On 1 February 2014, the high street retail business of Rayner & Keeler Opticians was bought by Vision Express from JBR1910 Limited. The remaining four stores will trade from their existing locations, with their existing teams under Vision Express branding. The stores, situated in the North West of England, will become part of the Vision Express portfolio, bringing its total number of outlets in the United Kingdom and Ireland to 331.Įight of the properties currently trading as Crown Optical Centre and Direkt Optik will transfer optical services to nearby Vision Express premises and Vision Express will seek to retain the valued experience of the Crown Eyeglass Ltd personnel within the Vision Express store network. On, Vision Express announced that it had acquired twelve optical stores from Crown Eyeglass Ltd. It has recently opened a series of stores in India in partnership with Reliance. Vision Express is also in Poland, where it has over 110 stores. 195 are fully company-owned, with the remainder being under joint Venture partnerships. There are currently 575 stores throughout the United Kingdom, Jersey and the Republic of Ireland. The majority of these stores have since been rebranded as Vision Express. In May 2008 Batemans Opticians was acquired, which comprised a seventy-five store chain in Southern England. The company had grown to over 220 stores across the United Kingdom by 2007. In 1995, the first store operating on a joint venture basis was opened. In October 1993 US Shoe Corp Cincinnati sold the seven of its LensCrafters' superstores in the United Kingdom to Vision Express. The company opened its first store in 1988, at the MetroCentre, Gateshead, quickly followed by several other stores.
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