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

Its total sales for the year ending March 2005 were ¥728,000,000,000 (¥728 billion ).

It began operation on March 22, 1957, and was registered as a company on November 24, 1965.

Sagawa's major customers include Amway, Amazon.co.jp, Softbank BB, Yamada Denki, Culture Convenience Club (Tsutaya), Keyence, Sony Style, Askul, and Digital Media Mart.

From 1992, the company was the center of a series of corruption and yakuza-link allegations[1] that helped bring down the ruling LDP, and then the reformist Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa.