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Yahoo Japan buys the country's largest fashion e-tailer Zozotown

New York - Yahoo Japan will soon be the owner of the Nippon country’s largest online fashion retailer, Zozotown, as both companies confirmed in a joint release on Thursday. Yahoo Japan, which is part of the SoftBank Group, plans to tender an offer to acquire 50.1 percent of Zozo shares and make the company a subsidiary. Yahoo Japan enters the...

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Zozo withdraws from Europe and the US, hopes for profit to recover later this year

New York – Japanese online fashion retailer Zozo Inc. said it expects its profit to recover in the current fiscal year, after booking its first-ever annual earnings fall. The earnings report left the industry debating the finances of the company running Zozotown online mall. To date, Zozo has managed to capture almost half of Japan’s online...

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Zozotown, “Japan’s Amazon”, to reach US shores in late July

Later this July, Maezawa’s Zozotown will be debuting it’s first in-house line of clothes in 72 countries, including the US. The new brand is called ‘Zozo’ and will be made-to-fit for every customer. Japan’s largest online fashion retailer Start Today has started to roll out its innovative custom-fit private label Zozo in 72 countries. “...