Visionworks to Add Up to 40 Stores in 2012 and 50 Stores Annually Starting in 2013

  PITTSBURGH—As part of its continuing expansion plans, the HVHC Retail Group will add between 17 and 20 new Visionworks optical retail stores in the Philadelphia metropolitan area by the end of this year. The third largest U.S. optical retailer, according to Vision Monday's just-released 2012 Top 50 U.S. Optical Retailers report, HVHC plans further expansion in the Philadelphia area with an additional 13 to 15 more optical stores by the end of 2013. A ll of the stores will be new, not acquisitions of existing optical locations, and they will be a combination of mall and off-mall locations. "We look for the best retail locations, and Philly is a great market from a retail standpoint," Jim Eisen, Visionworks president, told VMail. "We felt that Philadelphia's demographics and population fits in with our mid-tier retailing."   Read the article on VMail