 Canada.com | Sapporo Says It Has `No Plans' to Propose Tie-up With a Brewer Bloomberg - By Hiroshi Suzuki. Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Sapporo Holdings Ltd., which is fighting a takeover bid from Steel Partners Japan Strategic Fund LP, won't ask one of its rival brewers to help by forming an alliance any time soon. Asahi chief says no plans for a linkup with Sapporo Sapporo Denies Reports It's Blocking Bid |