ITOCHU Announces Acquisition of Exclusive Rights to Import and Sell Canadian Brand Moose Knuckles

July 10, 2018

ITOCHU Corporation (headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo; Yoshihisa Suzuki, President & COO) has acquired the exclusive rights to import and sell products by Moose Knuckles, a Canadian brand of outerwear, in the Japanese market. Products from the brand will be launched on a full scale in the 2018 FW season via Gruppo Tanaka Co., Ltd. (headquartered in Nishi-ku, Osaka; Nobuyuki Tanaka, President).

Since 1921, the brand’s founder, the Twik family, has been protecting Canadians from the cold. They established the Moose Knuckles brand in 2009 in the belief that they could provide the leanest, toughest and most luxurious sportswear to the whole world. The fur-trimmed Stirling Parka and the Ballistic Bomber that they launched initially became popular immediately and are still loved as core collections by enthusiasts all over the world. In addition, their products featuring high functionality and unique marketing attracted attention, and the brand has developed and expanded into department stores and specialty stores in more than 30 countries.

In expanding into the Japanese market, the brand is targeting men and women in their 20s to 40s. In the future, the promotion of the brand will be expanded through department stores, specialty stores and multi-brand shops. The brand will strengthen its marketing activities with a focus on the brand features, such as holding pop-up events, and dissemination of information on social and other media. With these efforts, we will strive to enhance the recognition of the brand and aim to achieve sales of 2 billion yen within three years on a retail price basis.

2019 Spring/Summer Exhibition in Tokyo

Date: July 17-19
Venue: IZA Inc. Showroom (Vendome Aoyama East Bldg. 3F, 5-12-2 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo)

2019 Spring/Summer Exhibition in Osaka

Date: July 24-26
Venue: Gruppo Tanaka Showroom (MG Bldg. 2F, 1-3-19 Shin-machi, Nishi-ku, Osaka City, Osaka)

2018 Fall/Winter Season Pop-Up Event

Store Date
Isetan Shinjuku Men’s Building 6th floor October 24-30
Hankyu Umeda Main Store 3rd floor Kotokoto Stage October 24-30
GINZA SIX 3rd floor event space October 24-November 20
Hankyu Men’s Osaka 1st floor event space October 31-November 6
Hankyu Men’s Tokyo 4th floor Garage D.Edit
Promotion space
November 14-20

Core collections

2017 Fall/Winter Milano 10 Corso Como Collaboration

Official website: https://www.mooseknucklescanada.com/