Fast Retailing

Hipster business magazine Fast Company has produced a list of the world’s most innovative fashion companies, and Gilt comes out on top. But FC seems to have forgotten about Vente-Privee, the French company on which Gilt based its business model. Some of the other choices make more sense, though: Fast Retailing, owner of Uniqlo, is [...]

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Uniqlo owner Tadashi Yanai is the richest man in Japan, according to my former colleagues at Forbes. The magazine says Yanai, whose Fast Retailing empire also includes Helmut Lang, Theory and Comptoir Des Cotonniers, earned a whopping $9.2 billion in 2009, $3.1 billion more than in 2008. That’s a big jump–especially in a recession–but it’s [...]

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