Group History – SG SAGAWA AMEROID PTE. LTD.
2011
January
Sagawa Express launches Returned Items Pick-up service for mail order companies.
February
SG Motors concludes a business alliance for car maintenance with Ryobi Holdings.
Sagawa Global Logistics concludes a business alliance with Hanjin Transportation, a Korean comprehensive logistics company.
March
Sagawa Moving Center (current SG Moving) begins to provide house-moving support by helpers for the elderly and disabled.
Sagawa Global Logistics launches a UnionPay card payment option as part of its payment-on-delivery service in Shanghai, China.
Sagawa Express expands the number of its business establishments with ISO9001 certification to 388.
April
SG Motors develops a vehicle with the function of controlling three separate temperature zones.
Sagawa Express begins to promote the Hikyaku Marketing Mail service on a full-scale.
SG Expert Co., Ltd. was established.
SG Fielder Co., Ltd. was established.
May
Sagawa Express launches Hikyaku Special Correspondence Air Express.
June
SG Motors concludes a business alliance for car maintenance with Kurume Marukyu Seibi K.K.
July
SG Systems establishes Wuxi FeiSu Logistics Information Technology Co., Ltd. in China.
September
Sagawa Express installs Hikyaku My Box, private post boxes, in Ginza.
Sagawa Forestry acquires an Offset Credit (Japan Verified Emission Reduction).
October
SG Systems begins to provide Biz-BLUE, a cloud service.
Sagawa Express develops the e-Hiden Touch, a touch-panel system for issuing delivery forms.
Oita Support Center of Kyushu Branch Office of Sagawa Express wins the highest award at the National Telephone Answering Contest (Service Division) hosted by the Japan Telecom Users Association.
November
Shanghai Dazhong Sagawa Logistics Co., Ltd. a door-to-door delivery service in Guangzhou, China.
2012
January
Large-scale core system opened successfully.
February
Sagawa Express Vietnam started Delivery Business in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh.
Sagawa Express started a shipment collection service using delivery boxies, situated in apartment buildings.
March
Sagawa Express started the “Reverse Solution” service for product returns and recall support.
Sagawa Express Track and Field Club (current SG Holdings Group Track and Field Club) athlete Ryo Yamamoto selected to represent Japan in the London Olympics men’s marathon.
April
Sagawa Express received the “21st Grand Prize for the Global Environment Award, Minister of the Environment Prize.”
May
SG Realty opened “SG Realty Yokohama,” a large-scale logistics facility in Yokohama city.
June
SG Holdings Global was established.
Sagawa Express started the industry’s first 24-hour phone-based collection service.
Sagawa Express started an “Appliance Repair Service” that utilizes the delivery business.
SG Holdings Group Track and Field Club athlete Takayuki Tanii selected to represent Japan in the London Olympics 50-kilometer race walk.
August
Sagawa Express started the “Product Collection / Repayment Service” to perform refund payment tasks etc. for product recalls.
Sagawa Global Logistics started a payment service for overseas mail order businesses, tailored to Japanese customers, enabling the remittance of funds overseas.
September
SG Systems opened a scanning center in Koriyama City, Fukushima.
SG Realty’s large-scale logistics facility “SG Realty Yokohama” acquired the highest “platinum” rank, DBJ Green Building certification.
December
Sagawa Express opened its largest, cutting-edge large-scale logistics facility (Sagawa Tokyo Logistics Center).
2013
February
SG Moving started “Carbon Offset Moving Transportation”, the industry’s first reconstruction support service.
March
SG Holdings and SG Realty started the “Renewable Energy Supply Business” by installing solar power generation panels at 78 logistics facilities nationwide.
April
SG Assetmax was established.
May
SG Holdings acquired the Singapore logistics company “Ameroid Logistics (S) Pte Ltd.” to strengthen the domestic logistics business in Singapore.
Sagawa Express opened the “Appliance Repair Center” offering 24-hour support for repair, a first in the logistics industry.
July
Sagawa Express started a safe driving educational training service and safety management system consulting.
SG Moving built a nationwide delivery infrastructure for large commercial cargo.
SGH Global Japan opened the “Haneda Sgx Center” to respond to international cargo demands in Haneda Airport.
SG Holdings Global opened a branch office in Cambodia, a location with high expectations for economic growth.
August
SG Holdings Group Track and Field Club athlete Takayuki Tanii participated in the men’s 50-kilometer race walk of the “14th IAAF World Championships in Athletics”.
September
Sagawa Advance started a fuel sales business.
Sagawa Financial started a new settlement service that utilizes the “IVR Settlement Solutions” ASP settlement service from VeriTrans.
October
The number of shipments of “FVV (For Vendor Vehicle)”, SG Motors’ original bottler car, exceeded a total of 500 vehicles.
SG Realty completed the “SG Realty Kashiwa Building B” and launched its operations.
2014
January
SG Holdings Global started less than container load cargo services between industrial parks around Bangkok.
March
“SG Sagawa USA, Inc.” was established.
April
Sagawa Express began providing a “Mail Collection Service”.
Sagawa Express became the first in the logistics industry to acquire “Carbon Neutral Certification”.
Sagawa Express established “GOAL”, a Group joint strategic sales development team.
SG Moving started the “Dispatched Confidential Document Dissolution Service” using the industry’s first specialized vehicles.
May
SG Moving started “Ladies’ Moving”, a moving service specifically for women.
Sagawa Express acquired “Kurumin”, a next-generation child-rearing accreditation mark.
June
SG Realty completed “SG Realty Maishima”, a large-scale logistics facility.
SG Holdings Global incorporated the Sri Lanka logistics company “Expolanka Holdings PLC” into the Group.
SG Holdings Global established a new warehouse in the customs bond area of Incheon Airport in South Korea, and started import clearance services.
July
Sagawa Express started the “Hikyaku Telegram Express” service.
Sagawa Express started a home pickup business for used small appliances, the first in the door-to-door delivery business industry.
September
Sagawa Express and Sagawa Financial started providing “Sagawa Deferred Payment”, a deferred-payment settlement service.
Sagawa Global Logistics opened the “Maishima SRC (Sagawa Ryutsu Center)” in Konohana-ku, Osaka.
SG Holdings Chairperson Kuriwada participated as a member in the economic mission set forth by Prime Minister Abe.
October
Sagawa Express started the “Smart Delivery” service to improve the efficiency of receiving operations.
Sagawa Express started “S Quality”, a new sales strategy with the goal of strengthening its ability to make proposals and solve problems.
November
Sagawa Express became the first logistics business to have its in-house logistics operations receive accreditation under the “Accreditation System for Increasing the Efficiency of District Logistics in Tokyo”.
December
Sagawa Express received the Minister of the Environment’s Award for Global Warming Prevention Activities in the 2014 Fiscal Year, in the Prevention Activity Implementation and Familiarization Division.
Sagawa Express received the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism’s Award as part of the 13th Green Logistics Partnership Outstanding Business Awards.
2015
February
SG Moving acquired the “Moving Security Mark” under the Outstanding Moving Business Accreditation System.
March
“SG Sagawa Vietnam” was established.
Sagawa Advance concluded a business alliance contract with Tokyo Flower Port Co., Ltd.
SG Realty and SG Assetmax started operation of the “SGAM Investment Corporation”, Japan’s first logistics-related open-ended unlisted investment corporation.
April
The 3 foundations consisting of the Sagawa Scholarship Foundation, the Sagawa Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research, and the Sagawa International Economic Cooperation Association merged and changed their corporate name to the “SGH Foundation” (Public Interest Incorporated Foundation).
Lawson and SG Holdings concluded a business alliance.
May
Sagawa Express started “digital signatures” using smartphones, becoming the first to do so in the door-to-door delivery industry.
SG Motors started providing “SG Motors Maintenance Information”, a vehicle management system.
SG Holdings acquired the “Kurumin” accreditation mark as a “Child Care Support Company”.
June
SG Sagawa Vietnam started refrigerated delivery services.
SG Moving provided the moving industry’s first housekeeping service in the form of gift tickets.
July
SG Sagawa Vietnam started home delivery agency services at Vietnam Family Mart stores.
Sagawa Express started the “Convenience Store Pickup Service” at Lawson stores nationwide.
October
SG Moving started providing the “SG Extended Warranty Service”.
SG Moving became the first in the moving industry to acquire “Carbon Neutral Certification”.
Sagawa Express started providing “Smart Delivery 24” to support 24-hour delivery.
November
SG Motors opened “Chukosha SG.net”, a used car information website.
Sagawa Express started operation of the Higashimatsuyama SRC within “SG Realty Higashimatsuyama”, an environment-friendly logistics facility.
