Tadashi Yanai, Uniqlo CEO, profile

Tadashi Yanai, founder of clothing retailer Uniqlo and Japan’s richest person with a net worth of $47.1 billion, turned his family’s small store into a global fashion empire. Uniqlo’s parent company Fast Retailing, which he also built, now has a market capitalization of 16.09 trillion yen (US$106 billion) and rakes in trillions of yen in annual sales. For Yanai, the complexities of retail were innate even as a young boy – deeply ingrained learnings from a childhood spent working in the men’s clothing store owned by his father in the small town of Ube. Read more at Industry Leaders Magazine.