glasses sunglasses parent luxottica website www.lenscrafters.com lenscrafters optique store ann arbor mi lenscrafters is an international retailer of prescription eyewear and prescription sunglasses and the largest optical chain in the united states with about 90 stores in california alone . it was founded in 1983 in the u.s. and has subsequently expanded to over 850 stores in canada the united states puerto rico and hong kong . 1 the stores usually feature independent optometrists on site or in an adjacent store . the company has its corporate headquarters in mason ohio a suburb of cincinnati . lenscrafters sunglass hut international and pearle vision are all wholly owned subsidiaries of italy based luxottica the largest eyewear company in the world . 2 the company was founded in 1983 by e. dean butler a manager with procter & gamble . butler sold the company to the united states shoe corporation in 1985 and remained as president until 1987 when bannus ban hudson replaced him . in 1990 hudson became ceo of us shoe and dave browne became ceo of lenscrafters . citation needed references edit lenscrafters hong kong at lenscrafters selling candor and designer frames new york times april 16 2006 external links edit media related to lenscrafters at wikimedia commons official website this retail business article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title lenscrafters & oldid 743395594 categories eyewear retailers of the united statescompanies established in 1983companies based in ohiocompanies based in cincinnatiluxotticaretail company stubshidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from august 2010commons category template with no category setcommons category without a link on wikidataall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 13 11 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view