UNIQLO Opens its Antwerp Store on 2 October

Exciting promotions and gifts on the opening weekend - Including Sunday Shopping!

October 1, 2015, Antwerp, Belgium - UNIQLO today announces the opening of its Antwerp store on 2 October, at Meir 67-69, its first location in the Benelux. The store offers approximately 1320 square meters of sales floor and features LifeWear apparel for men, women and children. The global retailer from Japan celebrates its arrival in Belgium with special offers, opening gifts and an animated opening ceremony.

Store Specifics
With a total sales floor of approximately 1320 square meters over two levels and a mezzanine, it will be a large-scale UNIQLO store featuring men’s, women’s, and kids’ clothing. Apart from the 2015 Fall/Winter LifeWear collection, the customer will also find collaboration items with apparel brand Lemaire, led by Christophe Lemaire and Sarah-Linh Tran.

Located on the Meir, one of the most visited shopping streets in Belgium, the store’s entrance creates an open, welcoming facade. The window decoration for the opening is a creation of the Antwerp florist and entrepreneur Mark Colle, who features as an UNIQLO ambassador in the people campaign.

A distinctive interior creates a truly unique shopping experience. The Antwerp store will feature vertical color blocking on perimeter walls and high-tech installations, including color-changing stairs, LED tickers, and rotating mannequins. As an authentic Japanese brand, UNIQLO highly values customer service and will offer for example a Same Day Alteration Service on all bottoms, free of charge.

UNIQLO will offer these operating hours over the opening weekend:
Friday, 2 October: 12:00 - 19:00;
Saturday, 3 October: 10:00 - 19:00;
Sunday, 4 October: 12:00 - 18:00;
Regular opening hours from Monday to Saturday: 10:00 - 19:00.

Opening Ceremony
The ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place on Friday, 2 October, from 11:30 with the store opening to the public at 12:00. Enjoy the surprise act of the Taiko Drum group ‘AraUmi Daiko’ and meet our Antwerp ambassadors Bent Van Looy, Helena Eeckeleers, Felix Denayer, Joke De Coninck, Mark Colle, and Francine Martens. From 10:00 to 14:00, Caffènation will serve their famous coffee in front of the store, freshly made by barista Joke De Coninck, who also features in the UNIQLO people campaign.

Opening Offers
For its store opening, UNIQLO will offer free scarfs of 100% cashmere to the first 100 visitors, and a free, limited edition, sustainable canvas tote bag ‘FROM TOKYO TO ANTWERP’ with a minimum purchase of € 50 (while supplies last).

UNIQLO will also feature special opening prices on selected items from Friday 2 October to Saturday 10 October, including Ultra Light Down jackets (men/women) for € 59.90, 100% Merino sweaters (men/women) for € 19.90, Flannel shirts (men/women) for € 19.90, and colored socks, 6 pairs for € 9.90.

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Karin Struys

Press Contact, UPR Corporate

About UNIQLO Belgium

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 1.38 trillion yen for the 2014 fiscal year ending August 31, 2014 (US $13.6 billion, calculated in yen using the annual average exchange rate to the end of August 2014 of $1 = 101.5 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 a total of more than 1,600 stores in 16 markets worldwide including Japan, Australia, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, 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.

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