Business Overview

World Co., Ltd., through its subsidiaries, plans, manufactures, retails, sells, and imports/exports apparel and fashion products in Japan and internationally. It offers women’s, men's, and children's clothing and fashion accessories; interior products; jewelry and fashion goods; and men’s and women’s golf apparel products under the adabat brand. The company also provides leather accessories under the HIROKO HAYASHI and HIROFU brand; engages in franchise business; operates PINK-latte selected brand shops targeting teenagers; and plans, manufactures, imports, and sells business and home use furniture, and life style goods, as well as engages in the business development of the TAKEO KIKUCHI men’s brand in Thailand. In addition, it operates lifestyle shops; off-price stores and EC stores for clothing, household goods, etc. Further, the company engages in business investment activities; mail order business; provision of solution development and consulting services for companies in fashion-related industries; and provision of consulting services for accounting and purchasing, and visual merchandising and graphic design services. The company also provides babies’, and children’s clothing and related products; women’s intimates and shoes; bags and accessories; and shoe molds. World Co., Ltd. was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in Kobe, Japan.