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Archibald takes online eyewear offering to US

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Online luxury eyewear retailer Archibald Optics has extended its reach to the US marketplace – a year after being founded in the UK

Archibald OpticsOnline luxury eyewear retailer Archibald Optics has extended its reach to the US marketplace – a year after being founded in the UK.

The London-based company last month started to sell its spectacle and sunglass frames at the luxury end of the US market, but with prices ‘free of excessive mark-ups, licensing fees, and industry middlemen’. It has also opened a New York office but product was to be shipped directly from existing hand-crafted manufacturing partners in Fukui, Japan.

Archibald Optics founder and CEO Rohan Dhir said: ‘We created Archibald Optics to fill in a gap in the way the direct-to-consumer model is currently being used.

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