01 — Local economy
Business in Louisville, KY
UPS Worldport, the company's global air hub at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, sorts packages through the night and has drawn many distribution and e-commerce fulfillment centers to the area. Ford runs two assembly plants, including Kentucky Truck, which builds Super Duty pickups, GE Appliances makes dishwashers, refrigerators and laundry machines at Appliance Park, Humana and Yum! Brands are headquartered here, and Brown-Forman leads a bourbon industry of distilleries and barrel makers.
Also known as Louisville Metro.
Where software helps: Louisville distillers must track each barrel through years of rickhouse aging, report bonded inventory and excise taxes to federal and state regulators, and cost every bottling back to its grain and barrel lots.