question: In what year did the world's largest eyewear company based in Milan, Italy acquire a controlling interest in OPSM (Optical Prescription Spectacle Makers)?
answer: 2003
context: Title: LensCrafters
  Passage: LensCrafters is an American retailer of prescription eyewear, and prescription sunglasses, and the largest optical chain in the United States, with about 90 stores in California alone.  It was founded in 1983 in the U.S. and has subsequently expanded to over 850 stores in Canada, the United States(Including Puerto Rico) and Hong Kong.  The stores usually feature independent optometrists on-site or in an adjacent store.  The company has its corporate headquarters in Mason, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati.  LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut International and Pearle Vision are all wholly owned subsidiaries of Italy-based Luxottica, the largest eyewear company in the world.
  Title: Mondottica
  Passage: Mondottica is an international eyewear company headquartered in Hong Kong.  The firm specializes in the design, development, production and distribution of branded fashion sunglasses and prescription eyewear.  Mondottica's major offices are located in Hong Kong, London, Nottingham, New Jersey, Paris, and Sydney.
  Title: NYS Collection
  Passage: NYS Collection Eyewear is a United States-based sunglass and eyewear company founded in 1996 by Sal Babbino and Marc Behar.  The company started with a retail location at the World Trade Center in New York City.  Their headquarters are currently in Metuchen, New Jersey.
  Title: Moscot
  Passage: MOSCOT is a five generation, American luxury eyewear brand, headquartered in New York City, specializing in optical frames and sunglasses.  It was founded in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan in 1915 by Hyman Moscot, which makes it one of the oldest local businesses in New York City, as well as the 13th oldest eyewear company in the world still operating today.
  Title: Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers
  Passage: The Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London, UK.
  Title: Sunglass Hut
  Passage: Sunglass Hut is an international retailer of sunglasses and sunglass accessories founded in Miami, Florida, United States, in 1971.  Sunglass Hut is part of the Italian-based Luxottica Group, the world’s largest eyewear company.
  Title: Bashneft
  Passage: Bashneft is a Russian oil company formed by the transfer of the oil related assets of the Soviet oil ministry in Bashkortostan to the regional government of the Republic of Bashkortostan by Boris Yeltsin.  It was then privatized during 2002-3 by Murtaza Rakhimov, the president of Bashkortostan, an ally of Yeltsin's, with a controlling interest in Bashkir Capital, a holding company controlled by Rakhimov's son, Ural Rakhimov.  In 2009 a controlling interest in Bashneft was acquired for $2 billion by Vladimir P. Yevtushenkov and placed in his holding company, Sistema, but in July 2014 he was jailed and 72% of Sistema's interest in Bashneft seized by the Russian government.  Following seizure of the company in December 2014 Yevtushenkov was released from jail, "charges not proven," but Ural Rakhimov was reported to have fled the country.  It is one of the larger producers of oil products in the country.  The company operates 140 oil and natural gas fields in Russia and has an annual oil production of 16 million tonnes.  Bashneft owns three oil refineries located in Ufa with a combined capacity of 820000 oilbbl/d and 100 petrol stations.
  Title: OPSM
  Passage: OPSM (Optical Prescription Spectacle Makers) is the largest retailer of eye glasses in Australia and New Zealand, with locations in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia as well.  The company was founded in Sydney in 1932, and publicly listed in 1953.  Italian eyewear giant Luxottica acquired a controlling interest in 2003.  At that time the company operated 461 stores under three brands (OPSM, Laubman & Pank, Budget Eyewear) in Australia, 35 stores in New Zealand (where they were market leader), 75 stores in Hong Kong and 12 in Singapore (under the Optical Shop brand), and 12 in Malaysia.  Recently,
  Title: Mantra Eyewear
  Passage: Mantra Eyewear is an eyewear company that utilizes a "buy one, give one" business model, similar to Toms Shoes and Warby Parker.  In partnership with Education in Sight, a non-profit organization which specializes in eye care for students, Mantra donates a pair of prescription glasses to a child in need in Yunnan, China for every pair of sunglasses sold.
  Title: Luxottica
  Passage: Luxottica Group S.p.A. is the world's largest eyewear company.  It is based in Milan, Italy.
citations: OPSM Luxottica