Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey Celebrates 50 Years of Advertising Success

A celebration of fifty years of marketing and advertising for Jack Daniels Tennessee Whiskey (Brown-Forman Beverages Inc.).

Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey Celebrates 50 Years of Advertising Success

Jeff DunlapPowerline Public Relations, LLC St. Louis, Missouri

September 2004 marked the 50th anniversary of advertising for Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey; the charcoal-mellowed distilled spirit that today is the top-selling American whiskey in the world.

Thanks in large part to consistent, whimsical, and memorable advertising, Jack Daniel's is popular in 135 nations. More than seven million cases are sold annually for Brown-Forman Beverages, Inc., which owns the distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee (population 361), where the whiskey has been crafted, drop-by-drop, since 1866.

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