Essilor

French eyewear and optical equipment company
Organization organization Q1368909
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Essilor

Summary

Essilor is an organization[1]. Essilor ranks in the top 2% of organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (237 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Essilor is in the country of France[3].
  • Essilor's image is recorded as Essilor Ligny-en-Barrois.jpg[4].
  • Essilor's instance of is recorded as organization[5].
  • Essilor's logo image is recorded as Essilor logo.png[6].
  • Essilor's headquarters location is recorded as Charenton-le-Pont[7].
  • Essilor's ISNI is recorded as 0000000406476608[8].
  • Essilor's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 144379537[9].
  • Essilor's child organization or unit is recorded as Essilor (Germany)[10].
  • Essilor's child organization or unit is recorded as Foster Grant[11].
  • Essilor's child organization or unit is recorded as Transitions Optical[12].
  • Essilor's Commons category is recorded as Essilor[13].
  • Essilor's industry is recorded as glasses manufacturing[14].
  • +1972-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Essilor[15].
  • +2001-10-23T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Essilor[16].
  • Essilor's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/08zb7z[17].
  • Essilor's location of formation is recorded as Paris[18].
  • Essilor's parent organization or unit is recorded as EssilorLuxottica[19].
  • Essilor's official website is recorded as http://www.essilor.com[20].
  • Essilor's product or material produced is recorded as corrective lens[21].
  • Essilor's product or material produced is recorded as glasses[22].
  • Essilor's employees is recorded as {'amount': '+34320'}[23].
  • Essilor's employees is recorded as {'amount': '+74000'}[24].
  • Essilor's Legal Entity Identifier is recorded as 549300B206THJHUTBP43[25].
  • Essilor's OpenCorporates ID is recorded as fr/439769654[26].
  • Essilor's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL'}[27].

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Founding

Recorded inception include +1972-01-01T00:00:00Z[15] and +2001-10-23T00:00:00Z[16]. Essilor's location of formation is recorded as Paris[18].

Identity

Essilor's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL'}[27].

Operations

Essilor's headquarters location is recorded as Charenton-le-Pont[7]. Essilor's parent organization or unit is recorded as EssilorLuxottica[19]. Subsidiaries include Essilor (Germany)[10], a business[28], in Germany[29], founded in 1849[30], headquartered in Brunswick[31]; Foster Grant[11], a business[32], founded in 1929[33], headquartered in Smithfield[34]; and Transitions Optical[12], a business[35], founded in 1990[36], headquartered in Pinellas Park[37].

Industry

Essilor's industry is recorded as glasses manufacturing[14].

Ownership

Products include corrective lens[21] and glasses[22].

Why It Matters

Essilor ranks in the top 2% of organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (237 views/month).[2] Essilor has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] Essilor is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]

References

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  5. [7] . SIRENE. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . GRID Release 2017-01-10. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . SIRENE. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . ROR release v1.19. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . SIRENE. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Global LEI Index. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . SIRENE. wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [37] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [38] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [39] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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