United Arrows(7606 JP): Online Presence Easing Pressure on Dwindling Sales at Retail Stores
United Arrows (7606 JP) is a Japanese clothing retailer with 356 stores including 4 in Taiwan. The company was founded in 1989 by former members of...
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World Co IPO (Pt 2): Floundering Sales Channels Make Pricing at Lower End Expensive Too
World Co Ltd (3612 JP) has decided to set its IPO price at the lower end (JPY 2,900) giving it a market cap of JPY 104bn. World plans to use its...
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Retail Ranking FY2017-18: Winners and Losers in Japanese Retailing
JapanConsuming’s retail ranking for FY2017 has now been compiled, and the results show that the retail industry enjoyed another extremely good year...
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Japan's Fastest Growing Fashion Retailer, Tokyo Base to Launch 3rd Major Chain
Fuelled by an IPO in 2015, Tokyo Base (3415 JP) has been one of the fastest growing fashion retailers in the past few years – and the fastest...
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Adastria Falters in Normally Strong 1Q; Turnaround Efforts Continue with Closure of Overseas Stores
In our earlier report, Adastria: Packed the Wrong Clothes for the Journey, we highlighted a number of underlying risks the company is facing and...
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