SupplyChain Magazine October 2014 | Page 40

02 Nippon Express

02 Nippon Express

Japanese based Nippon rank very highly on the top trucking companies list . Founded in 1937 and headquartered in Tokyo , the company now boasts sales of $ 17.29 billion , market capital of $ 5.03 billion and has nearly 65,000 employees . The group is made up of Distribution and Transportation , Goods Sales , and a division named ‘ Other ’ which currently consists of real estate , money lending , research , automobile , and employee dispatching businesses .