Who owns this brewery?

From the archive

Little Creatures Brewery is part of the Lion group, ultimately owned by Kirin Holdings Company, Limited, and is operated by Lion Beer, Spirits & Wine. The exact current direct legal owner has not been established.

VERIFIEDPARTIALLYEvidence AChecked 2026-09-07

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

PARTIALLY because the group and the operator are proven and the direct legal owner is not. Answering YES would promote operator evidence to ownership evidence, which is the error this answer exists to avoid.

How Tally knows

Lion Beer, Spirits & Wine — LION-BEER, SPIRITS & WINE PTY LTD, ACN 008 596 370 — is a subsidiary of Lion Pty Ltd on Lion's own published entity list, holds the registered business names, and is the named liquor licensee. Kirin Holdings owns Lion. What none of that establishes is who legally owns the brewery business: business-name registration and a liquor licence prove trading identity and operation, and this archive does not infer owner from operator. The former operating company, Little Creatures Brewing Pty Ltd, had its ABN cancelled on 1 May 2019, and no public record shows where the business assets went.

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 Breweryoperated byLion Beer, Spirits & Wine · A
Little Creatures Breweryultimately owned byKirin Holdings Company, Limited2012-10-08–present · B

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.
The ACN of the ASX-listed Little World Beverages Limited is not resolved between two Fremantle companies, ACN 081 128 225 and ACN 110 233 540. No canonical entity has been created for it.