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Apollo-Optik store. Apollo-Optik is a German optics company owned by EssilorLuxottica focusing on retail eyewear. It shares its logo with British eyewear retailer VisionExpress, which is also a brand of EssilorLuxottica. It was founded 1972 in Schwabach and is operating in 40 countries. It is the biggest optics company in Europe.
Grand Met expanded Pearle Vision to more than 1,000 locations worldwide by 1990, but profits became elusive. In 1996, Grand Met sold the Pearle stores in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico to Cole National Corporation, which operated optical departments inside such retail stores as Sears , BJ's Wholesale Club and Target . [ 5 ]
In 1989, Apollo was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for US$476 million (equivalent to $1170 million in 2023). [15] HP support for Apollo products was fragmented for the first few years, but was reorganized in late 1992, at which point there were still some 100,000 users of Apollo products and the user group InterWorks had some 4,500 members. [16]
English: Map of San Francisco, 1850, Apollo storeship at the bottom. From Joseph P. Beach's journal from New York to San Francisco, son of Moses Yale Beach, New York Sun.
Apollo Education Group, Inc. is an American corporation based in the South Phoenix area of Phoenix, Arizona, with an additional corporate office in Chicago, Illinois. [1] It is privately-owned by a consortium of investors including The Vistria Group, LLC and funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management , LLC.
The name has become a permanent designation for the site. Although the name was designated by the Apollo astronauts, the International Astronomical Union officially recognizes the designation "Tranquility Base". It is listed on lunar maps as Statio Tranquillitatis, conforming to the standard use of Latin for lunar place names.
Lunar Module Eagle (LM-5) is the spacecraft that served as the crewed lunar lander of Apollo 11, which was the first mission to land humans on the Moon.It was named after the bald eagle, which was featured prominently on the mission insignia.
The Buick Apollo is a compact car that was manufactured from 1973 to 1975 by General Motors for its Buick division. It was based on the GM X platform along with the Oldsmobile Omega, Chevrolet Nova, and the Pontiac Ventura. The car was named for the Greek god Apollo. It was available as a coupe, two-door hatchback, or four-door sedan.