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Shutters up: From Radico to United Breweries, liquor stocks in high spirits

Analysts say alcohol sales could be an early beneficiary of overall recovery

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Almost 50 per cent of the 70,000 liquor vends across India are said to have opened on Monday after the MHA granted shops the permission to reopen in green and orange zones

Viveat Susan PintoJash KriplaniDebasis Mohapatra Mumbai/Bengaluru
Shares of alcohol companies on Monday rose 3-16 per cent after the government permitted standalone liquor shops to reopen after they remained shut for nearly six weeks because of the nationwide lockdown.  The spike came in a falling market, with the broader BSE Sensex down 5.94 per cent to 31,715. 35. Most key companies from Reliance Industries to TCS, ITC, Nestlé, Hindustan Unilever, Maruti, and Mahindra & Mahindra were down between 1 per cent and 8 per cent at the end of trade.

The stock price of United Breweries, however, ended 3.23 per cent higher after hovering 7 per cent up