Leonardo Del Vecchio gifts Luxottica’s Italy employees shares to celebrate birthday

The shares are a gift from Del Vecchio and are valued at approximately euro 9 million with an aggregate maximum amount of 140,000 Luxottica Group treasury shares to be distributed, the company said. Delfin Sàrl, which is controlled by Mr Del Vecchio and is the majority shareholder of Luxottica’s ordinary shares at 61.38 per cent, will assume all costs and expenses of the share grant.
“A sincere thank you to the group’s ployees in Italy, those at the heart of Luxottica’s success,” Mr Del Vecchio said. “With this small gesture, I would like to show how important the ployees are to me. I truly feel as if we are family.”