Kirin Holdings Co. (2503), Japan’s largest drinks maker, may pay S$2.7 billion ($2.2 billion) to expand in Southeast Asia, following brewers Anheuser-Busch InBev NV (ABI) and Heineken NV (HEIA) as they buy into emerging-market growth. (more…)
Beer and quasi-beer shipments in the nation in October increased 5.3 percent from a year before to 36,109,000 cases, the first rise in four years for the month, data from four major brewers showed Monday. (more…)
Local brewers expand imports of Japanese beers to raise profitability (more…)
Kirin Brewery Co. said Wednesday it has resumed bottled beer production at its plant in Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture, which was severely damaged by last March’s earthquake and tsunami, meaning all items are now back in production at the plant. (more…)
Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. said Friday its products topped the imported beer market of South Korea in 2011 with a share of 28.3 percent. (more…)
Asahi Breweries Ltd. maintained its position as Japan’s biggest beermaker last year, widening its market-share advantage over Kirin Holdings Co. as demand in the nation fell for a seventh straight year. (more…)
Japanese brewers are looking past China’s $57 billion beer market to a country with less than one- tenth the population: Vietnam. (more…)
Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. (2502) and Kirin Holdings Co. (2503), Japan’s biggest brewers, plan acquisitions across Southeast Asia to access wider margins in a market of more than half a billion people as demand at home weakens. (more…)
Kirin Holdings Co. (2503), Japan’s largest brewer by market value, will consider “small-scale” acquisitions in Southeast Asia to tap the region’s growing population. (more…)
Asahi Beer have re-released one of their classic beer bottle designs on cans of their Asahi lager for the Christmas and New Year period. (more…)
