Marui
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Marui Group Co., Ltd.
(Tokyo:82520)
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4-3-2 Nakano, Nakano-ku Tokyo 164-8701, Japan Tel. +81-3-3384-0101 Fax +81-3-5343-6640 |
Type: Public
On the web:
http://www.0101maruigroup.co.jp
Employees:
6,492
Employee growth: (5.2%)
Marui Group has Tokyo surrounded. The holding company, whose name translates to "round" in Japanese, operates through about 25 subsidiaries and 6 affiliates in retailing and credit card services. Its retail units market a range of consumer products, including apparel and accessories, home decor, and food, as well as provide corporate clients with such services as advertising, building management, leasing, and store remodeling. A pioneer in bringing credit cards to Japan, Marui Group's own card boasts millions of users. Its credit card division also provides consumer loan, insurance, and travel services. The firm, formerly Marui Co., became a holding company in 2007.
Key numbers for fiscal year ending March, 2011:
Sales: $4,904.9M
One year growth: 8.4%
Net income: ($285.2)M
Officers:
Chairman and Representative Director: Tadao Aoi
President, CEO, and Representative Director: Hiroshi Aoi
General Manager Finance Department: Yoshiaki Kogure
Competitors:
Mitsukoshi
Seven & i
Takashimaya
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Marui Co., Ltd. (株式会社丸井 Kabushiki-gaisha Marui) (TYO: 8252) is a Japanese retail company which operates a chain of department stores in Tokyo as well in other major Japanese cities. They are best known for their women's fashion and accessories, which are aimed at the 25–35 age range.
In 2003–4 the company generated US$2.75 billion in revenues. Its president is Tadao Aoi.
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Name and logo
The company's name (丸井) is a combination of the name of its predecessor's parent company "Maru-ni" (丸二) and the name of its president "Ao-i" (青井). The name of the department store is customarily written in Japanese as "マルイ", in katakana lettering.
The department store's famously ambiguous present-day logo is a symbol resembling "○I○I", and read "marui". The Japanese symbol "○" (not to be confused with the Latin letter "O" or "o") is read "maru", meaning "circle" or "zero". The symbol "I" ostensibly represents the numeral "1", which can be read "i" in Japanese (note that the Latin letter "I" is also the Romanized representation of the Japanese syllable "い", a third visual pun).
Despite being read as numerals, the symbol is written "OIOI" in Latin letters on the company's website, though the address of the website itself is "www.0101.co.jp". The "○I" in the logo is repeated, partly for aesthetics and also as an inference to the "0101" ending of the phone number all Marui department stores.[1]
MARUIONE.JP
In December 2007, Marui Co., Ltd. launched an international shopping and information website, maruione.jp. The site operates in Japanese, English, French, Simplified and Traditional Chinese. The shopping site offers Japanese street fashion and traditional goods while their LiveJ information site provides information on fashion, culture and visual kei music.
References
- ^ 丸井のロゴはなぜ「0101」と繰り返すのか, Excite.co.jp.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Marui |
- (Japanese) Marui
- (English) Marui Co., Ltd. financial information
- (English) cbronline.com company profile
- MARUIONE.JP
- (English) LiveJ
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