Japanese global apparel retailer UNIQLO is opening four new stores in the coming season in Canada, including the high profile Union Station in Toronto.
With growing customer affinity for LifeWear, the brand is well- positioned to enter Burlington, Toronto, Quebec City and Montreal before the fall 2025 season, making the brand accessible to even more Canadians, it announced on Tuesday.
Following this wave of new store openings, there will be 33 Canadian locations, it added.
This season, it is set to open its first store in Quebec City, bringing LifeWear to even more customers in Quebec.
Yuya Tanahashi, Chief Operating Officer of UNIQLO in Canada, credits the rapid growth of UNIQLO to its continued community focused approach.
“We are very grateful to our patrons in Canada and look forward to fostering more meaningful relationships with new customers. I am optimistic about our Canadian growth, and we look forward to bringing LifeWear to new markets.”
The new stores opening in Spring/Summer 2025 are as follows:
● Maple View Shopping Centre (Burlington, Ontario)
● Place Ste-Foy (Quebec City, Quebec)
● Galeries d’Anjou (Montréal, Québec)
● Union Station (Toronto, Ontario)
The Union Station UNIQLO store will replace Decathlon, which opened in a 3,500 square foot space in August of 2022.
Jeff Berkowitz of Aurora Realty Consultants represents the brand as broker in Canada, and negotiated the lease deals on behalf of UNIQLO.
“Since opening its first location in Toronto in 2016, the brand has offered a unique guest experience with its innovative lineup of LifeWear—simple, high-quality, everyday clothing thoughtfully crafted with life’s needs in mind and constantly evolving to modern life. Through the lens of innovation, LifeWear is designed to make everyone’s life better,” said the brand.
“The new UNIQLO stores will offer the current lineup of LifeWear apparel for men, women, kids, and babies, seasonal collaborations, and the UT (UNIQLO T-shirt) range of graphic T-shirts and other items. As with elsewhere in the world, the new stores are part of a UNIQLO global business model that seamlessly combines its retail stores’ world-class shopping and service experience with the complementary convenience of its uniqlo.com online store.
“With the success of UNIQLO’s viral products, designer collaborations, and their recent appointment of Clare Waight Keller as Creative Director, the brand has gained global popularity. UNIQLO continues to evolve its world-class retail experience as it opens in new markets and communities throughout Canada.”
UNIQLO has more than 2,500 stores worldwide, including 29 stores in Canada and online at UNIQLO.com. Since opening its first store in Hiroshima in 1984, UNIQLO said it has created apparel that comes from the Japanese values of simplicity, quality, and longevity, featuring universal designs, supreme fit and comfort to improve the daily lives of its customers.
“The brand looks to expand its hiring efforts in each new market by creating a welcoming and inclusive space for all. UNIQLO encourages ambitious leaders to apply for the many opportunities via their career page. Additionally, UNIQLO will be hosting a series of career fairs where individuals can meet support reps and better understand the different roles that make up the organization,” it said.
For more information, visit their career page: https://www.fastretailing.com/employment
UNIQLO is a brand of Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., a leading Japanese retail holding company with global headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. UNIQLO is the largest of eight brands in the Fast Retailing Group, the others being GU, Theory, PLST, Comptoir des Cotonniers, Princesse tam.tam, J Brand and Helmut Lang. With global sales of approximately 3.1 trillion yen for the 2024 fiscal year ending August 31, 2024 (US $21.39 billion, calculated in yen using the end of August 2024 rate of $1 = 144.9 yen), Fast Retailing is one of the world’s largest apparel retail companies, and UNIQLO is Japan’s leading specialty retailer.
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Where will Uniqlo be located in Union Station?
It states in the article that it will occupying the old Decathelon store.
Such an interesting positioning, taking space at Union Station. I’m sure RioCan’s: The Well is hoping this doesn’t encourage more retail to find a legitimate audience where there is so much undeniable traffic and wait-times. It makes perfect sense to bring a multi-category “lifewear” brand to Union Station, just look to the great train station hubs in Europe, whose retail offerings scale both entry to mid-price and luxury alike.
they should bring it to atlantic canada. It would do so well here and i think that it would do well in moncton and halifax.