Fast Retailing. Transition planned for 2019

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Once he is 70 in 2019, can Mr. Tadashi Yanai, emblematic founding President of Fast Retailing, reduce his working involvement? In 2002 he already passed authority to Genichi Tamatsuka, returning in 2015 once margins fell. Aged 65 in 2013, he did not retire as expected. A successor may arise from one of the 40 Executive Directors on the board as Mister Yanai said that neither of two children are due to succeed him. He recently said “There is no proper retirement for founders”.

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