
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, June 1, 1990                   TAG: 9006010719
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: CINCINNATI                                LENGTH: Short

LENSCRAFTERS BUYS HOURGLASSES CHAIN

LensCrafters Optical, a division of US Shoe Corp., said Thursday that it has acquired Hourglasses Inc., a five-unit optical chain based in Louisville, Ky.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Hourglasses has outlets in Rockford, Ill.; Madison, Wis.; Detroit; Roanoke, Va.; and Charlotte, N.C.

The acquisition is LensCrafters' second-largest, after the August 1989 purchase of the 12-unit Lenox Optical chain in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.

-Associated Press

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