is a Japanese footwear company, with stores in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.

History

The company was founded by

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in 1985 as Boeki Shoji Inc. In 1987, the company moved to Arakawa and changed its name to International Trading Corporation (ITC). It was in 1990 that ABC-Mart was established, with three stores opening in Tokyo. A year later, ABC-Mart acquired the exclusive sales rights of

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products in Japan. The company was then re-established as a joint stock company in 1997 before moving its headquarters to

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a year later. In 2002, ITC absorbed ABC-Mart and was renamed ABC-Mart, Inc. before being publicly listed on the

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. The company then opened its first branch in South Korea in 2003 and in Taiwan in 2009. In 2012, ABC-Mart bought the American company

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, which in turn purchased the U.S. boot maker Whites Boots in 2014. In 2019, ABC-Mart opened its 1,000th store.

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