Fast Retailing

The company was founded under the name of Unique Clothing Warehouse in Hiroshima by the executive Tadashi Yanai in 1984. The company changes its name for Fast Retailing in 1991 and started listing in the Hiroshima stock exchange in 1994. The group is the owner of brands like Uniqo, J Brand, Theory or Comptori des Cottoniers.

The Japanese retail giant has revised its scope 3 emission reduction targets, previously set at 20%, following a 12.81% surge in revenue at the close of its latest fiscal year.

Mainstream Fashion’s New Monarch: Fast Retailing Outraces Gap and Surges Ahead of Inditex

With their latest annual results, the Japanese conglomerate led by Uniqlo is pulling further ahead of the American company Gap, which is grappling with its reliance on the domestic market, and is closing the gap with Swedish rival H&M.

Fast Retailing: Over 22 Billion and Earnings Up 16%

The Japanese retail giant sets a new record, fueled by Uniqlo’s strong performance in both Japan and international markets. The company forecasts reaching 3.7 trillion yen in the upcoming fiscal year.

Fast Retailing Holds Forecasts Steady Despite Slump in First Nine Months of 2025

The Japanese group that owns Uniqlo is confident that the impact of the new tariffs will be limited in fiscal 2025. The company closed the first three quarters with sales up 11% and gross margin down.

Fast Retailing Explores Market Alternatives for Comptoir des Cotonniers and Princesse tam tam

The Japanese group Fast Retailing, owner of Uniqlo, is contemplating bankruptcy proceedings for its French brands, two decades after their acquisition. French fashion is facing a new blow with this possibility.

Fast Retailing takes a closer step towards sustainability: signs the Fashion Industry Charter

The Japanese fashion distribution giant, the owner of Uniqlo, has joined other companies such as Inditex, Adidas, Levi Strauss or PVH in the fight against climate change.

Uniqlo’s parent company attributes the drop in revenue to the poor evolution of its subsidiary in South Korea and the impact of the crisis in Hong Kong.

The Japanese owner of Uniqlo reached in 2019 the second position in the global fashion podium, thanks to exchange rates.

Uniqlo’s owner group has partnered with Mujin and the startup Exotec Solutions to increase the automation of its facilities, with an investment of 100,000 million yen.

The company has launched a new service for the users of its app in which they can sample different products each week.

The Japanese company currently operates with three stores in Spain: two in Barcelona and one in Madrid, to which a third will soon be added in the Spanish city.

The director of operations of the Japanese company has spoken about his new opening and how they face the challenges to become the world's first fashion retailer by revenue.

The owner of Uniqlo has closed its last fiscal year with a revenue of 21.3 billion dollars (at yesterday’s exchange rates), overcoming 21.1 billion dollars registered by H&M.

The Japanese fashion giant has closed its fiscal year with a revenue of 21.2 billion dollars, an increase of 7.5% compared to the previous year.

The Japanese company owned by Fast Retailing has opened a 3,250 square meters store in the DLF Ambience shopping mall in New Delhi.

The company, owned by Fast Retailing, has been collecting its Ultra Light Down jackets in its stores to produce new ones with them.

The inventory of the four giants has risen by 66% since 2014. H&M and Fast Retailing hold the largest stock, at around 20% of their annual revenue.

Fast Retailing’s chain has announced the opening of a store in Spain next autumn, consolidating its European strategy.

Fast Retailing had a revenue of 644.4 billion yen (5.1 billion euros) between November and January. The earnings of the group, on its behalf, stood at 80.2 billion yen (643 million euros).

The textile machinery manufacturer has been working with Fast Retailing in the innovation centre the latter owns in Los Angeles, and from now on, several of the Spanish company’s technologies will be integrated in the Japanese brand’s suppliers.

The company ended fiscal 2017 (concluded the 31st of August 2017, before enterin Spain), with a revenue of 410 million euros and a net profit of 12.6 million in the European market.

Fast Retailing’s chairman explained that this region, home to four billion people, “is the engine of the world and I’m assuming this is the biggest trend.”

The Japanese group, owner of Uniqlo, ended its last fiscal year (closed on August 31) with a turnover of 2.13 trillion yen (16.4 billion euros) and a net profit of 154.8 billion yen (1.2 billion euros).

The Japanese group, owner of the Uniqlo brand, only had a fully-automatized center within the company headquarters in Tokio, but now it aims to expand this technology to all locations on a global scale.

The Japanese fashion retailer, owned by Fast Retailing, will open its first shop in Denmark next spring, expanding its presence across nine European markets.

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