Rank #30
Tadashi Yanai & family
Net worth $66.9B
Fashion retail · Japan
- Born
- Feb 07, 1949
- Age
- 77
- Source
- Fashion retail
- Residence
- Tokyo
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Waseda University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Tadashi Yanai built and runs Tokyo-listed retail clothing empire Fast Retailing, parent of the Uniqlo chain.
- Fast Retailing's other brands include Theory, Helmut Lang, J Brand and GU.
- The company reported net profit of $2.8 billion on revenue of $22 billion for the fiscal year ended August 2025.
- Flagship brand Uniqlo has nearly 2,500 stores across 25 countries.
- Yanai wants his company to become the world's largest retailer, which means it would have to surpass H&M and Inditex (parent of Zara).
- Yanai resigned as an independent director from the board of SoftBank Group after 18 years, in 2019.
- Yanai grew up living above his parents' clothing store in a small town in Yamaguchi Prefecture in southwestern Japan.
- Yanai has declared English as the company language at Fast Retailing.
- He got the Malcolm S. Forbes Lifetime Achievement Award at the 23rd Forbes Global CEO Conference in Jakarta in October 2025.
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