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. Its headquarters are in

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. It competes with Yamato Transport, Nippon Express, and other major

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companies. Its total sales for the year ending March 2005 were ¥728,000,000,000. The company was founded by

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. It began operation on March 22, 1957, and was registered as a company on November 24, 1965. On March 21, 2006, it established SG Holdings and transferred its stock to SG, becoming a subsidiary of the holding company. Sagawa's major customers include

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, Amazon.co.jp,

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(Tsutaya),

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1992 scandal

From 1992 the company was the center of a series of corruption and

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* This article incorporates material in 佐川急便 (''Sagawa Kyūbin'') in the Japanese Wikipedia, retrieved on January 3, 2008.

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Sagawa Express
Official website
SG Holdings
Official website Companies based in Kyoto Transport companies of Japan Logistics companies of Japan Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange

1992 scandal

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