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is a leading brewery and soft drink company based in Tokyo, Japan.As of January 2014, Asahi, with a 38% market share, was the largest of the four major beer producers in Japan followed by Kirin Beer with 35% and Suntory with 15%.After acquiring SABMiller in October 2016, Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV agreed to sell the former SABMiller Ltd. business in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania to Asahi for US$7.8 billion. The deal closed on December 21, 2016 and included popular beer brands such as Pilsner Urquell, Tyskie, Lech, Dreher and Ursus.Anheuser-Busch InBev had also agreed (in April 2016) to sell Grolsch Brewery, Italy's Peroni Brewery and England's Meantime Brewery to Asahi; these deals closed on October 12, 2016.HistoryAsahi was founded in Osaka in 1889 as the. During the First World War German prisoners worked in the brewery.