Retail Ranking FY2017-18: Winners and Losers in Japanese Retailing
JapanConsuming’s retail ranking for FY2017 has now been compiled, and the results show that the retail industry enjoyed another extremely good year...
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Japan's Fastest Growing Fashion Retailer, Tokyo Base to Launch 3rd Major Chain
Fuelled by an IPO in 2015, Tokyo Base (3415 JP) has been one of the fastest growing fashion retailers in the past few years – and the fastest...
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Adastria Falters in Normally Strong 1Q; Turnaround Efforts Continue with Closure of Overseas Stores
In our earlier report, Adastria: Packed the Wrong Clothes for the Journey, we highlighted a number of underlying risks the company is facing and...
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Adastria: Packed the Wrong Clothes for the Journey
Company OverviewAdastria Co Ltd (2685 JP) is a Japanese casual fashion chain with 26 brands and 1,500 stores (1,375 in Japan and 125 globally). The...
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Fashion: Still the Biggest Japanese E-Commerce Category – and Still Growing Fast
Our recent post on e-commerce (E-Commerce in Japan 2017-2022: Relentless Expansion Means Upheaval in Consumer Goods Distribution) showed just how...
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