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UPS finished a three-phase, $1 billion expansion of its Louisville air hub in September 2002, doubling it to 4 million square feet and creating Worldport, the world's largest fully automated package-handling facility.

UPS finished a second, roughly $1 billion expansion of its Worldport air-freight hub in Louisville, Kentucky, adding 1.2 million square feet and lifting the total footprint to 5.2 million square feet. The upgrade raised the hub's sorting capacity by 37%, to 416,000 packages an hour.

On 4 November 2025 a UPS MD-11F bound for Honolulu lost its left engine on takeoff from Louisville and crashed into an industrial area, killing the three crew and 12 people on the ground; UPS retired its MD-11 fleet within weeks.

Jack Daniel's maker Brown-Forman said Sazerac's unsolicited offer, reported at $32 a share or about $15 billion, was 'not actionable' after the Brown family's majority holding said it did not fit their vision.

Brown-Forman's first-quarter net sales slipped 1% to $911 million as the Korbel exit, lower used-barrel sales and a 13% tequila slide offset New Mix's growth, and the Jack Daniel's maker reaffirmed flat organic sales for fiscal 2027.

Brown-Forman is expected to report second-quarter and first-half fiscal 2027 results in early December 2026, the next check on its flat-sales outlook as it searches for a new CEO after rejecting Sazerac's bid.

Ford's Fathom, a midsize electric pickup from $28,350 and the first vehicle on its Universal EV Platform, goes into production at Louisville in Q1 2027 and on sale in early 2027.