Yamato Transport

The Yamato Transport Company, Ltd. (ヤマト運輸株式会社, Yamato Un'yu kabushiki gaisha, YTC) is one of Japan's largest door-to-door delivery service companies, with a market share of 41%,[2] competing closely with Sagawa Express and Nippon Express. Their head office is in Ginza, Tokyo. The company's trademarked term for their express door-to-door delivery service, TA-Q-BIN (宅急便, takkyūbin) was used, with permission, in the original Japanese title of Kiki's Delivery Service (魔女の宅急便, Majo no Takkyūbin, lit. 'Witch's Express Home Delivery') instead of the generic term takuhaibin (宅配便). Takkyūbin is sometimes used in Japan as a generic term for all express home delivery services, but the company defends the trademark to avoid it becoming genericized.

Yamato Holdings Co., Ltd.

Native name	ヤマトホールディングス株式会社
Romanized name	Yamato Hōrudingusu kabushiki gaisha
Type	Public KK
Traded as	TYO: 9064
Industry	Courier
Founded	1919
Headquarters	Ginza, Chūō, Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Toshizo Kurisu, President
Revenue	JP¥ 1,625,315 million (2019) [1]
Operating income	JP¥ 58,345 million (2019) [1]
Net income	JP¥ 54,259 million (2019) [1]
Total assets	JP¥ 1,123,659 million (2019) [1]
Total equity	JP¥ 565,841 million (2019) [1]
Number of employees	171,888 (2018)
Website	www.kuronekoyamato.co.jp

The company's logo is a yellow oval with a black cat carrying her kitten in her mouth, symbolizing the company's promise that they take care of items entrusted to them as though the items were their own family. The company is often colloquially referred to as 黒ねこ (Kuroneko) which means "black cat" in Japanese. The logo is as familiar in Japan as the Coca-Cola logo is in the United States. The logo was developed by founder Yasuomi Ogura.[3]