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A Missouri-based barrel company has taken over the cooperage long-operated by Brown-Forman. Here's what to know about the sale and new owners.
The former 16-acre site on MacLean Avenue was bought by Lebanon, Missiouri-based Independent Stave Co. for $13.66 million, ...
Brown-Forman has sold its now shuttered cooperage just months after announcing plans to cut 12% of its global workforce ...
The company did not fully detail where those layoffs will happen, though Brown-Forman did announce Tuesday it will close its cooperage in Louisville, where it has approximately 210 employees.
LOOK AT THE IMPACT. BROWN-FORMAN EMPLOYS MORE THAN 1000 PEOPLE HERE IN LOUISVILLE, JUST SOME OF THE EMPLOYEES IMPACTED BY THESE LAYOFFS WORK AT THE COOPERAGE. THIS IS WHERE BROWN-FORMAN MAKES THE ...
The Louisville-based spirits giant announced Tuesday it plans to close its long-running cooperage by late April, leaving 210 hourly and salaried workers without jobs. The move isn’t entirely ...
LIVE I The announcement of Brown Forman's decision to close its Louisville cooperage, and cut 210 jobs, could have a larger effect on the region's economy, according to Thomas Lambert, an ...
The Louisville-based company will close the barrel-making operation Brown-Forman Cooperage by April 25, impacting about 210 hourly and salaried employees there as part of the workforce reduction.
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 ...
In January, the bourbon giant announced layoffs and that it would be closing a local cooperage. Now, the building has a new ...