The aim of this paper is to present some existence results for nearest-point and farthestpoint problems, in connection with some geometric properties of Banach spaces. The idea goes back to Efimov and Stečkin who, in a series of papers (see [28, 29, 30, 31]), realized for the first time that some geometric properties of Banach spaces, such as strict convexity, uniform convexity, reflexivity, an...