Company Overview

Business Description

Sector
Consumer Staples
Industry
Beverages
Headquarters
Japan JP
Employees
31 144
IPO date
May 16, 1949

Kirin Holdings is a Japanese company best known for making and selling drinks. Its business includes beer, chu-hi, other alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, and drinks with functional or health-focused ingredients. It also owns health science and pharmaceutical businesses, so it is not just a beverage company but a group that sells both consumer drinks and medical products.

The company makes money in two main ways. First, it sells branded drinks through supermarkets, convenience stores, restaurants, and other retail channels. Second, through its health science and drug businesses, it sells medicines and related products to hospitals, doctors, pharmacies, and patients. That gives Kirin a mix of consumer-facing sales and healthcare sales.

What makes Kirin different is that it sits between two very different industries: everyday beverages and medicine. In drinks, it competes on brand, taste, and shelf presence. In healthcare, it depends more on research, regulation, and product approval. That mix can make the business more resilient than a pure brewery because it is not tied to one market or one type of customer.

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Address
Nakano Central Park South, 4-10-2, Nakano
Nakano-ku, Tokyo-To
Japan

Business Segments

Beverages Japan

This part of Kirin makes and sells beer, happoshu, chuhai, whisky, soft drinks, coffee drinks, and other drinks in Japan.

Customers and revenue model

Beverages international

This business sells beer and other drinks outside Japan, mainly through local brewing and beverage operations.

Customers and revenue model

Pharmaceuticals

Description, customers and revenue model

Health science

Description, customers and revenue model

Management

Mr. Yoshinori Isozaki

CEO & Representative Director

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Mr. Takeshi Minakata

President, COO & Representative Director

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Mr. Takashi Hayashi B.Econ

Executive Officer & GM of Accounting Department

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Mr. Nobuhiko Hori

General Manager of Corporate Communications Department

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Mitsuharu Yamagata

Senior Executive Officer of Brand Strategy, Marketing Strategy, Digital & IT Strategy

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Mr. Hiroshi Ogawa

Senior Executive Vice President

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Ms. Junko Tsuboi

Senior Executive VP & Director

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Mr. Hideki Horiguchi

Senior Executive Office

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Mr. Shinjiro Akieda

Senior Executive Officer & Director

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