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# Brown-Forman: Business Model & Revenue Engine



## Direct Answer

Brown-Forman reports revenue across 5 product and service lines in its fiscal 2026 Form 10-K. Whiskey is the largest, with $2.9 billion of revenue (74% of the total), followed by Ready to Drink at $542 million (14%).

## How Does Brown-Forman Make Money?

Whiskey supplies 74% of revenue, so Brown-Forman's results move mostly with that one business; the others matter more for diversification than for the headline number. Between fiscal 2025 and 2026, Ready to Drink grew fastest (+10.4%) and Nonbrandedandbulk slowest (-67.6%), so the revenue mix tilts toward Ready to Drink while that gap lasts.

| Product or service | FY2026 revenue | FY2025 revenue | Share of revenue | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Whiskey | $2.9 billion | $2.8 billion | 73.9% | 2.6% |
| Ready to Drink | $542 million | $491 million | 13.8% | 10.4% |
| Tequila | $251 million | $262 million | 6.4% | -4.2% |
| Restofportfolio | $201 million | $292 million | 5.1% | -31.2% |
| Nonbrandedandbulk | $33 million | $102 million | 0.8% | -67.6% |

![Bar chart of Brown-Forman revenue by product line for fiscal 2026: Whiskey 73.9%, Ready to Drink 13.8%, Tequila 6.4%, Restofportfolio 5.1%, Nonbrandedandbulk 0.8%.](https://www.getswoopr.com/images/charts/brown-forman-business-model-segment-mix.webp)
*Brown-Forman revenue by product line as a share of total revenue, from the table above. The largest is highlighted. Select the chart to open it full size.*

## What the Segment Figures Do Not Show

The rows above add up to 100% of Brown-Forman's reported revenue for fiscal 2026; the difference is intersegment eliminations, corporate revenue or items the company reports outside its segments. Segment definitions are management's choice and change when a company reorganizes, in which case it restates prior years in the next filing, so a multi-year comparison should use the figures from a single filing. Revenue shows where sales come from, not where profit or cash is earned: a small segment can carry most of the margin.

## Where These Numbers Come From

Every figure on this page is a value Brown-Forman reported in the segment note and revenue disclosures of its Form 10-K filed June 12, 2026 (accession 0000014693-26-000024), read from the SEC's Financial Statement Data Sets. The prior-year column is the comparative figure from that same filing, so it reflects any restatement for a change in segments. Category names are the company's own XBRL labels, lightly reformatted for reading.

Rows that only total other rows (for example a "Products" line beside the individual products) are left out so nothing is counted twice. This page is educational and describes reported history for fiscal 2026; it is not a forecast or a recommendation.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### What are Brown-Forman's main products and services?

In its fiscal 2026 Form 10-K, Brown-Forman reports revenue for Whiskey, Ready to Drink, Tequila, Restofportfolio and Nonbrandedandbulk.

### Which part of Brown-Forman brings in the most revenue?

Whiskey, with $2.9 billion of revenue in fiscal 2026, or 74% of the total.

### Where does Brown-Forman report its segment results?

In the segment note to the financial statements in its Form 10-K, most recently filed June 12, 2026, alongside management's discussion of each segment's results.

## References

- [SEC EDGAR: BROWN FORMAN CORP Form 10-K filed June 12, 2026](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14693/000001469326000024/bfb-20260430.htm)
- [SEC EDGAR: BROWN FORMAN CORP annual and quarterly filings](https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=14693&type=10-K)
- [SEC: EDGAR application programming interfaces (XBRL frames and submissions data)](https://www.sec.gov/search-filings/edgar-application-programming-interfaces)
- [SEC: Financial Statement Data Sets](https://www.sec.gov/data-research/sec-markets-data/financial-statement-data-sets)

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