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Living
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Muji reopen largest store outside Asia

Muji Canada is reopening its original Toronto location next week as its first flagship store in the country’s east. The Muji Atrium opened four years ago as the company’s first location in Canada. While the previous store occupied 5658sqft of retail space,…

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Living
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Giant Muji Ginza flagship plan revealed

Japanese anti-brand retailer Muji will open a new global concept store in Tokyo’s Ginza district next April. Besides a seven-storey Muji Ginza retail store, the company will open a Muji Hotel, a gallery and community space and a Muji-branded Diner on the…

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Living
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Muji parent posts new profit record

Muji parent Ryohin Keikaku has revealed another record quarter in both sales and operating profit. In the three months to May, Muji achieved group-wide sales of 106.5 billion yen (US$963.5 million), up 9.7 per cent year on year. Its net profit reached 9.5…

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Real Estate
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Japan’s Ryohin Keikaku opens second Muji Hotel in Beijing

Japan’s Muji hotel & store has just opened in Beijing in a key location overlooking Tiananmen Square. The hotel’s first basement-level retail store sells travel essentials and everyday items, many of which feature in the guest room amenities. Designed as an…

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E-Tailing
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Muji opens flagship store on JD.com

Muji will launch an online flagship store on JD.com, and promote the partnership with posters in 231 of its stores throughout China, it announced. This will make it easier for online Chinese consumers to find and purchase Muji’s full range of Japanese product…

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General
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How Muji can resist in a world of brands

In an era when branding has never seemed so important, the enduring success of Japan’s Muji might seem perplexing to many retailers. Almost every day fashion houses reveal new collaborations – often with unlikely bedfellows, like Louis Vuitton and Supreme or…

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General
2 min read

Massive Muji fresh store opens in Osaka

Japanese anti-brand retailer Muji has opened a massive 4300sqm store in Osaka featuring its first dedicated fresh department. While the company has offered dried foods, snacks and other foods since it was founded in 1980, and even shelf-stable vegetables in…

Muji fresh store Osaka cafe
Food
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Muji fresh store launched in Osaka

Japanese anti-brand retailer Muji has opened a massive 4300sqm store in Osaka featuring its first dedicated fresh department. While the company has offered dried foods, snacks and other foods since it was founded in 1980, and even shelf-stable vegetables in…

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Living
1 min read

The Biggest MUJI Flagship Store in Korea Opens

Muji Korea has opened its largest store in Seoul’s Seodaemun district. Called Muji Sinchon, the five-storey store offers new items and services, including Open Muji, Sinchon to Go, a cafe and a books department. On first floor, Sinchon to Go shares…

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E-Tailing
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Protest arise after JD.com launches house brand Jing Zao

Clashing head-on with manufacturers who sell through its platform, China’s JD.com has introduced its own brand, Jing Zao. Its initial 38 products range from towels to suitcases in similar style to Japan’s Muji or US luggage maker Samsonite, but at a lower…

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Real Estate
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MUJI Moves Into Hospitality With New MUJI Hotel and Restaurant

Wood-lined bedrooms, a minimal diner, a library and a shop feature in the Muji Hotel in Shenzhen, which opens next week. In the Futian district, it is the first hospitality project initiated by the Japanese retailer, known for its minimalist homeware…

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E-Tailing
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Muji Singapore to suspend e-commerce site

Lifestyle retailer Muji Singapore will close its e-commerce site a minute before midnight on Christmas Day for redevelopment. “We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused,” the company says in a newsletter to its customers. “This move is for us to set…

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Fashion
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Muji expansion in Thailand at Siam Discovery in Bangkok

Muji Thailand has opened another store in Bangkok, its second in little more than a month. On Wednesday, Muji opened its doors in the Siam Discovery shopping centre. Yuki Yamamoto, director and GM of Muji’s parent Ryohin Keikaku Co and Naratipe Ruttapradid,…

MUJI at Siam Discovery
Fashion
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New opening of MUJI at Siam Discovery

Mr. Yuki Yamamoto, Director and General Manager, Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd. along with Miss Naratipe Ruttapradid, Senior Executive Vice President Operations Division at Siam Piwat Co., Ltd. opened the new ‘MUJI’ store at 2nd Floor, Siam Discovery. New opening…

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Fashion
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Muji Thailand opens CentralWorld flagship

After a decade in Bangkok, Muji Thailand has opened a flagship store at CentralWorld. Covering 1000sqm, it is the Japanese brand’s biggest outlet in Bangkok, offering for the first time clothing lines like Found Muji, which borrows materials and techniques…

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General
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Muji Japan adds groceries, mini-house to flagship

In a redesign, housewares company Muji Japan has added groceries and even a miniature house to its global flagship store in Tokyo. It draws its inspiration from the core necessities of survival: food, shelter, clothing and food, reports Curbed.com. “Among the…