General Electric has opened its GE Appliance’s GeoSpring Hybrid Water Heater manufacturing facility at Appliance Park in Louisville. The $38 million investment in the new product and a revitalized facility is the first realization of commitments GE has made since 2009 to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Louisville and create more than 1,000 new jobs in Kentucky by 2014.

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What does Brown do for Bluegrass? UPS makes Louisville a major logistics hub and a key component in Kentucky’s extensive transportation infrastructure. The shipping giant operates the UPS Worldport, a 5.2 million-square-foot facility, adjacent to Louisville’s airport. Opened in September 2000 and expanded in 2006, it is the largest distribution hub in the UPS network, [...]

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