{"id":561703,"date":"2026-08-07T10:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/561703\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T10:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:40:14","slug":"japans-kirin-buys-canadian-vitamin-maker-for-1-3bn-in-health-science-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/561703\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Kirin buys Canadian vitamin maker for $1.3bn in health science push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/business-deals\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Business deals<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Brewer aims to expand in North America, world&#8217;s largest supplement market<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/7\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20250103N kirin health products\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Kirin Holdings has been diversifying into health foods and supplements. (Photo by Tokuyuki Matsubuchi)<\/p>\n<p>YUKA KONISHI<\/p>\n<p>August 7, 2026 13:05 JST<\/p>\n<p>Updated on August 7, 2026 19:16 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japanese brewer and beverage maker Kirin Holdings has announced a deal worth 1.898 billion Canadian dollars ($1.3 billion) to buy Ontario-based vitamin and supplement maker Jamieson Wellness, giving it a foothold in the health science sector in North America amid a flat beer market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business deals Brewer aims to expand in North America, world&#8217;s largest supplement market Kirin Holdings has been diversifying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[276291,3391,13312,134,16847,276290,13106,111,139,556,69,15400,147,10469],"class_list":["post-561703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-13bn","tag-buys","tag-canadian","tag-health","tag-japans","tag-kirin","tag-maker","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nutrition","tag-nz","tag-push","tag-science","tag-vitamin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}