date:May 19, 2014
focus on repaying debt for the Beam deal, before seeking other merger and acquisition targets.
The deal, which the company said would make it the worlds third-largest distiller of premium spirits, represents the biggest acquisition by a Japanese company since SoftBank Corp. bought control of Sprint Corp. for $21.6 billion in a deal announced in 2012.
Suntory, which received a quarter of its 2013 revenue from overseas, has acquired sales channels in countries where it had a relatively small pre