The move comes as Japan’s beer market ... yen ($445 million). Kirin’s plan is to expand the range of products containing the company’s unique, secret-sauce ingredient called Lactococcus ...

Japan’s Kirin Holdings on Tuesday stepped up its defense against an activist investor that is demanding it sell off its non-beer assets, saying board members proposed by the fund did not know ...

Last month Spring Valley, a sub-brand of Kirin that focuses on more inventive ... and it’s all thanks to the cinnamon, Having a common ingredient helps bridge the gap between the beer’s inherent ...