But the name of his company, Fast Retailing (OTC: FRCOY), is less well known than his major store brand name: UNIQLO.
Mr Ratner had hoped to launch an online jewellery store under the name RatnersOnline in September, but will now use the name GeraldOnline instead.
So, customers wouldn't use, say, Paydiant's app at checkout, they would use one with the store's name on it and assign any card they wanted to it.
Imitation of foreign brand name products and store chains is neither new, nor unique to China.
The false memories were about getting lost on a shopping trip and included real details, such as the name of a store where they often shopped and siblings they were likely with.
Their first store opened in Philadelphia under the name Pep Auto Supplies, according to the company's website.
But how would you feel being greeted by name walking into a store you have never been in before?
Miss Fulthorpe is also raising funds herself by selling wristbands bearing her son's name at the Tesco store in Bramley.
Following an apparent rejection of our suggestion of "Immaculate Collection, " Palm's Developer Network site suggests that the official name of its app store for webOS is simply going to be "App Catalog".
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The card will likely take the place of your driver's license and will store at the very minimum your name, birthdate, sex, ID number, a digital photograph and address, with the possibility of additional data such as a fingerprint or retinal scan.
Using the cockpit's convenient carrying handle, players have everything they need to be able to jump right into the action any time they hear the racetrack call their name, and quickly store the cockpit away in some unobtrusive spot when it's not in use.
While upscale restaurants around the world struggle with how to handle the growing popularity of mobile phones at dining tables, Eva leaves it up to its customers to hand in their phones to the hostess who will then store them in baskets with their name on them and return them on the customers way out.
In fact, excellent soft jerky is widely available in Asia, yet for some reason in this country we insist on the texture of shoe leather, with the convenience store bagged varieties giving jerky a bad name.
But he was a pastry legend long before he put his name on the top of a store marquee.
Soutter bought the Yellow Tail name, label and in-store marketing program off the shelf from the Adelaide design house Just Add Wine just after arriving from performing a post-mortem on Carramar in New York with W.J.
The new RFID tag-toting documents will store all of your personal data, including name, address, nationality, a picture, a digitized fingerprint and just about every other thing crooks would need to take your identity for a joyride.
The government favours computerised cards that could store a photograph, fingerprints and personal information including name and address.
Its name may soon appear more prominently on its store credit cards.
Paul Hewson, Dave Evans and Adam Clayton answered the ad, with Hewson taking the name Bono Vox after a local hearing aid store.
In 1906, at the age of 50 and with a fortune amassed during his years Marshall Field to his name, he built a new London department store.
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This isn't the only surprise in store for readers who may have last encountered Fulton's name in grade school.
Checking out both options only took us a couple of hours, and after buying a domain name at GoDaddy and pointing it to our new store, we were up and running that evening.
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His Master's Voice - the name was august and patrician sounding, the first store opened by Sir Edward Elgar in 1921, and Nipper the dog and the phonograph taken from an 1890s painting.
The name House of Museums reflects its original purpose: to store an overflow of items that would not fit in other facilities.
After WhatsApp reached the top of the app-store rankings, WhatsApp employees noticed that other apps were hijacking its name to ride its coattails.
Customers purchasing a subscription through the App Store will be given the option of providing the publisher with their name, email address and zip code when they subscribe.
Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. engages as a sporting goods retailer, which offers a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment, apparel and footwear in a specialty store environment.
As before, a store can see public data users attach to their profile, such as name, profile photo, home city, bio, and links to Twitter and Facebook accounts.
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To boot, Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play is just around the bend, and if Amazon's able to launch its own app store, why not push out a game-centric one from a name that people already know and trust?
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And the Sony name, in its elegant typeface, sits in front of the store, like Apple's fruit logo does.
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