Masahiro Miki (; born July 26, 1955) is a Japanese
billionaire
A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The American busin ...
businessman, and the founder and largest shareholder of Tokyo-based shoemaker
ABC-Mart
is a Japanese footwear company, with stores in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
History
The company was founded by Masahiro Miki in Shinjuku in 1985 as Boeki Shoji Inc. In 1987, the company moved to Arakawa and changed its name to International ...
. Miki is of
Korean
Korean may refer to:
People and culture
* Koreans, ethnic group originating in the Korean Peninsula
* Korean cuisine
* Korean culture
* Korean language
**Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Chosŏn'gŭl
**Korean dialects and the Jeju language
** ...
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 acted as chairman of the company from 2004 to 2007.
As of December 2018, Miki has an estimated
net worth
Net worth is the value of all the non-financial and financial assets owned by an individual or institution minus the value of all its outstanding liabilities. Since financial assets minus outstanding liabilities equal net financial assets, net ...
of $3.4 billion.
References
Japanese billionaires
Living people
21st-century Japanese businesspeople
People from Ise, Mie
1955 births
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