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Shift in Drinking Habits Wipes $830 Billion Off Alcohol Stocks

Shares of the world’s top listed beer, wine and spirits makers have shed a combined $830 billion in a little more than four years as the industry grapples with monumental change, a Bloomberg analysis revealed.
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Warnings from the likes of the World Health Organisation and US Surgeon General have sapped demand among Gen-X. At the same time, alcohol has become less fashionable for millennials and Gen-Z. (Shutterstoc)

Shares of the world’s top listed beer, wine and spirits makers have shed a combined $830 billion in a little more than four years as the industry grapples with monumental change.

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