Japanese beer makers Kirin Holdings and Suntory on Monday scrapped a plan to create one of the world's largest food and beverage makers, failing to agree on how much say Suntory would have in the merged firm and sending Kirin's shares down 8 percent.
 
The talks were never seen as a done deal, with much of the focus on how Kirin would value privately held Suntory and how large a stake Suntory's founding family would take in the merged company, which would have had annual sales of $40 billion.S...