Fast Retailing owns UNIQLO, GU, Theory, Comptoir des Cotonniers, Princesse tam.tam and J Brand. After opening our first UNIQLO store, in Japan in 1984, we built a chain of suburban roadside stores. In 1998, we began opening stores in urban locations and ran a fleece campaign that ignited a UNIQLO boom across Japan. Subsequently, we opened stores within prominent shopping malls, and also global flagship and hotspot stores in Ginza, Shinjuku and Osaka. As an SPA (Specialty-store retailer of Private-label Apparel) controlling the entire clothes-making process from design through manufacture and retail, UNIQLO offers high-quality casualwear at reasonable prices, and products that other companies can't. UNIQLO accounts for 6.2%* of the Japanese apparel market.
