Japan. Brewer Asahi tries to make splash in big pond
Japan’s Asahi Group Holdings is diving into Europe in hopes of instantly enlarging its presence in an ever-consolidating global beer market.
Japan’s Asahi Group Holdings is diving into Europe in hopes of instantly enlarging its presence in an ever-consolidating global beer market.
You can make the best products in the world, but distributing them to customers is where a consumer company wins big. (more…)
Asahi Group Holdings Ltd., the Japanese brewer of Super Dry, forecast 2016 profit that trails analyst estimates as a slowing economy weighs on domestic sales. (more…)
Asahi Group Holdings has decided to promote the head of its beer subsidiary to president of the parent, The Nikkei has learned. (more…)
The sales of Sapporo Brewery have reached 150-200% of the value of this indicator for the same period last year, two months after the launching of a new beer in the Vietnamese market. (more…)
Top Japanese brewer Asahi Group Holdings is taking a gamble amid a new wave of global consolidation.
Asahi’s headquarters in Tokyo is shown in this photo taken in November 2015. (more…)
Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. (2502.TO) maintained its No. 1 position in the Japanese beer market in terms of the number of cases shipped in 2012 for the third consecutive year, according to data released Wednesday by brewers. (more…)
Kirin Holdings Co. is considering entering the beer market in Myanmar, initially aiming to sell its main Ichiban Shibori brand beer there, it has been learned. (more…)
On a recent night at H Street’s Toki Underground, the aromas of braised pork and ramen broth melded with the grapefruit, lemon and pine wafting from my beer glass. Each sip was both familiar and foreign: citrusy like an American India pale ale, yet subdued and mysterious, bringing to mind not a gulp of orange juice but something coaxed from a mountainside fruit tree. (more…)
–Kirin Holdings to tender entire stake in Fraser & Neave for S$1.9B
–Kirin then aims to buy back F&N’s food and beverage ops for S$2.7B
–Kirin shares fall in Friday trading on fears about additional M&A costs (more…)