Essilor: Acquisition of Midland Optical Midland Optical Joins Essilor US Network CHARENTON-LE-PONT, France, February 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Essilor of America, Essilor's US subsidiary, has acquired a majority interest in Midland Optical, a prescription laboratory headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. An authorized distributor of Varilux(R) brand products, Midland Optical generates US$16.5 million in sales and employs 150 people. It caters to independent eye care professionals located primarily in Missouri and Illinois. As a result of this acquisition, Essilor will further strengthen its line of value-added products in the north-central region of the United States. Midland Optical will retain its current executive team. Essilor International is the world leader in ophthalmic optical products, offering a wide range of lenses under the flagship Varilux(R), Crizal(R), Airwear(R) and Essilor(R) brands to correct myopia, hyperopia, presbyopia and astigmatism. Essilor operates worldwide through 18 production sites, 183 lens finishing laboratories and local distribution networks. The Essilor share trades on the Euronext Paris market and is included in the CAC 40 index (ISIN: FR 0000121667; Reuters: ESSI.PA; Bloomberg: EF FP). http://www.essilor.com/ DATASOURCE: Essilor CONTACT: Investor Relations and Financial Communication, Veronique Gillet, Tel: +33-(0)1-49-77-42-16, http://www.essilor.com/

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