Luxottica: dividend payment date

Luxottica Group S.p.A. (NYSE: LUX; MTA: LUX) clarifies that the proposed cash dividend announced earlier today in a separate press release will be paid in Euro to holders of ordinary shares on May 22, 2008.

Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, the depositary of Luxottica Group’s ordinary shares represented by American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), will make the dividend payable in U.S. dollars to ADR holders on May 29, 2008, at the Euro/U.S. dollar exchange rate of May 22, 2008.

The ex-dividend date for both holders of ordinary shares and ADRs will be May 19, 2008.