More about the Luxottica Group and James Bond Style Sunglasses: Luxottica Group is the world’s leading designer, manufacturer and distributor of sunglasses in the luxury eyewear industry. It is also the most knocked-off company in the world, joining Coach, Prada and Luis Vuitton in the worlwide fight against counterfeit luxury handbags, leather goods and sunglasses.

If some business thinks they are going to launch a fake line of Luxottica sunglasses, they should think twice before trying to knock off this sunglasses powerhouse.

It is a global leader in eyewear, with nearly 6000 optical and sun retail stores in North America, Asia-Pacific, China and Europe and a strong brand portfolio that includes Ray-Ban, the world’s best selling sun and prescription eyewear brand in the

world, as well as, among others, license brands Bvlgari, Burberry, Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Donna Karan, Prada, Versace and Polo Ralph Lauren, beginning January 2007, and key house brands: Vogue, Persol, Arnette and REVO.

Most people have never heard of Luxottica, but have heard of LensCrafters and Pearle Vision in North America, OPSM and Laubman & Pank in Asia-Pacific and Sunglass Hut. They are all Luxottica divisions. They own two China-based plants