Japan’s Asahi Breweries Ltd. said that it will put off closing its Nishinomiya plant by one year to the end of August 2012 since power shortages at Tohoku and Kanto facilities will hamper efforts to raise output. (more…)
Although the overall market has been shrinking, beer shipments in Japan turned higher in April following a sharp fall (-19.9%) in March. (more…)
Kirin Holdings Co. (2503.TO) Friday said that it swung into the red during the first quarter ended March 31, due to a special loss related to a quake-damaged brewery in northern Japan. (more…)
Asahi Breweries Ltd. (2502.TO) said Thursday its net profit surged during the fiscal first quarter ended March 31, as lower advertising outlays canceled out a special loss caused by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (more…)
Kirin Brewery Co. is planning to raise beer output to make up for lost output at a quake-damaged brewery in northern Japan during the peak demand summer season, and will decide as soon as this month when to restart the brewery, a company spokesman said Friday. (more…)
Sapporo Breweries Ltd. expects shipments of key beer beverages to return to pre-disaster levels next month, Sapporo Holdings Ltd. President Tsutomu Kamijo told The Nikkei in a recent interview. (more…)
Overall beer shipments for Japan’s five top brewers in March plunged 10.9% from a year earlier, their first double-digit decline in 14 months, due to lost output at quake-damaged breweries, according to beer shipment data released Tuesday by the companies. (more…)
Japanese Kirin Brewery Company aims to restart operations at its facility in Sendai, that is located in the prefecture hardest hit by the earthquake and tsunami in March by September or October this year, Koichi Matsuzawa, the company’s president, said at a news conference last week. (more…)
Since the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan on March 11, the Chiba brewery of Sapporo was closed. Now the Japanese brewer “estarted to produce beer, though not 100% in operation,” a Sapporo spokesperson said. (more…)
Japan’s major brewers said that it is still too soon to quantify the whole damage of the earthquake and tsunami happening last week in Japan. Not only were several facilities damaged, but countless staff were impacted. Kirin seems to be the most severely impacted. (more…)
