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    • Monday, 8 August, 2022
      Moral Money
      Kirin gets tangled in the divestment debate Premium content

      Plus, your reaction to the UN secretary-general’s call for windfall taxes on the oil and gas sector

    • Sunday, 13 March, 2022
      Kirin looks beyond beer with $870mn push into healthcare and pharma

      CEO of Japanese brewer wants to reinvent company as alcohol consumption declines

    • Wednesday, 16 February, 2022
      Lex
      Kirin: exit from overseas operations shows risks of panic buying Premium content

      Japanese brewer is paying the price for knee-jerk foreign acquisitions made a decade ago

    • Monday, 6 December, 2021
      Japan’s Kirin launches Singapore arbitration to exit Myanmar venture

      Brewery seeks to extricate itself from military junta-linked partnerships after February coup

    • Sunday, 21 November, 2021
      News in-depthMyanmar
      Companies struggling to exit Myanmar ventures face prospect of investor flight

      Campaign groups press multinationals to be ready to leave empty-handed

    • Monday, 12 April, 2021
      Leo Lewis
      Kirin’s flawed exit from Myanmar tests the bounds of ESG

      The Japanese brewer’s hasty retreat from the country stirs debate over corporate responsibility

    • Tuesday, 23 February, 2021
      News in-depthMyanmar
      Japanese companies stick with Myanmar despite putsch

      Kirin pulled out of military-linked beer deal but for others, it’s business as usual

    • Friday, 5 February, 2021
      Kirin to end beer tie-ups with Myanmar’s military after coup

      Japanese group’s joint ventures became untenable following army’s seizure of power

    • Thursday, 7 January, 2021
      Kirin under fire as probe into Myanmar unit fails to uncover military ties

      Six-month investigation ends without determining whether cash was funnelled to armed forces

    • Monday, 4 January, 2021
      Beer and spirits
      Kirin to buy stake in Indian craft beer maker Bira 91

      Deal will be Japanese group’s first in country as it looks to reboot overseas M&A strategy

    • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
      Mergers & Acquisitions
      Japan’s Kirin strikes new deal to sell Australian dairy business

      Earlier sale of Lion Dairy to Chinese group torpedoed by Canberra-Beijing tensions

    • Friday, 5 June, 2020
      Kirin orders independent probe of Myanmar beer ventures

      Activists have been pushing brewer to exit country over alleged ties to military

    • Tuesday, 18 February, 2020
      Kirin investor demands board changes or risk proxy battle

      Clashes erupt at Japanese companies including Sekisui House and Sun

    • Monday, 23 December, 2019
      Brewer Kirin reviews Myanmar operations because of military ties

      Japanese group under pressure from campaigners as it nears purchase of US craft brewer

    • Thursday, 7 November, 2019
      Lex
      Kirin: beer goggles Premium content

      Mixing pills and alcohol is never a good idea

    • Thursday, 7 November, 2019
      Kirin investor turns activist with call for new growth strategy

      UK-based FP says Japanese brewer’s diversification into noncore areas ‘destroys value’

    • Tuesday, 11 September, 2018
      Retail & Consumer industry
      Kirin launches strategic review of Australian dairy unit
    • Thursday, 24 August, 2017
      Asia-Pacific equities
      Japanese shares turn soggy as they lag behind global peers

      An especially wet month is the latest dampener for the Japanese stock market

    • Monday, 13 February, 2017
      European companies
      Kirin ends Brazilian venture with $700m sale to Heineken

      Deal makes Dutch group the second-biggest brewer in the world’s third-largest beer market

    • Monday, 13 February, 2017
      Retail & Consumer industry
      Kirin agrees to sell Brazil business to Heineken for ¥77bn
    • Friday, 20 January, 2017
      European companies
      Heineken in talks to buy Japanese group Kirin’s Brazilian beers

      Dutch brewer looks to take on rival AB InBev in its biggest market

    • Friday, 20 January, 2017
      Retail & Consumer industry
      Heineken confirms talks to buy Brasil Kirin
    • Wednesday, 12 October, 2016
      US & Canadian companies
      Kirin bets on rise of craft beer with Brooklyn Brewery stake

      Japanese brewer to take 25% holding giving it rights to sell popular American brand in home market

    • Tuesday, 14 June, 2016
      News in-depthThe Big Read
      Beam Suntory: A volatile Japanese-US blend

      Combining the American and Japanesecorporate cultures of the two drinks groups after $16bn merger Beam and Suntory has proved a headache

    • Monday, 21 December, 2015
      Retail & Consumer industry
      Kirin projects first annual loss as Brazil dries up

      Japanese brewer projects loss of Y56bn as Brazil business deteriorates

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