The 40 Biggest Beer Companies in the World in 2025

Breweries all over the world are facing geopolitical headwinds, rising ingredient costs, and ever-changing shifts in consumer preferences, but that hasn’t stopped them from persevering and pumping out massive volumes of beer to serve to their customers across the globe.

BarthHaas, a German hop trader, recently released its 2024/2025 industry report, revealing the biggest brewers in the world. According to the data, the world’s top 40 brewing companies collectively produced 1,638.82 million hectoliters of beer, marking a 0.6 percent decrease from last year’s total of 1,648.71 million hectoliters.

In the list of breweries, ranked by output volume, the first eleven spots remained unchanged since last year’s report. Frontrunner AB InBev dominated once again with a whopping 495.49 million hectoliters brewed in 2024, and sitting in second place with 240.7 million hectoliters was the Netherland’s Heineken. China Res. Snow Breweries clinched third place with 108.8 million hectoliters produced last year. Though the top three companies each saw a slight decline in output in 2024, they still accounted for more than half of the total output from all 40 list-makers.

On the bright side, more than half of the brewing companies listed saw either increased or steady sales between the end of 2023 and 2024. Arguably the most noteworthy shift in 2024’s ranking was the reappearance of Baltika, the biggest brewer in the Russian Federation. According to BarthHass, the Russian government seized the company from its parent organization Carlsberg, so Batilka now operates as its own entity. It entered the most recent ranking at 12th place. Nonetheless, Carlsberg still saw a 0.2 percent increase in output year-over-year. In early 2025, the Danish company expanded its reach beyond beer with the acquisition of BritVic, the leading U.K. producer of soft drinks.

As was the case last year, Germany claimed six spots — more than any other one country — on the top 40 list. China and Japan were both the next most heavily represented countries, each securing four positions in the ranking.

Check out the full list of the world’s largest beer companies by output in million hectoliters below.

#
Company
Country
Beer output for 2024 (Million hl)

1
AB InBev
Belgium
495.49

2
Heineken
Netherlands
240.70

3
China Res. Snow Breweries
China
108.80

4
Carlsberg
Denmark
101.20

5
Molson Coors
USA / Canada
79.62

6
Tsingtao Brewery Group
China
75.38

7
Asahi Group
Japan
65.00

8
BGI / Groupe Castel
France
44.00

9
Yanjing
China
40.00

10
Efes Group
Turkey
38.70

11
Constellation Brands
USA
35.00

12
Baltika
Russia
23.60

13
Diageo (Guinness)
Ireland
22.95

14
Kirin
Japan
22.90

15
Grupo Petrópolis
Brazil
20.00

16
San Miguel Corporation
Philippines
18.00

17
CCU
Chile
16.48

18
Grupo Mahou – San Miguel
Spain
15.90

19
Singha Corporation
Thailand
14.72

20
Pearl River
China
14.39

21
Saigon Beverage Corp. (SABECO)
Vietnam
13.70

22
Damm
Spain
12.65

23
Radeberger Gruppe
Germany
10.40

24
OPH United Breweries
Russia
9.50

25
Beer Thai (Chang)
Thailand
9.00

26
Suntory
Japan
8.41

27
Sapporo
Japan
8.16

28
TCB Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH
Germany
7.50

29
Swinkels Family Brewers
Netherlands
7.30

30
Oettinger Gruppe
Germany
6.60

31
Paulaner Gruppe 
Germany
6.30

32
Krombacher Gruppe
Germany
5.94

33
Bitburger Braugruppe
Germany
5.78

34
HiteJinro
South Korea
5.40

35
Olvi Group
Finland
5.30

36
Estrella de Galicia
Spain
5.30

37
Royal Unibrew
Denmark
5.00

38
Martens
Belgium
4.80

39
Polar
Venezuela
4.75

40
Financière ACP
France
4.20

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