Businessweek

Asahi Breweries, Ltd. engages in the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, and food and pharmaceutical products primarily in Japan. Products In alcoholic beverages, the company offers beer-type beverages, shochu, RTD (ready-to-drink) beverages, whisky and spirits, and wine under various brands, including Asahi Super Dry, Asahi Style Free, Asahi Cool Draft, Asahi Off, Honnama, Clear Asahi, Asahi Cocktail Partner, Asahi Shunka Shibori, Black Nikka Clear Blend, Single Malt Yoichi, Sainte Neige, Baron Philippe, and Louis Latour. In soft drinks business, the company offers carbonated beverages, coffee, tea-based drinks, mineral water, and health and functional drinks under Mitsuya Cider, WONDA, Mitsuya Cider, Asahi Juroku-Cha, Asahi Super H2O, and Asahi Fujisan no Vanadium Tennensui brands. In Food and Pharmaceuticals Business, the company offers MINTIA breath mint tablets; BALANCEUP nutritionally balanced snack bars; Dear-Natura brand supplements; and quasi-drug product EBIOS, a brewer’s yeast preparation tablet. It also offers Goo-Goo Kitchen baby food brand; and infant formula brands, such as Hai-Hai and Gun-Gun. In freeze-dried products, it offers processed seasonings and retort-packaged foods. History Asahi Breweries, Ltd. was founded in 1949.