Fast retailing Co is a Japan-based fashion retailing company best known for its leading subsidiary UNIQLO. The company can trace its roots to 1949, when a tailor by the name of Hitoshi Yania founded a roadside menswear shop called Ogori Shoji. His son, Tadashi Yanai, began his career selling kitchenware and men’s clothing at a Jusco supermarket but soon joined the family business in 1972. In 1991, the company Fast Retailing Co and was listed on the Hiroshima Stock Exchange. Three years later, it became the fastest-growing retailer in Japan, making Yanai Japan’s richest individual.
Today, Fast Retailing Co is a leading player in the fashion industry with revenues of $18.2 billion and was ranked 32nd on Forbes Most Innovative Company in the World list for 2018.