Uniqlo has chosen China, the site of recent demonstrations against its home country Japan, to open its largest store later this year, writes Patti Waldmeir in Shanghai.
The new 6,600 sq m outlet will be in Shanghai, where the clothing chain opened a global flagship store almost three years ago. That shop, in Shanghai’s premier Nanjing West Road, has done a brisk trade since opening in May 2010, including during anti-Japan protests in the city last September.
“We have wanted to open . . . our largest flagship store worldwide in Shanghai for quite some time,” said Pan Ning, China chief executive of Fast Retailing, the company that owns Uniqlo.