Uniqlo Owner Scouts for More India Partners After 60% Sales Jump
- Opens first store in Mumbai, taking the country’s tally to 11
- “We want to grow our exports from India”: Uniqlo India CEO
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Fast Retailing Co.’s Uniqlo brand will be scouting for more manufacturing partners in India to rapidly expand its operations after seeing a 60% jump in sales in the world’s most-populous nation.
“Our production in India has already started exporting to other countries. We are looking at expanding our partnerships with factories and mills,” Tomohiko Sei, chief executive officer of Uniqlo India, told reporters on Thursday in Mumbai as he inaugurated Uniqlo’s first store in India’s financial capital. “As a group, we want to grow our exports from India. As the India CEO, I want to see more local production.”