UNIQLO Opens at Guildford Town Centre, 10:00 am Friday, March 9

CF Richmond Centre Opens at a Later Date in Spring 2018

TORONTO, Jan. 24, 2018 /CNW/ -  UNIQLO, the global casual apparel retailer, today announces its newest locations in British Columbia. UNIQLO Guildford Town Centre location, with a total sales floor of 12,800 square feet, located on the second floor of the shopping mall, opens at 10:00 am Friday, March 9. UNIQLO CF Richmond Centre, featuring a total sales floor of 8,010 square feet and located on the first floor, opens at a later date in spring 2018.

"The launch of two additional UNIQLO stores in British Columbia is very exciting for us," said Yasuhiro Hayashi, Chief Operating Officer of UNIQLO Canada. "We opened our first store in the Greater Vancouver Area last fall and we received great demand from customers for more stores. This newest expansion demonstrates our commitment to bring LifeWear to more Canadians on the West Coast." He added, "We wish to thank all our existing customers for their warm reception, and we look forward to welcoming them to our new UNIQLO stores and showing them how LifeWear is thoughtfully created to make everyday life better and more comfortable."

Recognized for its innovative functional apparel and high-quality wardrobe staples, UNIQLO focuses on providing clothing made for everyone, everywhere. Product offerings at both stores will include the brand's signature core collections for men, women and kids including AIRism, BLOCKTECH, Ultra Light Down, along with premium Jeans and UT. Together these make up LifeWear – innovative, high-quality clothing that is universal in design and comfort, and meets the needs of everyone's daily lifestyles.

Since opening its first store in Japan in 1984, UNIQLO has grown to become an international leader with over 1,900 stores worldwide. UNIQLO currently has three stores in Canada including: CF Toronto Eaton Centre, Yorkdale Shopping Centre and Metropolis at Metrotown. Customers and fans are invited to share their excitement about the new stores via the company's Canadian social media channels including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using #UniqloCanada.

■UNIQLO Guildford Town Centre

Opening date	Friday, March 9, 2018
Address	10355 152 St, Surrey, British Columbia, V3R 7C1
Hours	Monday to Saturday: 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. Sunday 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Sales floor	Approximately 12,800 square feet

■UNIQLO CF Richmond Centre

Opening	Spring 2018
Address	6551 No 3 Road, Richmond, British Columbia, V6Y 2B6
Sales floor	Approximately 8,010 square feet

About UNIQLO LifeWear
Apparel that comes from the Japanese values of simplicity, quality and longevity. Designed to be of the time and for the time, LifeWear is made with such modern elegance that it becomes the building blocks of each individual's style. A perfect shirt that is always being made more perfect. The simplest design hiding the most thoughtful and modern details. The best in fit and fabric made to be affordable and accessible to all. LifeWear is clothing that is constantly being innovated, bringing more warmth, more lightness, better design, and better comfort to people's lives.

About UNIQLO and Fast Retailing
UNIQLO is a brand of Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., a leading global Japanese retail holding company that designs, manufactures and sells clothing under seven main brands: Comptoir des Cotonniers, GU, Helmut Lang, J Brand, Princesse tam.tam, Theory, and UNIQLO. With global sales of approximately 1.8619 trillion yen for the 2017 fiscal year ending August 31, 2017 (US $16.87 billion, calculated in yen using the end of August 2017 rate of $1 = 110.4 yen), Fast Retailing is one of the world's largest apparel retail companies, and UNIQLO is Japan's leading specialty retailer.

UNIQLO continues to open large-scale stores in some of the world's most important cities and locations, as part of its ongoing efforts to solidify its status as a truly global brand. Today the company has more than 1,900 stores in 19 markets worldwide including Japan, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, U.K. and the U.S. In addition, Grameen UNIQLO, a social business established in Bangladesh in September 2010, currently operates several Grameen UNIQLO stores in Dhaka. UNIQLO manages an integrated business model under which it designs, manufactures, markets and sells high-quality, casual apparel. The company believes that truly great clothes should be supremely comfortable, feature universal designs, are of high quality and offer a superb fit to everyone who wears them.

With a corporate statement committed to changing clothes, changing conventional wisdom and change the world, Fast Retailing is dedicated to creating great clothing with new and unique value to enrich the lives of people everywhere. For more information about UNIQLO and Fast Retailing, please visit www.uniqlo.com and www.fastretailing.com.

SOURCE UNIQLO Canada

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