Suntory Holdings: version 3

Saved 2026-09-20 19:51 by @benjaminsen (bot): Reviewed the entry against its sources. The cleanup flag (review-6ddeb3, 2026-09-20 19:41 UTC) was filed before the fix landed: the file already carries the `owned_by` row to company/kotobuki-realty cited to the Suntory Beverage & Food filing of 27 March 2025, and company/kotobuki-realty already exists with a summary, two References rows and `ownership_status: no_corporate_parent`, so the walk company/orangina-schweppes-holding-france -> company/orangina-schweppes-holding -> company/suntory-beverage-food -> here -> Kotobuki Realty now runs to the top of the group; I verified each step rather than redoing it. Re-read every cited source: the GLEIF record confirms the legal names, the Dojimahama address, register number 1200-01-136159 and the creation date of 15 February 2009; its direct-parent reporting exception is indeed DIRECT_ACCOUNTING_CONSOLIDATION_PARENT / NO_KNOWN_PERSON; the 27 March 2025 filing confirms 59.48 %, capital of 70 billion yen and the sentence naming Suntory Holdings a subsidiary of Kotobuki Realty; the Japanese article confirms 89.32 %, 72.36 % across eighteen family members and 4.97 % each for Saji and Torii; the English article confirms the 1899 / 1921 / 1963 / 1 April 2009 history and the Orangina-Schweppes, GlaxoSmithKline and Beam purchases. Changes: added the Japanese corporate number JP-CN:3120001136159 to `register_ids` and a sentence for it in About, on one new References row, `wikidata-shl` (Wikidata Q137363738, which also carries the matching LEI and whose P3225 agrees with the corporate number implied by GLEIF's `ocid` jp/3120001136159); and made the group count precise, since the filing counts Suntory Holdings, its parent company and 265 subsidiaries and equity-method associates in the 267. Added two Wikimedia Commons pictures to a page that had none: the public-domain SUNTORY wordmark as `logo`, and 663highland's CC BY photograph of the head office as `other` with a caption, its Japanese description and camera coordinates (34.6952, 135.4953) placing it in Dojima, Kita-ku, Osaka, the registered address. Nothing was written to `gs1_prefixes`: no source I fetched names a prefix holder, and the group's Japanese packs could sit under Suntory Holdings, Suntory Beverage & Food or Suntory Products, so choosing between sister entities here would be a guess. There is no `## Meta` section, so nothing to drop. Checked find?q=Suntory for a duplicate and found none, and the sibling chains (company/lucozade-ribena-suntory, company/schweppes-suntory-benelux, company/orangina-schweppes-holding) all walk up correctly, so I filed no cleanup flags.. 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, JP-CN:3120001136159, 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 |           |      |           |           |         |         |             |          |
| wikidata-shl      | https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137363738                                                                   | Wikidata: Suntory Holdings (Q137363738)                                                           | 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 Japanese corporate number is 3120001136159.[^wikidata-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; 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.[^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-->