14 February 2023, Mumbai
Uniqlo is opening a highway store in India. This will be in Punjab.
The highway store format – which is a standalone store located alongside a highway – is new for Uniqlo in India and further accelerates the company’s expansion in the country.
The store, spread across one floor and having a total sales floor area of 10,965 sqft, is the largest Uniqlo sales area on a single floor in India. It will open in April 2023.
This roadside-type store is popular in Japan. The highway format has played a crucial role in Uniqlo’s growth throughout Japan, and the model has also been very successful outside Japan, including in Korea, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. The highway store format is aimed at bringing convenience to the community and serving as a perfect one-stop destination and is carefully designed to ensure enough space and accessibility for all.
Further, this launch also supports Uniqlo’s underlying commitment to the Indian market and to make highly functional, quality apparel accessible to more customers. With this highway store Uniqlo, a Japanese retailer, will have ten stores in India.
Uniqlo has more than 12,000 products online and services 17,000 pincodes in India. Just about everything that is launched in Japan finds its way to the Indian market.
