Tag: Sagawa Express Co

Sagawa Express to enter registered mail business

Posted by | Nov 9, 2002 | |

Sagawa Express Co., a parcel delivery service firm, plans to enter the registered mail delivery business at the end of March 2003, company officials said Saturday. The move will allow the Kyoto-based company to expand its service by delivering credit cards and other confidential items as registered mail. The Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications is expected to allow parcel delivery companies to deliver such items as credit cards, checks and gift vouchers in line with the April 2003 launch of a public postal corporation, as part of its deregulation of the state-run postal service.

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Japan Post Competitors to Seize Market Share

Posted by | Aug 8, 2002 | |

A potentially profitable regulatory change [Japan] has landed on the doorstep of parcel delivery companies. And Yamato Transport Co. is wasting no time in getting the wrapping off its new business plans. The nation’s largest private parcel delivery service and some of its rivals plan to expand their home delivery of unsolicited direct mail, magazines and catalogs. These moves are a response to the government’s recent decision to relax regulations governing the sort of mail the private sector is permitted to handle. Posts minister Toranosuke Katayama opened the door for private delivery companies to snare a bigger share of the fast-growing market on July 4, when he told a Diet committee that certain kinds of direct mail will no longer be regarded as ‘personal letters.’

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Parcel firms expand direct mail services

Posted by | Aug 6, 2002 | |

A potentially profitable regulatory change has landed on the doorstep of parcel delivery companies. And Yamato Transport Co. is wasting no time in getting the wrapping off its new business plans.
The nation’s largest private parcel delivery service and some of its rivals plan to expand their home delivery of unsolicited direct mail, magazines and catalogs.
These moves are a response to the government’s recent decision to relax regulations governing the sort of mail the private sector is permitted to handle.
Posts minister Toranosuke Katayama opened the door for private delivery companies to snare a bigger share of the fast-growing market on July 4, when he told a Diet committee that certain kinds of direct mail will no longer be regarded as “personal letters.” Previously, such letters, which include direct mail and items like credit cards, could only be delivered by the state-operated postal system.

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Sino-Japan JV to start courier service

Posted by | May 2, 2002 | |

Japan’s Sumitomo Corp and Sagawa Express Co, jointly with China’s Shanghai Dazhong Transportation (Group) Co., will form a joint-venture company for express delivery service, the first of its kind in China.

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Sumitomo & Sagawa to form cargo company

Posted by | Apr 29, 2002 | |

Sumitomo Corp. and Sagawa Express Co. said Friday they will form a joint venture with a major Chinese trucking firm in July to launch cargo delivery services in Shanghai and surrounding areas.
The joint venture will be China’s first door-to-door parcel delivery company, Sumitomo and Sagawa said.

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