Masahiro Miki

Masahiro Miki is a Japanese billionaire businessman, and the founder and largest shareholder of Tokyo-based shoemaker ABC-Mart. Miki is of Korean descent. In 1985, Miki founded shoe and apparel company Kokusai Boeki Shoji. The company was renamed ABC-Mart in 1990 and went public in 2002.

  • Miki founded and owns the majority of discount shoe store chain ABC-Mart.
  • The chain has benefited from the influx of tourists into Japan, especially from China and Southeast Asia.
  • ABC-Mart own U.S. shoe brand LaCrosse, which owns the Danner brand of shoes.
  • A former amateur boxer, Miki founded ABC-Mart in the 1980s.
  • He stepped down as chairman of the publicly-traded company in 2007.

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