Who owns Sho Chiku Bai?
Sho Chiku Bai is owned by Takara (Japan, TSE: 2531).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Takara Holdings: Takara Shuzo domestic business page and brand history, TAKARA HOLDINGS INC. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- TAKARA HOLDINGS INC. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇯🇵 Japan, Kyoto
- Origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Category
- Beverages › Wine & champagne › Still wine
- Parent ticker
- TSE: 2531
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Sho Chiku Bai
Sho Chiku Bai is Takara's sake brand. Takara Shuzo began exporting it in 1951, and in 1983 set up Takara Sake USA to brew Sho Chiku Bai in California. The company says it has grown into the top sake brand in the United States, and that the Takara group holds the largest share of the global sake market. High-quality sake for the Japanese market is produced at the Sho Chiku Bai Shirakabegura brewery in Nada, completed in 2001.
Ownership timeline of Sho Chiku Bai
Where Sho Chiku Bai sits in Takara
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Takara
Takara controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 6 of them in beverages.
Also in beverages
- Ikkomon (2001)
- Sho Chiku Bai Shirakabegura Mio (2011)
- Takara Can Chu-Hi (1984)
- Takara Shochu Highball (2006)
- Takara Shochu Jun (1977)
Other brands in still wine, and who owns them
The 127 brands in still wine on Brandtree belong to 34 owners. The largest is Concha y Toro, with 11.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Almaviva | Concha y Toro | 🇨🇱 Chile |
| Carlo Rossi | Gallo | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Bodega San Telmo | Grupo Peñaflor | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| Aura | Sogrape | 🇵🇹 Portugal |
| AFIP | Changyu | 🇨🇳 China |
| Archery Summit | Crimson Wine Group | 🇺🇸 United States |
| 19 Crimes | Treasury Wine Estates | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| Aphrodite | KEO | 🇨🇾 Cyprus |
About the owner: Takara
Takara is a publicly listed company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan, founded in 1925. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as TSE: 2531.
Takara Holdings is a Kyoto holding company whose domestic arm Takara Shuzo makes shochu, sake, canned chu-hi and seasonings such as hon-mirin, while Takara Shuzo International Group sells Sho Chiku Bai sake and Japanese food wholesale overseas. A third arm, Takara Bio, supplies life-science reagents and contract biologics manufacturing and has no consumer brands. The group page dates the Takara Shuzo business to 1842 in Fushimi, Kyoto; the holding company profile gives a founding date of 6 September 1925.
🇯🇵 Sho Chiku Bai and other Japanese brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 437 brands that began in Japan. 21 of them (5%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Sho Chiku Bai 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 Sho Chiku Bai?
The parent company of Sho Chiku Bai is Takara, a publicly listed company headquartered in Japan.
Is Sho Chiku Bai Japanese?
Yes. Sho Chiku Bai originated in Japan and its owner, Takara, is also headquartered in Japan.
Is Sho Chiku Bai still owned by Takara?
Yes. As of 4 October 2026, Sho Chiku Bai is still owned by Takara. 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] Takara Holdings: Takara Shuzo domestic business page and brand history — TAKARA HOLDINGS INC., Official document; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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