<h1>Sportswear group to open 1,000 Southeast Asia stores in three years, names Singapore HQ, flags compliance obligations</h1> A multinational sportswear group announced plans to expand its flagship brand to 1,000 retail outlets in Southeast Asia within three years, designating Singapore as its regional headquarters and citing rapid year-on-year revenue growth, localization, digitalization, and a 'brand+retail' model. The release highlights job creation, local hiring, logistics investment, and use of the regional rollout as a blueprint for wider international expansion. Legally relevant points include potential obligations under local labour and corporate law for new hires and subsidiaries, cross-border supply-chain and trade compliance, consumer-protection and advertising claim scrutiny, and reliance on forward-looking statements in a promotional press release.