Ray-Ban
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Ray-Ban is an Italian-owned brand of luxury sunglasses and eyeglasses created in 1936 by Bausch & Lomb. The brand is most notable for its Wayfarer and Aviator lines of sunglasses. In 1999, Bausch & Lomb sold the brand to Italian eyewear conglomerate Luxottica Group for a reported $640 million.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Ray-Ban
- Company.logo
- Ray-Ban logo.svg
- Company.image
- Ray Ban building, Milan, Italy (9474255598).jpg
- Company.image_caption
- Headquarters in Milan, Italy
- Company.type
- Subsidiary
- Company.industry
- Eyewear
- Company.foundation
- in Rochester, New York,United States
- Company.location_city
- Milan
- Company.location_country
- Italy
- Company.area_served
- Worldwide
- Company.key_people
- Rakim Mayers (creative director)
- Company.parent
- Luxottica Group
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- brand
- Country
- Italy
- Founded by
- United States Army Air Corps
- Headquarters
- Milan
- Owned by
- Luxottica
- Parent organization
- Luxottica
- Legal form
- corporation
- Official website
- www.ray-ban.com
- Image
- RayBanAviator.jpg
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- Commons category
- Ray-Ban
- inception
- 1937-01-01
- product or material produced
- sunglasses
- location of formation
- Rochester
- social media followers
- 81500
- WordLift URL
- data.luxottica.com/luxottica/entity/ray-ban
- native label
- Ray-Ban
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Ray-Ban is an Italian-owned brand of luxury sunglasses and eyeglasses created in 1936 by Bausch & Lomb. The brand is most notable for its Wayfarer and Aviator lines of sunglasses. In 1999, Bausch & Lomb sold the brand to Italian eyewear conglomerate Luxottica Group for a reported $640 million.
==History== In 1929, US Army Air Corps Colonel John A. Macready worked with Bausch & Lomb, a Rochester, New York–based medical equipment manufacturer, to create aviation sunglasses that would reduce the distraction for pilots caused by the intense blue and white hues of the sky.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ray-Ban” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.