The 40 Largest Beer Firms within the World in 2024

Regardless of shifts in its manufacturing and consumption, beer stays the preferred alcoholic beverage on the earth, and corporations from all around the world lead the business.

In response to knowledge revealed by German hop dealer BarthHass, the world’s prime 40 brewers produced 1,623.77 million hectoliters of beer in 2023, accounting for 86.2 % of all beer brewed throughout the globe — a 1.9 % lower year-over-year.

Anheuser Busch InBev brewed extra beer than some other producer, cornering a 26.9 % share of the world’s beer manufacturing. Regardless of that quantity being down by about 0.5 % year-over-year, ABInBev nonetheless brewed greater than twice the quantity of beer than the world’s No. 2 producer, Heineken. Final 12 months, the European beer large brewed 242.60 million hectoliters, claiming a 12.9-percent share of the market. Rounding out the highest three is China Res. Snow Breweries with a 5.9-percent share and 111.51 million hectoliters brewed.

Germany was, as soon as once more, essentially the most closely represented nation within the prime 40 checklist with six breweries represented together with Radeberger Gruppe, Oettinger Gruppe, Paulaner Gruppe, TCB Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, Krombacher Gruppe, and Bitburger Braugruppe. China (China Res. Snow Breweries, Tsingtao Brewery Group, Yanjing, and Pearl River) and Japan (Asahi Group, Kirin, Suntory, and Sapporo) weren’t far behind, with every nation claiming 4 of the highest 40 firms.

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