Kirin
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Food, beverage, alcohol and pharmaceuticals manufacturer
Kirin's main businesses include alcohol, soft drinks, pharmaceuticals and food. Japan's largest brewer. Kirin bought Australian dairy & juice company National Foods in 2007, and Dairy Farmers in late 2008, and the 54% of Lion Nathan (Australia's #2 brewer) it didn't already own in 2009. While Kirin is an independent company, it is part of Japan's largest "keiretsu", Mitsubishi Group.
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Company Assessment
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Company Details
| Company Structure | Public company |
| Revenue | US$21.4 billion in 2013 |
| # Employees | 39,922 in 2013 |
| Subsidiaries | Kirin Brewery Company Ltd Lion Pty Ltd - Lion Beer, Spirits & Wine Pty Ltd - Lion Dairy & Drinks Pty Ltd - Lion Beer, Spirits & Wine NZ - Healesville Distilling Pty Ltd (50% owned) San Miguel Brewery Inc (48% owned) - San Miguel Brewing International Ltd |
Contact Details
| Address | Tokyo, Japan |
| Website | www.kirinholdings.co.jp/english/ |
Products / Brands
Lion Beer, Spirits & Wine Australia|
5 Seeds Cider
Amstel Beer Birra Moretti Beer Blue Bitter Beer Boag's Beer Emu Beer Eumundi Lager Beer Furphy Beer Guinness Beer Hahn Beer Heineken Beer Ice Beer Beer Iron Jack Beer James Boag's Beer James Squire Beer James Squire Cider Kilkenny Beer Kirin Beer |
Kirin Cider
Knappstein Beer Kosciuszko Beer Little Creatures Beer Orchard Crush Cider Pipsqueak Cider Red Bitter Beer Rogers Beer Southwark Beer Summer Bright Beer Swan Beer TED Beer Tooheys Beer West End Beer White Rabbit Beer Wizard Smith's Beer XXXX Beer |
Lion Dairy & Drinks
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Australian Gold Cheese
Australian Grown Juice & Fruit Drinks Berri Cordial Berri Juice & Fruit Drinks Big M Flavoured Milk Bornhoffen Yoghurt Classic Flavoured Milk Daily Juice Juice & Fruit Drinks Daily Juice Iced Tea Dairy Farmers Cheese Dairy Farmers Flavoured Milk Dairy Farmers Milk Dairy Farmers Custard & Desserts Dairy Farmers Cream Dairy Farmers Yoghurt Dare Flavoured Milk Divine Classic Custard & Desserts Farmers Union Milk Farmers Union Yoghurt Farmers Union Flavoured Milk Fruche Custard & Desserts Heart Active Milk Hillwood Cheese Just Juice Juice & Fruit Drinks King Island Dairy Cheese Kyneton Soft Drinks Masters Flavoured Milk |
Masters (WA) Milk
Mersey Valley Cheese Mildura Juice & Fruit Drinks Moove Flavoured Milk Nourish Juice & Fruit Drinks Prima Juice & Fruit Drinks Pura Cream Pura Flavoured Milk Pura Milk Quelch Ice Blocks South Cape Biscuits/Crackers South Cape Cheese Summit Bottled Water Tasmanian Heritage Cheese The Complete Dairy Milk The Culture Co Milk The Juice Brothers Juice & Fruit Drinks Weight Watchers Cheese Weight Watchers Cream Yogo Custard & Desserts Yogo Yoghurt Yoplait Yoghurt Yopliat Custard & Desserts Yoplus Yoghurt Zooper Dooper Ice Blocks |
Lion Beer, Spirits & Wine NZ
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Speights Beer (imported)
Steinlager Beer (imported) |
Four Pillars (50% owned)
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Four Pillars Gin
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San Miguel Brewing Intl
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San Miguel Beer (imported)
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Related News
Kirin buys Lion Nathan
18th Sep 2009 — (AUST >> FOREIGN) Japanese brewing giant Kirin bought the 54 per cent of Lion Nathan it didn't already own in a $3.4 billion deal. Lion Nathan is Australia's #2 brewer, after Fosters. Kirin recently bought National Foods and Dairy Farmers, and will combine them with Lion to create Lion Nathan National Foods Pty Ltd, which will be the largest supplier to Australian supermarkets. [source]
Kirin buys National Foods/Berri from San Miguel
8th Nov 2007 — Australia's largest dairy company, National Foods, operates in the milk, dairy foods and juice production industries. It was taken over by San Miguel, Phillipino beer giant in 2005, and sold to the Japanese food and drinks giant Kirin Holdings for $2.8 billion in 2007. Kirin owns 46% of Australia's 2nd largest brewer, Lion Nathan. [source]
