Thursday, December 2, 2010

Launching of UNIQLO

The Wait is Finally Over

Kuala Lumpur, 4 November 2010 –UNIQLO, the leading fashion brand of casual wear in Japan opened its first UNIQLO retails store in Malaysia at the heart of Kuala Lumpur and thousand flocked down to be there.

The brand is known for its high-quality clothing at affordable price with a focus on individual style. From t-shirts and sweaters to denim, outwear and trend items, are made according to exacting Japanese standards to provide its customers with true excellence and innovation in casual wear.



This leading Japanese clothing brand was established in March 1963 and then opened its first UNIQLO casual wear store in 1984 at Hiroshima. UNIQLO boasted around 700 stores within Japan and has expanded to China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Britain, France, the United States, Singapore, Taiwan, and Russia with more than 900 stores worldwide today.

Finally on November 4th 2010, Malaysian can also enjoy shopping and wearing this leading fashion clothing brand from Japan at the newly renovated Fahrenheit 88 shopping centre (formerly KL Plaza), Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur.


The store opening was officiated at 11:00am by Mr. Tadashi Yanai, Chairman, CEO and founder of UNIQLO and Fast Retailing together with Mr. Satoshi Onoguchi, Managing Director of UNIQLO (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd and UNIQLO (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Datin Cindy Lim, Deputy Chairman of Pavilion Kuala Lumpur, Mr. Cheng Wai Keong, Chairman of Wing Tai Asia, local celebrity Maya Karin and Ooi Chong Jeng, the lucky fan No.1 to queue in a ribbon-cutting ceremony witnessed by all UNIQLO fans.

On the day of launching, UNIQLO fans of all ages have queued up since dawn to be among the first 500 to line up for a chance to win five All-Expense-Paid trips to Tokyo for two persons before the doors open at 11:00am. Besides, free UNIQLO original tote bag is given away to the first 1,000 customers in line at the store opening.

“We are truly grateful for the support today. We were really happy to see this many people queuing for our store opening and we hope that everyone will have a great shopping experience and discover their own personal styles with UNIQLO’s stylish, high quality and affordable pieces.” said Mr. Onoguchi, Managing Director of UNIQLO Singapore and Malaysia.

For more information about UNIQLO, please visit http://www.uniqlo.com/my/ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIPeZ3io9QY




1 comment:

  1. The opening of this store was fantastic! Minus the queues (which were extremely long) everything about the day went with a bang. There was loads of promotions and special offers and everyone there was certainly making the most of it, buying mountains of men's and women's clothing.

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