staff to do everything such as writing documents, sending e-mail, having conferences at long geographical distances in the world, having IP phones to communicate inside of the company, having VPN (virtual private network) to let workers to work from home and etc.
Each and every aspect in life is getting connected to Information Technology. Starting from a simple home computer to Super computer used by NASA is technologically driven. Therefore, managing IT or IT management has become a very important activity.
The Information Technology Division as one entity of BRI’s organizational structure is responsible for providing, executing, monitoring and maintaining the whole technology required for all business and operational activities. In connection with the great and the high complexity