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What Brown-Forman is doing to promote and recruit women in the beverage industry

There is simply no other beverage company elevating the profile of women in whiskey like it, Rachel Barrie says. In fact, her entire production senior leadership team in Scotland is 60% women. “They are proof of the increasingly diverse, interconnected, and inclusive world this industry is—role models—literally showing that it can be done and encouraging the next generation to be better,” Barrie says of her employer, Brown-Forman Corp. (Fortune)