Union Local Ratifies New Labor Contract with MGPI of Indiana, LLC

            Local 13D of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union has ratified a new multi-year collective bargaining unit
agreement with MGPI of Indiana, LLC located in Lawrenceburg and
Greendale, Ind. The agreement took effect Wednesday, March 7, and extends
through Dec. 31, 2017.

“We are very pleased with the
outcome of the vote by members of the union local at our
Lawrenceburg-Greendale distillery operations,” said Dave Rindom,
vice president of human resources for MGP Ingredients, Inc., parent
company of MGPI of Indiana.

“The company extends its most sincere
compliments to the union’s negotiating team and overall membership
for the commendable manner in which discussions were conducted and
thoughts exchanged regarding the various components of this
agreement. The process served as an exemplary model of our internal
corporate motto, people-pride-progress, in motion.”

Formerly owned and operated under
Lawrenceburg Distillers Indiana, LLC (LDI), distillery assets at the
facility were acquired by MGP Ingredients on Dec. 28, 2011, and
renamed MGPI of Indiana, LLC. The assets include alcohol
fermentation and distillation operations, as well as bulk barrel
storage facilities, blending operations and a tank farm.

The purchase of the
Indiana facility has significantly strengthened MGP’s role in
serving beverage alcohol customers in the branded packaged goods
industry by increasing production capacity and enabling the company
to produce premium bourbon and whiskey products, while also
substantially adding to its gin and grain neutral spirits output.

It
also has enhanced the company’s service and distribution
capabilities and provides dual sources of supply, primarily for
customers of distilled gins and grain neutral spirits, which have
been mainstays of MGP’s beverage alcohol product portfolio for
seven decades.