Asahi Breweries
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Japanese food and beverage company
OverviewAI-generated
Asahi Breweries is a company and funder established in 1889. The organization is active and located in Tokyo, Japan. It is also known by the aliases Asahi Bīru Kabushiki Gaisha and Asahi Group Holdings.
The entity maintains a presence under the title Asahi Super Dry - Age Gate. This resource is not grounded and contains 1876 characters.
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Key facts
- Native name
- アサヒグループホールディングス株式会社
- Formerly
- Asahi Beer Co., Ltd. (1949-1989), Asahi Breweries, Ltd. (1989-2010)
- Company type
- Public
- Traded as
- TYO : 2502 , TOPIX Large 70 Component
- Industry
- Beverage
- Founded
- September 1, 1949 ; 76 years ago ( 1949-09-01 )
- Headquarters
- Azumabashi, Sumida, Tokyo , Japan
- Key people
- Akiyoshi Koji ( president and Representative Director, CEO )
- Products
- Beer Beverages
- Revenue
- ¥ 2.939 trillion (2024) ¥ 2.769 trillion (2023)
- Operating income
- ¥269.052 billion (2024) ¥244.999 billion (2023)
- Net income
- ¥193.181 billion (2024) ¥166.031 billion (2023)
- Total assets
- ¥5.403 trillion (2024) ¥5.285 trillion (2023)
- Total equity
- ¥2.674 trillion (2024) ¥2.465 trillion (2023)
- Subsidiaries
- Asahi Breweries, Asahi Soft Drinks, Asahi Group Foods
- Website
- asahigroup-holdings .com /en /
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company, Funder
- Founded
- 1889
- Location
- Tokyo, Japan
- Also known as
- Asahi Bīru Kabushiki Gaisha, Asahi Group Holdings
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.418133.c · ISNI 0000 0001 0702 3860
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- brewery
- Official name
- アサヒビール株式会社
- Country
- Japan
- Subsidiary
- Ursus Breweries
- Stock exchange
- OTC Markets Group
- Legal form
- kabushiki gaisha
- Creator
- Tadanori Yokoo
- Official website
- www.asahibeer.co.jp
- Image
- Asahi HQ2.jpg
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- owner of
- Nikka Whisky Distilling
- Commons category
- Asahi Breweries
- topic's main category
- Category:Asahi Breweries
- inception
- 1889-01-01
- product or material produced
- Asahi Super Dry
- social media followers
- 1610180
- location of formation
- Sakai
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Encyclopedic overview
The Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd. (アサヒグループホールディングス株式会社, Asahi Gurūpu Hōrudingusu kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese beverage holding company headquartered in Sumida, Tokyo. In 2024, the group had revenue of JPY 2.9 trillion. Asahi's business portfolio can be segmented as follows: alcoholic beverage business (40.5%), overseas business (32%), soft drinks business (17.2%), food business (5.4%) and "other" business (4.9%). Asahi, with a 37% market share, is the largest of the four major beer brewers in Japan followed by Kirin Beer with 34% and Suntory with 16%. Asahi has a 48.5% share of the Australian beer market. In response to a maturing domestic Japanese beer market, Asahi broadened its geographic footprint and business portfolio through the acquisition of beer businesses in Western Europe and Central Eastern Europe. This has resulted in Asahi having a large market share in many European countries, such as a beer market share of 44% in the Czech Republic, 32% in Poland, 36% in Romania, and 18% in Italy.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Asahi Breweries” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.