Bart van den Nieuwenhof in RetailTrends Podcast

New: The RetailTrends Podcast featuring Bart Van Den Nieuwenhof, CEO of nexeye. In an engaging conversation with Marcel ten Holte (RetailTrends), Bart shares insights about his career, from his student days to his current position.

Bart van den Nieuwenhof (52) started his retail career in 1996 as a trainee at C&A. After C&A and then UPC, he joined V&D in 2006. There, Van den Nieuwenhof became responsible for the conversion to the new shop-in-shop concept within the department stores. Together with Philip Mountford, Van den Nieuwenhof started working at Hunkemöller in 2009. After this successful repositioning, he became ultimately responsible for La Place in 2012.

In 2018, Bart van den Nieuwenhof started as CEO of the Hans Anders Retail Group. In the years that followed, he ensured international growth of the group among others through the purchase of eyes + more. Besides that, he managed to transform the group and its labels into a succesful value-for-money formula.

In the RetailTrends Podcast Bart provides his perspective on the transformation of Hans Anders, eyes + more and and Direkt Optik AB. Since 2022, the group name has been renamed nexeye. Besides that he explains why, with an eye on the future, nexeye is making in the coming years significant investments in digitalization and sustainability.

Listen to the podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7n6X2RbZ630cZdJwpXs8uu

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About Nexeye

nexeye is an international optical retail group focused on providing accessible, high-quality eye and hearing care at affordable prices. With a strong portfolio of brands, nexeye serves millions of customers across Europe. The group combines scale and entrepreneurship with craftsmanship, innovation and a strong customer focus.

nexeye has a clear growth strategy and is strongly focused on international expansion in the coming years. Through autonomous growth and the continued rollout of its retail concepts, the group aims to grow to 1,000 stores across Europe.

The brands of nexeye

Hans Anders was founded in 1982 and is the volume market leader in the Netherlands. The brand is known for its strong value-for-money proposition in eyewear, contact lenses and hearing solutions, and operates 394 stores in the Netherlands and Belgium.

The international expansion of nexeye is primarily driven by eyes + more. This retail concept differentiates itself through a strong, fashion-forward assortment, transparent fixed pricing and an accessible in-store experience. eyes + more makes eye care simple, stylish and affordable, appealing to a broad and international customer base. The chain currently operates more than 300 stores across Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Austria and continues to grow rapidly.

In Sweden, nexeye is also active with the optical retail chain Direkt Optik, which operates 33 stores.

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