Asia Society, a New York-based international exchange group, announced its 2017 list of Asia Game Changers on Tuesday, including Tadashi Yanai, founder of Fast Retailing Co., which runs the Uniqlo clothing store chain around the globe. Yanai, who serves as chairman, president and chief executive ...
Uniqlo owner Fast Retailing Co. is betting that speed, both in supplying its stores with the latest fashion and getting custom-made products to shoppers, will allow it to overtake apparel powerhouse Zara. Fast Retailing plans to shorten the time it takes from design to delivery ...
In her Dec. 14 Tokyo Shimbun column, media critic Minako Saito mentioned how the press is excited about the buzzword of the year and the kanji of the year. They are much less interested in another annual prize, the Black Company Award for the ...
Fast Retailing Co. Chairman Tadashi Yanai caved in to reality and scrapped his 8-year-old target for the Uniqlo casual-wear owner to hit ¥5 trillion ($48 billion) in annual sales by fiscal year 2020. The billionaire, who wants to make Fast Retailing the world's largest seller ...
Casual clothing chain Uniqlo is taking its biggest chance in Southeast Asia. The unit of Fast Retailing Co. is opening a store on Singapore's ritzy Orchard Road that will have 2,700 sq. meters of shopping space on three floors. The store will be Uniqlo's largest ...
The surprise departure of Nikesh Arora, heir apparent at SoftBank Group Corp., highlights a problem many Japanese companies face: passing the reins to a successor. SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son, 58, said Tuesday he wants to remain at the helm of the company he built from ...
Do not underestimate your abilities, make sure to set high goals, and be persistent in striving to achieve them — these are just some of the bits of advice billionaire Tadashi Yanai gives to people who want to become successful business managers. College students and ...
Fast Retailing Co. cut its full-year operating profit forecast as unseasonably warm weather worldwide hurt sales of winter clothes for the retailer's Uniqlo brand of casual wear, the Yamaguchi-based company said Thursday. Operating profit will probably be ¥180 billion in the year ending August 2016. ...
Japan should be doing more to help with the global catastrophe of asylum seekers, the head of the U.N. refugee body said. Antonio Guterres, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, told reporters in Tokyo on Wednesday that he was discussing the problem with Japanese ...
Fast Retailing Co. forecast lower profits this fiscal year than analysts are expecting after losses at its Uniqlo and J Brand businesses in the U.S. hurt last year's earnings. Net income will probably rise 4.5 percent to ¥115 billion ($960 million) in the year ending ...
Fast Retailing Co. Chairman Tadashi Yanai said Walt Disney Co.'s new park in Shanghai will help his Uniqlo casual clothing brand expand in China, shrugging off concerns over an economic slowdown in the Japanese retailer's largest overseas market. "The opening of the Shanghai Disneyland gives ...
Tadashi Yanai, one of the richest men in Japan, told the Wall Street Journal last week that he was "disgusted" by the video of a couple having sex in a Beijing outlet of the clothing chain Uniqlo. The video quickly went viral in China, ...
