Biography & Early Wealth Journey

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The development placed a ding in Yanai's personal net worth, but it also represented a pump of the brakes for his lofty ambitions for his company. Yanai has said publicly that by 2020, Uniqlo will be a bigger success than rivals like H&M and Zara, while also promising to keep the company's rigorous ethical standards in place. Hopefully for Yanai and his company's sake, this is just a brief bump on his road to triumph, and not a sign of things to come for the economic future of Fast Retailing and Japan in general.