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BumRushDaShow

(160,920 posts)
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 04:11 AM Jun 2025

Jack Daniel's maker Brown-Forman sees sales fall as Trump trade conflicts weigh on spirits producers

Source: AP

Updated 5:38 PM EDT, June 5, 2025


LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Brown-Forman Corp. reported weaker sales Thursday as the maker of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey confronts challenging market conditions amid global trade conflicts and pinched consumer spending.

The Louisville, Kentucky-based spirits giant said its full-year net sales of nearly $4 billion were down 5% from a year ago, and fell 7% in in the fourth quarter. Net income was down 15% for the full fiscal year and plunged 45% in the fourth quarter ending April 30, the company said.

The quarterly drop came as Brown-Forman and other U.S. spirits producers who rely heavily on foreign sales felt the reverberations from President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff plans and consumer anxiety about the economy. Brown-Forman also offered a sobering assessment for the coming year.

Having steered the company through an “extremely challenging and uncertain operating environment” in the past year, Brown-Forman CEO Lawson Whiting predicted another challenging year ahead. “Fiscal 2025 was a year unlike any other that I’ve seen in the past three decades,” he said during a conference call with industry market analysts.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/brownforman-earnings-tariffs-consumer-spending-2b36a2efc7334fc2ec1ed0eab2604252

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Jack Daniel's maker Brown-Forman sees sales fall as Trump trade conflicts weigh on spirits producers (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jun 2025 OP
'O' Canada! BidenRocks Jun 2025 #1
Yes 3auld6phart Jun 2025 #14
"Sobering assessment..." Evolve Dammit Jun 2025 #2
Welp ... this is what Kentucky voted for, so ... Scrivener7 Jun 2025 #3
I wonder BonnieJW Jun 2025 #4
You just know they all deleted their pro-trump posts and slurs about Harris/Walz. wolfie001 Jun 2025 #6
I'm sorry it happened to Jack Daniels. tavernier Jun 2025 #21
I buy 4 pks of pint-sized cans of Irish or English ales. Some German lagers too. wolfie001 Jun 2025 #5
I predict domestic sales will cover some of this as the stress levels continue to rise mdbl Jun 2025 #7
Plus BumRushDaShow Jun 2025 #8
Except for the aluminum tariffs mdbl Jun 2025 #10
Yup BumRushDaShow Jun 2025 #12
Bottles BidenRocks Jun 2025 #17
Probably not enough to replenish the beach sand BumRushDaShow Jun 2025 #19
Nice BidenRocks Jun 2025 #20
Sorry, Kentucky. Aristus Jun 2025 #9
Good idea. mdbl Jun 2025 #11
Bourbon is overrated IMO anyway EYESORE 9001 Jun 2025 #15
Canadian Club and ginger ale, mmmm. one of my favorites. Hotler Jun 2025 #13
And I'm stuck with Cheerwine from right wing Salisbury Steak. I mean Salisbury, NC. Wonder Why Jun 2025 #16
Hey to Mitch! BidenRocks Jun 2025 #18
I'm sorry it happened to Jack Daniels. tavernier Jun 2025 #22

3auld6phart

(1,632 posts)
14. Yes
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 10:15 AM
Jun 2025

And damn prtoud of it. M,ay those trumpers enjoy staying home. They love their repuke as shoes T hen letthemeat and suck up to the Anal ring of the orange ASShole.

wolfie001

(6,235 posts)
6. You just know they all deleted their pro-trump posts and slurs about Harris/Walz.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 07:03 AM
Jun 2025

Kentucky Fried Hogs. The republican supporters at least

tavernier

(13,975 posts)
21. I'm sorry it happened to Jack Daniels.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 02:16 PM
Jun 2025

I’ve read the history of this distillery, and the whiskey was actually started by two men, one black, and one white, and their families workrd together for generations and still do. The author did extensive research and interviews and learned that unlike most places of employment back in the south, JD employees all received equal pay and benefits regardless of race and were considered family. It’s quite an interesting book: Love and Whiskey by Fawn Weaver.

wolfie001

(6,235 posts)
5. I buy 4 pks of pint-sized cans of Irish or English ales. Some German lagers too.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 07:02 AM
Jun 2025

Another way to f6ck the tRUMPers over. JD is no doubt rabidly pro-tRUMP. I define that as: anti-human race and anti-Mother earth.

mdbl

(7,459 posts)
7. I predict domestic sales will cover some of this as the stress levels continue to rise
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 08:31 AM
Jun 2025

from the bullshit this administration is doing to this country.

BumRushDaShow

(160,920 posts)
8. Plus
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 09:19 AM
Jun 2025

their partnership with Coca Cola for this -



(have heard a million commercials for it)

BumRushDaShow

(160,920 posts)
19. Probably not enough to replenish the beach sand
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 01:53 PM
Jun 2025

although the sand that washes away from one spot tends to pile up at others.

I know as a kid at camp, I used to like to use them for sand art like this -



Aristus

(70,983 posts)
9. Sorry, Kentucky.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 09:41 AM
Jun 2025

I get my whiskey from Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and even Japan. But never Kentucky.

Louisville, I love you, you cool, old magnificent city.

I'm glad Kentuckians have a Democratic governor.

But until Kentucky turns completely blue, I'm getting my whiskey elsewhere.

Hotler

(13,447 posts)
13. Canadian Club and ginger ale, mmmm. one of my favorites.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 10:11 AM
Jun 2025

Happy Friday, I may have to have one, .... later on ...

tavernier

(13,975 posts)
22. I'm sorry it happened to Jack Daniels.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 02:18 PM
Jun 2025

I’ve read the history of this distillery, and the whiskey was actually started by two men, one black, and one white, and their families worked together for generations and still do. The author did extensive research and interviews and learned that unlike most places of employment back in the south, JD employees all received equal pay and benefits regardless of race and were considered family. It’s quite an interesting book: Love and Whiskey by Fawn Weaver.
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