Creating a True LifeWear Destination to Local and Global Visitors
January 18, 2024, Kuala Lumpur – Global apparel retailer UNIQLO today celebrated the grand opening of its latest store at The Exchange TRX in Kuala Lumpur. This newly unveiled UNIQLO outlet proudly stands as the largest store in Malaysia, offering an extensive array of UNIQLO products and services to local patrons and tourists.
Spanning across 38,719 square feet, UNIQLO The Exchange TRX stands as the pinnacle of UNIQLO’s LifeWear offerings, enhancing the shopping experience for both locals and tourists. Situated strategically in the heart of the city near public transportation facilities, it aims to be an appealing shopping destination for everyone.
The new store opening at The Exchange TRX demonstrates UNIQLO’s commitment to delivering LifeWear, offering comfortable and fashionable apparel to its customers. Featuring three stories, the store showcases a wide range of UNIQLO's high-quality and comfortable LifeWear clothing, including the latest collections for men, women, and children. Customers can anticipate a rich and diverse array of choices, from everyday essentials to the latest trendy and season-specific items.
Yuki Yamada, Group Executive Officer of Fast Retailing and Chief Executive Officer of UNIQLO Malaysia and Singapore, said, “We are thrilled to launch our latest store at The Exchange TRX store. The new store marks a significant milestone in our mission to bring LifeWear closer to the community. Our goal is to create not just a store but a true LifeWear destination, a modern, functional design with sustainability elements that offer a comfortable and inspiring shopping experience for all.”
UNIQLO made its debut in Malaysia in 2010 with its first store in Fahrenheit88. Since then, the brand has received significant popularity through its LifeWear products, establishing 59 stores nationwide.
Exclusive UTme! Designs Collaboration with Local Artist - Shan Shan Lim
To commemorate the opening of UNIQLO The Exchange TRX, the retailer collaborated with local multidisciplinary artist Shan Shan Lim to create UTme! designs. These designs serve as a reminder to connect with the world, while flora illustrations echo UNIQLO’s ongoing commitment to sustainability, inviting customers to explore their reflections.
UNIQLO Coffee
Situated on the Concourse Level, this UNIQLO Coffee offers a convenient selection of drinks and snacks, most of which are common favourites amongst the Malaysian crowd. Providing both takeaways and dine-in options, it invites visitors to relish UNIQLO’s signature coffee blend.
RE.UNIQLO Studio
RE.UNIQLO Studio was launched in November 2022, contributing towards a circular economy through upcycling and the 3Rs: Repair, Reuse, and Recycle.
Located at First Floor, the RE.UNIQLO Studio offers repair services such as embroidery and Sashiko stitching, helping customers extend the life of LifeWear items.
UT and UTme!
The first floor of UNIQLO The Exchange TRX store features a dedicated space for UNIQLO UT T-shirts featuring motifs from pop culture icons that are popular in Malaysia and globally, including KAWS, DISNEY and anime inspired.
The UTme! service enables customers to customise T-shirts and tote bags with their own designs or existing motifs, offering a personalised touch to their fashion.
For more information about UNIQLO, please visit www.uniqlo.com/my.
Overview of UNIQLO The Exchange TRX
Opening: January 19, 2024
Address:
UNIQLO The Exchange TRX
CC – L1, The Exchange TRX, Persiaran TRX,Tun Razak Exchange, 55188 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur
Opening Hours: 10 AM – 10 PM
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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 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 2.77 trillion yen for the 2023 fiscal year ending August 31, 2023 (US $18.92 billion, calculated in yen using the end of August 2023 rate of $1 = 146.2 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 global brand. Today the company has a total of more than 2,400 UNIQLO stores across the world, including Japan, Asia, Europe and North America. The total number of stores across Fast Retailing's brands is now close to 3,600.
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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