Kweichow Moutai

The highest-scoring company in both tables is Shenzhen-listed Wuliangye Yibin, which manufactures and markets liquor.

Liquor maker Kweichow Moutai Co is now worth more than Alibaba.

Aluminum products manufacturer AEI is now pivoting into the liquor business, in a bid to enhance profitability. Find out more.

Chinese equities, which have outperformed the US and European markets year-to-date, remain favoured by UBS Asset Management.

Zhongmin Baihui Retail Group, a Singapore-listed operator of department stores in China, announced that it has signed a direct sales agreement with a unit of Kweichow Moutai Group worth RMB120 million (S$23.7 million).

(Nov 18): As a teetotaller, Lim Hwee Hua is deemed by her partners in China as the best person to be in a joint venture (JV) with — to fund the growth of the “baijiu” (white liquor) industry of Guizhou province, home to numerous such producers but w

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(Oct 17): Here's an anomaly: The third-largest company in the world's biggest Buddhist-majority country is ThaiBev, which makes its money selling rum and beer to a population whose religious texts exhort them to abstain from alcohol.