page_title: Asahi Breweries
hierarchical_section_title: Asahi Breweries
caption_attribution_description: English: Asahi Dry. 330mL bottle
context_page_description: Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd. is a Japanese global beer, spirits, soft drinks and food business group headquartered in Sumida, Tokyo.
  In 2018, the group had a revenue JPY 2.1 trillion. Asahi's revenue can be segmented as follows: alcoholic beverage business, overseas business, soft drinks business, food business and "other" business. 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%. In response to a maturing domestic Japanese beer market, Asahi broadened its geographic footprint and business portfolio inorganically through the acquisition of highly coveted beer businesses in Western Europe and Central Eastern Europe.
  The first of these transactions happened as a result of Anheuser-Busch InBev agreeing in April 2016 to sell its Dutch business Grolsch Brewery, Italian business Peroni Brewery and the UK's craft Meantime Brewery and Miller Brands UK to Asahi; this €2.3 billion deal closed on 12 October 2016.
context_section_description: Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd. (アサヒグループホールディングス株式会社, Asahi Gurupu Horudingusu Kabushiki Gaisha) is a Japanese global beer, spirits, soft drinks and food business group headquartered in Sumida, Tokyo.
  In 2018, the group had a revenue JPY 2.1 trillion. Asahi's revenue can be segmented as follows: alcoholic beverage business (41.3%), overseas business (32%), soft drinks business (16.6%), food business (5.2%) 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%. In response to a maturing domestic Japanese beer market, Asahi broadened its geographic footprint and business portfolio inorganically through the acquisition of highly coveted beer businesses in Western Europe and Central Eastern Europe.
  The first of these transactions happened as a result of Anheuser-Busch InBev (InBev) agreeing in April 2016 to sell its Dutch business Grolsch Brewery, Italian business Peroni Brewery and the UK's craft Meantime Brewery and Miller Brands UK to Asahi; this €2.3 billion deal closed on 12 October 2016.
  Subsequent to Inbev's acquisition of SABMiller in October 2016, InBev agreed to sell the former SABMiller Ltd.'s Eastern European businesses and relevant assets in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania to Asahi for US €7.3 billion. The deal closed on 21 December 2016 and included beer brands such as Pilsner Urquell, Velkopopovický Kozel, Tyskie, Lech, Dreher and Ursus.
caption: Asahi Super Dry 330mL bottle 5.0% ABV
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