Snow () is a brand of

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Shenyang Shenyang,; ; Mandarin pronunciation: ; formerly known as Fengtian formerly known by its Manchu language, Manchu name Mukden, is a sub-provincial city in China and the list of capitals in China#Province capitals, provincial capital of Liaonin ...

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. Popularly it is called Snowflake. It is brewed by CR Snow, that (until October 2016) was a joint venture between

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China Resources Enterprises China Resources Beer is a subsidiary of China Resources Holdings. Its assets include a 51% share in CR Snow, the largest brewing company in China and a joint venture with SAB Miller. Background The company was previously part of China Resou ...

. When Snow was first released in 1993 it was produced by three breweries. As of 2014, CRSB was the largest brewing company in China with over 90 breweries across the country, brewing more than 10 gigalitres of Snow every year. By 2016,

owned 49 percent of Snow Beer. Before acquiring SABMiller,

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had agreed to sell its interests in Snow to China Resources Enterprise (for $1.6 billion) to satisfy regulators. In 2018,

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signed an agreement with China Resources Enterprises to purchase a 40% stake into the company. Snow beer is the best-selling beer brand in the world, despite largely being sold only in China. However, Snow includes a large range of beers; when ''Budweiser'', ''Bud Light'' and the other members of the Budweiser family are counted as a single brand, they easily top the sales charts with over 100 million hectoliters a year.

Shenyang Snow Beer

Manchuria Beer (), established in 1934 by Dai Nippon Beer (), and Kirin Beer jointly, completed its second factory in 1936 at the current address of Jianshe East Road (), Tiexi District, Shenyang City, at Xinggong North Street. This factory became Liaoning Province Brewing Company in 1945, Shenyang Beer Company in 1949, and came to be known as "Snow Beer" () from 1957. In 1997, China Resources Enterprise acquired this factory as part of Huarun Snow Beer Company (China). It has since been known as Shenyang Huarun Snow Beer (). Visiting and Researching Shenyang Snow Beer's Old Factory
(in Chinese)

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