(Reuters) - Japan's top beverage maker, Kirin Holdings (2503.T), said it would acquire the shares it does not already own in Mercian Corp (2536.T) for about $127 million in stock to get a tighter grip on the scandal-hit wine maker. Mercian announced in May that had it inflated profits over several years and booked a loss of 6.5 billion yen in August to account for false transactions, prompting a scolding from the Tokyo Stock Exchange.