Beer and breweries in Japan

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Chapters: Kirin Group, Sapporo Brewery, XXXX, Speight's, Lion Nathan, Beer in Japan, Suntory, Emu, Boag's Brewery, Farmers Union Iced Coffee, Sapporo Beer Museum, National Foods, Sleeman Breweries, Tooheys Brewery, Kirin Brewery Company, Swan Brewery, Coon cheese, Steinlager, Dairy Farmers, Little World Beverages, Asahi Breweries, McCashins Brewery, Little Creatures Brewery, Castlemaine Perkins, Tooheys New, Unibroue, Big M, Waikato Draught, Tooheys Extra Dry, Orion Breweries, Tooheys Old, Lion Red, Hangzhou Qiandaohu Beer Co., Ltd., Kiuchi Brewery, Hahn Brewery, Tooheys Pils. Excerpt: Lion Nathan is an alcoholic beverages company that operates in Australia and New Zealand and produces and markets a range of beer, wine, RTDs and spirits. It is a subsidiary of holding company Lion Nathan National Foods, wholly owned by the Japanese Kirin Holdings Company Limited, and consequently the Mitsubishi Group. The company employs around 1,800 Australians and 1,400 New Zealanders. The company was formed in 1988 with the merger of LD Nathan & Co and Lion Breweries, and was listed on both the Australian and New Zealand Stock Exchanges under the symbol LNN. On 17 September 2009, Lion Nathan shareholders overwhelmingly voted to accept a 100% takeover offer by Kirin. The takeover was implemented on 21 October 2009, and the company was delisted. The original forerunner of the company was Brown Campbell & Co, the company of John Logan Campbell and William Brown who established the Hobson Bridge Brewery in Auckland in 1840. It merged with the Albert Brewery, bought by Louis Ehrenfried in 1878, to form Campbell and Ehrenfried in 1898. The new company was managed by Arthur Myers, Ehrenfried's nephew. In 1914 Campbell and Ehrenfried merged with the Great Northern Brewery, which owned the Lion brand. In 1923 ten breweries amalgamated to form New Zealand Breweries. Campbell and Ehrenfried merged its breweries into New Zealand Breweries but remained a separate company. Douglas Myers, grandson of Arthur Myers, became CEO of Campbell and Ehrenfried in 1965. The northern division of New Zealand Breweries adopted the name Lion Breweries in 1977. Campbell and Ehrenfried bought 19.9 per cent of Lion Breweries in 1981. By the late 1980s, New Zealand Breweries had developed into one of New Zealand's largest companies. In 1988 Lion Breweries took over LD Nathan & Co, New Zealand's largest retailer, to form Lion Nathan. In 1990 it became an Australasian business when it established a major presence in Australia by securing management control of Bond Corporation's brewing assets, in