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Largest Clothing & Accessories Public Companies in Japan
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
Fast Retailing, ASICS, Ryohin Keikaku, Shimamura and Seiko Group.
 | Fast Retailing is Japan's largest apparel company. It operates casualwear retail chain Uniqlo, known for its high-quality functional apparel at reasonable prices. Fast Retailing is in charge of product design and sales and outsources almost all of its production to factories in places including China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and India. It is ranked the second-largest apparel company by sales globally in 2024 per Euromonitor, thanks to the expansion of Uniqlo International. As of February 2025, it ran 3,616 stores globally. Other brands in its portfolio include GU and acquired brands like Theory, Comptoir des Cotonniers, and Princesse tam.tam. The Yanai family owned a 40.86% stake in the firm as of July 2025. | $505 | +62% | $155B | $145B | 6.5x | 26.2x | ||
| Founded in 1949 in Kobe, Japan, Asics is a leading sports footwear brand specializing in performance running shoes. Asics is well-known for its stability running shoe Gel-Kayano, which has been popular among runners for over 30 years thanks to its cushioning technology. It also owns Onitsuka Tiger, which is currently positioned as a premium sportswear lifestyle brand. In 2025, Asics had annual sales of over JPY 810 billion and command over 10% of the global performance running market share. | $30 | +29% | $21B | $21B | 4.0x | 19.4x | ||
| Ryohin Keikaku Co Ltd operates as a retailer of household and consumer products under the MUJI and IDEE brands. The company conducts its business through four segments: Domestic Business, East Asia Business, Southeast Asia and Oceania Business, and Europe and America Business. The Domestic Business covers product sales in stores and online in Japan, along with procurement and logistics, while the overseas segments engage in product and food-related operations across their respective regions. | $23 | +6% | $12B | $12B | 2.3x | 17.2x | ||
| Shimamura Co Ltd is a Japanese apparel retailer. It is engaged in the retail sale of apparel and daily goods. The company operates both domestically and internationally, offering clothing and related products through its network of stores. It conducts business under two reportable segments: Japan and Overseas, with each segment managing sales and operations in its respective regions. | $20 | -5% | $4B | $3B | 0.6x | 6.1x | ||
| Seiko Group Corp is a Japanese manufacturer of watches and electronic devices. The company organizes itself into four segments, based on product type: watches, electronic devices, systems solutions, and others. The watches business, which contributes more than half of the company's revenue, manufactures men's and ladies' fashion watches. The electronic devices business, the next most significant contributor to revenue, produces components such as semiconductors, camera shutters, inkjet print heads, thermal printers, micro-batteries, and radiation-measuring equipment. Combined sales in the watches and electronic devices segments constitute the vast majority of consolidated revenue. The company derives approximately half its revenue domestically. | $47 | +69% | $4B | $4B | 2.2x | 18.5x | ||
| Citizen Watch Co Ltd is a company whose main business is to manufacture and sell watches, machine tools, electronic devices, and electronic products. The Company has four reportable segments which includes Watches Business, Machine Tools Business, Device Business, and Electronic Equipment and Other Business. It generates majority of the revenue from Watches Business segment. | $14 | +169% | $4B | $3B | 1.7x | 12.0x | ||
| Goldwin Inc is involved in the business of manufacturing and selling sports products in Japan. It sells brands such as Goldwin, C3fit, Mxp, Speedo, Ellesse, Danskin, Canterbury, Black and white sport, the North Face, Helly Hansen, Macpac, Alite, Icebreaker, and Fischer. | $13 | -23% | $2B | $1B | 1.8x | 7.2x | ||
| PAL Group Holdings Co Ltd is a holding company with subsidiaries that are manufacturers and retailers of women's clothing, men's clothing, and miscellaneous goods. The company's stores operate under dozens of brands, including Asoko, Beardsley, Capricieux Lemage, Chez toi, Ciaopanic, Colle, Discoat, Daily Russet, Dou Dou, CPCM, Lattice, Kastane, Mystic, 3 Coins, Who's Who, Goocy, Live Tart, Prose Verse, Loungedress, Omekashi, and Recette. PAL Group's brands have stores located in Japan and offer on-line ordering. | $9 | -25% | $1B | $1B | 0.7x | 5.4x | ||
| Wacoal Holdings Corp primarily manufactures and sells women's intimate apparel under the Wacoal brand. Roughly three fourths of its sales are from women's foundation garments and lingerie, which includes brassieres, girdles, slips, and women's briefs. Other innerwear includes nightwear, hosiery, and children's underwear. Remaining sales consist of outerwear and sportswear, textile products, and nonapparel businesses. Wacoal sells most of its apparel wholesale to department stores and other retailers. Less than a fourth of its apparel sales are direct to the customer via its retail stores, catalog sales, and internet orders. The vast majority of Wacoal's sales are in Japan. It also has sales in China, Europe, and the United States. | $29 | -7% | $1B | $1B | 1.2x | 11.4x | ||
| JINS Holdings Inc is an eye wear retailer that manufactures and sells private-label fashion eyeglasses and sunglasses. It offers prescription eyeglasses and nonprescription fashion or functional eyeglasses. Its inventory is on the shelves, and it charges flat rates with generally no additional charges or options for lens features. Jin has more than 300 stores in Japan as well as locations in China, Taiwan, and the United States. Stores are typically located in high-traffic areas such as shopping centers, malls, and train stations. | $51 | -- | $1B | $1B | 1.8x | 11.8x | ||
| YONDOSHI HOLDINGS INC. is a fashion company with four subsidiaries that the company reports in two segments. The jewelry segment accounts of the company's sales and mainly consists of the FDC Products Group, a specialty jewelry retailer that sells the company's brand. The apparel segment, which contains AS'TY, a manufacturer and wholesaler of apparel and bags; Misuzu, a specialty retailer selling private-label apparel; and Age Co., a specialty retailer of fashion items through its Palette stores and the majority of its revenue generated from apparel segment. The vast majority of the company's sales are in Japan. | $11 | -- | $242M | $315M | 0.7x | 9.5x | ||
| Honeys Holdings Co Ltd is a Japan-based company, engages in the planning, manufacturing, and selling of women's clothing and fashion accessories The company offers its products under the brands named CINEMA CLUB, GLACIER, COLZA and Comfort Basic through specialty retail stores located in suburban shopping malls and station buildings, as well as online shopping site. | $8 | -14% | $236M | $146M | 0.4x | 3.2x | ||
| Daidoh Ltd engages in the manufacture and sale of traditional woolen fabrics and clothing. It operates through the following business divisions: Clothing Business, and Real Estate and Leasing Business. The Clothing Business division sells and manufactures men's and women's apparel mainly to the general consumer market. The Real Estate and Leasing Business division handles leasing of real estate properties such as shopping center stores and office buildings. | $5 | -- | $131M | $169M | 0.9x | (14.2x) | ||
| Look Holdings Inc is a Japan-based company, engages in the planning and manufacture of women's clothing. The company offers its products under the Alice and Olivia, A.P.C., BENSIMON, IL BISONTE, DENHAM, filage, KORET, LAISSE PASSE, Marimekko, Repetto, SCAPA, Vera Bradley, and KEITH brands. The company sells its products through its physical and online stores. It caters its products in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and China. | $16 | -- | $124M | $125M | 0.4x | 4.2x | ||
| K-uno Co Ltd is engaged in the Manufacturing and sales of jewelry and watches, custom-made products, remodeling, and repairs. | $9 | +5% | $10M | $16M | 0.3x | 15.5x | ||
| Median | $16 | +5% | $1B | $1B | 1.2x | 11.4x |
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