Distinct and Unique Hotel Stores
ABISTE specializes in fashion jewelry, handbags, fashion watches, umbrellas and other accessories sourcing its products from 15 countries around the world including France, Italy and the United States. In January 2006, the ABISTE had 140 directly managed stores and 120 licensed stores located in leading hotels throughout Japan. Our store locations follow a unique style in which we specially target leading hotels, forming a marketing tact that is rarely seen both in Japan and all over the world.
ABISTE prides itself on its large range of products targeting mature female market. In this sense, city hotel guests perfectly match our target. We place great emphasis on perfect shop atmosphere by using interior fittings that best suits the hotel atmosphere, so that our customers can fully enjoy their shopping in our stores. We bring the market a wide range of chic items to suit every situation, including sunglasses, reading glasses, small furniture and stationeries.
Our directly managed stores range diversely in size and may come under any of five different names. This enables us to open more than one store in the same hotel. We have in fact, positioned four stores in a single hotel. By opening stores operating under different brand labels in neighbor hotels, we are able to avoid duplication and provide stores that better meet the needs of our clientele.
We opened our first store in overseas last year and have plans to further expand our network to reach 160 stores throughout Japan and 25 overseas stores by 2013. In recent years, our broad range of products and their superior quality and design have caught attention of apparel manufactures, mail order company television shopping stations and cosmetics companies and those products have been incorporated into OEM products.
In this year, we celebrate our 35th Anniversary. We are confident that ABISTE will continue to satisfy the need of our customers and keep everlasting dreams alive in the years to come.
Nagao Yoshito
President and CEO
ABISTE CORPORATION