Apollo-Optik is a German

optics Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of optical instruments, instruments that use or Photodetector, detect it. Optics usually describes t ...

company owned by

EssilorLuxottica EssilorLuxottica SA is a Franco-Italian Vertical integration, vertically integrated multinational corporation, multinational holding company registered in Charenton-Le-Pont and headquartered in nearby Paris. It designs, produces and markets opht ...

focusing on retail eyewear. It shares its logo with British eyewear retailer VisionExpress, which is also a brand of EssilorLuxottica.

Overview

It was founded 1972 in

Schwabach Schwabach () is a German city of about 40,000 inhabitants near Nuremberg in the centre of the region of Franconia in the north of Bavaria. Together with the neighboring cities of Nuremberg, Fürth and Erlangen, Schwabach forms one of the three me ...

and is operating in 40 countries. It is the biggest optics company in Europe.

References

External links

Official Website
{{Eyewear retailers Eyewear retailers in Germany Companies based in Bavaria Eyewear companies of Germany Retail companies established in 1972 1972 establishments in West Germany Schwabach EssilorLuxottica