Stord to Expand Facilities in Kentucky, Adding 500 Jobs

(Sean Henry via X)

A software and logistics company is upgrading and expanding its Northern Kentucky facilities, where it plans to add 500 more local jobs over the next decade.

Stord Inc. is planning a $40 million upgrade to an existing facility in Hebron and will add another building to its Kentucky footprint for fulfillment operations just outside Cincinnati, Gov. Andy Beshear and the company announced Dec. 18. Stord provides large-scale fulfillment and distribution services for e-commerce businesses like AG1, True Classic, goodr sunglasses, Native and others.

In all, the Atlanta-based company will have just over 1 million square feet of warehouse space for fulfillment operations in Kentucky. The location will support more than 1,000 jobs once the expansion is complete, with the Hebron facility as the company’s largest.

“Stord really started to level the playing field with (Amazon) Prime to be able to get brands that one-, two-day delivery with incredible tracking, visibility, returns, delivery, promises and more, all on the front end for your consumers really so that brands could compete in scale,” the company’s co-founder and CEO Sean Henry said in an interview with the Herald-Leader.

Stord is investing $40m+ in American infrastructure and jobs in Kentucky.

I was grateful to announce alongside Governor Andy Beshear this massive, multi-year investment into Hebron, Kentucky today, which will see us build out a brand new facility and hire over 500 talented… pic.twitter.com/OfJG6UGCok — Sean Henry (@seanhenryatl) December 18, 2025

At the Dec. 11 meeting of the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority, the company was given preliminary approval through the state’s Business Investment Program for $2.3 million in tax incentives, as long as Stord creates the promised 539 jobs in the next 10 years with an average hourly wage of $32.32.

The existing Hebron facility was part of a 2024 acquisition, where 300 employees kept their jobs and were retrained by the Stord team. Since then, Henry said the company has “blown through our capacity with so many new clients and therefore so much new job growth in that facility.”

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Henry said the Bluegrass State has an “incredible” employment market. In addition, the state is in a geographical location that supports several logistics businesses already. The company’s Kentucky locations in Boone County is one of the best locations for shipping items to customers, Henry said, because customers are making online purchases in 100 miles in every direction.

Prior to change in tariff policy, e-commerce businesses largely in apparel were shipping out of other countries into the U.S. When the policy changed and businesses had to relocate to save their bottom line, several of them looked to Stord’s services.

The company manages more than $10 billion of commerce every year through its fulfillment, warehousing, transportation and software.

“Companies like Stord, Inc. are reinvesting across Kentucky, creating new jobs for our people and showing that our commonwealth is a place where businesses succeed and grow,” said Beshear in a news release from the company.

Incentive packages, a strong labor pool and an engaged business community has made Kentucky attractive for the company, Henry said.

“We plan to keep scaling our markets, and we have a pretty good geographic spread of our facilities now,” Henry said. “What we’re starting to build is these campus-like strategies and Kentucky remains one of those central distribution points.”