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Posted by Kanki0 pt Monday, March 14, 2011

UNIQLO corporation donates a total of $17.1 million USD for earthquake cause

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Fast Retailing owns the casual clothing companies �UNIQLO� and �g.u.�. The company has enjoyed a lot of success and has chosen to donate money to the regions hardest hit by the earthquake: Miyagi, Iwate, Fukushima, Aomori and Ibaraki.

Fast Retailing has donated 300 million yen ($3.6 million USD) to disaster relief for the Tohoku Pacific Ocean earthquake and an additional 100 million yen ($1.2 million USD) was tallied from donations from their employees all over the world.

What�s more amazing is that the company�s CEO Yanai Tadashi has personally donated one billion yen (12.2 million USD) to the disaster relief.

Adding it all up, this corporation has donated 1.4 billion yen ($17.1 million USD) to the Red Cross of Japan.

The company will also be donating support goods. They will be donating 300,000 �HeatTech� undergarments that protect people from the cold as well as jeans and towels. All of these items �are worth 700 million yen (8.6 million USD) in total.

Find out how you can help with disaster relief here.

Source: MSN Sankei News

  1. UNIQLO
  2. TSUNAMI
  3. GU
  4. EARTHQUAKE
  5. DISASTER-RELIEF
  6. FAST-RETAILING
  7. RED-CROSS-OF-JAPAN
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