Brown-Forman is set to close its Louisville cooperage where approximately 210 employees work, but unless you are in or interested in the bourbon industry, you may have never heard of it. The ...

Independent Stave Company, a Missouri-based barrel maker, purchased Brown-Forman's Louisville cooperage for $13.66 million. Brown-Forman closed the cooperage in April as part of a cost-cutting and ...

The cooperage has plans to remain in Higbee and grow its operations. “We're small, we don't have any interest in getting huge,” Orton said. “We, of course, want to raise our production, but would ...