Hideki Horiguchi appointed as new president of "Kirin Beer"

Hideki Horiguchi, who is the president of the group's beverage company, will be appointed as the next president of the beer giant Kirin Brewery.

After Takayuki Fuse, who was the president of Kirin Brewery, died of illness in September, the president of the parent company, Kirin Holdings, Yoshinori Isozaki, was tentatively serving as a post.

According to the announcement, the appointment of Hideki Horiguchi, president of Kirin Beverage, the group's beverage division, as the new president of Kirin Brewery, which will succeed Mr. Fuse, was announced at the board of directors meeting on the 9th.

Mr. Horiguchi is 59 years old.

After joining Kirin Brewery in 1985, after working in the planning department, he served as the president of an American whiskey company under the umbrella of Koiwai Dairy Products.

This appointment will be dated January 1, next year, and at a press conference, Mr. Horiguchi said, "The deceased President Fuse is a wonderful top loved by many people inside and outside the company, and he is determined to inherit a very heavy baton. I want to develop the company by adding my own strengths. "