The West Virginia Great Barrel Company (WVGBC) is a start-up company based in West Virginia that seeks to develop a barrel manufacturing facility to serve the regional bourbon industry. WVGBC will produce white oak barrels at a cooperage in White Sulphur Springs, WV. A stave mill to supply the cooperage will be located about 20 miles away at an existing lumber mill in Union, WV. This mill is an integral part of the business plan of WVGBC.
This report is an economic impact analysis that estimates the total economic effects of operating the cooperage in West Virginia and the multiplier effects of those expenditures on the economy of the State. This proposed facility will export its products to customers outside of West Virginia. Once built, the WVGBC will be the only cooperage in the State and will re-establish an industry that existed in West Virginia in the past.