ASICS, Japanese sports shoes and apparel company distributing its products across over 150 countries, is planning to exploring opportunities to make its apparel range in the country, it has plan to launch its mono-brand stores in India. Motoi Oyama, President and CEO of the company were recently in India and he inaugurated their office at Gurgaon.
“We have started research to look into the potential of making apparel products in India. As of now, for true sports performance footwear, the available ecosystem is not up to the level. But given the growing skilled workforce in the country, we could look at sourcing materials from India for international markets as well as manufacturing footwear in India in the future,” said Motoi. Earlier, ASICS India had a distribution partnership with Reliance Retail and its products were being sold at Reliance Footprint stores.
