Japan’s Fast Retailing Group brand Uniqlo is stepping up its efforts to “poach” people from other international fast-moving clothing brands and has successively appointed foreigners as managers of foreign branches.
Uniqlo announced in January that it had successfully poached four employees from H&M, GAP, Walmart and other companies. Leon Niles, the former chief designer of the American Eagle brand, has now become the chief designer of Uniqlo, responsible for design coordination. In the international market department, Jurgen Anderson, the former CEO of H&M Switzerland, became the top leader of the group at the same level as Nobuo Donmae, the executive director of Uniqlo Group.
Uniqlo Chief Financial Officer Takeshi Okazaki said, “Uniqlo has established a system to attract foreign management talents to join us, work with us to carry out business activities and manage the company.” It can be seen from Takeshi Okazaki’s talk that “hunting “Management experts in all aspects are one of UNIQLO’s recruitment policies.
