Brown-Forman will be closing its last remaining cooperage soon. Local leaders in the barrel industry provide insights into the news. On Tuesday morning, the news that the Brown-Forman Corp. was ...

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.

The Louisville cooperage, where Brown-Forman makes it barrels, will be closed no later than April 25, which will impact roughly 210 hourly and salaried employees. The company plans to source ...

Brown-Forman use to have more than one barrel making facility, he noted, and at one point, was among just a few cooperages supplying the industry. “Over the years they've slowly gotten out of th ...

NOW IT WILL BE ANOTHER FEW MONTHS BEFORE OPERATIONS HERE AT THE BROWN, BROWN-FORMAN COOPERAGE COMPLETELY SHUTS DOWN. THE COMPANY TOLD ITS EMPLOYEES IT WILL BE STOPPING OPERATIONS HERE ON APRIL 25TH.

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 ...

Brown-Forman Corporation announced Tuesday morning that it is closing its cooperage in Louisville and laying off 12% of its workers across the globe. The Louisville-based spirits and wine company ...

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.

However, Brown-Forman expects to offset some of these costs with more than $30 million from the sale of the cooperage facility. Globally, the company will reduce its workforce by approximately 12% ...

These initiatives include a workforce reduction affecting approximately 12% of the company’s global workforce, and closing the Louisville-based Brown-Forman Cooperage. Brown-Forman has made the ...