The 40 Biggest Beer Companies in the World in 2024

Despite shifts in its production and consumption, beer remains the most popular alcoholic beverage in the world, and companies from all over the world lead the industry.

According to data published by German hop trader BarthHass, the world’s top 40 brewers produced 1,623.77 million hectoliters of beer in 2023, accounting for 86.2 percent of all beer brewed across the globe — a 1.9 percent decrease year-over-year.

Anheuser Busch InBev brewed more beer than any other producer, cornering a 26.9 percent share of the world’s beer production. Despite that number being down by about 0.5 percent year-over-year, ABInBev still brewed more than twice the amount of beer than the world’s No. 2 producer, Heineken. Last year, the European beer giant brewed 242.60 million hectoliters, claiming a 12.9-percent share of the market. Rounding out the top three is China Res. Snow Breweries with a 5.9-percent share and 111.51 million hectoliters brewed.

Germany was, once again, the most heavily represented country in the top 40 list with six breweries represented including 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 each country claiming four of the top 40 companies.

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

#
Company
Country
Million hl

1
AB InBev
Belgium
505.90

2
Heineken
Netherlands
242.60

3
China Res. Snow Breweries
China
111.51

4
Carlsberg
Denmark
101.00

5
Molson Coors
USA / Canada
83.77

6
Tsingtao Brewery Group
China
74.10

7
Asahi Group
Japan
65.00

8
BGI / Group Castel
France
42.70

9
Yanjing
China
39.42

10
Efes Group
Turkey
35.70

11
Constellation Brands
USA
34.40

12
Diageo (Guinness)
Ireland
24.66

13
Kirin
Japan
23.51

14
Grupo Petrópolis
Brazil
21.00

15
San Miguel Corporation
Philippines
17.83

16
Grupo Mahou – San Miguel
Spain
16.20

17
CCU
Chile
16.06

18
Pearl River
China
14.03

19
Singha Corporation
Thailand
13.99

20
Saigon Beverage Corp. (SABECO)
Vietnam
13.00

21
Damm
Spain
12.70

22
Radeberger Gruppe
Germany
10.80

23
Suntory
Japan
8.65

24
Sapporo
Japan
8.06

25
Oettinger Gruppe
Germany
7.50

26
Swinkels Family Brewers
Netherlands
7.49

27
Beer Thai (Chang)
Thailand
6.94

28
Paulaner Gruppe
Germany
6.34

29
HiteJinro
South Korea
5.98

30
TCB Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH
Germany
5.80

31
Krombacher Gruppe 
Germany
5.74

32
Bitburger Braugruppe
Germany
5.69

33
Olvi Group
Finland
5.30

34
Estrella de Galicia 
Spain
5.03

35
Royal Unibrew
Denmark
4.90

36
Polar 
Venezuela
4.30

37
Financière ACP
France
4.11

38
Moscow Brewing Company
Russia
4.10

39
Martens
Belgium
4.01

40
Obolon
Ukraine
3.96

 

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