Milan, Italy – March 5, 2009 - Luxottica Group S.p.A. (NYSE: LUX; MTA: LUX), the global leader in the eyewear sector, today announced that its “2009 Investor and Analyst Presentation” conference call will be available via audio webcast on Friday, March 13, 2009, at 5:30 PM US ET (9:30 AM GMT, 10:30 AM CET).

The audio webcast will be available to the financial community and the media from Luxottica Group’s corporate website at www.luxottica.com/english/investor_relations/webcast.html.

Please note that a slide presentation will be available for download from Luxottica Group’s investor relations corporate website at www.luxottica.com/english/investor_relations/presentation.html shortly before the start of the audio webcast.

Luxottica Group will report full year 2008 results on March 12, 2009.

Certain financial and statistical information included in the webcast, as well as information required by Regulation G, will be available at the time of the webcast in the notes to the relative earnings release available from Luxottica Group’s website at www.luxottica.com, section press releases.