date:Jan 17, 2014
market, which forced Japan Tobacco to go to China, Russia and so on for growth, said Yoshiaki Yamaguchi, senior analyst at SMBC Friend Research Center in Tokyo.
More than 90 percent of Suntory's business is still in Japan, even as exports of its premium whiskies have soared over the past decade on the back of international awards. It has yet to make a significant dent in the fast-growing emerging markets where Beam is better known.
Suntory's push into markets such as China, Brazil and India w