Takara: brands it owns and its ownership tree
Takara (TSE: 2531) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan that owns 6 consumer brands.[1]
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.
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Company facts
- Legal name
- TAKARA HOLDINGS INC. (also Takara Shuzo, Takara Group, TaKaRa)
- Type
- publicly listed company · see all publicly listed company owners
- Headquarters
- 🇯🇵 Kyoto, Japan
- Founded
- 1925
- Tickers
- TSE: 2531
- Website
- www.takara.co.jp/english/
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
Takara in numbers
- Takara owns 6 consumer brands tracked here across 1 top-level categories; the largest is beverages with 6 brands.[1]
Everything Takara owns
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Brand portfolio by category
Full portfolio, 6 brands, with sources → · Competitors by shared categories →
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Frequently asked questions
What brands does Takara own?
Takara owns 6 consumer brands tracked here, including Sho Chiku Bai, Takara Shochu Highball, Takara Can Chu-Hi, Takara Shochu Jun, Sho Chiku Bai Shirakabegura Mio and Ikkomon.
Is Takara a Japanese company?
Yes. Takara is headquartered in Kyoto, Japan and was founded in 1925.
Who owns Takara?
Takara is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as 2531 on the TSE.
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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