Luxottica: monthly update on share buyback program

Milan, Italy – December 2, 2009 - 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 November it purchased under that buyback program an aggregate amount of 670,000 treasury shares on the Milan Stock Exchange’s Mercato Telematico Azionario (MTA) at an average unit price of Euro 16.91, for an aggregate amount of Euro 11,332,284.

In parallel, Luxottica Group’s subsidiary, Arnette Optics Illusions Inc., sold during the same period on the MTA an aggregate amount of 650,000 treasury shares, at an average unit price of Euro 17.06, for an aggregate amount of Euro 11,086,855