Meantime is owned by Asahi Group (Japan, TSE: 2502), which acquired the brand on 11 October 2016 from AB InBev, as part of a €2.55 billion deal that also included Peroni and Grolsch.[1] Before Asahi Group, Meantime was owned by SABMiller from 2015 to 2016.[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd. Integrated Report 2025, 31 March 2026. Last checked .
Meantime is a London craft brewery founded in Greenwich in 1999, one of the first British breweries of the modern craft wave. It passed from SABMiller to AB InBev and then to Asahi in 2016 as part of the regulatory divestitures.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Asahi Group controls 9 brands on Brandtree, 9 of them in beverages.
The 62 brands in ale on Brandtree belong to 32 owners. The largest is Duvel Moortgat, with 7; Asahi Group has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Birrificio del Ducato | Duvel Moortgat | 🇧🇪 Belgium |
| Bishops Finger | Shepherd Neame | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Farsons Blue Label | Farsons | 🇲🇹 Malta |
| Lagunitas | Heineken | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
| Franziskaner | AB InBev | 🇧🇪 Belgium |
| Avery Brewing Company | Mahou San Miguel | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| Dogfish Head | Boston Beer | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Belikin Stout | Bowen & Bowen | 🇧🇿 Belize |
Asahi Group is a publicly listed company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1889. Brandtree records 9 brands under its control, and it is listed as TSE: 2502.
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.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 552 brands that began in the United Kingdom. 291 of them (53%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Meantime among them.
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.
The parent company of Meantime is Asahi Group, a publicly listed company headquartered in Japan.
Meantime originated in the United Kingdom in 1999, but it is owned today by Asahi Group, which is headquartered in Japan. So Meantime is a British-origin brand under Japanese ownership.
Asahi Group completed its acquisition of Meantime on 11 October 2016, after announcing the deal on 10 February 2016. The deal, which also included Peroni and Grolsch, was valued at €2.55 billion (enterprise value).
Before Asahi Group, Meantime was owned by SABMiller from 2015 until 2016.
Yes. As of 25 September 2026, Meantime is still owned by Asahi Group. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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