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Asahi Group Holdings

Asahi Breweries, Ltd.
Native name
アサヒビール株式会社
Kabushiki Kaisha
Traded as :
Industry Beverage
Founded 1889; 128 years ago (1889)
Headquarters Sumida, Tokyo, Japan
Key people
Naoki Izumiya (President and CEO)
Products Beer, Beverages
Revenue Increase¥1.857 trillion (2015)
Increase¥135.119 billion (2015)
Profit Increase¥76.427 billion (2015)
Total assets Increase¥1.902 trillion (2015)
Total equity Increase¥891.829 billion (2015)
Parent Asahi Group Holdings
Website www.asahigroup-holdings.com/en/

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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