UNIQLO Has The History Of The First Female CEO, The Goal Of Improving Female Executives.

Japan is fast fashion Fast Retailing, the parent company of Uniqlo, recently announced the appointment of Akai Tamaki, the senior vice president of the group (Maki Akaida), as the CEO of UNIQLO Japan, the first female CEO in UNIQLO history.

The 40 year old Maki Akaida joined UNIQLO in 2001 and worked in UNIQLO store in Tokyo Ginza block, Shanghai, Japan and Niigata Prefecture, Japan. As a manager of UNIQLO store, she successfully built Tokyo's auspicious Temple store into one of the most popular UNIQLO stores in Japan. Its management ability was appreciated by the group, and then stepped into management. UNIQLO is facing challenges in Japan. By the end of February 28, 2019, the sales of Japan's local market in UNIQLO fell 0.5% to 491 billion 300 million yen, and operating profit fell 23.7% to 67 billion 700 million yen.

The number of new stores in the local market of UNIQLO is less than the number of closed ones. Tadashi Yanai, group chairman, has said that it will make strategic adjustments to the stores in the Japanese market in the future. "We need to think more about closing and refurbishment than opening stores. From now on, we can't keep those stores that have no reason to exist. We must think about what they can provide for customers and whether they have real functions. If the function of a physical store can be replaced by the electricity supplier, then we will switch to the electricity supplier. Of course, clothes only try to know whether size, color and material are good, so we will adopt a new business form combining online and offline. (see "ornate ambition": Sales and profits of XXX group 2019 in the first half fiscal year are all high, and Mainland China market maintains more than 20% growth).

Meanwhile, UNIQLO is stepping up its overseas expansion. The first Italy store will open in Milan, Piazza Cordusio, in September 13th of this year.

Maki Akaida is the third chief executive officer of UNIQLO Japan after the founder, President and CEO Ryui Masa of Xun marketing group. It is also the first female CEO in UNIQLO Japan. This time she replaced Takao Kuwahara, executive vice president of fast marketing group. He replaced Liu well as CEO of UNIQLO in autumn last year. Sanhara Naoro,

The fast marketing group is opening more management positions to women. The special office has been spanferred from the human resource department to the direct management of the president. The office will be managed by Mari Kogiso from this month. Mari Kogiso was previously the director of gender investment and innovation division (Gender Investment & Innovation Department), Japan's Sasakawa Peace Foundation.

It turned out that the banker's Mari Kogiso focused on environmental protection, social welfare and corporate governance, and was responsible for the establishment of Sasakawa Peace Foundation in 2017, which manages the Asian women's influence Fund (Asia Women Impact Fund) with us $100 million. Mari Kogiso is currently committed to creating jobs for women and reducing the gender gap.

By the end of fiscal year 2018, the proportion of management women in fast selling group was 36%, which exceeded the 30% target set by the Japanese government in 2030. But this proportion is still some distance from Ryui Masa's "50% and above".

Japan launched its 30% Club campaign since May 1st this year, with the aim of reaching 10% by the end of 2020, and rising to 30% at the end of 2030. By 2017, the proportion of female executives in Japan's Top100 company, including auditors and corporate executives, was only 6.5%.

By April 24th, leaders of 32 Japanese companies and institutions including Shiseido group (Shiseido) and University of Tokyo signed a 30% Club commitment.