Yamato Un'yu
Yamato Holdings Co., Ltd. | |
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legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
ISIN | JP3940000007 |
founding | November 1919 |
Seat | Ginza , Chūō , Tokyo |
management | Masaki Yamauchi (President) |
Number of employees | 197,046 (2015) |
sales | 1.40 trillion JPY (2014/15) EUR 10.82 billion |
Branch | logistics |
Website | www.kuronekoyamato.co.jp |
The Yamato Un'yu KK ( Japanese ヤ マ ト 運輸 株式会社 , Yamato Un'yu Kabushiki kaisha , Engl. Yamato Transport Co., Ltd. ) is Japan's largest courier company .
Companies
In 2010, Yamato had a market share of 41%. The company has 50 billion yen corporate capital and 142,209 employees as of March 15, 2013. President is Masaki Yamauchi (as of December 2013).
The company's headquarters are in Ginza ( Tokyo ). The parent company Yamato Holdings has several subsidiaries, including in the USA , South Korea , the People's Republic of China , Taiwan and Singapore . The Yamato Transport Europe BV is based in the Netherlands .
history
Yamato Un'yu KK (until 1982 大 和 運輸 株式会社 ) was founded in November 1919. At that time the company had four trucks. In 1923 a regular delivery service was established between Tokyo and Yokohama . In May 1949, Yamato Un'yu went public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange . In 1950 one began to work with air freight. The international parcel service was approved in 1955. In 2005 the group of companies was transformed into a holding company - Yamato Holdings KK ( ヤ マ ト ホ ー ル デ ィ ン グ ス 株式会社 ) - and the transport segment was spun off as the new Yamato Un'yu KK.
logo
The yellow company logo ( Kuro-neko ) with the black mother cat carrying her young is one of the most famous in Japan. It was originally used by the American company Allied Van Lines , which approved the use of Yamato in 1957. The cat logo has been in use at Yamato Un'yu since June 1957.
Web links
- Yamato Transport (Japanese, English)
- Yamato Holdings (Japanese, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Yamato Holding 2015 Annual Report , accessed March 13, 2016
- ↑ Converted at the rate on the balance sheet date, March 13, 2016
- ^ "Yamato Transport Co. Ltd." International Directory of Company Histories. 1992.
- ↑ a b Yamato Transport website: Company Overview , accessed December 17, 2013
- ↑ Yamato Transport website: List of Group Companies , accessed December 17, 2013
- ↑ a b Yamato Transport website: History , accessed December 17, 2013
- ↑ Yamato Transport USA: Topics ( Memento from October 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )