Mon, 06 Oct 2025

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 Asahi restarts beer production after cyber-attack

Japan's biggest brewer has restarted six factories that produce its popular Super Dry beer.
- Asahi's six Japanese breweries have partially restarted production after a cyber-attack. - Several major shops in Japan, including 7-Eleven and FamilyMart, had warned last week that they were running low on Asahi beer stocks due to the hack. - Asahi is the largest brewer in Japan but also makes soft drinks and food products and supplies own-brand goods to other retailers. - The partially restarted breweries produce Asahi Super Dry and are gradually resuming production of other products, including food and soft drinks. - Two soft drink factories that have partially re-opened are not running at full capacity, while five others will resume operations in accordance with shipments. - All seven of its food plants have resumed operations but are also not yet fully operational. - Asahi said it would resume shipments of 16 products from October 15, including non-alcoholic beers and whiskey. - Some product launches have been postponed due to the attack. - This is the fifth year running that Asahi has posted pre-tax losses.
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