Nitori opens its 8th Philippines store in central Manila, the group's 1,099th worldwide
Nitori Holdings will open its eighth Philippines store on November 12, taking the Japanese furniture and home-goods group's worldwide count to 1,099 -- the same directly run, low-price expansion that keeps the chain filling floors other retailers have given up back home.
Nitori Holdings Co., Ltd. (株式会社ニトリホールディングス) said it will open its eighth store in the Philippines, NITORI Robinsons Manila, on Thursday, November 12 -- a store the Sapporo-based furniture and home-goods group counts as its 1,099th worldwide, according to the company's November 9 announcement.
The new store occupies Units 341-347 on Level 2 of the Padre Faura Wing at Robinsons Place Manila, a shopping complex in central Manila, and will trade from 10am to 10pm daily. It measures roughly 190 tsubo (about 630 square metres), Nitori said.
Nitori described Robinsons Place Manila as a long-running shopping, dining and cinema complex close to hotels, offices and universities that has served the surrounding community since the 1980s. The company said it will continue expanding overseas as part of its stated aim of "offering a richer life to people around the world."
Nitori is best known at home for taking over floor space other Japanese retailers have vacated, opening directly run stores into shopping centres and old department-store units at a steady clip. The Manila opening is the same playbook abroad: a store inside an existing mall rather than a free-standing building, extending a company-operated network that, by Nitori's own count, has now reached 1,099 stores worldwide. The release does not break that total down by country, so how much of the group's growth is coming from markets like the Philippines versus Japan itself isn't something this disclosure answers.