UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

Form 6-K

 

REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER

 

PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 UNDER
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

December 2, 2010

 

COMMISSION FILE NO. 1 – 10421

 

LUXOTTICA GROUP S.p.A.

 

VIA C. CANTÙ 2, MILAN, 20123 ITALY
(Address of principal executive office)

 

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Set forth below is the text of a press release issued on December 2, 2010.

 

Luxottica: monthly update on share buyback program

 

Milan, Italy — December 2, 2010 - In connection with the share buyback program approved at the Shareholders’ Meeting on October 29, 2009, and launched on November 16, 2009, Luxottica Group S.p.A. (NYSE: LUX; MTA: LUX) announced today that during the month of November it purchased under that buyback program an aggregate amount of 430,000 shares on the Milan Stock Exchange’s Mercato Telematico Azionario (MTA) at an average unit price of Euro 20.69 per share, for an aggregate amount of Euro 8,898,807.

 

In parallel, Luxottica Group’s subsidiary, Arnette Optic Illusions, Inc., sold during the same period on the MTA an aggregate amount of 402,000 treasury shares, at an average unit price of Euro 20.83 per share, for an aggregate amount of Euro 8,371,697.

 

Since the launch of the program, Luxottica Group purchased an aggregate total amount of 4,565,880 of its shares, at an average unit price of Euro 18.98 per share, for an aggregate amount of Euro 86,680,757. In parallel, Luxottica Group’s subsidiary Arnette Optic Illusions, Inc. sold an aggregate total amount of 4,646,780 treasury shares, at an average unit price of Euro 18.88 per share, for an aggregate amount of Euro 87,749,739.

 

Contacts Luxottica Group

 

 

www.luxottica.com

 

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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

 

	LUXOTTICA GROUP S.p.A.
	By:	/s/ ENRICO CAVATORTA
Date: December 2, 2010	ENRICO CAVATORTA
	CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

 

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