Fast Retailing Co., Asia’s biggest clothing chain, aims to open at least 200 Uniqlo stores in the US by 2020 as it seeks to raise sales sixfold.
The Japan-based company, which plans to open its …
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Foreign fast fashion swoops into HK
Foreign luxury brands are well acquainted with Hong Kong’s consumer market, but now cheaper foreign labels are moving in too.
In September, Swedish brand Monki, a low-priced womenswear line, ope…
Japan’s Fast Retailing logs 24 percent profit rise
Fast Retailing Co. said in October its group net profit rose 23.9 percent to JPY61.68 billion(USD 0.29b) in the business year that ended in August on brisk domestic sales in the first half a…
China’s Taobao Mall gets own retail site
China’s Alibaba Group created a new domain for its Taobao Mall business-to-consumer portal, separating the brand from the company’s flagship consumer-to-consumer site to give the retail si…
Fast Retailing logs 24pc profit rise
Fast Retailing Co., the operator of Japan’s largest clothing chain Uniqlo, said on Friday its group net profit rose 23.9 percent to JPY61.68 billion (USD752.6 million) in the business year that …
CSR gains ground in Asia
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, the second and third richest men in the world respectively, have announced that 40 US billionaires have followed their lead in pledging to give half of their fortunes to…
Japanese retailers convert to English
Rakuten, Japan’s biggest online retailer by sales has imposed a policy to require employees to speak and correspond with one another in English by 2012.
The company, which has made recent acquis…
Fast Retailing, Toray expand production bases outside China
Japan retail giant Fast Retailing Co. and textile maker Toray Industries Inc. said on Tuesday they will extend their strategic partnership through 2015 and expand production bases across Asian nations…
Japan’s Fast Retailing cuts net forecast as hit products fade
Fast Retailing Co., Asia’s biggest clothing retailer, cut its profit forecast as sales growth slowed the most in four years on the waning popularity of designs at its Uniqlo chain.
The company c…
Japan’s Fast Retailing makes all staff speak English
Fast Retailing, the operator of Japan’s largest clothing chain, Uniqlo, has announced plans to make all its staff speak English at work. The company will ask executives in offices at home and ar…