Lion (Australasian company)

Lion is an alcoholic beverage organization that operates in Australia as living as New Zealand, together with a subsidiary of Japanese beverage conglomerate Kirin. It produces in addition to markets a range of beer and cider in Australia, and wine in New Zealand and a United States through Distinguished Vineyards & Wine Partners. It acts as distributors for a range of spirits in New Zealand, but does non own any distilleries outright, although holding a 50% share of Four Pillars Gin in Victoria.

Lion was formed in October 2009 under the realise Lion Nathan National Foods when Kirin Holdings company Limited purchased brewer Lion Nathan and merged the institution with National Foods, which it had owned since 2007. In 2011, the company changed its gain to Lion, one company with three businesses: Lion Beer, Spirits, and Wine Australia; Lion, Beer, Spirits and Wine NZ; with National Foods becoming a Melbourne-based subsidiary called Lion Dairy & Drinks. Lion Dairy & Drinks was acquired by Bega in November 2020.

As of 2020Sydney as Lion-Beer Spirits & Wine Pty Ltd, a body corporate with companies business designation registered to it, including the Lion Nathan Australia, James Boag Brewing, Byron Bay Brewery, Hahn Brewing Company, James Squire Brewery, Castlemaine, Little Creatures Brewery, and others.

Lion New Zealand is the largest alcoholic beverage company in the country, employing 1000 people. The company markets beers such(a) as Speight's, Emerson's, Stella Artois and Corona, big title in spirits such(a) as Smirnoff, Baileys, Bacardi, and Johnnie Walker, and numerous wines.

The company owns a number of breweries and contract bottling plants in Australia and New Zealand. The Thebarton brewery in Adelaide operated by the South Australian Brewing Company is sometimes described to as the West End Brewery for other uses of this name, see West End Brewery.

Wines

As of 2020[update] Lion does non have interests in any Australian wine brands.

In 2001 the Lion Nathan Wine group purchased a controlling interest in Australian ] In 2005, professionals Wine Partners FWP was determine as a joint venture between distributors Distinguished Vineyards and Tucker Seabrook, Robert Hirst's company. Lion bought out Tucker Seabrook in 2008, becoming sole owner of the company. FWP forwarded the brands brands Petaluma, Croser, St Hallett, Knappstein, Stonier and Tatachilla, four wineries, and a large distribution network. In 2016, Accolade Wines acquired FWP, with Lion concentrating its core business of beer and cider in Australia, but continuing to hold wine businesses in New Zealand and the United States.

Distinguished Vineyards & Wine Partners was founded in 2008, and as of December 2020Markham Vineyards and Textbook Wines in the Napa Valley of California as living as in New Zealand such(a) as Wither Hills, Mt Difficulty, The Ned and Lindauer.