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US: Strong Winter Storm Brings Blizzard Conditions To Sierra Nevada 3

A strong winter storm hit the Sierra Nevada on Friday, March 1, bringing heavy snow and high winds. Blizzard Warnings were issued for the area, including Lake Tahoe and eastern Nevada. The Sierra Avalanche Center warned that the danger of avalanches was high. Yosemite National Park and many ski resorts in the region announced they were closing at least for the day.

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Collaboration between artist and GU

New York-based Japanese artist Fantasista Utamaro meets the press in New York on Dec. 8, 2023, to speak about his collaboration with Fast Retailing Group apparel retailer GU. T-shirts and other items designed by him will be sold at GU's store in New York's Soho area from Dec. 9.

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Fast Retailing to enter Indonesian market

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Naoki Otoma (R), group executive vice president of Fast Retailing Co., attaches a Uniqlo logo on a world map at a press conference in Jakarta on Feb. 13, 2013. Fast Retailing said it aims to set up its first Uniqlo casual clothing store in Indonesia in May or June and open nine more at an early date with a view to expanding operations in emerging Southeast Asian markets.

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Fast Retailing's group net profit drops 28.7% in year through Aug.

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai, president and chairman of Fast Retailing Co., operator of the Uniqlo casual clothing chain, briefs reporters on the company's financial results for the business year through August in Tokyo on Oct. 9, 2014. It logged 74.55 billion yen in group net profit for the year through August, down 28.7 percent from the previous year.

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Fast Retailing aims for record 1 tril. yen in sales

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai, president and chairman of Fast Retailing Co., holds a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Oct. 11, 2012. Fast Retailing said the same day it aims to achieve record group sales of more than 1 trillion yen for the current business year ending in August 2013, on the back of robust growth of its Uniqlo casual clothing chain business in Asia.

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Fast Retailing, Grameen Bank to set up social joint venture

TOKYO, Japan - Muhammad Yunus (L), the head of the Grameen Bank Group of Bangladesh, and Tadashi Yanai, chairman and president of Fast Retailing Co., the operator of the Uniqlo clothing chain, shake hands during a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on July 13, 2010. Yunus and Yanai announced an agreement to set up a joint venture, tentatively named Grameen Uniqlo Ltd., in Dhaka. Yunus, the founder of the microfinance organization, and the bank were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.

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Uniqlo operator logs record sales, operating profit in FY 2009

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai, president of Fast Retailing Co., briefs reporters on the company's group earnings report for the business year through Aug. 31 at the Tokyo Stocks Exchange on Oct. 8, 2009.

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Uniqlo operator logs record sales, operating profit in FY 2009

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai, president of Fast Retailing Co., briefs reporters on the company's group earnings report for the business year through Aug. 31 at the Tokyo Stocks Exchange on Oct. 8, 2009.

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Uniqlo operator aims to increase sales to 5 tril. yen by 2020

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai, president of Fast Retailing Co., the operator of the Uniqlo casual clothing chain, briefs reporters on the company's business plan in Tokyo on Sept. 2. Yanai said the company is aiming to increase group sales around seven-fold to 5 trillion yen by 2020 through an expansion of global operations.

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Fast Retailing holds ceremony for new recruits

Tadashi Yanai, chairman and president of Uniqlo casual wear chain operator Fast Retailing Co., addresses an initiation ceremony for new recruits in Tokyo on March 2, 2016, prior to the start of fiscal 2016 on April 1. A record high of about 1,000 new recruits, including some 30 foreign nationals, will join the domestic Fast Retailing group in the new fiscal year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fast Retailing holds ceremony for new recruits

New recruits of Uniqlo casual wear chain operator Fast Retailing Co. attend an initiation ceremony for them in Tokyo on March 2, 2016, prior to the start of fiscal 2016 on April 1. A record high of about 1,000 new recruits, including some 30 foreign nationals, will join the domestic Fast Retailing group in the new fiscal year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fast Retailing logs record net profit on strong Asian sales

Fast Retailing Co. President and Chief Executive Officer Tadashi Yanai releases the company's earnings for the business year through August at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2015. The operator of the Uniqlo casual clothing chain posted a record group net profit of 110.03 billion yen ($918 million) for the year, lifted by a robust performance in Asia, with Yanai saying his company is seeing "no impact at all" from China's economic slowdown. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CEO of Fast Retailing's China unit speaks to Kyodo News

Pan Ning, executive vice president of Japan's Fast Retailing Group, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2014. Pan runs the group's Chinese operations of the Uniqlo casual wear store chain. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fast Retailing, Grameen Bank to set up social joint venture

TOKYO, Japan - Muhammad Yunus (L), the head of the Grameen Bank Group of Bangladesh, and Tadashi Yanai, chairman and president of Fast Retailing Co., the operator of the Uniqlo clothing chain, shake hands during a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on July 13, 2010. Yunus and Yanai announced an agreement to set up a joint venture, tentatively named Grameen Uniqlo Ltd., in Dhaka. Yunus, the founder of the microfinance organization, and the bank were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. (Kyodo)

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Fast Retailing's group net profit halves on strong yen

Tadashi Yanai, president and chief executive officer of Fast Retailing Co., the operator of Uniqlo casual clothing stores, briefs reporters on the company's group financial results for the business year through August during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 13, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Uniqlo operator logs record sales, operating profit in FY 2009

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai, president of Fast Retailing Co., briefs reporters on the company's group earnings report for the business year through Aug. 31 at the Tokyo Stocks Exchange on Oct. 8, 2009. (Kyodo)

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Uniqlo operator logs record sales, operating profit in FY 2009

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai, president of Fast Retailing Co., briefs reporters on the company's group earnings report for the business year through Aug. 31 at the Tokyo Stocks Exchange on Oct. 8, 2009. (Kyodo)

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Uniqlo operator aims to increase sales to 5 tril. yen by 2020

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai, president of Fast Retailing Co., the operator of the Uniqlo casual clothing chain, briefs reporters on the company's business plan in Tokyo on Sept. 2. Yanai said the company is aiming to increase group sales around seven-fold to 5 trillion yen by 2020 through an expansion of global operations. (Kyodo)