Asahi Breweries
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Native name
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アサヒビール株式会社 |
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| Kabushiki Kaisha | |
| Traded as | : |
| Industry | Beverage |
| Founded | 1889 |
| Headquarters | Sumida, Tokyo, Japan |
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Key people
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Naoki Izumiya (President and CEO) |
| Products | Beer, Beverages |
| Revenue |
 ¥1.857 trillion (2015) |
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¥135.119 billion (2015) |
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| Profit |
¥76.427 billion (2015) |
| Total assets |
¥1.902 trillion (2015) |
| Total equity |
¥891.829 billion (2015) |
| Parent | Asahi Group Holdings |
| Website | www |
Asahi Breweries, Ltd. (アサヒビール株式会社 Asahi Bīru Kabushiki Gaisha?, : ) is a leading brewery and soft drink company based in Tokyo, Japan.
As of January 2014, Asahi, with a 38% market share, was the largest of the four major beer producers in Japan followed by Kirin Beer with 35% and Suntory with 15%.
After acquiring SABMiller in October 2016, Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV agreed to sell the former SABMiller Ltd. business in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania to Asahi for US$7.8 billion. The deal closed on December 21, 2016 and included popular beer brands such as Pilsner Urquell, Tyskie, Lech, Dreher and Ursus. The Breweries in the sale include Pilsner Urquell, Kompania Piwowarska, Ursus, Topvar and Dreher.
Anheuser-Busch InBev had also agreed (in April 2016) to sell Grolsch Brewery, Peroni Brewery and England's Meantime Brewery to Asahi; these deals closed on October 12, 2016. The Breweries in the sale include Pilsner Urquell, Kompania Piwowarska, Ursus, Topvar and Dreher.
Asahi was founded in Osaka in 1889 as the Osaka Beer Company (大阪麦酒会社 Ōsaka Bakushu Kaisha?). During the First World War German prisoners worked in the brewery.
In 1990, Asahi acquired a 19.9% stake in Australian brewery giant Elders IXL which has since become the Foster's Group, later sold to SABMiller.
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