UNIQLO Opens First Store in Pune at The Pavillion Mall
September 26, 2025, Pune, India – Global apparel retailer UNIQLO today opened its first store in Pune at The Pavillion, Pune, bringing LifeWear to even more people in Western India. The new store welcomed enthusiastic customers with vibrant activities and special offers designed to introduce Punekars to LifeWear – high-quality, thoughtfully designed, and functional clothing. This marks UNIQLO’s 18th brick-and-mortar store in India, as the brand continues to expand its presence across the country.
“We are excited to open our first store in Pune at The Pavillion and bring UNIQLO’s LifeWear to Punekars. We are grateful for the support from customers in Pune through our online store, and now look forward to welcoming both existing and new customers to experience the UNIQLO range in person. Pune is a vibrant, growing city, and we see great potential here to introduce more people to LifeWear – simple, high quality clothing designed to make everyday life better,” said Kenji Inoue, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, UNIQLO India.
Located on the ground floor and spanning approximately 9,000 square feet, UNIQLO The Pavillion store offers a comprehensive range of the brand’s signature LifeWear collection including men’s, women’s, kids’, and baby apparel, featuring innovative fabrics such as AIRism, HEATTECH, and globally popular items such as Bratops, Denim, and more.
To celebrate the grand opening, UNIQLO offered special launch incentives to customers. The first 100 shoppers received a complimentary Round Ultra Mini Bag, one of UNIQLO’s most loved products, along with complimentary cappuccino and waffle coupons from IHOP Cafe. Customers shopping for ₹5000 and above also received a limited-edition tote bag, designed by Pune-based artist Annushka Hardikar. These initiatives complemented the brand’s goal of blending innovation, style, and local culture to create an engaging shopping experience. As part of the launch festivities, life-sized UNIQLO branded cubes were placed at prominent tech parks including Panchshil Business Park and Panchshil Tech Park One, and colleges including Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce and Ajeenkya DY Patil University, to engage with the city’s vibrant corporate and student communities.
Overview of the store
- Store Name: UNIQLO The Pavillion, Pune
- Address: The Pavillion Mall, Senapati Bapat Rd, next to JW Marriott Hotel, Laxmi Society, Model Colony, Shivajinagar, Pune, Maharashtra, 411016
- Sales Floor Area: Approx. 9,000 sq. ft.
- Opening Date: 26 September, 2025
For more information about UNIQLO and its collections, please visit the website or download the UNIQLO India Official App.
About UNIQLO LifeWear
Apparel that comes from the Japanese values of simplicity, quality and longevity. Designed to be of the time and for the time, LifeWear is made with such modern elegance that it becomes the building blocks of each individual’s style. A perfect shirt that is always being made more perfect. The simplest design hiding the most thoughtful and modern details. The best in fit and fabric made to be affordable and accessible to all. LifeWear is clothing that is constantly being innovated, bringing more warmth, more lightness, better design, and better comfort to people’s lives.
About UNIQLO and Fast Retailing
UNIQLO is a brand of Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., a leading Japanese retail holding company with global headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. UNIQLO is the largest of eight brands in the Fast Retailing Group, the others being GU, Theory, PLST, Comptoir des Cotonniers, Princesse tam.tam, J Brand and Helmut Lang.
With global sales of approximately 3.1 trillion yen for the 2024 fiscal year ending August 31, 2024 (US $21.42 billion, calculated in yen using the end of August 2024 rate of $1 = 144.9 yen), Fast Retailing is one of the world’s largest apparel retail companies, and UNIQLO is Japan’s leading specialty retailer.
UNIQLO continues to open large-scale stores in some of the world’s most important cities and locations, as part of its ongoing efforts to solidify its status as a global brand. Today the company has a total of more than 2,500 UNIQLO stores across the world, including Japan, Asia, Europe and North America. The total number of stores across Fast Retailing’s brands is now over 3,600.
With a corporate statement committed to changing clothes, changing conventional wisdom and change the world, Fast Retailing is dedicated to creating great clothing with new and unique value to enrich the lives of people everywhere. For more information about UNIQLO and Fast Retailing, please visit www.uniqlo.com and www.fastretailing.com.
