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E. Dean Butler. Dean founded LensCrafters (the world’s largest optical retailer) in 1983 and served as its Chief Executive Officer until 1988. In that same year, Mr. Butler founded Vision Express in Europe, which merged with the French retail group, GPS, to form Grand Vision in late 1997.
LensCrafters was founded in March 1983 by E. Dean Butler, who had been a manager with Procter & Gamble. Butler first developed the idea for a "while you wait" eyeglass retailer after helping a Procter & Gamble colleague produce television commercials for a family optical business in the late 1970s.
- March 1983; 40 years ago
- Mason, Ohio, U.S.
- Eye care
Mar 5, 2019 · E. Dean Butler, the founder of LensCrafters, remembers Dahan as “a real go-getter.” “He was a key supplier — good product at reasonable prices,” Butler, 74, said in a phone interview from...
- From Rags to The Richest Person in Italy
- The Youngest Billionaire in The World
- $4 Billion
For decades, the primary beneficiary of those $900 sunglasses was Luxottica's founder Leonard Del Vecchio. Leonard Del Vecchio was born in Milan, Italy in 1935. He was born into such wretched poverty that his mother literally couldn't afford to feed him and was forced to abandon him to an orphanage. Leonardo left the orphanage in his teens and bega...
Leonard0 was survived by his second wife, Nicoletta Zampillo, and six children from three relationships. His six children ranged in age 18 to 65 at the time of his death. His two youngest children, Clemente and Luca, were born to Sabina Grossi. Sabina at one time was a Luxottica Board Member and the company's head of investor relations. Today Nicol...
Best of all, Leonardo's holding company was based in Luxembourg which doesn't assess an inheritance tax even on people who are not residents of the country. To further protect his assets from taxes, Leonardo was physically living in Monaco at the end of his life, another very inheritance-tax friendly locale. That is how each of his children and his...
Dec 31, 2021 · December 31, 2021. Daniel talks retail optometry with E. Dean Butler from March of 2021. E. Dean Butler.
E Dean Butler - Chairman of the Supervisory Board - SuperVista AG | LinkedIn. Founder/CEO of LensCrafters, Vision Express, LensPro, LensMaster worldwide. St Paul, Minnesota, United States. 2K...
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Sep 25, 2018 · September 25, 2018. E. Dean Butler. EYOTO, the high-tech developer and manufacturer of ophthalmic measurement solutions, is proud to announce that Director Dean Butler has been awarded the prestigious Procter & Gamble McElroy Award for 2019. The McElroy Award is named after Neil McElroy, legendary President of P&G and considered by many to be ...
