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IN YOUR LIFE
1.
If you’ve ever shipped a package
next-day or two-day through UPS, it’s very
likely it came through its Worldport facility
in Louisville.
2.
TEMPURmaterial (from Tempur-Pedic) is
also found in products beyond ma resses
and pillows, including slippers, seat
cushions, plush toys and even dog beds.
3.
Logan Aluminum (in Logan County, Ky.)
produces 45 percent of all aluminum sheets
used in the production of aluminum
beverage cans throughout North America.
4.
Although it depends on the make and
model, if your dishwasher or top-load
washer or dryer is a GE product, it was
most likely made in Kentucky.
5.
The Xerox Corporation is behind
processing applications and calls from
more than 35 million credit card applicants
per year.
6.
The top 50 U.S. pharmacists—and 80
percent of independents—use Lexmark to
print the labels that go onto your bo les
and vials.
7.
Yum! Brands has 50 restaurants for
every million people in the U.S.—a number
that’s growing as it adds 1,500 new
restaurants annually.
8.
You owe ERs to Kentucky—the first
emergency room started in 1911 when a
University of Louisville City Hospital began
offering “accident services.”
9.
If you watch baseball, 60 percent of MLB
players and 80 percent of MiLB players are
swinging a Louisville Slugger bat when at
the plate.
Fromhospitals to baseball, products fromKentucky are found everywhere you look
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