NEW YORK ( Reuters ) - Fast Retailing Co Ltd 's <9983.T> Uniqlo is launching its U.S. expansion this week with the opening of a flagship store in Manhattan that will anchor a global push to rely less on its home market of Japan . In addition to the Fifth Avenue location, opening on Friday, Uniqlo is also opening a store in New York's Herald Square next week, bringing its U.S. total to three locations. The new stores will be the chain's two biggest. The retailer's goal is to eventually have...Read Full Story
UNIQLO (ユニクロ) is more than a fashion brand. It’s a lifestyle, the foremost representative of Japanese design, and a prime example of how through successful marketing, a little-known Japanese casual wear retailer can become one of the top 10 largest brands of its kind , and expand into more than 12 countries in a matter of years. In June 1984, a Unique Clothing Warehouse (hence Uniqlo) unisex casual wear store was opened in Fukuro-machi, Hiroshima, by a Yamaguchi-based company Ogori Shōji (now...Read Full Story
( Reuters ) - Fast Retailing Co <9983.T>, Asia 's largest clothing chain, is interested in buying a larger rival in the United States or Europe , as a stronger yen has boosted the Japanese company's purchasing power, Bloomberg said on Sunday. " The yen strength and anemic stock markets make this a very good opportunity for M&A," Chief Executive Officer Tadashi Yanai , 62, said in an interview on Friday in Tokyo , Bloomberg said. "It won't be something small, but a company of equal size or...Read Full Story
Everyday items such as T-shirts, socks and jeans, in the jargon of the garment industry—are not normally considered the most exciting part of the business. But they are found in almost every wardrobe. Uniqlo, a successful Japanese firm with big ambitions, has transformed them into a goldmine. Having conquered Japan, it is now taking on the world.
Uniqlo’s parent company, Fast Retailing, is Japan’s biggest clothing company, with sales of $9 billion forecast this year. Whereas many Japanese...Read Full Story
The operator of Japanese casual clothing chain Uniqlo plans to open 1,000 stores in China by 2020 and achieve more than 10 billion dollars in sales in the country, reports said Friday. The charismatic chairman and president of Fast Retailing Co, Tadashi Yanai, said "China has transformed itself from a developing country to the world's largest growth centre", as quoted by Japanese newspapers. He outlined his plan at a news conference in Shanghai, and said he was targeting 1 trillion yen (11...Read Full Story
Asked at an informal gathering of journalists in Tokyo if Suhl was joining the company, Fast Retailing’s chief executive officer, Tadashi Yanai, had no comment.
Tadashi Yanai, chairman and president of Fast Retailing Co., operator of the Uniqlo casual clothing store chain, fell from second to third place, after winning the first two surveys, which began in 2008. Isao Moriyasu, president of DeNA Co., which runs the ...
Suzuki Motor Corp. President Osamu Suzuki and Fast Retailing Co. President Tadashi Yanai are past examples of chairmen who combined dual roles after resuming presidential duties. Sony Corp. Chairman and CEO Howard Stringer has also held the post of company ...
Fast Retailing, owner of the Uniqlo fashion brand, is seeking European targets to offset stagnant sales at home, Chief Executive Officer Tadashi Yanai said last month. HNA, meanwhile, has said it has a $6 billion war chest for acquisitions in Eu ...
(SIE) Fast Retailing, owner of the Uniqlo fashion brand, is seeking European targets to offset stagnant sales at home, Chief Executive Officer Tadashi Yanai said last month. HNA, meanwhile, has said it has a $6 billion war chest for acquisitions ...
Fast Retailing, owner of the Uniqlo fashion brand, is seeking European targets to offset stagnant sales at home, Chief Executive Officer Tadashi Yanai said last month. HNA, meanwhile, has said it has a $6 billion war chest for acquisitions in ...
“Asia is our biggest growth opportunity,” says Tadashi Yanai, the billionaire head of Fast Retailing, which controls Theory, Helmut Lang and Uniqlo. New markets: Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea.
They have become poorer by billions of dollars in the global economic downturn that has also engulfed millions of jobs, but many brave-heart billionaires are still on a hiring ...
HANGZHOU, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Japan's famed casual wear seller UNIQLO opened a shop Thursday at the Chinese e-commercial site taobao.com, Asia's largest online retailer. UNIQLO's flagship
Tadashi Yanai (柳井 正, Yanai Tadashi?, born February 7, 1949) is the founder and president of Fast Retailing, of which UNIQLO (ユニクロ, "unique clothing") is a subsidiary.