Clothing Giant UNIQLO to Enter Cebu in the Fourth Quarter of 2015

I am just so excited for this. Details below!

UNIQLO, the global clothing retailer, announced that it will open two Visayas Stores in Cebu City in the fourth quarter of 2015.

The stores will be located at SM City Cebu, fourth largest shopping mall in the Philippines, and the new SM Seaside City Cebu.

These new stores will offer the brand’s full range of men’s, women’s and kid’s items.

“Opening our stores in Cebu, after our third year in the Philippines is another important phase of our business in the country” said Katsumi Kubota, COO of Fast Retailing Philippines Inc.

“We have opened 23 stores in Metro Manila and Luzon, entering the Visayas market is a milestone in our growth strategy.”

UNIQLO provides clothing with innovation and real value, engineered to enhance everyday life year-round for women, men, kids and babies.

Committed to creating clothing that focuses on the wearer, product offerings include Filipino’s everyday wear necessities such as premium Denim Jeans, Graphic T-shirts, Polo Shirts, Supima Cotton T-shirts and Innerwear.

The product line-up will also include the brand's unique and proprietary collections AIRism, HEATTECH, and Ultra-Light Down.

UNIQLO is present in 16 markets worldwide including Japan, US, Australia, France, United Kingdom, Singapore, China, and Malaysia among others.

With more than 1,500 stores worldwide, UNIQLO has grown to become an international retail apparel leader.

(From left): Uniqlo’s general manager, Geraldine Sia; chief operating officer, Katsumi Kubota,and Cebu area manager, Kaoru Wada

For more updates about this exciting news, Cebuanos and other customers in the Visayas may visit UNIQLO Philippines’ social media accounts including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

They may also visit www.uniqlo.com/ph.

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 1.14 trillion yen for the 2013 fiscal year ending August 31, 2013 (US $11.62 billion, calculated in yen using the end of August 2013 rate of $1 = 98.36 yen), Fast Retailing is one of the world’s largest apparel retail companies, 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 1,400 stores in 16 markets worldwide: Japan, Australia, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, U.K. and the U.S.

In addition, Grameen Uniqlo, a social business established in Bangladesh in September 2010, currently operates several Grameen UNIQLO stores in Dhaka.

UNIQLO manages 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.

This morning, finding out about UNIQLO indeed coming to Cebu. And it's not a hoax: