Take A Tour of Averitt's New Louisville Distribution and Fulfillment Center

Located in the key juncture between America's heartland and the Eastern United States, Louisville is one of the nation's busiest and most important distribution hubs. Benefiting from Kentucky's strategic position at the center of a thirty four state distribution area, the city provides a wealth of logistics opportunities. Its robust network of highways, railways, and waterways give shippers a range of efficient shipping options for both domestic and international freight. And Averitt is perfectly positioned to maximize the city's potential. Although we've been helping customers efficiently move their freight from, to, and through the city for years, our new three hundred twenty four thousand square foot distribution and fulfillment center represents an even deeper commitment to this critical shipping hotspot. Favorite Louisville warehouse is a strategic location for us. Our Lexington facility, is only seventy miles east. We can have something in two or three hours. Strategically located near Louisville International Airport and UPS Worldport and just steps from the CSX rail yard, our new facility allows us to streamline our customers' supply chains like never before. With services ranging from warehousing to local customization to transloading and more. Toyota Two Shell brings in this material from overseas, and containers come into the Louisville rail yard, then Averitt drays that material over to the warehouse here in Louisville, and then we request it per pallet from them on a very high volume basis. It's multiple trucks a day. And then they truck it to our facility in Georgetown, Kentucky. With this expansion, we're not just growing our physical footprint. We're providing even more seamless Integrated logistics support for businesses across the region and across the country. Our comprehensive suite of services, including LTL, truckload, dedicated, distribution and fulfillment, and integrated global solutions allows us to provide a single source solution for all our customers' needs. At Averitt, we're committed to driving your business forward, and our expanded presence in Louisville is just one more way we're doing exactly that. We're here to support your success in any way we can. Together, let's build a brighter, more connected future.

In the bourbon industry, we are constantly dealing with time sensitive production There's really key parts of the year where things really need to go off without a hitch so that we can have product the shelves when it needs to be there. One thing that Pinhook bourbon has done from the beginning is they focused on making quality, small batch, hard to find, rare Kentucky bourbon. We're a non distilling producer. So what Averitt does for us is picks up barrels, transports them from distiller to bottler on time, and that's just one less thing that we have to worry about. And so they coordinate everything with the warehouse and they take it completely off my hands. So at Averitt, we have what we go by to make good decisions and judgment called the Winner's Circle. It means that if something is good for our customers, if it's good for our associates, and it's good for our future, we do it. And here in Kentucky, bourbon is definitely about our future. To the relationship of working with Pinhook Bourbon, We at Averitt found Castle and Key. Castle and Key is a Kentucky spirits distillery here in Millville, Kentucky. Our relationship with Pinhook has been great over, you know, the past six to eight years. You know, we've done everything for them. We've distilled for them. We've aged front of them. We bottle for them. So, like, we've got to experience a lot of different, you know, parts of the business with them. And so when we started shipping out of barrels. We reached out to multiple different trucking companies, and Averitt really came through with the most competitive pricing. And the communication and customer service with them has just been above and beyond for us. Castle & Key went out and found this old abandoned building, Now, something that was a ruin is really just a wonderful treasure for the state to Kentucky. And we just wanna add to that. You know, we just wanna keep them healthy, move their bourbon, bring in their goods, do whatever they can so they can thrive. We use other bottling vendors such as Kentucky Artisan Distillery. What Averitt is able to do for us is transport barrels. Logistics is a big part of my job day to day. There's always things moving between either the distillery, the warehouses. We harvest the barrels for Pinhook. We then bottle those barrels into the glass we receive bottles are packaged up, sent down to the warehouse, Averitt is a key part in supplying and shipping those as soon as possible. Something I'm very excited about at Averitt is we are opening a three hundred and twenty four thousand square foot facility in Louisville, Kentucky. And sometimes one of the bottle is the distilleries don't have a place to put material. So we want to take away those bottlenecks, bourbon has the highest standards in the spirits industry for production. I draw that parallel sometimes because at Averitt, I feel we have the high standards in the transportation industry. So we are the bourbon of transportation. At Pinhook, the thing that we value most is partnerships and expanding them. So we went with the company that we trust the most, and that's Averitt.