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Sapporo Breweries restated end-June cash from ¥77.1bn to ¥217.1bn and its net financial liabilities to below zero, while total assets of ¥870.5bn and its income statement are not corrected.
Sapporo, Kirin and Asahi each disclosed JFTC action on October 7, 2026; Sapporo describes the suspicion as price restraint among four major alcohol makers, and all three say the earnings impact is unknown.
A gain from losing control of its real-estate subsidiary lifted Sapporo Breweries' first-half net profit by ¥293.7bn to ¥295.4bn, even as the newly renamed brewer's operating business posted a ¥5.9bn loss on restructuring and impairment charges.
A one-off ¥315bn gain from ceding control of its real estate arm pushed Sapporo Breweries' half-year net profit up ¥293.7bn to ¥295.4bn, even as its continuing operations swung into a ¥5.9bn operating loss.
The brewer's fresh four-year plan raises its dividend-on-equity goal to 5%, pencils in about ¥170bn of buybacks and ¥80bn of dividends through 2030, and spreads ¥300bn to ¥400bn of growth money across North American and Vietnamese brewing capacity, Asian distribution and domestic drink investment rather than a single project.
Sapporo Breweries is buying 25% of a new Singapore joint venture holding Carlsberg's business across six Asian markets, and betting the deal can grow its premium beer's regional sales roughly tenfold by 2035.
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