A cyberattack that knocked out Asahi Group Holdings' domestic order-and-shipping systems on September 29, 2025 cost Japan's biggest brewer far more than a quarter of lost sales. The disruption forced the company to delay its full-year results by months, and it is now convening a rare extraordinary shareholders' meeting on September 9, 2026 for one purpose only: to formally report the audited business report, financial statements and audit opinion for the year that ended back in December 2025.
The numbers, published only this week, show the scale of the damage. For the year to December 2025, Asahi's revenue slipped 1.5% to ¥2.89tn, but operating profit collapsed 30.9% to ¥185.9bn and net profit attributable to owners fell 36.7% to ¥121.6bn. Strip out one-off portfolio-restructuring and impairment charges and adjusted net profit still fell 19.6% to ¥147.0bn, evidence the hit was not just accounting noise.
The damage was concentrated squarely in Japan. Asahi says the system failure was confined to systems it manages domestically, and Europe and Asia Pacific were untouched.
| Segment | Revenue | Business profit | Change vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan & East Asia | ¥1.33tn | ¥111.6bn | -16.1% |
| Europe | ¥768.2bn | ¥113.1bn | +8.1% |
| Asia Pacific | ¥783.2bn | ¥107.5bn | -1.4% |
Asahi's ordinary annual shareholders' meeting went ahead on schedule, on March 24, 2026. The September gathering exists purely to catch the books up to that meeting: attendees will hear the business report, consolidated and non-consolidated financial statements, and the audit committee's opinion for Asahi's 102nd fiscal period, the same figures made public only this week. The record date for who can attend is set at June 30, 2026, and the meeting itself runs at Bellesalle Shinjuku Grand in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
Management is guiding for a sharp rebound: revenue up 11.2% to ¥3.22tn and operating profit up 59.8% to ¥297.0bn for the year to December 2026. That forecast assumes systems stay up and Japan demand normalizes; Asahi has not disclosed further remediation detail beyond its apology for the delay. Shareholders keep an annual dividend of ¥52.00 per share for the disrupted year, with ¥57.00 proposed for the year ahead. The next official checkpoint comes soon after: Asahi's full annual securities report is due July 27, 2026.