Milan, Italy –April 21, 2006 - Luxottica Group S.p.A. (NYSE: LUX; MTA: LUX), the global
leader in the eyewear sector, today announced that its first quarter of 2006 results
investor conference call will be available via audio webcast on Thursday, April 27, 2006, at
6:30 PM CET, 5:30 PM GMT, 12:30 PM US ET. 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. The audio webcast will then
be available for replay through the close of business day on May 11, 2006.

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. Following the end of the replay period, the slide presentation will
continue to be available from the archives of the investor relations section of the website.

Luxottica Group will report first quarter of 2006 results on April 27.

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 investor relations, press releases.

Contacts

Luxottica Group S.p.A.

Luca Biondolillo
Head of Communications
Tel.: +39 (02) 8633-4062
Email: MediaRelations@Luxottica.com 

Alessandra Senici
Senior Manager, Investor Relations
Tel: +39 (02) 8633 4069
Email: InvestorRelations@Luxottica.com