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Accounting An accountant like Blue & Co., LLC is pivotal for manufacturing companies. They provide specialized expertise in financial management, tax incentives, and internal controls, helping businesses streamline operations and achieve their goals. Their proactive approach ensures companies can navigate complex financial landscapes and capitalize on growth opportunities. Blue & Co., LLC offers several key benefits to manufacturing companies: Tax Incentives and Credits : Blue & Co. helps manufacturers identify and maximize tax incentives, such as the Research & Development (R&D) Tax Credit, which can significantly reduce tax liabilities and support innovation. Financial Management and Consulting : They provide comprehensive financial management services, including cash flow planning, debt structuring, and inventory costing, which help streamline operations and improve financial health. Regulatory Compliance and Reporting : Blue & Co. assists with adopting new accounting standards, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and enhancing the reliability of financial reporting. Internal Controls and Risk Management : They help improve internal controls and risk management processes, which are crucial for safeguarding assets and ensuring operational efficiency. Strategic Planning and Business Growth : With expertise in mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, and corporate consolidations, Blue & Co. supports strategic planning and business growth initiatives. Contact Us Patrick Brown Director Blue and Company Back

Economic Development As manufacturers look to locate and expand new operations, state and local governments partner to support growth through discretionary state incentives. These tax incentives can help manufacturers hire and train new employees while improving cash flows on site. State and local governments offer discretionary tax incentives to support economic growth within their ecosystems. If you’re planning on adding jobs, a new facility or additional equipment, these incentive programs provide value for your company’s planned expansion. Kentucky has recently incentivized projects that include: Manufacturing company building a new facility – New facilities, including distilleries, should have a real and/or personal property tax abatement in place prior to placing the facility in service. New-to-market distilleries – Kentucky loves their bourbon and has actively supported these projects through sales tax rebates and tourism tax incentives. The value of these incentive savings can be significant to your business. If your company is considering any of these business scenarios, let Cornerstone Strategies help you evaluate the potential for state and local incentives as part of your expansion process. Contact Us Sierra Enlow Managing Partner of Economic Development Cornerstone Strategies Back

Our Team A group of like-minded and vetted manufacturing focused consultants providing a hub of information for manufacturing best practices and strategy. These advisors can provide a valuable second opinion or introductory place to begin a new business venture. Griffin Meredith Employee Benefits Commonwealth Insurance Partners Patrick Brown Accounting Blue and Company Sierra Enlow Economic Development Cornerstone Strategies Alex Grove Real Estate CBRE

Areas of Expertise It's tough to be an expert and up to date on every facet of manufacturing. Our subject matter experts can guide you through the following disciplines. Employee Benefits Balancing needs in the employee benefits space to meet market demands for employee satisfaction, while effectively managing costs and the healthcare supply chain. Read More Accounting An accountant like Blue & Co., LLC is pivotal for manufacturing companies. They provide specialized expertise in financial management, tax incentives, and internal controls, helping businesses streamline operations and achieve their goals. Their proactive approach ensures companies can navigate complex financial landscapes and capitalize on growth opportunities. Read More Economic Development As manufacturers look to locate and expand new operations, state and local governments partner to support growth through discretionary state incentives. These tax incentives can help manufacturers hire and train new employees while improving cash flows on site. Read More Real Estate Advisory services for manufacturers considering a lease, purchase, or development of commercial property in any asset class. Read More

Employee Benefits Balancing needs in the employee benefits space to meet market demands for employee satisfaction, while effectively managing costs and the healthcare supply chain. When it comes to Employees Benefits, having expertise and unique markets specific to the manufacturing industry is imperative to success for a few reasons. “Shopping” insurance isn’t the same for manufacturing as it is for many other industries. While the businesses are not all the same, they typically share many attributes. Most manufacturers must operate with relatively small margins, so separation from your peer group with the care the employees receive is imperative to attract top talent and remain profitable. Manufacturers typically have many employees that are in a few specific locations (not a lot of work from home in the manufacturing industry), and ultimately most of your employee incomes typically fall into a similar income category. These are just a few factors that don’t show up on a spreadsheet that can drastically change the value you as an employer and your employees receive in an employee benefit plan. Analyzing factors like this and designing plans around manufacturers is what allows us to offer strategies that are unique to this industry. Contact Us Griffin Meredith President Commonwealth Insurance Partners Back

Real Estate Advisory services for manufacturers considering a lease, purchase, or development of commercial property in any asset class. We can provide advice as a strategic advisor on any commercial real estate related matters. Whether a company is trying to lease a warehouse for overflow storage, identify and develop a land site for a new manufacturing facility, or sell/purchase an existing facility, we can assist in a thorough evaluation of your options and alternatives. Contact Us Alex Grove Senior Industrial Brokerage Associate CBRE Back

< Back Patrick Brown Blue and Company Patrick Brown has over 20 years of experience in public accounting, where he has worked with companies in various industries, primarily manufacturing and distribution. Patrick is the manufacturing and distribution practice leader for Blue & Co and co-leader of the Blue Beverage Services Group. Patrick’s clients have included public and private companies ranging in size from $15 million to over $2 billion in revenues. Patrick has been instrumental in working with his clients to achieve project objectives, including mergers and acquisitions (buy and sell side), inventory costing, inventory system implementation, purchase accounting, adoption of new accounting standards, financial report matters, restructuring, corporate consolidations, and improving internal controls. Patrick has also helped his clients identify eligibility for local and state incentives and employee retention tax credits. Patrick takes a proactive approach with his clients, and his clients rely on him to be a problem solver. At the American Distilling Institute conference, Patrick recently spoke about Pivotal Moments in a Distillery’s Life Cycle, and KPIs That Matter, and What They Mean for Your Business . Patrick graduated from the University of Kentucky, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Decision Science and Information Systems. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Kentucky Society of Certified Public Accountants, and the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

< Back Griffin Meredith Commonwealth Insurance Partners Griffin Meredith is Founder of Commonwealth Insurance Partners and CIP Risk, a Louisville, KY based Risk Management Agency. Griffin has been in the risk management and employee benefits space for over 20 years. He is an exclusive Management partner of the Kentucky Association of Manufacturers Association Health Plan. Griffin is a Health-Rosetta Certified Advisor and Mastermind Partner of the Next-Gen Benefits Network. He is the founder and host of the “Built in the Bluegrass Podcast” that highlights the many great things made in Kentucky, and author of the Amazon best seller “Life and Death Decisions in the C-Suite” Griffin has served professionally as President of the Kentucky and Greater Louisville Chapters of the National Association of Health Underwriters. He is a graduate of Leadership Louisville and the FFTA NeXt Leadership Program, a Rotarian, and serves on various non-profit philanthropic boards. He has been a real estate investor and developer, and currently serves as a Director and Secretary of The Lincoln National Bank, a $400 Million full-service community bank in Central Kentucky. Griffin is a graduate of Centre College and resides in Louisville, KY with his wife Sara, Herd Manager of the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation and his children Maddox, Margaux, and an addition to hopefully be named in March of 2023

< Back Sierra Enlow Cornerstone Strategies Sierra J. Enlow serves as an economic development consultant to communities and companies as they evaluate opportunities to grow and expand. Sierra has worked extensively in both the private and public sides of economic development to create strategies supporting expanding companies, redevelopment projects and new commercial opportunities. Sierra’s work in the private sector has facilitated close to $1B dollars of new economic investment for Kentucky. Sierra’s previous clients include large manufacturers, family-owned businesses, and tech start-ups. Sierra’s work with these clients helps facilitate corporate growth while deepening the relationship between the community and the employer. Sierra worked with the economic development teams at both Louisville Forward and Greater Louisville, Inc to develop strategies focused on supporting tech-enable businesses and co-working spaces as Louisville Metro Government adapted to the new economy of work. Sierra grew up on a multi-generation family farm in LaRue County and attended the University of Kentucky, College of Agriculture where she received undergraduate degrees in Community & Leadership Development and Agricultural Economics. Sierra completed her Master’s Degree in Agricultural Economics in 2012, also at the University of Kentucky. Sierra also serves on the board of directors for the Kentucky Association for Economic Development.

< Back Alex Grove CBRE Alex Grove is a member of the industrial brokerage team at CBRE Louisville and utilizes his finance, local economic development, legal, and local/national political experiences to lead in delivering successful commercial real estate outcomes to tenants, landlords, buyers, sellers, and national developers in the industrial asset class. Leveraging CBRE’s resources as the largest commercial real estate services firm in the world, Alex specializes and solely focuses on representing clients in the industrial sector, primarily servicing requirements for warehousing, manufacturing, and distribution in all size ranges. With over 90 years of combined experience, Alex and his team at CBRE have completed industrial transactions valued in excess of over $3.0 billion dollars of consideration, marking them as the #1 industrial real estate team in Kentucky for 8 of the last 10 years. In the past year, Alex has been recognized within CBRE as the #2 Associate in the Midwest Region by deal volume and was awarded two CoStar Power Broker awards. His intimate knowledge and experience brokering transactions ranging from two thousand to hundreds of thousands of square feet is bolstered by his prior work experiences in industrial development at Molto Properties, local economic development at the Danville-Boyle County Economic Development Partnership, and corporate finance at G.E. Appliances in their Financial Development Program. Alex graduated summa cum laude from Centre College, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance and a Bachelor of the Arts in Politics. He is a licensed real estate salesperson in the state of Kentucky and lives in Louisville.