Fashion brand Cecil McBee to close all stores

Trendsetter will shutter 43 locations by February as contagion kills sales

20200720 Cecil McBee store

Cecil McBee, already challenged by H&M and other competitors, was dealt another blow by the coronavirus.

MIHO TANKAI, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Japanese apparel maker Japan Imagination will close all brick-and-mortar outlets of its core brand, Cecil McBee, Nikkei has learned.

The brand mainly targets young people in their teens and twenties, and has gained in popularity since the 1990s. But sales have been trending down since peaking in 2007. The economic effects of COVID-19 pandemic have also hastened the brand's decline.

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