Uniqlo Parent Fast Retailing Founder & Chairman Tadashi Yanai Age 75 with $48 Billion Personal Fortune Donates $31 Million to University of California at Los Angeles’ College (UCLA) Division of Humanities for the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities, Tadashi Yanai Had Donated $25 Million in 2020
5th October 2024 | Hong Kong
Uniqlo parent Fast Retailing founder & Chairman Tadashi Yanai (Age 75) with $48 billion personal fortune has donated $31 million to the University of California at Los Angeles’ College (UCLA) Division of Humanities for the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities. In 2020, Tadashi Yanai had donated $25 million. Fast Retailing was founded as Ogori Shoji Co. in 1963 by Hitoshi Yanai, father of Tadashi Yanai (Fast Retailing Chairman, President & CEO). Tadashi Yanai joined his father’s roadside tailor shop in 1972 and in 1984, opened a new casual-wear store named Unique Clothing Warehouse in Hiroshima (Japan). In 1991, Tadashi Yanai renamed Ogori Shoji Co. to Fast Retailing and list the company on the Hiroshima Stock Exchange in 1994. See below for FY2022 info and more info on Fast Retailing, and latest 2022 letter from Tadashi Yanai, who is Fast Retailing Founder.
“ Uniqlo Parent Fast Retailing Founder & Chairman Tadashi Yanai Age 75 with $48 Billion Personal Fortune Donates $31 Million to University of California at Los Angeles’ College (UCLA) Division of Humanities for the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities, Tadashi Yanai Had Donated $25 Million in 2020 “
Uniqlo Parent Fast Retailing Reports Record $15.7 Billion Revenue & $2.8 Billion Profit, Market Value of $61 Billion with Founder & Chairman Tadashi Yanai with $22 Billion Personal Fortune
14th October 2022 – Uniqlo Parent Fast Retailing has reported a record $15.7 billion revenue & $2.8 billion profit for Financial Year 2022 (1/9/21 to 31/8/22). Headquartered in Japan, Fast Retailing is one of the leading fashion & apparel company in the world and today has a market capitalisation of around $61 billion (14/10/22). Tadashi Yanai, who is Fast Retailing Founder (Chairman, President & CEO), has a personal fortune of around $22 billion (21.5% of Fast Retailing shareholding). Fast Retailing was founded as Ogori Shoji Co. in 1963 by Hitoshi Yanai, father of Tadashi Yanai (Fast Retailing Chairman, President & CEO). Tadashi Yanai joined his father’s roadside tailor shop in 1972 and in 1984, opened a new casual-wear store named Unique Clothing Warehouse in Hiroshima (Japan). In 1991, Tadashi Yanai renamed Ogori Shoji Co. to Fast Retailing and list the company on the Hiroshima Stock Exchange in 1994. See below for FY2022 info and more info on Fast Retailing, and latest 2022 letter from Tadashi Yanai, who is Fast Retailing Founder
The first UNIQLO store
Fast Retailing: “Looking now at the future outlook for our individual business segments, we expect UNIQLO Japan will generate higher revenue and profit in both the first and second halves of fiscal 2023. While we expect cost of sales to continue to broadly worsen, we plan to improve discounting rates and contain any decline in the gross profit margin within a minimal level. We expect UNIQLO International will generate large increases in revenue and profit in fiscal 2023. We also expect our GU segment to produce significantly higher revenue and profit, while the Global Brand segments is reporting a large increase in full-year revenue and a move into the black. We plan to accelerate new store openings in fiscal 2023, especially at UNIQLO International. We forecast the Fast Retailing Group network will boast a total of 3,747 stores by the end of August 2023: 809 stores (including franchise stores) at UNIQLO Japan, 1,740 stores at UNIQLO International, 469 stores at GU, and 729 stores at Global Brands(including franchise stores).”
FY2022 consolidated results: Fast Retailing achieves another record performance on higher revenue and a sharp increase in profit
- Achieved a record result. Full-year consolidated revenue: 2.3011 trillion yen (+7.9% year-on-year), operating profit: 297.3 billion yen (+19.4%), and profit attributable to owners of the parent: 273.3 billion yen (+60.9%). If we strip out the impact of the weaker yen, which inflated performance, operating profit increased by approximately 14% and profit attributable to owners of the parent increased by approximately 16% year-on-year.
- Sales recovered steadily in all markets as demand for clothing picked up globally, and we consistently strengthened the branding of our LifeWear (ultimate everyday clothing) and responded flexibly to changes in production and distribution environments.
- Scheduled to offer a year-end dividend of 340 yen per share. When added to the 280 yen interim dividend, that would generate a scheduled annual dividend of 620 yen for FY2022, an increase of 140 yen compared to the previous year.
About FAST RETAILING
Fast Retailing seeks to deliver the joy, happiness, and satisfaction of wearing great clothes to all people worldwide. Our corporate philosophy is: Changing clothes. Changing conventional wisdom. Change the world. As the world’s third-largest manufacturer and retailer of private-label apparel in terms of sales, Fast Retailing operates multiple fashion brands including UNIQLO, GU, and Theory. UNIQLO, the Group’s pillar brand, generated approximately ¥1.77 trillion in annual sales from 2,312 stores in 25 countries and regions in FY2021. Driven by our LifeWear concept for ultimate everyday clothing, UNIQLO offers unique products made from high-quality, highly functional materials at reasonable prices by managing everything from procurement and design to production and retail sales. The main drivers of UNIQLO growth have expanded beyond Japan to Greater China (Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan) and Southeast Asia. Meanwhile, our fun, low-priced GU fashion brand is generating annual global sales of approximately ¥250 billion, primarily in Japan.
In terms of our broader strategy, the entire Fast Retailing Group is currently pressing ahead with the Ariake Project, which seeks to transform the apparel industry into a new digital retail industry that focuses on the commercialization of information. We are leveraging various advanced technologies to build a seamless supply chain connecting Fast Retailing and our partner factories, warehouses, and stores worldwide. This Ariake Project transformation also seeks to achieve greater sustainability, through initiatives that minimize the environmental impact of our business and create a manufacturing environment that upholds human rights. Fast Retailing is driven by a passionate desire to harness the power of clothing to enrich the lives of people around the world and create a more sustainable society.
Letter from Tadashi Yanai Chairman, President and CEO – May 2022
The world is currently experiencing a variety of difficult challenges and many people are facing great difficulties. I truly hope that those people will once again experience peace and stability in their lives at the earliest possible opportunity.
Our clothing business is a peaceful one that seeks to enrich people’s lives and make daily living more comfortable. Our mission is to consistently deliver comfortable everyday clothing to people worldwide. The reason why I chose “Win Globally, Without Borders” as the annual Guiding Principle for the Fast Retailing Group at the beginning of 2022 was because I wanted to pursue even more thoroughly our quest to make and sell together with local teams high-quality LifeWear everyday clothing that offers ultimate comfort and enriches people’s lives.
Fast Retailing currently operates a network of over 3,500 stores in 27 markets around the world. While we managed to achieve higher-than-expected revenue and profit gains in the first half of fiscal 2022, the COVID-19 pandemic greatly dampened new store opening plans for our UNIQLO brand, so we want to accelerate those openings from this fiscal year and successfully fuse our physical store and e-commerce network around the world. I also want to press ahead with progress on initiatives designed to help solve social issues, such as protecting human rights and working environments in our supply chain, addressing climate change and other environmental problems, employing people with disabilities, and supporting refugees.
I believe true corporate governance involves pursuing a style of management that focuses on what would be required 10, 20, 30 years from now, and even beyond. The most significant requisite for any company is continuity, and the most important purpose of a listed company is to grow and generate profits. To achieve that, a company must serve as a worthwhile entity that benefits the world we all live in.
Fast Retailing conducts stable operations, promotes growth, and creates employment in different locations around the world. In March, we donated 10 million US dollars and 200,000 items of clothing through the United Nation’s High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to Ukraine. We all need to strive to achieve a peaceful world and an environment in which global companies can grow and provide global benefits. We have to draw on our own sources of power to create a better future by cooperating with different people around the world. I stand by that firm belief and intend to continue to act on it going forward.
LifeWear that is Made for All embodies our strong commitment to “Changing clothes. Changing conventional wisdom. Change the world.” Whatever happens, I intend to honor this spirit and do everything in my power to create a more peaceful world and a better society.
Tadashi Yanai
Chairman, President and CEO
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