Luxottica: monthly update on share buyback program

In connection with the share buyback program approved at the Shareholders’ Meeting on October 29, 2009, and launched on November 16, 2009, Luxottica Group S.p.A. (NYSE: LUX; MTA: LUX) announced today that during the month of January it purchased under that buyback program an aggregate amount of 285,000 shares on the Milan Stock Exchange’s Mercato Telematico Azionario (MTA) at an average unit price of Euro 22.67 per share, for an aggregate amount of Euro 6,462,359.

Since the launch of the program, Luxottica Group purchased an aggregate total amount of 4,995,454 of its shares, at an average unit price of Euro 19.27 per share, for an aggregate amount of Euro 96,279,223