Food & BeverageSuntory offers big bucks to techies who can personalize drinks
Data scientists to be paid $280,000 in digital push
Suntory Holdings is using data to turn expensive, high-maintenance vending machines into strategic assets. (Photo by Makoto Okada)
TAKERU GOTO and EIKI HAYASHI, Nikkei staff writers
TOKYO -- Suntory Holdings has begun dangling annual salaries in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to lure technology talent for its digital transformation, as the Japanese beverage maker leverages data to move beyond the 20th-century model of mass production for mass consumption.