Suntory Holdings sets ‘aggressive’ green goals 20th April, 2021 by Melita Kiely
Yamazaki whisky producer Suntory Holdings has outlined plans to cut the company’s greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030.
Suntory Holdings owns Yamazaki Distillery
Suntory intends to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 as part of its Environmental Vision Toward 2050 plans, which were first announced in 2020.
As part of this, Suntory will work to reduce emissions by 50% from its direct operations and by 30% across its entire value chain.
Tak Niinami, CEO of Suntory Holdings, said: “As a company with products that rely on the blessings of nature and with a corporate mission ‘to create harmony with people and nature’, it is a business imperative for us to step change our actions to address climate change.
Early in Her Career, Yayoi Kusama Gave Her Doctor 11 Artworks for Free Medical Care. Now, They Could Fetch $14 Million at Auction
The three paintings and eight works on paper will hit the auction block at Bonhams in May.
Dr. Teruo Hirose (L) with Yayoi Kusama (R). Courtesy of Bonhams.
Eleven works that Yayoi Kusama gave to her doctor in exchange for medical care early in her career will hit the auction block in New York this spring.
The collection of works, some of which have never been publicly seen, belonged to the Japanese surgeon Teruo Hirose, a longtime friend of the artist who died in 2019, at the age of 93. Together, the three paintings and eight works on paper are expected to bring in $8.8 million to $14 million during a special single-owner sale at Bonhams New York on May 12. (The auction will take place just prior to Bonhams’s post-war and contemporary art sale that same day; none of the works will carry a guarantee.)
New rules governing Japanese whisky production âlong overdueâ
11 March 2021 By Lauren Eads
Rules to regulate the production of Japanese whisky come into force on April 1, with producers no longer able to label malts blended with world whiskies as ‘Japanese’ and marking the “dawning of a new era” in the evolution of Japanese whisky.
Ian Chang, vice president Karuizawa Distillers Inc., and master blender and distiller at Komoro Distillery
Last month, as reported by
the drinks business, The Japan Spirits & Liqueurs Makers Association issued a new set of labelling guidelines for Japanese whisky âin order to contribute to the appropriate selection of whisky products by consumers in Japan and abroad, and to thereby protect the interests of consumers, ensure fair competition, and improve quality.â
The Drinks Business
11 March 2021 By Alice Liang
Auction house Bonhams staged an online Japanese whisky online auction that ended this week, in which all the lots were sold, with five bottles of Hanyu’s Diamonds Straight Flush Ace to 5 topping the sale.
The online auction was held from 26 February to 8 March. In the sale, over 60% of lots sold were above high estimate with a total sales of HK$5.4m generated. A set of five bottles of Hanyu Ichiro’s Malt Poker series – Diamonds Straight Flush Ace to 5 shone in the sale and the top lot was sold for HK$1,178,000.
Nine lots out of the top tens of the sale were all bottles from the Hanyu Ichiro’s Malt Poker series, showing the market enthusiasm towards the collection is still very strong. Last November, a ‘full card series’ whisky was sold at Bonhams Hong Kong for a combined total of HK$11,890,360.
The rise and rise of the world s best whisky
The best whisky in the world has risen in value by 564% in the past decade. Martin Green, Bonhams Whisky specialist in Edinburgh, takes a look at what makes whisky such an exciting investment
Published: Monday 25th January 2021
In the course of a few dizzying hours at a Bonhams whisky auction in Hong Kong in May 2018, the world auction record for a bottle of whisky was broken not once but twice.
First, a bottle of the Macallan Peter Blake 1926-60 year old sold for £816,983; shortly afterwards, The Macallan Adami 1926-60 year old made £848,112.