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Chennai, Oct. 31

Titan Eye+, the eyewear business of Titan Industries, launched early this year, plans to set up about 250 stores across India over the next year. About 15 of these would be company-owned and the rest franchisee-owned, said Mr S. Ravi Kant, Chief Operating Officer- Eyewear Business, Titan Industries Ltd. The company currently operates a few stores in Bangalore.

Addressing a press conference, Mr Ravi Kant said each showroom would stock over 1,000 frames across brands such as Christian Dior, Elle and Tommy Hilfiger besides Titan, Dash (children’s spectacle frames) and Eye+. Showrooms also have optometry clinics that offer customers free ‘zero-error’ eye testing service. This testing takes into account one’s eye pressure, lens curvature and power before prescribing spectacle /contact lenses.

When asked if the company would start offering its own brand of contact lenses, Mr Ravi Kant said it would “look at it in due course.” It currently buys contact lenses from Bausch & Lomb, Johnson & Johnson and Silklens.

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