Isetan Mitsukoshi

Retail Asia27/03/2020

Isetan Mitsukoshi is to close its 26-year-old Ebisu department store next year after failing to turn around mounting losses. The downtown Tokyo store will close in March or April and the company will redeploy all of its staff to other stores. The closure is the latest in a long string for the troubled retailer which […]

Retail Asia16/03/2017

Japanese department store chain Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings has appointed a new CEO as retailers battle to recover from a sharp fall in shopping spend by tourists. In a filing with the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Isetan Mitsukoshi says senior managing executive officer Toshihiko Sugie will become CEO on April 1, replacing Hiroshi Ohnishi, who had been […]

Retail Asia24/11/2016

As part of its aim to have digital strategy as the core of its business, Japanese department store company Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings is preparing to launch an online store. It has started tests leading up to its launch this month of its first online store on Alibaba Group Holding’s Tmall Global. In the first half […]

Retail Asia23/08/2016

A Japanese department store operator has set its eyes on the Philippines to build commercial-residential facilities by 2022. Isetan Philippines will work with Nomura Real Estate Holdings to build properties in Manila. The project is projected to reach approximately $500 million. The developer, a rival of Takashimaya, plans to erect four 40-story condo buildings with […]

Retail Asia05/02/2015

Isetan Mitsukoshi has adopted a new branding positioning – and promises a new in-store concept which will make its debut in Malaysia. In a message to shareholders, CEO Hiroshi Ohnishi says the company has adopted a new corporate message for 2015 ‘This is Japan’, which will lead to a new in-store concept shortly to be […]

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Isetan Mitsukoshi closing down Ebisu department store

Isetan Mitsukoshi replacing CEO

Isetan Mitsukoshi launching online store

Isetan Philippines in planning

Isetan Mitsukoshi: ‘This is Japan’