Change Parts
New Changeparts Approach has Beam Suntory in High Spirits
In 1795, a farmer and grain mill operator named Jacob Beam produced the first barrel of whiskey that would become Jim Beam, the world’s top-selling bourbon. On the other side of the world a century later, Shinjiro Torii founded Suntory in Japan in 1899, the first whiskey to suit Japanese palates. But it wasn’t until 2014 that, by combining the world leader in bourbon and the pioneer in Japanese whiskey, Beam Suntory of Chicago was born as a subsidiary of Suntory Holdings Limited of Japan.