Top 10 Beverage Companies For 2015

Top 10 Beverage Companies For 2015: Suntory Beverage & Food Ltd (STBFY)

Suntory Beverage & Food Limited is principally engaged in the manufacture and sale of beverages and food. The Company operates in two geographical segments. The Domestic segment is engaged in the manufacture and sale of various soft drinks within Japan, such as coffee drinks, mineral water, green tea drinks, tea drinks, carbonated drinks, fruit juice drinks, functional beverages, milk beverages, and food for specified health use, as well as syrup for general and business usage. The International segment is engaged in the manufacture and sale of carbonated drinks, fruit juice drinks, health food, seasoning, tea-based beverages and others, with operations in Europe, Oceania, Asia and the Americas. As of May 29, 2013, the Company had 80 subsidiaries and 10 associated companies. On October 15, 2013, the Company acquired Lucozade Ribena Suntory Limited. On December 12, 2013, the Company acquired Suntory Beverage & Food Europe Limited. Advisors' Opinion:

• [By John Udovich]

  Whiskey has become increasingly cool and popular thanks to the whole cocktail movement, something that's good for big whiskey stocks like Suntory Beverage & Food Limited (OTCMKTS: STBFY), Diageo plc (NYSE: DEO) and Brown-Forman Corporation (NYSE: BF.B) who also produce a wide variety of liquors and beverages. In fact, a recent episode of the Daily Ticker cited these stats from a USA Today article:

• [By Charles Sizemore]

  Let's start with Suntory Beverage & Food Limited (STBFY),which recently completed its acquisition of Beam Inc., formerly the purest play on bourbon. Beam was the owner of the eponymous Jim Beam brand, as well as the higher-end Maker's Mark and Knob Creek and the lower-end Old Crow. Suntory is Japan's leading spirits company, though most Americans will be unfamiliar with its Japanese whisky br! ands, such as Yamazaki and Hakushu. (Note for booze snobs: Japanese whisky—like Scotch and Canadian whisky—is correctly spelled "whisky." American bourbon, Tennessee whiskey and Irish whiskey are correctly spelled "whiskey.")

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