By AFP Translated by Cassidy STEPHENS Published Apr 11, 2024 Japanese ready-to-wear group Fast Retailing reported “record” half-year results on Thursday, boosted mostly by its flagship brand Uniqlo in North America, Europe and South-East Asia, and slightly raised its full-year profit forecast. A Uniqlo store in Texas. – Uniqlo In the first half, from September … Read more
By Bloomberg Published Feb 25, 2024 Fast Retailing Co., home of the Uniqlo brand, wants to ramp up the presence of its other fashion label GU in the US and Europe, as Asia’s largest apparel maker accelerates efforts to become a global retailer with ¥10 trillion ($66.6 billion) in annual sales. GU “GU has the … Read more
New York is a city where fashion and style take to the street, thanks to its condensed and walkable nature and the proliferation of public transport. Thus, designers needn’t look further than outside their studio windows for inspiration. The Fall/Winter 2024 season kick-off homed in on that sentiment. See catwalkHelmut Lang – Fall-Winter2024 – 2025 … Read more
Most reports of Fast Retailing’s Q1 results this week focused on the headline figures and also on the performance of its star Uniqlo chain. But the group includes other businesses too so let’s look at those. Theory To recap though, group operating profit for the three months to the end of November was ¥147 billion … Read more
By Bloomberg Published Jan 11, 2024 Uniqlo owner Fast Retailing Co.’s operating profit for the first fiscal quarter topped analysts’ average projections on robust sales in North America and Europe. Uniqlo Operating profit for the three months to the end of November totaled ¥147 billion ($1 billion), on sales of ¥811 billion, the apparel … Read more
