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Marui Co., Ltd. (
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Marui headquarters, Nakano, Tokyo | |
Company type | Public KK |
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TYO: 8252 | |
Industry | Department stores |
Founded | October 1, 2007 |
Founder | Chūji Aoi ( |
Headquarters | , Japan |
Area served | Worldwide |
Products | Women's fashion and accessories |
Owner | The Master Trust Bank of Japan (13.1%) Japan Trustee Services Bank (7.5%) Goldman Sachs (2.7%) Toho (1.68%) Toda Construction (0.81%) |
Website | Marui |
In 2003–4 the company generated US$2.75 billion in revenues. Its president is Hiroshi Aoi.[1]
Name and logo
editThe company's name (
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 hiragana "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 of all Marui department stores.[2]
MARUIONE.JP
editIn December 2007, Marui Co., Ltd. launched an international shopping and information website, maruione.jp. The site operates in Japanese, simplified and traditional Chinese, Korean, English, and French. 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
edit- ^ "Corporate Officers & Advisors | Corporate Information | MARUI GROUP Co., Ltd". www.0101maruigroup.co.jp. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
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丸井 のロゴはなぜ「0101」と繰 り返 すのか, Excite.co.jp.
External links
edit- (in English) Marui Co., Ltd. financial information
- MARUIONE.JP
- (in English) LiveJ