Dive Summary:
- Japanese fashion retailer Uniqlo has announced the company is planning to open five new brick-and-mortar retail locations across the U.S.
- Leaders for the company have also unveiled a few additional markets inside the U.S. which the retailer plans to enter to follow-up the five-store expansion effort.
- Uniqlo currently operates a total of 17 brick-and-mortar retail stores inside the continental U.S. after first entering the retail landscape in 2006.
Dive Insight:
Uniqlo will bring the five –store expansion to Pennsylvania, Connecticut and California by spring/summer of 2014. Additional stores planned for Boston, Los Angeles and Philadelphia will likely be completed during fall 2014, prior to the holiday shopping season. Uniqlo announced in a statement it will hire several hundred new store associates to staff the planned locations.
