Who ultimately owns this brewery?

From the archive

Kirin Holdings Company, Limited, through its Australasian subsidiary Lion.

VERIFIEDYESEvidence AChecked 2026-09-07

Since: 2012-10-08
Ultimate parent: Kirin Holdings Company, Limited

The rungs between the brewery and Lion are not fully resolved. This answer states the top of the chain only.

How Tally knows

Lion Pty Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kirin Holdings Company, Limited, and Lion acquired Little World Beverages — the group that held both breweries — in October 2012. The ultimate parent is established even though the rung immediately above the brewery is not; a chain can be known at the top and open in the middle.

Evidence

5 sources

ABN Lookup — LION-BEER, SPIRITS & WINE PTY LTD (ABN 13 008 596 370) — Australian Business Register (accessed 2026-09-07) Proves: That Lion-Beer, Spirits & Wine Pty Ltd holds the registered business names and is a current Australian company
List of entities included as part of Lion Pty Ltd — Lion (2024-06) Proves: That Lion-Beer, Spirits & Wine Pty Ltd is a subsidiary of Lion Pty Ltd
Little Creatures Contact (accessed 2026-09-07) Proves: That Lion-Beer, Spirits & Wine Pty Ltd is the named liquor licensee of the Little Creatures breweries
Little World Beverages Limited (ASX: LWB) — delisting record — deListed Australia (accessed 2026-09-07) Proves: That Little World Beverages Limited was acquired by scheme of arrangement and delisted from the ASX on 9 October 2012
Kirin buys full control of Australian craft brewer Little World Beverages — Brauwelt International (2012) Proves: That Lion agreed on 18 June 2012 to acquire the 64 per cent of Little World Beverages it did not already own

Connections

Little Creatures Breweryultimately owned byKirin Holdings Company, Limited2012-10-08–present · A

What we still don’t know

The current direct legal owner of the brewery business is not established. Lion-Beer, Spirits & Wine Pty Ltd is proven as trading company and liquor licensee, which is operator evidence; no share register, transfer instrument or ASIC extract proving ownership is publicly available.