Uniqlo to Enter Denmark in Spring 2019
TOKYO — Uniqlo, the Japanese cut-priced fashion brand, announced Tuesday that it will open its first store in Denmark next spring. It will be located in Copenhagen city center.
The news follows earlier announcements this year that Uniqlo will also be launching in Sweden and the Netherlands this fall. Denmark will become the retailer’s ninth market in Europe. Uniqlo will also be entering the Indian market in the fall of 2019. Tadashi Yanai, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Fast Retailing, Uniqlo’s parent company, has said that his aim is to become the world’s number-one clothing retailer.
The first Uniqlo store in Copenhagen will be situated on the Strøget, one of Europe’s longest pedestrian avenues, in a historic building called Louises Hus, which dates back to the 1700s. The 15,000-square-foot store will occupy three levels in a part of the building that once housed a dress shop in the 1840s run by clothier Louise Christine Rasmussen, who later married Denmark’s King Fredrick VII. Both the façade and the interior of the store will feature elements from the building’s original classic style of architecture.
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