Japan Fashion Market Review 2019 Part II: Winners & Losers and Key Business Trends
As shown in Part I of our review, the apparel and fashion market contracted slightly last year and no single format was immune to the tougher...
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Japan Fashion Market Review 2019 Part I: A Stable Market but Tougher Trading All Round
The apparel and fashion market contracted slightly last year and no single format was immune to the tougher trading environment – even the online...
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Fast Retailing: Unique Value Proposition of Uniqlo Combining Two Sets of Customers
As the world’s 3rd largest manufacturer and retailer of private brand retailing after Inditex and H&M, Fast Retailing focuses on providing high...
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The Era of Digital Zaibatsu*: Takeover of Zozo a Win for Softbank/Yahoo in Online Supremacy Battle
As everyone will now know, Yahoo Japan (4689 JP) will buy a major stake in Japan's leading online fashion retailer ZOZO Inc (3092 JP). Zozo’s...
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Japan Retail Highlights 2018-19: Sector by Sector and Winners in Each Sector
The following provides a snapshot guide to the performance of all the main retail sectors in Japan in 2018-19 sector by sector including winners...
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