Uniqlo
At sister brand GU the same fields were in place and empty. Here they are filled.
Uniqlo
- Origin
- Japan
- Founded
- Not disclosed
- Group
- Fast Retailing
- Production
- Supplier list published
- Core materials
- Cotton, Wool, Polyester, Elastomultiester
- Price level
- 1/4
How much this brand discloses, and how much of it we could verify. It is not a quality rating — a composition line cannot tell you how good a fabric is. How we calculate it
- Production disclosure 25/25
- Linked sources 12/20
- Own material check 15/15
- Fabric weight stated 0/12
- Country stated per product 10/10
- Construction detail stated 0/10
- Cost breakdown published 0/8
Evidence for the price Above what this price band usually documents
What the panel says
A Supima cotton t-shirt, €19.90. Under “Manufacturing” a “Production” subsection opens, and it reads:
Place of manufacture: India, Cambodia, Vietnam
Production (knitting, weaving): India
Production (dyeing): India
So three possible countries of assembly — and beyond that two fabric stages, each with a country.
The second half is the real advance. Where the fabric was knitted and dyed is stated almost nowhere else except Theory and Mango, and neither sits in this price bracket.
A date that explains a gap
Below the details sits a note: the information on material production sites applies to products made after Autumn/Winter 2024.
That explains, in retrospect, a finding we recorded at sister brand GU. There the same fabric-origin fields are already in place but were empty — with the same seasonal note.
So the fields are prepared group-wide and filled progressively. At Uniqlo that has happened, at GU not yet. This is not one brand’s quirk but a conversion you can watch in progress.
Three countries remain three countries
For all the depth: “India, Cambodia, Vietnam” does not answer where the piece in your basket was sewn. It is the same form we found at Zara with five countries and at Louis Vuitton with three.
It is more honest than a single claim that would be wrong for most pieces. And it remains a choice rather than an answer.
705 facilities, with workforce and union status
The group publishes a list of its production partners. We opened it ourselves: 709 rows, of which 705 facilities across 17 countries, as of 2 March 2026.
The columns go well beyond name and address — product type, facility type, number of workers, share of female workers, share of migrant workers, and whether a trade union exists. It is split into garment, fabric, processing and auxiliary material factories.
That puts it among the three fullest lists in this research, alongside those of H&M and Bestseller.
Where the disclosure ends
Which of the three countries applies to a given piece.
The link between facility and brand. The list is group-wide and does not separate Uniqlo, GU or Theory.
And none of it appears in the data sheet behind the page. No origin field, although the page carries 59 product variants.
How we checked
The product page would not open for us; it was read by hand on 1 August 2026 with every panel opened. The production partner list we downloaded and counted ourselves.
Verifiable statements with a source, not a rating. We publish no ethics score of our own — for that, follow the external link.
- Production countries
- India, Cambodia, Vietnam
- Supplier list published
- View the list
The products this brand is defined by. Not a ranking — we have not worn or washed any of them. Each entry says why it is here.
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HEATTECH
Warming functional innerwear, developed from 2003 with the fibre maker Toray. The fibre absorbs body moisture and converts it into heat.
Independent coverage
Why it is listed here
It is not only Uniqlo that names HEATTECH as a core product — the fibre maker Toray records the collaboration in its own corporate history. Two independent accounts of the same thing.
Toray Industries (Unternehmenschronik) 27 July 2026
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AIRism
The counterpart to HEATTECH for warm days: a light synthetic fibre meant to move moisture away from the skin. Uniqlo lists it as its own material technology with a dedicated page.
The brand’s own account
Why it is listed here
Uniqlo presents AIRism as a core technology itself. We have no independent confirmation — the framing here comes from the brand, and we have not tested the effect.
Uniqlo 27 July 2026
What we can document
- Group ownership — stated by Fast Retailing itself
- Production partner list covering Tier 1 and Tier 2, updated twice a year
- Consolidation of both tiers into one list as of March 2026
- Price band — our own editorial classification, marked as such
What we cannot
- Material composition per item — we have not yet read the product pages
- Fabric weight and durability — no lab test, no purchase of our own
- Working conditions at a named factory — a list is not evidence for them
- Which factory made a specific garment
Where to buy Uniqlo
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Sources
3 in total · archived internally- Konzernübersicht — nennt die Gruppenmarken — Fast Retailing Read 27 July 2026
- Produktionspartnerliste — Tier 1 und Tier 2, halbjährlich aktualisiert — Fast Retailing Read 27 July 2026
- Produktseite — „Baggy Jeans“, 49,90 €, Materialangabe nach Bauteil getrennt — UNIQLO Deutschland Read 27 July 2026
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Read on
Both cost 19.90 €. Both say “Baumwolle” — cotton — in the product name. One is 100 % cotton, the other 53 %.
A garment is made across several countries. The label almost always names only one of them. Which one, and what falls away in the process.
We asked twenty brands across four groups the same question: does the product page say where the item was made? The answer has nothing to do with price — and that is the real story.
Questions readers ask
Who owns Uniqlo?
Fast Retailing, a listed Japanese group that also owns GU and Theory, among others.
Does Uniqlo publish where it produces?
Yes, more fully than most. The group publishes a production partner list covering garment factories (Tier 1) and core fabric mills (Tier 2), updated twice a year and consolidated into a single list since March 2026.
Does that mean Uniqlo is made ethically?
No, and the list does not claim it. Disclosure documents where production happens and who the partners are. Wages and conditions at a specific site are a separate question that a factory list cannot answer.
Is Theory the same company?
Yes. Theory reads as a New York label and is American in origin and studio, but it belongs to the same Japanese group.