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IN-STORE PROGRAMS
Each year through the Vision Voucher programs, Luxottica store associates work with local
agencies to provide complete eye exams and new glasses to customers deemed in visual and
financial need. To date, this program has helped over 1 million people.
OUTREACH
Luxottica Group employees and affiliated doctors take their skills to those in need in the
community who can not come in to our stores for service. Outreach programs include vision
screenings, eyewear adjustments, cleanings and more.
EYEWEAR COLLECTION & RECYCLING
Eyewear distributed on Give the Gift of Sight international missions are collected in Luxottica
Group affiliated outlets around the world, through Lions Club International and community
organizations. Every pair of glasses is checked, cleaned and repaired by volunteers and prepared
for distribution on international missions. To date, over three million pairs of eyewear have been
recycled in the three recycle centers in Mason, Ohio (Luxottica Retail North America headquarters),
Agordo, Italy (Luxottica Group Manufacturing plant), and Port Washington, New York (Luxottica
Wholesale North American headquarters).
2007 ACHIEVEMENTS
Luxottica’s efforts to restore clear vision to those in need in 2007 resulted in care being provided to
779,500 people worldwide. 460,576 people were helped on our 20 international missions to Mexico
(five missions), Thailand, Guatemala, and Paraguay (two missions each), Panama, Romania,
Bulgaria, El Salvador, Ecuador, Chile, Nicaragua, Laos and Myanmar.
Domestically, 39,104 people were helped during domestic missions, 6,901 by mobile units,
108,604 people through in-store voucher programs and 164,135 people through OutReach
programs. 965,424 pairs of glasses were recycled in the three recycle centers.
2008 GOALS
1. Providing programs that enable all Luxottica employees across the globe to get involved.
2. Creating stronger and stronger links between all Luxottica Group employees.
3. Raising awareness and encouraging participation amongst as many people as possible.
4. Fundraising amongst employees.
PRESERVING CLEAR VISION
Another important aspect of our social effort includes funding research and education that
promote sight preservation. This is achieved through our Pearle Vision Foundation (United States)
and monetary grants from Luxottica (Italy).
Pearle Vision Foundation was begun in 1986 to fund research and education to help find cures for
preventable causes of blindness. The Foundation provides research grants to support four specific
focus areas: studies on diabetic retinopathy (the number one cause of adult blindness in the US),
new treatments for retinoblastoma (fast-growing cancer in the eye), ways to maintain healthy vision
and new, preventive methods for various eye diseases. The Foundation also supports vision
education through scholarships to students pursuing a doctor of optometry degree.
In 2007 in Italy, Luxottica continued to support Telethon by funding a research project conducted