Company
Suntory Holdings
Unlisted Osaka holding company of the Japanese Suntory drinks group, 89.32 % owned by Kotobuki Realty and parent of the listed Suntory Beverage & Food.
- Registered in
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Founded
- February 2009
- Owned by
- Kotobuki Realty
- Products here
- 0
Who owns Suntory Holdings
Every company above Suntory Holdings, the top of the group first, each tie from a cited source.
No company above it
owns
What the sources say about these ties
- Kotobuki Realty owns
- The statement on controlling shareholders of Suntory Beverage & Food, dated 27 March 2025 and current as of 31 December 2024, records Suntory Holdings as a subsidiary of Kotobuki Realty Co., Ltd.; the Japanese encyclopedia article on Kotobuki Realty puts the holding at 89.32 % of the issued shares.
About Suntory Holdings
Suntory Holdings Limited (サントリーホールディングス株式会社) is the holding company of the Japanese Suntory drinks group, registered at 2-1-40 Dojimahama in Kita-ku, Osaka under register number 1200-01-136159 and carrying the Legal Entity Identifier 54930074QUY8RD0UZM08, with a creation date of 15 February 2009.[1] Its Japanese corporate number is 3120001136159.[2] Its own shares are not listed on any exchange: Kotobuki Realty Co., Ltd., the Osaka company of the Torii and Saji founding families, holds 89.32 % of the issued shares.[3] It has capital of 70 billion yen and is the parent company of the Tokyo-listed Suntory Beverage & Food Limited, holding 59.48 % of that company's voting rights; the Suntory Group at 31 December 2024 was made up of 267 companies, being Suntory Holdings, its parent company and 265 subsidiaries and equity-method associates.[4]
The business behind the holding company is much older than the company itself: Shinjirō Torii opened the Torii Shōten store in Osaka on 1 February 1899, it became Kotobukiya in 1921, took the name Suntory in 1963, and moved to the present holding structure on 1 April 2009, when Suntory Beverage & Food Limited and six sister companies were established under it; the group brews, distils and sells drinks worldwide, bought Orangina-Schweppes in 2009 for 300 billion yen, the drinks division of GlaxoSmithKline in 2013 and Beam, Inc. in 2014 for 16 billion dollars.[5]
Suntory Holdings is not the top of its own ownership chain: the March 2025 filing records it as a subsidiary of Kotobuki Realty Co., Ltd., which is for that reason counted a parent company of Suntory Beverage & Food as well, the 59.48 % of that company's voting rights held by Suntory Holdings being subject to aggregation to it.[4] Kotobuki Realty, set up in September 1956 and named after Kotobukiya, manages the shareholdings of the group's companies and is described as its effective holding company; eighteen members of the Torii and Saji founding families hold 72.36 % of its own shares, with Nobutada Saji and Shingo Torii on 4.97 % each.[3] The LEI data puts it differently: the GLEIF record carries a direct-parent reporting exception in the category "direct accounting consolidation parent" with the reason "no known person", so no consolidating parent is recorded above Suntory Holdings there even though the shareholding is.[6]
References
- ↑ GLEIF: LEI record of Suntory Holdings Limited Accessed 2026-09-20.
- ↑ Wikidata: Suntory Holdings (Q137363738) Accessed 2026-09-20.
- ↑ Japanese Wikipedia: 寿不動産 (Kotobuki Realty) Accessed 2026-09-20.
- ↑ Suntory Beverage & Food Limited: Matters Concerning Controlling Shareholders, Etc., 27 March 2025 Accessed 2026-09-20.
- ↑ Wikipedia: Suntory Accessed 2026-09-20.
- ↑ GLEIF: direct parent reporting exception of Suntory Holdings Limited Accessed 2026-09-20.
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