Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd. has denied that the company was interested in Starbev Management Services s.r.o. However, the company reiterated its plan to expand aggressively in high-growth markets in Asia and Oceania. "We are not really interested," Naoki Izumiya told Dow Jones Newswires refuting previous media reports that Asahi was looking to buy the StarBev for approximately $3 billion.