Biography of Tadashi Yana, a wealthy Japanese philanthropist

Tadashi Yanai

The fashion industry has been able to occupy a good position in the world economy in the last few years. One of these people is Tadashi Yanai, who owns the clothing company Unique or Uniqlo.

An abstract of Tadashi Yanai's biography:

Full name: Tadashi Yanai

Date of birth: February 7, 1949

Place of birth: Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture

Profession: activity in the field of clothing; The owner of Fast Retailing clothing retail stores and Unique clothing company or Uniqlo

Nationality: Japanese

Wealth: 29.8 billion dollars

Biography of Tadashi Yanai

Biography of Tadashi Yanai:

Tadashi Yanai was born on February 7, 1949 in Obe, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. His father was a tailor and a year after Tadashi's birth, he opened a small men's clothing store in the city, selling clothes that his father sewed.

Tadashi lived with his family on the top floor of the same clothing store. After completing his high school years in one of the schools in the city, he entered Vazda University to continue his education. In 1971, he received his bachelor's degree in economics and political science and gradually entered the business world.

After receiving his degree in the same year, he started selling cooking clothes and men's clothes in one of the stores in the city, but after a year of this work, he went to his father's shop and decided to help him.

At the age of 35, after working with his father for ten years, he was able to open his first clothing store in Hiroshima, on the other hand, in 1991, Tadashi changed the name of his father's store to Fast Retailing Company. This company was able to quickly become one of the biggest clothing brands in the world.

Tadashi Yanai is the owner of the largest retail stores

Tadashi describes his business as follows:

“I learned that people don't buy anything from an unknown store! This is the secret of my success!”

Successive successes of Tadashi Yanai:

With the expansion of Yanai's business, within three years, until 1995, he was able to set up about 100 clothing chain stores in Japan. Tadashi named these stores Fast Retail in honor of his father. He owns one of the largest retail stores in the world, but despite being 68 years old, he still sneaks into his stores, it is said that few people can recognize him.

Tadashi Yanai is also the owner of Uniqlo, which has about 1,000 stores across Japan and 700 stores in other parts of the world, although he opens a new branch every week.

About Uniqlo clothing company; The London Telegraph newspaper says: “Uniqlo has 10 branches in London alone. For those who want to dress consciously in modern life, this company produces and offers different types of simple clothes including cashmere, silk and linen. “Selling these clothes for this company is as easy as drinking water and like selling candy to children.”

This is a sign of the power of human will and belief, which was able to spread the name of a tailor boy all over the world and in stores.

Tadashi Yanai; Owner of Uniqlo

Tadashi Yanai, Japanese billionaire:

In 2010, Tadashi Yanai won the International Retail Award, he is the fourth Japanese man and the first since 1998 to receive this award. In 2008 and 2009, Tadashi was selected as the best CEO of the year in Japan by Sano Management Association.

In 2012, he entered the list of the top 50 richest people in the world for the first time, and this matter was published in Bloomberg magazine. He is also actively involved in charity affairs.

Along with the great wealth that this man has, his moral characteristics have also grown and reached their maturity. At the beginning of 2011, Yanai donated 1 billion Japanese yen, which is equivalent to 100 million dollars; He took responsibility for helping people affected by the Japanese tsunami.

Tadashi Yanai among the rich

He is very fond of playing golf and in recent years; He has bought two golf courses in Hawaii. With the beginning of the new century, a new era for Yanai's business began, because his stores became global, so that in recent years, 20 countries of the world, including the United States, Canada, England, France, Germany, Australia, Korea and China have witnessed The establishment of this man's stores were good, of course, the situation was not always good for Yana, he also experienced failures on his way.

At the beginning of the new century, Yanai had to close 16 of his stores in London to prevent losses, as a result of which the business that he had just started in the food industry also failed.

At the beginning of 2016, citing the warm winter, the sales of Uniqlo companies reached their lowest level, so that the shares of this company decreased by 6.7% within 24 hours, a loss equal to 1.4 billion dollars in a maximum amount of loss. It was for a person in the last few years.

Despite all these problems, this famous rich man has a lot of plans in his head, he planned to become the largest grocery company in the world by 2020, perhaps the reason for all his progress can be summed up in this sentence:

“Maybe many people think I am a successful person, but I have made many mistakes! People take their mistakes very seriously! The problem is that you have to think positively and believe that next time success will be yours.”

Tadashi Yanai in a meeting with the President of India

Tadashi Yanai's wealth:

As mentioned, the name of Tadashi Yanai entered the list of the world's 50 richest people in 2012 and was published by Bloomberg Markets magazine. He is known as the richest person in Japan, the chairman and largest shareholder of Fast Retailing and the largest clothing retailer in Asia.

On August 31, 2017, it was reported that; Uniqlo Tokyo Group has about 1,000 stores with an income of 1.9 trillion yen, equivalent to 16.9 billion dollars.

Yanai also owns two golf courses on the Hawaiian island of Muni, but the majority of his wealth comes from a 46 percent stake in retail sales. According to Fast Retailing, updated in April 2018; Yanai owns its shares directly and through selected companies.

He also has shares owned by his wife and two children, indicating his status as the founder and president of the company. According to Yanai's website; Fast Retail is the largest clothing retailer in Asia with more than 1,000 stores.

Tadashi Yanai in one of his stores

Yanai also has many residential properties, such that it has 16,586 square meters in more than two hectares of non-Tokyo forests.

According to Kenta Morishima; The property, which is surrounded by two-story walls and includes a garage, driving range and a wooden terrace with a cool roof, was valued at ¥6 billion (US$50 million) in 2017.

The land was bought by Yanai in 2000 for $78 million at an auction, according to the website of Japanese real estate broker Central Properties.

In 2009, according to the report provided by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission; For fiscal year 2009, Yanai spent $50 million to purchase the Kapalua Temple Golf Course in Hawaii from Maaui Land & Pineapple. According to the report provided by the SEC in 2010; Kapalua sold Kapalua Bay for $1.24 million, said Zeman.

Japanese rich Tadashi Yanai

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