Fast Retailing brand UNIQLO has been included for the first time in global brand consultancy Interbrand’s Top 100 Best Global Brands list, one of the world’s most influential brand rankings. UNIQLO entered in the top half of the list, at rank 47, with a brand valuation of $17.7 billion. The announcement follows UNIQLO’s debut earlier in the year in market research agency Kantar’s prestigious BrandZ Global Top 100 ranking, alongside being named Kantar’s ‘Breakthrough Brand’ at its annual Brand Blueprint Awards – confirming its rising recognition and popularity internationally.
Commenting on the announcement, Koji Yanai, Group Senior Executive Officer, Fast Retailing Co. Ltd. said, “We are pleased to be included for the first time in Interbrand’s prestigious Best Global Brands ranking for 2025. This international recognition brings us great joy, as it indicates there are UNIQLO fans around the globe who appreciate LifeWear – simple, high-quality, timeless clothing designed to make everyday life better. We are deeply grateful to our customers everywhere for their continued support of UNIQLO.”
Each year, Interbrand’s ranking analyses the world’s top global brands, evaluating them according to financial performance, international presence, and brand awareness and strength, which takes into account customer loyalty. In this year’s analysis, Interbrand noted that UNIQLO is a brand that is uncompromisingly focused on meeting the needs of its customers, working to continually reaffirm its place in their lives.
The recognition follows UNIQLO’s receipt of the Breakthrough Brand award at the second annual Kantar Brand Blueprint Awards, in June. The award identifies the brand that has achieved rapid growth with the most meaningful differentiation from others, achieving the triple crown of combining “meaning”, “difference” and “salience” on a global scale. In 2025, UNIQLO also debuted on Kantar’s BrandZ Global Top 100 list of the world’s most valuable brands, entering at rank 97.
Recognition in these prestigious global rankings represents the increasing worldwide appeal of UNIQLO’s LifeWear concept of making everyone’s life better through clothing. From its first store opening in Hiroshima, Japan, in 1984, UNIQLO today operates more than 2,500 stores in 26 countries and regions around the globe.
UNIQLO is a brand of Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., a leading Japanese retail holding company with global headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. With global sales of approximately 3.4 trillion yen for the 2025 fiscal year ending August 31, 2025 (US $23.16 billion, calculated in yen using the end of August 2025 rate of $1 = 146.8 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 2,500 UNIQLO stores across the world, including Japan, Asia, Europe and North America.
