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 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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Fast Retailing Records 14.8% Sales Growth in Q1, Totals €5.614 Billion

Uniqlo’s owner sees robust growth with a 33.87% leap in operating profit and double-digit increases in turnover during the initial quarter of the fiscal year.

Japan’s giant Uniqlo enters profitability in Europe amidst full expansion

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.

T. Yanai (Uniqlo): “The tract from Japan through China is the only growing center”

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.”