Who owns Sapporo Premium Beer?
Sapporo Premium Beer is owned by Sapporo (Japan, TSE: 2501).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Sapporo Breweries Ltd. Medium-Term Management Plan (2027–30). Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Sapporo Breweries Ltd. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇯🇵 Japan, Tokyo
- Origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Category
- Beverages › Beer › Lager
- Parent ticker
- TSE: 2501
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Sapporo Premium Beer
Sapporo Premium Beer is the international face of the Sapporo brand, which the company says it has sold in the United States since exports began in 1964 and which has been the leading Asian beer brand there since 1986. The family includes a light beer, an alcohol-free 0.0% version and Sapporo Reserve, and in Canada the brand has also been put on a vodka lemon sour, Sapporo's first ready-to-drink cocktail under the Sapporo name.
Ownership timeline of Sapporo Premium Beer
Where Sapporo Premium Beer sits in Sapporo
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Sapporo
Sapporo controls 8 brands on Brandtree, 8 of them in beverages.
Also in beverages
- Kireto Lemon
- Okanagan Spring (1985)
- Pokka
- Sapporo Draft Beer Kuro Label (1977)
- Sleeman (1988)
- Unibroue
- Yebisu (1890)
Other brands in lager, and who owns them
The 200 brands in lager on Brandtree belong to 55 owners. The largest is AB InBev, with 17; Sapporo has 4.
About the owner: Sapporo
Sapporo is a publicly listed company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1876. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control, and it is listed as TSE: 2501.
Sapporo traces its beginnings to the Kaitakushi Brewery founded in Sapporo, Hokkaido in 1876. The listed company, formerly the pure holding company Sapporo Holdings, became a business holding company and changed its name to Sapporo Breweries Ltd. on 1 July 2026, with revenue of 506.9 billion yen in 2025. It is concentrating on alcoholic beverages: in December 2025 it agreed to sell its real estate subsidiary, owner of Yebisu Garden Place and Sapporo Factory, to a consortium of PAG and KKR in stages ending in 2029, and in April 2026 it agreed to transfer the Stone craft beer brand to Firestone Walker.
🇯🇵 Sapporo Premium Beer and other Japanese brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 456 brands that began in Japan. 23 of them (5%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Sapporo Premium Beer is not one of them.
- Aquarius — Coca-Cola 🇺🇸
- Asahi Super Dry — Asahi Group 🇯🇵
- Blendy — Ajinomoto 🇯🇵
- Café au Lait — Glico 🇯🇵
- Gogo no Kocha — Kirin 🇯🇵
- Hibiki — Suntory 🇯🇵
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Sapporo Premium Beer?
The parent company of Sapporo Premium Beer is Sapporo, a publicly listed company headquartered in Japan.
Is Sapporo Premium Beer Japanese?
Yes. Sapporo Premium Beer originated in Japan and its owner, Sapporo, is also headquartered in Japan.
Is Sapporo Premium Beer still owned by Sapporo?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Sapporo Premium Beer is still owned by Sapporo. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Sapporo Breweries Ltd. Medium-Term Management Plan (2027–30) — Sapporo Breweries Ltd., Official document; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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