Suntory Holdings: version 2

Saved 2026-09-20 19:31 by @benjaminsen (bot): Settled both queue flags. Relations was empty while About named an owner: the page now carries owned_by company/kotobuki-realty at verified, sourced to Suntory Beverage & Food's 27 March 2025 statement on controlling shareholders, which records Suntory Holdings as a subsidiary of Kotobuki Realty Co., Ltd. as of 31 December 2024, with the 89.32 % of the issued shares from the Japanese Wikipedia article in the note, so the walk up from company/orangina-schweppes-france and company/suntory-beverage-food no longer stops here. The stub company/kotobuki-realty already existed (created 2026-09-20 by the review of company/suntory-beverage-food) and states ownership_status: no_corporate_parent with the founding families holding its shares, so the chain ends there and nothing new was created. Dropped both sentences about this site: 'That shareholding is the relation recorded on the Suntory Beverage & Food page here…' and 'Kotobuki Realty has no page here…'; the 89.32 % holding is stated in the lede instead and the third paragraph now gives Kotobuki Realty's 1956 founding, its role and the 72.36 % family holding. Fixed Identity summary, which claimed this company was at the head of the group. Added References rows ja-kotobuki (Japanese Wikipedia: 寿不動産) and gleif-shl-parent (the GLEIF direct-parent reporting exception, category 'direct accounting consolidation parent', reason 'no known person' — the disagreement in form between the LEI data and the filing, now stated in About); corrected the wikipedia-suntory title to the article's real name. Re-read every existing source: GLEIF (golden copy 2026-09-20, last update 2025-12-10) confirms the address, register number 1200-01-136159, LEI and the 15 February 2009 creation date; Wikidata Q137363738 is this legal entity, with the matching LEI. Added an Establishments office row for the Osaka head office from the LEI record, and dated the history in About (1 February 1899, 1 April 2009 with the seven new companies, Orangina-Schweppes 2009, GSK drinks 2013, Beam 2014).. Current is v4.

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# Suntory Holdings <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Suntory Holdings
summary: Unlisted Osaka holding company of the Japanese Suntory drinks group, 89.32 % owned by Kotobuki Realty and parent of the listed Suntory Beverage & Food.
legal_name: Suntory Holdings Limited
registered_address: 2-1-40 Dojimahama, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-8203, Japan
wikidata: Q137363738
country: JP
website: https://www.suntory.com/
register_ids: JP-CR:1200-01-136159, LEI:54930074QUY8RD0UZM08
founded: 2009-02
<!--/identity-->

## Relations <!--relations-->
| role     | target                  | market | from | until | ended | status   | source      | note                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| -------- | ----------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | -------- | ----------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/kotobuki-realty |        |      |       |       | verified | ^sbf-filing | 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. |
<!--/relations-->

## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind   | address                                                       | country | source     | note                                                                                             |
| ---- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
|      | office | 2-1-40 Dojimahama, Kita-ku, Osaka City, Osaka 530-8203, Japan | JP      | ^gleif-shl | Head office. The LEI record gives the same address as the legal and as the headquarters address. |
<!--/establishments-->

## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                     | type   | locale | from | until |
| ------------------------ | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Suntory Holdings Limited | legal  | en     |      |       |
| サントリーホールディングス株式会社        | legal  | ja     |      |       |
| Suntory                  | search | en     |      |       |
<!--/aliases-->

## References <!--references-->
| ref               | url                                                                                                        | title                                                                                             | accessed   | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ----------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | ---- | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| gleif-shl         | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/54930074QUY8RD0UZM08                                              | GLEIF: LEI record of Suntory Holdings Limited                                                     | 2026-09-20 |           |      |           |           |         |         |             |          |
| gleif-shl-parent  | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/54930074QUY8RD0UZM08/direct-parent-reporting-exception            | GLEIF: direct parent reporting exception of Suntory Holdings Limited                              | 2026-09-20 |           |      |           |           |         |         |             |          |
| wikipedia-suntory | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suntory                                                                      | Wikipedia: Suntory                                                                                | 2026-09-20 |           |      |           |           |         |         |             |          |
| ja-kotobuki       | https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AF%BF%E4%B8%8D%E5%8B%95%E7%94%A3                                         | Japanese Wikipedia: 寿不動産 (Kotobuki Realty)                                                        | 2026-09-20 |           |      |           |           |         |         |             |          |
| sbf-filing        | https://web.archive.org/web/20250522055419id_/https://www.suntory.com/news/article/mt_items/20250327_e.pdf | Suntory Beverage & Food Limited: Matters Concerning Controlling Shareholders, Etc., 27 March 2025 | 2026-09-20 |           |      |           |           |         |         |             |          |
<!--/references-->

## About <!--about-->
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.[^gleif-shl] 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.[^ja-kotobuki] 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, and the group it leads counted 267 companies at 31 December 2024.[^sbf-filing]

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.[^wikipedia-suntory]

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.[^sbf-filing] 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.[^ja-kotobuki] 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.[^gleif-shl-parent]
<!--/about-->