September 16, 2022
News Release
Maruwa Unyu Kikan Co., Ltd.
Kamigumi Co., Ltd.
Maruwa Unyu Kikan Co., Ltd. and Kamigumi Co., Ltd. to form capital and business alliance
On September 16, 2022, the boards of directors of Maruwa Unyu Kikan Co., Ltd. (“Maruwa UnyuKikan” hereinafter) and Kamigumi Co., Ltd. (“Kamigumi” hereinafter) approved a basic agreement toform a capital and business alliance.
Negotiations between both companies were based not just on the need to acquire complementarystrengths, but to strengthen the business foundation of both companies and achieve sustained growthby creating new markets, offering high value-added services, and developing businesses ininternational markets in response to changing business conditions. Efforts toward these goals will bemade through mutual use of each other’s management resources, business models, networks, and otherresources. This basic agreement was reached through studying a structure for business cooperation
aiming to develop a new, unique position extending beyond the bounds of the companies’ existing
businesses.
Through business cooperation based on this alliance, Maruwa Unyu Kikan, which offers strengths inthe domestic third-party logistics (3PL) business in Japan, and Kamigumi, a leader in international
business development, will not only seek to expand both of their businesses, including logistics center
operations and support services for customers’ advances into international markets utilizing thetangible and intangible assets of the two companies, but also strive to further increase corporate value
for both companies through means including securing and developing human resources, promoting
and utilizing digital transformation (DX) initiatives, progress toward carbon-zero status based on therecommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), striving toward
solutions to the shared challenges faced by the logistics industry, and supporting business continuity
planning (BCP) to help enhance social infrastructure.
To increase the effectiveness of this alliance, the companies have agreed to establish a Business
Alliance Promotion Office (tentative name) and to proceed with negotiations on future businessstrategies and other matters.
Both companies seek to boost their corporate value by growing side by side as long-term partners,
based on respect for each other’s management autonomy and a spirit of mutual trust and equality.
Plans call for each company to acquire the equivalent of 2 billion yen in common stock in the othercompany by the end of March 2023. This will serve as a foothold for strengthening the relations
between the two companies in the future.
This alliance will have minimal impact on the business results for the two companies for this financialperiod. Any future matters requiring disclosure will be promptly disclosed.

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(Overview of Maruwa Unyu Kikan Co., Ltd.)NameMaruwa Unyu Kikan Co., Ltd.
Address

7-1 Asahi, Yoshikawa, Saitama Prefecture

Representative

Masaru Wasami, President

Lines of business

Third-party logistics (3PL) business (e-commerce/ordinary-temperaturelogistics, food-logistics, medicine&medical logistics)
Logistics consulting businessTransportation business (general transportation, special combined cargotransportation, moving, industrial waste collection and transportation, etc.)
On-demand service related to office documents, document storage
services

Capital2,667 million yen

Established

August 1973

Financial standing and business results for the three most recent years (unit: million yen)
Fiscal year

Ending March 2020

Ending March 2021

Ending March 2022

Net assets

26,32825,70829,735

Total assets

48,42373,19185,909Net sales

98,348112,113133,000

Ordinary profit

7,392

8,262

9,139

(Overview of Kamigumi Co., Ltd.)
Name
Kamigumi Co., Ltd.
Address

4-1-11 Hamabe-dori, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture

Representative

Yoshihiro Fukai, President & Representative Director

Lines of businessDistribution business:

Other businesses:
Capital31,642 million yen

EstablishedFebruary 1947

Harbor transport, warehouse, domestic transport,
factory cargo handling, international transport,other distribution
Heavy cargo transportation and construction
services, other

Financial standing and business results for the three most recent years (unit: million yen)
Fiscal year

Ending March 2020

Ending March 2021

Ending March 2022

Net assets

337,744352,408

367,917

Total assets

400,057

415,539434,734

Net sales

278,815

239,314261,681

Ordinary profit

26,407

26,18430,875

Direct any inquiries concerning this News Release to:
Kamigumi Co., Ltd., PR Dept., tel. +81-78-271-5110*Also see the website of Maruwa Unyu Kikan Co., Ltd. (https://www.momotaro.co.jp/)
for information concerning this alliance.

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