UNIQLO
666 Fifth Avenue
In May 1984, they opened a unisex casual wear store in Fukuro-machi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima under the name "Unique Clothing Warehouse".[citation needed] Initially, from the contraction of "unique clothing", the brand was going to register under "uni-clo".[citation needed] However, in 1988, during administration work between Hong Kong in relation to the brand, staff in charge of registration misread the "C" as "Q", and that is how the brand name was born.[citation needed] From then, Tadashi Yanai changed the store name to "uniqlo" across Japan.[3] In September 1991, the name of the company was changed from "Ogori Shōji" to "Fast Retailing", and by April 1994, there were over 100 Uniqlo stores operating throughout Japan.[citation needed]