Jack Daniel’s Set For $100 Million Expansion

Jack Daniel's is about to undergo the biggest expansion in its fabled history, a $100 million project that will create 90 new jobs and position the company to take advantage of whiskey’s growing international popularity, writes Bruce Schreiner on the StarTribune.

Jack Daniel's started making whiskey one year after the end of the U.S. Civil War in Lynchburg Tennessee. The company has been famous in the South for decades, but has become popular outside the U.S. According to Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam the whiskey has become something of a state mascot.

“Jack Daniel's is one of our most...