Today, the company's brand new, state-of-the-art factory produces 10, 000 bottles of gin and ready-to-drink vodka, as well as 15, 000 bottles of beer, per hour.

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The company's headquarters are in New Orleans and its lone US factory is located on Mississippi's Gulf Coast.

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The company's new in-house system can track every piece of HP hardware and project its sales potential from a factory in Thailand to a store in Biloxi, Mississippi.

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