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Asahi Group: brands it owns and its ownership tree

Asahi Group (TSE: 2502) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan that owns 9 consumer brands, and has 3 recorded transactions.[1]

Asahi Group Holdings was founded in Osaka in 1889 and is one of the two dominant Japanese brewers. It became a genuinely international company between 2016 and 2020 by buying the European and Australian beer brands that AB InBev was forced to divest to clear its takeover of SABMiller.

Company facts

Legal name
Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd.
Type
publicly listed company · see all publicly listed company owners
Headquarters
🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan
Founded
1889
Tickers
TSE: 2502
Wikidata
Q696337
Website
www.asahigroup-holdings.com
Last verified
· 1 sources

Asahi Group in numbers

Everything Asahi Group owns

2026

Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.

Everything Asahi Group owns Tree of 9 brands under Asahi Group. Asahi Group Asahi Super Dry Carlton Draught Fuller's London Pride Grolsch Meantime Peroni Pilsner Urquell Tyskie and 1 more

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Brand portfolio by category

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Acquisitions by Asahi Group

Divestiture closed

Asahi Group acquires Carlton Draught and Victoria Bitter

Asahi acquired Carlton & United Breweries, the Australian business AB InBev had inherited with SABMiller, giving it Victoria Bitter and Carlton Draught. The Australian competition regulator required Asahi to divest several cider and beer brands before approving the deal.

Value
A$16bn
Seller
AB InBev
Regulatory
None recorded
Divestiture closed

Asahi Group acquires Pilsner Urquell and Tyskie

Asahi bought SABMiller's central and eastern European businesses from AB InBev, including Pilsner Urquell in the Czech Republic and Tyskie in Poland, in the second and larger tranche of divestitures required to clear the SABMiller merger.

Value
€7.3bn
Seller
AB InBev
Regulatory
None recorded
Divestiture closed

Asahi Group acquires Peroni, Grolsch and Meantime

AB InBev sold Peroni, Grolsch and Meantime to Asahi as part of the divestitures required to obtain competition clearance for its acquisition of SABMiller. It was the Japanese brewer's first substantial European business.

Value
€2.55bn
Seller
AB InBev
Regulatory
None recorded

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Frequently asked questions

What brands does Asahi Group own?

Asahi Group owns 9 consumer brands tracked here, including Peroni, Pilsner Urquell, Grolsch, Victoria Bitter, Carlton Draught and Tyskie.

Is Asahi Group a Japanese company?

Yes. Asahi Group is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and was founded in 1889.

Who owns Asahi Group?

Asahi Group is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as 2502 on the TSE.

What was Asahi Group's most recent acquisition?

The most recent completed acquisition recorded here is Carlton Draught and Victoria Bitter on 1 June 2020.

Sources (1) & corrections

Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.

  1. [1] Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd. Integrated Report 2025 — Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd., Annual report, published 31 March 2026; retrieved 6 September 2026.

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