“I understand failure”: CEO of Asia’s largest clothing retailer

Mr. Tadashi Yanai, the founder and CEO of Asia's largest clothing retailer Fast Retailing, said, "We fully understand the failure."

Yanai established the clothing brand Uniqlo from the Hiroshima store to the world giant and the world's fourth largest clothing retailer - his company Fast Retailing is its parent company.

But despite the amazing achievements, 67-year-old Yanai said his philosophy of life is "nine failures, one success"

UNIQLO is now a major success in many countries around the world and is the number one retailer in China, but Yanai said that this is not necessarily true for AsiaNews.

"When (Yaniqueluo) advanced overseas, we failed in the UK, we failed in China, we failed again in the USA," he said in an interview. Year of store - ends with 16 of them

However, now UNIQLO has opened a new store every week around the world, and Yanai says that his goal is to make the first retailing to the world's top clothing retailers by 2020.

"At the Olympics, we can only say we are fighting for a bronze medal, we have not said it," he said.

Mr. Yanai is not easy to be intimidated obviously, he talked about the tendency to fear that it is not an obstacle. He said, "Because they are very afraid of failure, they did not succeed."

Speaking of successor, he emphasized that he is not "I do not need a successor like me", but his work can not be done by himself.

"Therefore, ideally, I would like to organize a team that will separate all of this work from the best CEO who will guide us in the future," he said.

I strongly urge you to read an inspiring book about failure to overcome failure. There, Tony Hsieh, the founder of online shoes retailer Zappos, overcame the failure and built the world's largest online footwear company. The company eventually sold it to Amazon with nearly a billion dollars!

Below are the clothing brands I found after watching this movie and a link to an online retailer. Some produce Fair Trade clothes in Asia, others use organic and recycled materials, but some are manufactured in the United States. When buying clothes from now on, I recommend you study yourself. Where is it made? What will it do?

Because Wal-Mart is the world's largest retail chain, many people think that they must become the largest retail store of fashion apparel, because they sell clothing and fashion accessories. Strictly speaking, most retail experts do not necessarily define all clothes as "fashion" clothes, and because Wal-Mart stores are classified as discount department stores and large supermarkets all over the world, It is not a thing. It is defined as a clothing retailer. When considering only fashion apparel and fashion apparel retailers, not only one retail company is obviously "maximized" in the world. But the company is the world's largest fashion apparel retailer, not considered Wal-Mart or the largest retailer in the United States.

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