Overview

• Ordering and delivery systems in Japan remain down, forcing the majority of Asahi’s roughly 30 domestic plants to halt operations.
• Lawson and a major supermarket say Asahi beer stocks could run out within two to three days as the outage persists.
• Asahi ran a small paper-based trial for processing orders and deliveries and is considering broader manual workarounds.
• The company postponed eight new product launches, and its shares fell about 2.6 percent following the disclosure.
• Asahi says it has found no customer-data leakage, is investigating whether ransomware is involved, and reports no impact on European manufacturing.