Thai Beverage Public Company Stock

Thai Beverage Public Company Limited engages in the production and distribution of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, as well as food products.

Segments

The company operates through four segments: Spirits, Beer, Non-Alcoholic Beverages, and Food.

Spirits

This segment offers spirits, including brown spirits, white spirits, herbs, and other products. In 2017, the company acquired a 75% stake in Myanmar Supply Chain and Marketing Services Co., Ltd. and Myanmar Distillery Co., Ltd., the major players in Myanmar’s whisky market.

Beer

This segment includes Chang Beer, which is globally distributed to approximately 50 countries, including the U.S., the U.K., Central Europe and Asia. In Singapore, Chang is available in approximately 1,000 distribution points. In Hong Kong and London, Chang continued to dominate the beer sales in the Thai restaurant channel.

Non-Alcoholic Beverage

This segment focuses on the company’s non-alcoholic beverage business in foreign markets, primarily Southeast Asia. Oishi has penetrated further into Myanmar market and co-operated with F&N to distribute the company’s products in Malaysia and Singapore.

In 2017, the company placed equal focus on its non-alcoholic beverage business both in Thailand and in foreign markets, primarily Southeast Asia. In the home market of Thailand, Oishi maintained its primary position in RTD tea, while Crystal attained the major position in the drinking water category.

The company would continue to explore further growth opportunities in the rest of ASEAN and would build specific market positions for its brands there. For the company’s expansion into the region, Oishi has been its spearhead for entry and the company has even formulated new variants to cater to local tastes. An example of this is Cambodia, where the company launched Pomegranate Green Tea to match local demand for its taste and the fruit’s healthier-for-you image.

This segment offers non-alcoholic beverages comprising drinking and soda water, electrolyte beverages, energy drinks, green and herbal tea, ready-to-drink coffee, carbonated soft drinks, isotonics, soya drinks, Asian and sparkling drinks, coconut water, cordials, pasteurized milk, UHT milk, sterilized milk, yoghurt, canned milk, pasteurized juice, ready-to-drink juice, ice cream, and cereal bars

The company also offers various other types of beverage, such as ‘Rock Mountain’ soda water as a perfect mixer for alcoholic beverages; ‘Jubjai’ ready-to-drink herbal tea; ‘100Plus’ isotonic drink, and ‘Ranger’ energy drink.

Food

This segment provides chilled and frozen food products, and snack products; and oak barrels, light construction bricks, fertilizers, animal feed and supplementary animal feed, etc.

To tap into business opportunities in Myanmar presented by the ASEAN Economic Community, Oishi has opened two ‘Shabushi’ Japanese restaurants in Yangon.

The food business of the company offers a range of services to cover all consumer needs, ranging from the familiarity of street food, fast food, or casual dining. The company also has future plans to develop fine dining restaurants and expand the business in Thailand and ASEAN markets, together with development, inventing new menus and new forms of service to cater to consumer needs.

International Business

The company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, International Beverage Holdings Limited (InterBev), is responsible for building its international business. InterBev offers a range of products for distribution to approximately 90 countries. These products include Inver House Distillers’ Scotch whiskies, ‘Chang’ beer and Thai spirits, Yunnan Yulinquan Liquor Co. Ltd.’s Chinese wines and spirits, as well as the company’s non-alcoholic beverages.

History

Thai Beverage Public Company Limited was founded in 2003.