Last Updated: 2015.10.29

FAST RETAILING CO., LTD.
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FAST RETAILING CO., LTD. (the 'Company', and together with its subsidiaries, the 'Group') announces today that it has submitted a shelf registration statement for corporate bonds to the Kanto Local Finance Bureau.

The Group is currently accelerating its globalization and digitalization to expand its business.

The purpose of the shelf registration is to diversify and stabilize methods of raising the funds required for investments in the growth of the Group and to establish a framework that will enable flexible fundraising.

Following is an overview of the shelf registration statement.

1.

Planned amount of issue

250 billion yen

2.

Planned issue period

From the planned effective date of the shelf registration until two years after that date
(November 6, 2015 to November 5, 2017)

3.

Use of funds

Capital expenditures, working capital, investments and loans, and debt repayments.

As of today, Japan Credit Rating Agency, Ltd. (JCR) has assigned the Company a long-term issuer rating of AA (Stable) and preliminary rating to its shelf registration of AA. For details of the credit rating and the rating rationale, please see the news release published by JCR today (October 29, 2015).

To rating information, please refer to here.

This press release has been prepared for the purpose of announcing the Company's submission of a shelf registration statement in Japan. This press release is not an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities. The securities have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the '1933 Act'). The securities may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements under the 1933 Act.

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