The ten largest brewing groups in the world by share of global beer production in 2024, led by AB InBev with 26.4% of the 1.875 billion hectoliters brewed worldwide.
AB InBev is the largest beer company in the world by market share, with 26.4% of global beer production in 2024 (495.49 million hectoliters). Heineken is second at 12.8% and China Resources Snow Breweries third at 5.8%. Shares are output volumes from the BarthHaas Report 2024/2025 divided by BarthHaas's 2024 world beer production of 1.875 billion hectoliters.
A handful of brewing groups make a large slice of the world's beer. AB InBev, the company behind Budweiser, Corona and Stella Artois, brewed roughly one in every four hectoliters produced worldwide in 2024, and the top two groups together made almost two of every five. This list ranks the ten largest brewing groups by their share of world beer production in 2024, using the BarthHaas Report 2024/2025, the hop merchant's annual survey that ranks the world's 40 largest brewing groups by output and tracks total world beer production.
Anheuser-Busch InBev brewed 495.49 million hectoliters in 2024, about 26.4% of all beer produced worldwide and more than twice the volume of second-placed Heineken. The Belgium-based group owns Budweiser, Stella Artois, Corona, Beck's and Hoegaarden, and was built through mergers including InBev's 2008 takeover of Anheuser-Busch and the 2016 acquisition of SABMiller.
Heineken brewed 240.70 million hectoliters in 2024, about 12.8% of world beer production. The Dutch brewer, founded in 1864, sells its flagship Heineken lager alongside Amstel, Tiger, Sol and Dos Equis, and has a large footprint across Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia.
China Resources Snow Breweries brewed 108.80 million hectoliters in 2024, about 5.8% of world beer production, almost all of it in China. Its main brand is Snow (Xuehua). The business is controlled by China Resources Beer, in which Heineken took a minority stake in 2019.
Carlsberg brewed 101.20 million hectoliters in 2024, about 5.4% of world beer production. The Danish group, founded by J.C. Jacobsen in 1847, owns Carlsberg, Tuborg and Kronenbourg 1664 and is strong in Western Europe and Asia. It no longer owns Russia's Baltika, which BarthHaas now lists as a separate brewer.
Molson Coors brewed 79.62 million hectoliters in 2024, about 4.2% of world beer production. Formed by the 2005 merger of Canada's Molson and America's Coors, it sells Coors Light, Miller Lite, Molson Canadian and Blue Moon, with its biggest markets in North America and Europe.
Tsingtao Brewery Group brewed 75.38 million hectoliters in 2024, about 4.0% of world beer production. Founded in Qingdao in 1903, it is one of China's largest brewers, and its Tsingtao lager is one of the most widely exported Chinese beers.
Asahi Group brewed 65.00 million hectoliters in 2024, about 3.5% of world beer production. Japan's largest brewer by its flagship Asahi Super Dry, it expanded abroad by buying former SABMiller brands including Peroni, Grolsch and Pilsner Urquell in 2016-2017, and Carlton & United Breweries in Australia in 2020.
BGI, the beer arm of France's Groupe Castel, brewed 44.00 million hectoliters in 2024, about 2.3% of world beer production. Most of its volume is brewed in Africa, where it competes with AB InBev and Heineken with brands such as Castel Beer.
Beijing Yanjing Brewery brewed 40.00 million hectoliters in 2024, about 2.1% of world beer production. It is one of China's big domestic brewers, strongest in the Beijing region and northern China.
Anadolu Efes brewed 38.70 million hectoliters in 2024, about 2.1% of world beer production, just behind Yanjing on unrounded output. The Turkish group, known for Efes Pilsen, operates in Turkey, Russia, Kazakhstan and other CIS markets; BarthHaas lists its former Russian joint venture separately in its 2025 data.
| # | Name | Headquarters | Output 2024 | Key brands |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AB InBev | Leuven, Belgium | 495.49 m hl | Budweiser, Stella Artois, Corona, Beck's |
| 2 | Heineken | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 240.70 m hl | Heineken, Amstel, Tiger, Sol, Dos Equis |
| 3 | China Resources Snow Breweries | Hong Kong / mainland China | 108.80 m hl | Snow (Xuehua) |
| 4 | Carlsberg | Copenhagen, Denmark | 101.20 m hl | Carlsberg, Tuborg, Kronenbourg 1664 |
| 5 | Molson Coors | Chicago, USA | 79.62 m hl | Coors Light, Miller Lite, Molson Canadian, Blue Moon |
| 6 | Tsingtao Brewery Group | Qingdao, China | 75.38 m hl | Tsingtao, Laoshan |
| 7 | Asahi Group | Tokyo, Japan | 65.00 m hl | Asahi Super Dry, Peroni, Pilsner Urquell, Grolsch |
| 8 | BGI / Groupe Castel | France | 44.00 m hl | Castel Beer |
| 9 | Yanjing | Beijing, China | 40.00 m hl | Yanjing |
| 10 | Efes Group | Istanbul, Turkey | 38.70 m hl | Efes Pilsen |
Brewing groups are ranked by 2024 beer output in millions of hectoliters (m hl) as listed in the BarthHaas Report 2024/2025 Top 40 brewers table (data for calendar year 2024, compiled largely from the brewers' own annual reports). Market share is our calculation: each group's 2024 output divided by BarthHaas's figure for total world beer production in 2024, 1.875 billion hl, from the same edition. It is a share of all beer brewed worldwide, not of the top-40 total (about 1,639 million hl), and it is a volume share, not a share of sales value. Shares are rounded to one decimal; Yanjing and Efes both round to 2.1% and are ordered by unrounded output. All figures come from one edition and one year: the later BarthHaas Report 2025/2026 (2025 data) revised the 2024 world total upward and changed the order below seventh place, and its full 2025 table could not be verified for this update, so this page stays on 2024 data. Rank 1 is the largest producer.
AB InBev. It brewed 495.49 million hectoliters in 2024 according to the BarthHaas Report 2024/2025, about 26.4% of the 1.875 billion hectoliters of beer produced worldwide that year.
By volume. Each brewing group's 2024 output from the BarthHaas Top 40 table is divided by BarthHaas's 2024 world beer production total (1.875 billion hectoliters) from the same report. Measured against only the top 40 brewers' combined output (about 1,639 million hectoliters), every share would be higher, for example about 30% for AB InBev.
The BarthHaas Report 2025/2026 headline figures put AB InBev at 484.19 million hectoliters in 2025, about 25.5% of a 1.896 billion hectoliter world market, but that edition also revised the 2024 world total and reshuffled places below seventh. Until the full 2025 table can be checked, this list keeps every number from one edition and one year rather than mixing them.
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