UNIQLO Welcomes 15th Store in the Philippines with an Evening for VIP Shoppers
Continuing its expansion in the Philippines, UNIQLO opened its much-anticipated store in Eastwood City, a live-work-play enclave located in Quezon City. The new store marks the brand’s first endeavor with Megaworld Corporation.
Executives from international companies, media, bloggers and select residents were treated to cocktails and exclusive giveaways during a VIP Shopping event and soft opening last June 18, 2014 to preview the store before the public opening last June 20, 2014.
Ms. Geraldine Sia, General Manager of Fast Retailing Philippines Inc. welcomed guests and expressed her appreciation for the Eastwood community’s warm welcome of UNIQLO, “We are happy to be part of Eastwood’s community. This is a place where people live, work and play, and we believe that UNIQLO has a chance to touch all these aspects of life.”
Currently, UNIQLO’s network of stores consists of 15 branches in the Philippines: SM Megamall, SM City Fairview, SM City North Edsa, SM City Clark, SM City BF Parañaque, SM City Pampanga, SM City Dasmariñas, SM Aura Premier, SM Mall of Asia, Glorietta 5, Robinsons Place Manila, SM City Rosales, Gateway Mall, Century City Mall, and now, in Eastwood City.
The company envisions several additional locations to launch within the year, and given this expansion, is set to hire hundreds of store associates.
Guests await the grand reveal of the Eastwood store.
General Manager Geraldine Sia welcomes guests to Eastwood’s Pre-Opening VIP Shopping.
Megaworld First Vice President and Commercial Division Head Kevin Tan and Fast Retailing Philippines Inc.
Inside UNIQLO-Eastwood
About UNIQLO and Fast Retailing
UNIQLO is a brand of Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., a leading global Japanese retail holding company that designs, manufactures and sells clothing under seven main brands: Comptoir des Cotonniers, GU, Helmut Lang, J Brand, Princesse tam.tam, Theory, and UNIQLO. With global sales of approximately 928 billion yen for the 2012 fiscal year ending August 31, 2012, Fast Retailing is currently the world’s fourth largest apparel retail company, and UNIQLO is Japan’s leading specialty retailer.
UNIQLO continues to open large-scale stores in some of the world’s most important cities and locations, as part of its ongoing efforts to solidify its status as a truly global brand. Today the company has a total of more than 1,200 stores in 14 markets worldwide including Japan, China, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, U.K. and U.S. In addition, Grameen UNIQLO, a social business established in Bangladesh in September 2010, opened its two first stores in Dhaka in July 2013. UNIQLO operates an integrated business model under which it designs, manufactures, markets and sells high-quality, casual apparel. The company believes that truly great clothes should be supremely comfortable, feature universal designs, are of high quality and offer a superb fit to everyone who wears them.
With a corporate statement committed to changing clothes, changing conventional wisdom and change the world, Fast Retailing is dedicated to creating great clothing with new and unique value to enrich the lives of people everywhere. For more information about UNIQLO and Fast Retailing, please visit www.uniqlo.com and www.fastretailing.com
For media inquiries, please contact: Margaret Garcia, margaretanne.garcia@uniqlo.com.ph
