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Tugas Company Profile
UNIQLO
Midtown
Tower, Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo
MARKETING
e-mail: [email protected]
Uniqlo.com
ABOUT FAST RETAILING
Fast Retailing is a global company that operates multiple fashion brands including UNIQLO, GU, and
Theory. The world’s third largest manufacturer and retailer of private-label apparel, Fast Retailing
offers high-quality, reasonably priced clothing by managing everything from procurement, design,
and production to retail sales. UNIQLO, our pillar brand, generates approximately ¥1.76 trillion in
sales from 2,068 stores in 21 countries and region. UNIQLO, with its LifeWear concept of ultimate
everyday comfort, differentiates itself by offering unique products such as sweaters made from
superior-quality cashmere, supima cotton T-shirts, and ranges incorporating original HEATTECH
and Ultra Light Down technologies. The Group’s main sources of UNIQLO-driven growth are moving
beyond Japan to Greater China (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan) and Southeast Asia. Our fun,
low-priced fashion brand GU has generated sales of approximately ¥210 billion, primarily in Japan.
We expect to grow the GU brand in Greater China and South Korea going forward. Fast Retailing is
making progress on its Ariake Project, which aims to transform the apparel retail industry into a
new digital consumer retail industry. We are working to build a supply chain that uses advanced
information technology to create seamless links between Fast Retailing and its partner factories,
warehouses, and stores worldwide. This transformation will minimize the environmental impact of
our business, create a manufacturing environment that upholds human rights, and ensure highly
responsible procurement. Fast Retailing strives to harness the power of clothing to enrich the lives
of people around the world, and create a more sustainable society.
HISTORY
Origins in Japan
A Yamaguchi-based company, Ogori Shōji
(which, until then, had been operating
men's clothing shops called "Men's Shop
OS") was founded in March 1949 in Ube,
Yamaguchi.
In May 1984, it opened a unisex casual
wear store in Fukuro-machi, Naka-
ku, Hiroshima under the name "Unique
Clothing Warehouse". Initially, the brand
was going to be registered as a shortened
contraction of "unique clothing". However,
in 1988, during administration work in
Hong Kong for registering the brand, staff
in charge of registration misread the "C"
as "Q", and that is how the brand name
was born. Tadashi Yanai then changed
the store name to "uniqlo" across Japan. In
September 1991, the name of the company
was changed from "Ogori Shōji" to "Fast
Retailing", and by April 1994, there were
over 100 Uniqlo stores operating
throughout Japan.
International operations
AUSTRALIA UNITED
KINGDOM
BANGLADESH SPAIN
BELGIUM THAILAND
CANADA
TAIWAN
CHINA
SOUTH KOREA
HONGKONG
SINGAPORE
FRANCE
RUSSIA
GERMANY
NETHERLANDS
INDIA
PHILIPPINES
ITALY
MALAYSIA