FILE PHOTO: Women wearing face masks, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, walk past a store of Fast Retailing’s fashion chain Uniqlo at a shopping complex in Beijing, China May 24, 2020. REUTERS/Florence Lo
July 15, 2021
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s Fast Retailing, the owner of clothing brand Uniqlo, trimmed its profit outlook for the year on Thursday, reflecting the lingering impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sales.
The company now expects an operating profit of 245 billion yen ($2.23 billion) for the year ending August. It had previously predicted 255 billion yen.
Profit rose to 227.9 billion yen in the nine months ended May from 134.4 billion yen in the year-earlier period that was hit hard by the coronavirus crisis.
($1 = 109.7400 yen)
(Reporting by Rocky Swift in Tokyo; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)
Source: One America News Network
