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On, Vision Express announced that it had acquired twelve optical stores from Crown Eyeglass Ltd.

It has recently opened a series of stores in India in partnership with Reliance. Vision Express is also in Poland, where it has over 110 stores. 195 are fully company-owned, with the remainder being under joint Venture partnerships. There are currently 575 stores throughout the United Kingdom, Jersey and the Republic of Ireland. The majority of these stores have since been rebranded as Vision Express. In May 2008 Batemans Opticians was acquired, which comprised a seventy-five store chain in Southern England. The company had grown to over 220 stores across the United Kingdom by 2007.

In 1995, the first store operating on a joint venture basis was opened. In October 1993 US Shoe Corp Cincinnati sold the seven of its LensCrafters' superstores in the United Kingdom to Vision Express. The company opened its first store in 1988, at the MetroCentre, Gateshead, quickly followed by several other stores.