Ray-Ban Brand Audit: EssilorLuxottica, Indian Importer, Prices

Ray-Ban is an eyewear brand owned outright by EssilorLuxottica, whose 2024 registration document groups it with Persol, Oliver Peoples and Oakley as acquired and proprietary brands, apart from licensed names such as Giorgio Armani or Prada. On a public mirror of the Indian register the Ray-ban device mark, No. 711144 in class 9, stands to “Luxottica Group S.P.A” with the status “Registered”.

In India the goods come in through Luxottica India Eyewear Private Limited of Gurugram, and the brand’s own shop, india.ray-ban.com, is run by Moda Optics Private Limited of Bengaluru. On 26 September 2026 every product page read on that shop printed Country of Origin: Italy and priced the RB3025 Aviator Classic at ₹12,790. On a large Indian fashion marketplace the same day, 20 Ray-Ban listings declared India on 12, China on 5 and “China,India” on 3.

Snapshot

What it is

An eyewear brand of EssilorLuxottica, Euronext Paris, ISIN FR0000121667, Reuters ESLX.PA, Bloomberg EL:FP; grouped by the owner with its acquired and proprietary brands, apart from the names it licenses in. Owner revenue €28,491 million for the year ended 31 December 2025, net profit attributable to owners of the parent €2,315 million, adjusted net profit €3,157 million; €14,818 million for the six months ended 30 June 2026, IFRS net profit €1,566 million; none of it Ray-Ban alone

Indian trade marks

Ray-ban device mark, No. 711144 in class 9, proprietor “Luxottica Group S.P.A”, filed 11 April 1996, status “Registered” (register mirror)

Indian importer

LUXOTTICA INDIA EYEWEAR PRIVATE LIMITED, CIN U32507HR2007FTC037390, status “Active”, incorporated 15 November 2007, ROC Delhi, paid-up capital ₹13,30,400, head-count 152 on one mirror; “Imported and Marketed By” on every india.ray-ban.com product page read

Indian online seller

MODA OPTICS PRIVATE LIMITED, CIN U46494KA2023PTC182900, ROC Bangalore; “an authorized online retailer” on the store’s Terms of Sale

Declared origin

“Italy” on every india.ray-ban.com product page read; India 12, China 5, “China,India” 3 across 20 marketplace records, read 26 September 2026

Indian warranty and returns

“two years from the date of purchase” on sunglasses, honoured by the Indian importer; one year on Ray-Ban Meta glasses; returns within three days of delivery, refunded by Moda Optics within “7-10 days”

Price band in India

₹4,590 to ₹50,100 across three product types on india.ray-ban.com; ₹12,790.00 for the RB2140 Wayfarer and RB3025 Aviator classics, MRP and selling price identical, read 26 September 2026

The shelf

1,669 listings on the brand facet of a large Indian fashion marketplace; 40 read gave median MRP ₹9,590 and median selling price ₹7,079.50, 73.8% of MRP, read 26 September 2026

Who owns Ray-Ban

Ray-Ban is not a name rented out for a royalty. The owner’s 2024 registration document, read from a document mirror, calls it “Ray-Ban, the most-loved eyewear brand in the world” and files it among the brands it bought. On 28 April 1999 Bausch & Lomb sold its sunglasses business to Luxottica for US$640 million: “The brands being sold, in addition to Ray-Ban, are Revo, Arnette and Killer Loop.” On 1 October 2018 Essilor and Luxottica combined into EssilorLuxottica. No later change of control was read.

Public mirror of the Indian trade-mark register, read 26 September 2026. A second application number, 640377, appears in search results with no class, proprietor or status published.

A register row records an application, not a factory or an authorised shop. Class 9 is the right class, and the goods wording runs to “Sunglasses, Shooting Glasses, Eyeglasses, Spectacles, Goggles, Lenses And Frames” and their cases. Luxottica Group S.p.A. is named as the Indian site’s copyright holder, the Meta warranty provider and the recorded proprietor of the mark.

Owner revenue is not brand revenue. EssilorLuxottica reported €28,491 million for the year ended 31 December 2025, “+11.2% at constant exchange rates”, and €14,818 million for the six months ended 30 June 2026, up 5.7% as reported and 9.7% at constant exchange rates; none of it is Ray-Ban alone, and India appears once, as a market:

India and South Korea emerged as top performers, growing at a double-digit pace at constant exchange rates

EssilorLuxottica, Q4 and full-year 2025 results release, period ended 31 December 2025; read 26 September 2026. Asia-Pacific full-year revenue is €3,410 million; no India revenue figure appears in anything read.

The half-year release does not mention India, and the registration documents mention it for philanthropy and research only, naming no Indian subsidiary and no Indian plant. The importer’s register sub-category, “Subsidiary of company incorporated outside India”, confirms a foreign parent without saying which.

How Ray-Ban reaches India

The route is the owner’s own importer and a separate Indian retailer, not a licensee holding the brand. Luxottica India Eyewear Private Limited reads “Active” on one register mirror and “Active Foreign Private Limited Company” on a second, with paid-up capital of ₹13,30,400 and a head-count of 152 on one mirror.

The store at india.ray-ban.com titles itself “Ray-Ban® Official Store India: Genuine Since 1937”. Its own terms pages name four separate companies, and no single page carries all four.

All read on india.ray-ban.com, 26 September 2026.

Of those, Moda Optics Private Limited takes the order and pays the refund, and the Terms of Use name the website operator as ‘GreenHonchos’.

A second shopfront carries the name. Sunglass Hut India is operated by Reliance Brands Eyewear Private Limited, CIN U45400MH2007PTC403446, incorporated 20 April 2007. The franchise rights were acquired from DLF Brands on 28 March 2022, around 85 stores; a LensCrafters licensed partnership followed on 11 March 2024. Reliance’s apparel chain has an audit of its own.

Ray-Ban on the shelf

The brand facet on a large Indian fashion marketplace printed 1,669 listings on 26 September 2026. Forty read in listing order gave 38 sunglasses and 2 frames, median MRP ₹9,590 and median selling price ₹7,079.50, 73.8% of MRP, with 32 of the 40 reduced. One read ₹12,690 against ₹11,421; another ₹11,490 unreduced.

The declaration fields of 20 records were read. The seller of record was Vision Star on 15, PLAVA VENTURES on 3 and MODA OPTICS PRIVATE LIMITED on 2. The manufacturer line printed “Imported by: LUXOTTICA INDIA EYEWEAR PRIVATE LIMITED, Tower B…” on five, “Ray-Ban Sun Optics India Pvt. Ltd, SP 810-811, Ph-II, RIICO Ind[ustrial Area]” on three or more, and “LUXOTTICA TRISTAR (DONG GUAN)” on two, as the fields printed them. The second is a Rajasthan address. Country of origin read India on 12, China on 5 and “China,India” on 3.

A declaration block records who has signed as answerable for the goods under Indian packaging rules and whom the marketplace names on the order; it is not a gate pass from a shed. Both origin fields are dated declarations, reported here as printed.

Where Ray-Ban is made

The brand’s own store and the marketplace records each print an origin field.

Both read 26 September 2026. Names appear as the fields printed them, truncations included.

A manufacturer line names the entity answerable for the goods, not the shed they came out of, so a Rajasthan address means an Indian company has been declared answerable. The declarations do not show which plant made any individual pair. The owner’s 2025 registration document gives “47 lens (33) and frame (14) mass production facilities” in eight countries, with no share for any.

The older Ray-Ban company in Rajasthan

RAYBAN SUN OPTICS INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED, CIN U33201HR1990PTC095964, reads “Active”, dates from 28 May 1990 and carries paid-up capital of ₹22,83,72,710. Its code is NIC 3320 “Manufacture of optical instruments and photographic equipment”; its office is the importer’s DLF Cyber City floor. Its former name ends in LIMITED, and its former CINs, U33201RJ1990PLC008343 and U33201RJ1990PTC008343, begin RJ where the current one begins HR.

Three strings are in play and none is a spelling variant: the companies register carries RAYBAN SUN OPTICS INDIA, unhyphenated; the mark and the swing tag carry RAY-BAN; the marketplace field prints “Ray-Ban Sun Optics India Pvt. Ltd”. Name collisions on a shelf are their own hazard, as the audit of the Indian cosmetics line called Elle 18 shows.

Returns, warranty and who answers

Owning the brand does not decide whose name is on the promise. One website, three products, three warranty regimes.

india.ray-ban.com warranty page, Meta warranty page and Meta FAQ, and the sunglasshut.in warranty policy; all read 26 September 2026.

A Ray-Ban Meta costing ₹39,900.00 to ₹50,100.00 here carries one year; the same document gives a European buyer two. Sunglasses exclude “scratches on sun lenses; damages caused by accident, abuse, neglect, shock, improper use or storage”, invoice required; the Meta warranty “is limited and not applicable to any lens scratches”.

Returns run “3 days after receipt of your glasses”, and “Products with removed tags are not eligible for return under any circumstances.” The money is repaid by Moda Optics within “7-10 days”, not by EssilorLuxottica. Ray-Ban Meta glasses are “not eligible for return in India due to regional policies and product-specific terms.”

On grievance redress the two channels part. No grievance officer, no nodal officer and no seller’s postal address is published on the brand’s own store; sunglasshut.in publishes both roles.

Three companies split one job: Moda Optics takes the order and pays the refund, Luxottica India Eyewear honours the sunglass warranty, and Luxottica Group S.p.A. is named on the Meta warranty. Keep the invoice and the tags.

What Ray-Ban costs in India

The comparison runs down to model code, lens and frame size, because the owner runs its own home-market retail. No conversion is applied and no gap is computed.

United States prices from LensCrafters and Glasses.com, both owned by EssilorLuxottica; Indian prices from india.ray-ban.com. All read 26 September 2026, MRP and selling price identical on all three.

One line has no home-market comparator. Ray-Ban Meta glasses on the Indian store run from ₹39,900.00 to ₹50,100.00; the launch announcement of 12 May 2025 gave a “Starting Price: INR 29,900” for a launch on 19 May 2025.

The brand’s own store is a different shape from the marketplace shelf: “Items 1-18 of 764” on sunglasses, “Items 1-18 of 274” on eyeglasses, 40 Meta products, and three product types spanning ₹4,590 to ₹50,100. Tally by category before any median, unlike the many-category own-label ranges in the audit of Trent’s in-house label family. On the three store pages read, MRP and selling price were identical.

The lens pages publish one number: “BLOCKS 100% OF UVA & UVB RAYS”. Polarized “MINIMIZES GLARE” and “SHARPENS CONTRAST”; Chromance offers “Experience enhanced vision with Chromance sunglasses”. The page also carries the line “BIO-BASED* FRAMES AND LENSES”; the footnote text was not on the page read.

Checking a Ray-Ban is genuine

The Indian store publishes no authorised-retailer list and no authentication guidance. The Meta launch announcement pointed buyers to “leading optical and sunglass stores across the country” without naming them. The brand publishes no visual tells, so none are printed here; the checks below use documents a buyer can read.

The record in India

In CS (COMM.) 60/2023 before Commercial Court-02 at Patiala House Courts, New Delhi, judgment of 17 May 2024, Luxottica Group S.p.A. was the plaintiff and the subject was eyewear sold under RADIAN, RAYDOAN, RAYBON and RED-BAN. It was decided for the plaintiff: a permanent injunction “from manufacturing, marketing, using, selling…the impugned trade mark/label”, delivery up and ₹2,00,000 in exemplary damages, on that matter as it then stood.

Read it for what it covers and nothing wider: four look-alike marks and the parties before that court. Nobody has ruled on the origin fields described here, on any company’s warranty terms, or on which shops in India are authorised, and nothing on this page is a finding against any company.

Who Ray-Ban is actually for

Ray-Ban suits a buyer who wants an owned rather than licensed brand and a named importer on the product page. At ₹12,790 for the RB2140 and RB3025 classics on india.ray-ban.com, it comes with a two-year sunglass warranty from Luxottica India Eyewear Private Limited, a three-day return window run by Moda Optics Private Limited, and no published list of who may sell it.

Common questions

References

1. The brand’s own Indian store, india.ray-ban.com — the title “Ray-Ban® Official Store India: Genuine Since 1937”, the founding year 1937, the footer “Copyright ©2025 Luxottica Group S.p.A. – All Rights Reserved” and the top-level navigation; read 26 September 2026
2. The Indian store’s Terms of Sale, Terms of Use, Gift Card terms, Privacy Policy, Contact page and About Us page — the Moda Optics and GreenHonchos wording, the Bangalore jurisdiction, the cancellation wording, the phone number and hours, and the absence of a postal address and any grievance or nodal officer; all read 26 September 2026
3. The Indian store’s warranty page, Meta warranty policy, Meta FAQ, returns and refunds policy and FAQ page — the two-year and one-year terms and their exclusions, the EU and EFTA extension, the Gurugram address on the Meta FAQ, the three-day window, the removed-tags rule, the “7-10 days” refund line, and the Meta return exclusion; all read 26 September 2026
4. The Indian store’s sunglasses, eyeglasses, Ray-Ban Meta and Chromance listing pages — “Items 1-18 of 764”, “Items 1-18 of 274”, the price-filter bands and counts, ₹4,590 to ₹45,700, the Meta range ₹39,900.00 to ₹50,100.00, and the 13 Chromance items at ₹14,630.00 to ₹22,190.00; all read 26 September 2026
5. Three of the Indian store’s product pages — 0RB3025 W0879 58, 0RB2140 901 50 and 0RB2140 901/58 50 — the ₹12,790.00, ₹12,790.00 and ₹14,990.00 figures with MRP and selling price identical, Country of Origin “Italy”, the “2 Year Warranty” badge and the “Imported and Marketed By: LUXOTTICA INDIA EYEWEAR PVT LTD” line; all read 26 September 2026
6. The brand’s lens page on its United States site — “BLOCKS 100% OF UVA & UVB RAYS”, the Polarized and Chromance wording, and “BIO-BASED* FRAMES AND LENSES”; read 26 September 2026. With the global accessories page for cases and cleaning kits
7. LensCrafters’ RB3025 Aviator Classic, Arista Gold, UPC 805289602057, its RB2140, UPC 805289126577 and Glasses.com’s RB2140 polarised, UPC 805289126591 — the $191, $191 and $244 frame-only prices and the “100% UV protection” wording, on two retailers owned by EssilorLuxottica; all read 26 September 2026
8. EssilorLuxottica, Q4 and full-year 2025 results release — revenue €28,491 million, “+11.2% at constant exchange rates”, net profit attributable to owners of the parent €2,315 million, adjusted net profit €3,157 million, Asia-Pacific €3,410 million up 10.1%, and the quoted India and South Korea sentence; read 26 September 2026
9. EssilorLuxottica, Q2 and H1 2026 results release of 28 July 2026 — “Group’s revenue grew 9.7% in H1 at constant exchange rates” for the period ended 30 June 2026, and no mention of India. With a trade report of 31 July 2026 for €14,818 million, up 5.7% as reported, IFRS net profit €1,566 million and adjusted net profit €1,921 million at 13.0% of revenue; both read 26 September 2026
10. EssilorLuxottica, 2025 Universal Registration Document — “47 lens (33) and frame (14) mass production facilities”, “555 industrial (62) and proximity (493) prescription laboratories”, “more than 200,000 colleagues worldwide”, the Euronext Paris listing with ISIN FR0000121667, the Goa schoolteacher-training passage, and the absence of any Indian subsidiary list; read 26 September 2026. With a document mirror of the 2024 Universal Registration Document for “Ray-Ban, the most-loved eyewear brand in the world”, the acquired-against-licensed grouping, and the 2024 facility counts; read 26 September 2026
11. A report of 28 April 1999 on the Bausch & Lomb sunglasses sale — US$640 million in cash and “The brands being sold, in addition to Ray-Ban, are Revo, Arnette and Killer Loop”; read 26 September 2026. With a report of 2 October 2018 on the Essilor and Luxottica combination — “effective from October 1” and the “approximately 0.46 Essilor shares for one Luxottica share” ratio; read 26 September 2026
12. Companies-register mirrors, all read 26 September 2026: Luxottica India Eyewear Private Limited, with a second mirror rendering its status “Active Foreign Private Limited Company” and giving the head-count of 152, and a third rendering its sub-category “Subsidiary of Foreign Company”; Rayban Sun Optics India Private Limited for the 1990 incorporation, paid-up ₹22,83,72,710, NIC 3320, the former name and the former RJ-series CINs; Moda Optics Private Limited; Reliance Brands Eyewear Private Limited; and Essilor India Private Limited with Essilor Manufacturing India Private Limited, used only to keep the lens companies separate
13. A public mirror of the Indian trade-mark register, record 711144 — the device mark Ray-ban, class 9, the goods wording quoted, the proprietor as printed, the filing date of 11 April 1996, status “Registered”, the subsequent proprietors brought on record, and no registered user recorded; read 26 September 2026
14. Commercial Court-02, Patiala House Courts, New Delhi, CS (COMM.) 60/2023, judgment of 17 May 2024 — the permanent injunction, delivery up, exemplary damages of ₹2,00,000 and costs, and the marks RADIAN, RAYDOAN, RAYBON and RED-BAN; read 26 September 2026
15. Sunglass Hut India’s terms and conditions and warranty policy, with its home page — the operating company and its Okhla address, the Mumbai jurisdiction, the published Grievance Officer and Nodal Officer roles, the “valid for a period of up to 2 Years” term and the in-store claim requirement, the brand listed first among 24, and the footer carrying only “© 2026 Sunglass Hut All Rights Reserved.” with no company name; all read 26 September 2026, officers’ names not reproduced
16. A report of 28 March 2022 on the Sunglass Hut franchise rights — the quoted acquisition wording, around 85 stores and no disclosed value; a report of 11 March 2024 on the LensCrafters licensed partnership; and a release of 18 July 2014 recording an online sales authorisation with no exclusivity stated; all read 26 September 2026
17. The India launch announcement for Ray-Ban Meta glasses, published 12 May 2025 — the 19 May 2025 launch, “Starting Price: INR 29,900”, the Wayfarer and Skyler styles, and the “leading optical and sunglass stores across the country” wording; read 26 September 2026
18. The brand facet and listing pages of a large Indian fashion marketplace, read 26 September 2026 — 1,669 listings on the facet; 40 read in listing order giving 38 sunglasses and 2 frames, median MRP ₹9,590, median selling price ₹7,079.50 at 73.8% of MRP, 32 of 40 reduced, and the two named examples at ₹12,690 against ₹11,421 and ₹11,490 with no reduction; and, from 20 records’ own declaration fields, sellers Vision Star 15, PLAVA VENTURES 3 and Moda Optics Private Limited 2, origin India 12, China 5 and “China,India” 3, and the three manufacturer-line entries quoted as the fields printed them