Top Message
President
Masanori Kawai
Thanks to our customers and business partners, Nippon Express celebrated its 70th anniversary in October, 2007
Nippon Express Co., Ltd was founded in 1872 under the name of “Riku-un Moto Kaisha (The Land Transport Company)” and re-named Nippon Express in 1937. Over our 130 year history we have been providing people with a better life while encouraging the growth of the business community as a leading company in Japan’s logistics industry.
The Nittsu Group, consists of 362 companies as of December 31st, 2007 and provides forwarding, sales and other services worldwide. We have successfully strengthened our position as “a global logistics company” with 382 locations at 210 cities in 37 countries, in addition to the strong domestic business base we have established and which has been growing steadily since our inception.
Last fiscal year, we celebrated our 70th anniversary. To commemorate this occasion, we formally dedicated our corporate philosophy, created a safety symbol and launched some new, important social undertakings. Furthermore, as a first step toward the decades which lay ahead of us, we have introduced new uniforms and renewed our web pages.
The current fiscal year marks the last period for the Nittsu Group’s management plan: Power-up Three-Year Plan; The Innovation Challenge, Together With Our Customers.
Nippon Express and the Japan Post Group reached an agreement to form a comprehensive and strategic business partnership last October. At the same time, we decided to integrate our parcel delivery services, “Pelican” with “You-pack” of Japan Post.
We continue to strive to make significant progress and innovation of small cargo business, one of the focus points of our Mid-term Management Plan. We have devoted ourselves to the expansion of our “global network”, “3PL business improvement” and “differentiated products sales”. While we remain committed to our domestic business, we are currently restructuring and enhancing our international operations.
Nippon Express recognizes our social responsibilities and we regard it as an important business challenge. In order that they will continue to sustainably grow, we will dedicate ourselves to “CSR management”.
To commemorate our 70th anniversary our dividend increased by 10 yen per share last fiscal year. We will continue to strengthen our profit-making structure to fulfill the expectations of our shareholders and investors.
We highly appreciate your understanding and continuing support for our activity
April 1st 2008
