LUXOTTICA
IN THE WORLD

Among Luxottica's core strengths is its diverse and widespread geographical presence across 150 countries, with institutional offices, wholesale subsidiaries, approximately 9,200 retail stores, 4 distribution centers and 15 manufacturing facilities.

OFFICES MANUFACTURING LOGISTICS SHOWROOMS

IN 2019, LUXOTTICA’S MANUFACTURING FACILITIES LOCATED IN ITALY, GERMANY, CHINA, THE UNITED STATES, BRAZIL, INDIA AND JAPAN PRODUCED A COMBINED TOTAL OF APPROXIMATELY 91 MILLION PRESCRIPTION FRAMES AND SUNGLASSES.

2019 Group output production

Country	% of Group output production
Italy and Germany	43%
China,India and Japan	42%
United States	10%
Brazil	5%

Manufacturing FOOTPRINT

Ongoing R&D and innovation has allowed the Company to strengthen its manufacturing processes, upgrade its capacity at each of these facilities and improve the overall quality of its products. Automation is also key in boosting the efficiency of Luxottica's productions.

Luxottica’s manufacturing footprint includes seven facilities located in Italy, the center of Luxottica’s luxury eyewear production, all of which combine the tradition of Italian craftsmanship with the speed and efficiency of modern automation. Five facilities are located in Northeastern Italy, where most of the country’s eyewear industry is based, one near Turin and one in Pescara. These factories, together with the addition of Barberini’s lens manufacturing site in Germany, represent 43% of Luxottica’s global production output.

Since 1997 Luxottica has had a presence in China through the Dongguan plant in Guangdong province. In 2006, Luxottica increased local manufacturing capacity through the construction of an entirely new facility; in 2010, it began producing plastic sun lenses to be paired with frames that are manufactured in the same location. Soon after, the Company integrated a new state-of-the-art plant, primarily dedicated to frame details and decorations.

The Foothill Ranch facility in California manufactures high-performance sunglasses, prescription frames and lenses and assembles most of Oakley’s eyewear products. Oakley apparel, footwear and certain goggles are produced by third-party manufacturers.

Luxottica’s Campinas plant in Brazil and two small plants in Japan and India serve the local markets.

THE GROUP’S DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, COMPRISED OF 4 DISTRIBUTION CENTERS, IS ONE OF THE MOST ADVANCED AND EFFICIENT IN THE INDUSTRY.

It is globally integrated, serves both the retail and wholesale businesses and links them to the production facilities. The system is fed by a centralized manufacturing platform that provides daily monitoring of global sales performance and inventory levels to meet local market demand.

There are four main distribution centers (hubs) in strategic locations serving the Group’s major markets: Sedico (Italy), Atlanta (US), Dongguan (China) and Jundiai (Brazil). They operate as centralized facilities thanks to a highly automated order management system, servicing other Group distribution centers or, in some markets, shipping products directly to customers, thereby further reducing delivery times and keeping stock levels low.

Logistics Hub in numbers

Logistics Hub	Units managed per day
Sedico	270,000
Dongguan	195,000
Atlanta	190,000
Jundai	25,000

Luxottica People

As of December 31, 2019, the Group’s employees are approximately 80,000, of which 60% dedicated to the retail business, 5% to the wholesale business, 34% to production and logistics. The remaining 1% works at Corporate offices in Italy and the United States.

As a whole, 44% of Luxottica employees are in North America, 22% in Europe, 26% in Asia, Oceania, Africa and Middle East and 8% in Latin America

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DISTRIBUTION

Luxottica’s global distribution network is one of the Group’s core strengths. It includes retail stores as well as a wholesale network of third-party stores and chains. Luxottica operates in all the world’s major markets and continues to expand in emerging markets, where it has made substantial investments over the last few years and intends to broaden and strengthen its distribution platform going forward.