May 2, 2026, Tokyo – UNIQLO has been included for the first time on the ‘TIME100 Most Influential Companies’ list, which highlights companies making an extraordinary impact around the world. In this list, UNIQLO was named in the “Leaders” category, reflecting its growing global recognition and unique LifeWear clothing concept.
In its commentary, TIME noted that UNIQLO’s strength is in simplicity, observing how the brand stands out due to its ability to offer high-tech, well-designed everyday clothing to customers worldwide at reasonable prices.
Additionally, earlier in the week, UNIQLO was also recognized among 200 companies on the ‘TIME100 Companies: Industry Leaders 2026’ list, ranked as one of the world’s top ten most influential fashion and beauty companies.
Together, these recognitions reinforce UNIQLO’s growing global resonance, as more customers around the world discover, appreciate, and embrace LifeWear – simple, high-quality, everyday clothing designed to make everyone’s life better.
To assemble its lists, TIME solicited nominations across sectors, and polled its global network of contributors and correspondents, as well as outside experts. Then TIME editors evaluated each on key factors, including impact, innovation, ambition, and success.
Read the full TIME100 Most Influential Companies list here, as well as the 2026 Industry Leaders list here.
About UNIQLO LifeWear
LifeWear is clothing that is made for all, designed to make everyone’s life better. It is simple, high quality, everyday clothing with a practical sense of beauty – ingenious in detail, thought through with life’s needs in mind, timeless in style, and always evolving.
About UNIQLO and Fast Retailing
UNIQLO is a brand of Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., a leading Japanese retail holding company with global headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. UNIQLO is the largest of eight brands in the Fast Retailing Group, the others being GU, Theory, PLST, Comptoir des Cotonniers, Princesse tam.tam, J Brand and Helmut Lang. 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. The total number of stores across Fast Retailing’s brands is now over 3,500.
With a corporate statement committed to changing clothes, changing conventional wisdom and change the world, Fast Retailing is dedicated to creating great clothing with new and unique value to enrich the lives of people everywhere. For more information about UNIQLO and Fast Retailing, please visit www.uniqlo.com and www.fastretailing.com.
