MILAN, May 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- 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 April it did not purchase any shares on the Milan Stock Exchange's Mercato Telematico Azionario (MTA).

During the same period Luxottica Group's subsidiary, Arnette Optics Illusions Inc., sold on the MTA an aggregate amount of 50,000 treasury shares, at an average unit price of Euro 20.07 per share, for an aggregate amount of Euro 1,003,256.

Since the launch of the program, Luxottica Group purchased an aggregate total amount of 1,898,866 of its shares, at an average unit price of Euro 17.61 per share, for an aggregate amount of Euro 33,447,238. In parallel, Luxottica Group's subsidiary Arnette Optics Illusions Inc. sold an aggregate total amount of 2,342,307 treasury shares, at an average unit price of Euro 17.75 per share, for an aggregate amount of Euro 41,578,173.

SOURCE Luxottica Group S.p.A.