Brown-Forman plans new cooperage to cope with Jack Daniel's demand

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"Brown-Forman announced plans today for a new cooperage

to craft barrels in Decatur, Alabama, in order to meet growing

worldwide demand for Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey.

Brown-Forman and Jack Daniel’s officials joined with Alabama

Governor Robert Bentley in Montgomery, AL, to make the formal

announcement today. The Jack Daniel Cooperage is expected

to be operational in May 2014, and it will eventually employ

approximately 200 workers. It will be the second cooperage

owned by Brown-Forman, which operates another facility in

Louisville, KY, and will double the company’s barrel-making

capacity."