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• The oldest Van Winkle bourbon ever to be released is coming this spring

  21-02-2017 20:42 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  A 25-year-old bottling of Old Rip Van Winkle bourbon is coming soon.Buffalo Trace Distillery, which makes Old Rip Van Winkle, Pappy Van Winkle and other bourbons, will release 710 bottles of this product in April, according to a news release. This bourbon will be two years older than the hard-to-come-by Pappy Van Winkle 23-year-old bourbon that often gets bourbon fans blood pumping.The barrels were distilled in the spring and fall of 1989 and stored on the lower levels of a metal clad warehouse&
  
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• What state legislators are doing to help the KFC Yum Center

  21-02-2017 13:05 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  A bill filed in the Kentucky House of Representatives would extend tax-increment financing for the KFC Yum Center.The Courier-Journal reports that House Bill 330 would extend the financing to as long as 45 years from the current 20 years.The Louisville Arena Authority owes hundreds of millions in outstanding principal and interest payments, and those annual payments are set to increase in the coming years. Those payments are scheduled at $23 million for 2017 but will steadily increase each year&
  
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• As stock surge, here are the U.S. companies trading at all-time highs

  21-02-2017 12:54 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  More than 300 U.S. companies hit new trading highs this week as the country's major stock indices continued what's being called the "Trump rally" by reeling off five consecutive days of record highs.The market's high fliers spanned a broad cross section of the U.S. economy, as companies as large and diverse as Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) and JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) registered record share prices at various points throughout the week.Among the nation's record setters were The Boeing Co. (NYSE:&h
  
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