question: Pearle Vision stores in North America are owned by a company based in what European city?
answer: Milan, Italy
context: Title: RiceTec
  Passage: RiceTec Inc. is a private company based in Alvin, TX, and headquartered in Houston, TX, that develops and produces hybrid rice seed for the American and various international markets.  RiceTec also owns the consumer brand name RiceSelect which markets Texmati brand rice in grocery stores throughout North America.  The company was founded in 1990 as a foreign for profit corporation and is owned by the Prince of Liechtenstein Foundation.  RiceTec was the first and is currently the only company to commercialize hybrid rice in the Americas.
  Title: Lowcostholidays
  Passage: Lowcostholidays was a travel company and a consumer-facing brand of the lowcosttravelgroup, which was founded in 2004.  It operated to destinations worldwide, with a focus on European city and beach breaks.  Around 500 people worked for the brand, which was based in Palma de Mallorca, with additional offices located in London, and Krakow.  The company collapsed and went into administration on 15 July 2016.  The collapse of the company was blamed on low turnover in the aftermath of the Brexit vote.
  Title: Target Optical
  Passage: Target Optical is an optical company located inside Target stores across the United States.  Target Optical was founded by the Cole National Corp in 1995 in Cleveland, Ohio.  In 2004 the Cole National corporation was acquired by Luxottica S.p.A., this included other Cole National holdings like Pearle Vision.  Luxottica folded Cole's operations into its North American Retail Group and the Cole structure was dissolved.  Target Optical headquarters is located in the North American Retail Groups headquarters in Mason, Ohio.
  Title: Liverpool Vision
  Passage: Liverpool Vision is an Economic Development Company based in Liverpool, England.  Set up in 1999, Liverpool Vision was the first Urban Regeneration Company to be founded in the United Kingdom and was tasked with leading the physical transformation of the city into the new millennium.  In 2008, a re-organisation of Liverpool Vision saw its operations as a URC merged with both the Liverpool Land Development Company and Business Liverpool to form a single Economic Development Company within Liverpool.  Liverpool Vision also offers business support.  Liverpool Vision recently led the Liverpool at World Expo in Shanghai 2010 project.
  Title: West Marine
  Passage: West Marine is an American company based in Watsonville, California, which operates a chain of boating supply and fishing retail stores.  The company has nearly 300 retail stores in North America, including Puerto Rico and Canada, and previously had seven franchised stores in Turkey.
  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: Cruise America
  Passage: Cruise America is a privately held recreational vehicle rental and sales company based in Mesa, Arizona.  The company was founded in 1972 and was publicly traded in the American Stock Exchange under the ticker “RVR” until 1997.  It then merged with Budget Group.  Budget sold the company to its founders and management in 2000.  In 2014 the company became an Employee Owned Company.  It operates 122 locations across North America.  Cruise America holds a 52% market-share in US recreational vehicles rental operations market.
  Title: Contra Vision
  Passage: Contra Vision Ltd was founded in 1985.  There are two wholly owned subsidiaries: Contra Vision North America, Inc., which operates out of Atlanta, USA, covering the North American market and surrounding countries; and Contra Vision Supplies Ltd, which operates across the other continents of the world from a base in Stockport, UK.
  Title: Luxottica
  Passage: Luxottica Group S.p.A. is the world's largest eyewear company.  It is based in Milan, Italy.
  Title: Pearle Vision
  Passage: Pearle Optical is an American chain of eye care stores.  It was founded in 1961 by Stanley Pearle, an optometrist in Savannah, Georgia, United States.  He also founded Pearle Vision (market name in the United States) and its express store, Pearle Express, in the same year.  Stanley Pearle sold his stores to Grand Metropolitan conglomerate based in the United Kingdom.  6 years later Grand Metropolitan sold the stores in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico to Cole National Corporation.  The Belgium stores were sold to GIB based in Belgium and the Dutch stores to HAL Investments based in the Netherlands.  HAL Investments bought the Belgium Stores 1 year later from GIB and merged both chains into Pearl Benelux.  The North American Pearle Vision stores are currently owned by the Italian company Luxottica after the takeover of Cole National Corporation in 1996.
citations: Luxottica Pearle Vision