Sapporo Beer
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
| ISIN | JP3320800000 |
| founding | 1876 |
| Seat | Shibuya , Tokyo , Japan |
| management | Tsutomu Kamijo |
| Number of employees | 7,484 (2015) |
| sales | 533.7 billion yen (2015) |
| Branch | Beverage production |
| Website | www.sapporoholdings.jp |
| As of December 31, 2015 | |
Sapporo Beer KK ( Japanese サ ッ ポ ロ ビ ー ル 株式会社 , Sapporo Bīru kabushiki kaisha , English Sapporo Breweries Limited ) is a Japanese brewery and beverage company based in the Shibuya district , Tokyo prefecture .
history
The company was founded in 1876 by the authority for the development of the island of Hokkaidō (開拓 使Kaitakushi ) in Sapporo . The first master brewer was Nakagawa Seibei , who had learned his trade in Germany. After privatization in 1886, Sapporo merged in 1906 with Nippon Bier, founded in 1887, and Osaka Brewery to form Dai-Nihon Bier. In 1949, when the Zaibatsu were dissolved, the group was broken up and divided into Asahi Beer (then still with the Kanji 朝日 麦 酒 , only since 1964 in Katakana) and Nihon Beer (today's Sapporo Beer). In 2003 the group of companies was transferred to a holding company, Sapporo Holdings KK , whose subsidiary has been Sapporo Beer since then. 2006 took over the Sapporo Sleeman Brewery, the third largest brewery in Canada , for 400 million CAD .
Locations
Sapporo operates five breweries in Japan. There is also the Sleman Brewery in Canada and the Sapporo USA Brewery in La Crosse . The Singaporean tea manufacturer Pokka has also been part of the Sapporo Group since 2011 . In 2015 a brewery was built in Long An , Vietnam . With effect from August 31, 2017, Sapporo acquired the American Anchor Brewing Company .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Sapporo Holdings Ltd. Annual Report 2015 , accessed November 22, 2016
- ↑ Jeffrey W. Alexander: Brewed in Japan: The Evolution of the Japanese Beer Industry . UBC Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-7748-2504-7 , pp. 33 ff . (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ^ Sapporo acquisition of Sleeman on tap, at www.cbc.ca , accessed April 7, 2015
- ↑ Company Overview on www.sapporoholdings.jp ( Memento of 13 April 2015, Internet Archive ) retrieved on 7 April 2015
- ↑ About Us, at www.pokka.com.sg ( Memento from April 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 7, 2015
- ↑ About Us, Factory, at www.sapporovietnam.com.vn , accessed April 7, 2015
- ↑ San Francisco's Anchor Brewing acquired by Sapporo , at www.latimes.com , accessed August 4, 2017