{"id":219527,"date":"2026-01-07T10:27:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/east-africa-diageo-agrees-to-sell-east-african-breweries-stake-to-asahi\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T10:27:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:27:52","slug":"east-africa-diageo-agrees-to-sell-east-african-breweries-stake-to-asahi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/east-africa-diageo-agrees-to-sell-east-african-breweries-stake-to-asahi\/","title":{"rendered":"East Africa: Diageo Agrees to Sell East African Breweries Stake to Asahi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Diageo has agreed to sell its entire 65% stake in East African Breweries plc to Japan&#8217;s Asahi Group Holdings, marking a major ownership shift in one of Africa&#8217;s largest beverage companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The transaction will be executed through the disposal of Diageo Kenya Limited and includes Diageo&#8217;s interest in United Distillers Vintners Kenya, a spirits producer serving the local market. Financial terms were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The sale aligns with Diageo&#8217;s strategy to divest non core assets to strengthen its&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601070026.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diageo has agreed to sell its entire 65% stake in East African Breweries plc to Japan&#8217;s Asahi Group Holdings, marking a major ownership shift in one of Africa&#8217;s largest beverage companies. The transaction will be executed through the disposal of Diageo Kenya Limited and includes Diageo&#8217;s interest in United Distillers Vintners Kenya, a spirits producer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":219528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,4380,12221,53343,8621,22521,6719,430,257,11184,254,9744],"class_list":["post-219527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-agrees","tag-asahi","tag-breweries","tag-diageo","tag-east","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-sell","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stake"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}