
Background
Updated: 23rd September 2007
Fast Retailing opened its first Uniqlo casual wear store in 1984. It is now Japan's biggest and most successful casual wear retail chain with over 700 stores and annual net sales of about JPY400bn. Uniqlo also has stores in the UK, US, China, South Korea and Hong Kong. Uniqlo offers low-priced, high-quality casual wear. It has achieved this by maintaining control over the entire process of product development, manufacture, distribution and retail. Uniqlo Co Ltd, a subsidiary of Fast Retailing Co Ltd, is the operating company responsible for the domestic Uniqlo stores operation.
Associated links:
http://www.uniqlo.com/jp/
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