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Fast Retailing Needs to Slow Down and Focus on Profit

Limei Hoang

14 October 2016

"The Fast Retailing chairman has said he wants to make the owner of Uniqlo the world's biggest seller of clothing. Now that he's admitted that's not going to be achievable, how's he going to cope with an era of lower growth?"

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Fast Retailing

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Tokyo, Japan

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