Brown-Forman noted last year it had previously sold stave mills — facilities that cut logs into the narrow strips of wood used in barrel making — in Alabama, Ohio and Tennessee to Independent ...

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.

A 1-ton wooden barrel is 1.5 meters in diameter and 1.45 meters high. Normally, a barrel of this size is made from 33 staves, but Tsudome once needed 38 staves, as he had shaved them down too much, ...

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 ...

In the release announcing the restructuring, Brown-Forman said it will close its barrel-making operation ... "In shock, really," said Chris Wood who works at Brown-Forman and is President of ...