Larissa Brander and Stephen Locke new wholesale leaders

Announcing a significant step on its integration journey, EssilorLuxottica Australia New Zealand has appointed Stephen Locke as vice president optical channel and Larissa Brander as wholesale marketing director.

In his new role, Locke, Luxottica’s former ANZ country manager, will lead the frames and lens sales team in the optical channel, focusing on independent practices. While Brander, Luxottica’s former national sales and marketing manager ANZ, will shift her focus to developing key sales and partnership initiatives for customers across the combined EssilorLuxottica product and service channels.    

These changes mark another key step in EssilorLuxottica ANZ’s strategic journey as a unified company, combining its expertise in lens technology, eyewear manufacturing, instruments and services, said Marco Caccini, EssilorLuxottica ANZ general manager wholesale. Aligning these core business areas will help build a strong value proposition to better support and serve customers into the future, he said.