Brown-Forman said on Tuesday it will lay off about 12% of its global workforce of 5,400 employees, as the Jack Daniel's maker looks to reduce costs amid weak alcohol demand.

Spirits giant Brown-Forman Corp. says it’s reducing its global workforce by about 12% and closing its barrel-making plant in Louisville

Brown-Forman, the Louisville-based maker of spirits including Jack Daniels, Old Forester and Woodford Reserve, plans to cut 12% of its workforce.

Brown-Forman is cutting about 12% of its global workforce, the maker of Jack Daniel’s whiskey said on Tuesday. “This organizational evolution will simplify and streamline Brown-Forman’s structure, allowing it to become a more agile and efficient organization and reinvest in the capabilities,

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Louisville-based Brown-Forman announced a corporate restructuring that will cut 12% of its global workforce of 5,400 employees. In a news release Tuesday, the spirits company did not detail how many of those cuts were at the Louisville headquarters.

Brown-Forman, the Kentucky spirits company that makes Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey and Woodford Reserve Bourbon, announced it will lay off 12% of its workforce and close its Louisville cooperage.

Brown-Forman named new executives and said it will cut about 12% of its global workforce, or roughly 648 jobs, as it undergoes a restructuring aimed to position the company for growth amid a choppy global spirits market.

Brown-Forman's recent announcement of layoffs at its cooperage facility marks another major restructuring move for a prominent Louisville-based company, reflecting ongoing challenges faced by businesses in a shifting economic landscape.