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Kirin to shift from beer to health products, Sankei newspaper reports
Kirin Holdings Co., Japan's second-largest beer brewer, will shift its core business strategy from beverages to "health and illness-preventing" solutions, the Sankei newspaper reported, citing an interview with Chief Executive Officer Yoshinori Isozaki. The Tokyo-based company is planning a global expansion of products that use ...
Top China milk brand and Canadian rival interested in buying Kirin's Australian dairy arm
Kirin Holdings Co.'s sale of its Australian dairy unit has attracted interest from China's top milk producer as well as Canadian rival Saputo Inc., according to sources. Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co., China's biggest dairy company, and Saputo have each spoken with investment banks ...
Add beer to chocolate, coffee and wine as some of life's little pleasures that global warming will make scarcer and costlier, scientists say. Increasing bouts of extreme heat waves and drought will hurt production of barley, a key beer ingredient, in the future. Losses of ...
Alcohol business looks at a new golden goose for profits: pot
The world's major alcohol producers can no longer ignore the pot phenomenon, as young consumers may increasingly swap beer and cocktails for joints and cannabis-infused drinks. Some have decisively seized the moment. Constellation Brands, maker of Corona beer and Svedka vodka, has poured $4 billion ...
Japan's craft beer scene: 25 years in the making
The secret is long since out: Japan's craft beer scene is a vibrant place, filled with innovative brewers creating new and interesting beers alongside masterful examples of traditional styles.
Even an occasional glass of wine or beer increases the risk of health problems and dying, according to a major study on drinking in 195 nations that attributes 2.8 million premature deaths worldwide each year to booze. "There is no safe level of alcohol," said ...
Edamame: Eat them fresh and green, with a beer or two
Edamame, or immature green soybeans, are the quintessential snack to have with an ice-cold beer, especially in summer. Their popularity has spread around the world in recent years, but the habit of eating fresh, salted green soybeans out of their pods has a history in ...
Kirin Holdings wants its aging customers to eat more healthily
Seeking growth beyond a shrinking beer market, Kirin Holdings Co. is turning its attention to making people healthier. The second-largest beer-maker in the country aims to reach ¥100 billion in sales of food and beverages aimed at appealing to wellness concerns in the next two ...
Aspiring brewer taps Fukushima town's hops in bid to boost sagging farming industry
"I can't wait to drink delicious beer made from homegrown hops," Makoto Honma, the president of Hop Japan Inc., told farmers with a smile in April when he visited them in Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture. While his company was originally intended to focus on the production ...
New definition of beer gives Japanese breweries license to change
Japan will change its legal definition of beer on Sunday, allowing its lager-laden breweries to finally diversify and reinvigorate the stale market.
Major Japanese beer-makers bet on canned chuhai with higher alcohol content
Major domestic brewers are planning to make inroads into the market for canned chūhai cocktails this spring, in order to meet growing demand from budget-minded consumers for inexpensive products with high alcohol content. The firms, including Kirin Brewery Co., Sapporo Breweries Ltd. and Suntory Spirits ...
