Business Climate

Louisville is a place where business thrives - a place where a guy could start out baking pizzas in a closet and build his business into Papa John's Pizza. True story.

It's home to such well-known enterprises as Humana, Yum! Brands (parent company of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell) and Kindred Healthcare - all Fortune 500 companies. Other corporate citizens include Brown-Forman; Pharmerica; Res-Care; and Hillerich and Bradsby (makers of the Louisville Slugger).

It's also the site of UPS' international air hub, making Louisville one of the world's major shipping points.

Louisville is U.S. headquarters for E.On, the world's largest investor-owned provider of energy services and GE's Consumer and Industrial Division. It's the location of operations for a growing number of pharmaceutical and biotech companies, including Johnson & Johnson, Amgen, Genentech and Medimmune. Not to forget the two Ford plants.

But it isn't just the big guns that hit the mark here. Entrepreneur Magazine ranked Louisville as America's top city for small business growth.

Sunny, with a strong chance of prosperity - that's the business climate of Possibility City.