The Lyndhurst Foundation is a Chattanooga, Tennessee -based grant-making foundation organized in 1938 by Coca-Cola Bottling Company magnate Cartter Lupton . The Lyndhurst Foundation was the first private foundation in Tennessee , and it focuses on the enrichment and enhancement of the social, natural, and built environment in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the surrounding southeastern region.
15-541: The Lyndhurst Foundation began in 1938 as the Memorial Welfare Foundation with Cartter Lupton as its president. Cartter Lupton established the Memorial Welfare Foundation to carry out his charitable endeavors. The Lyndhurst endowment originates from Lupton family's success in building the Coca-Cola Bottling Company with other Chattanooga businessmen, Ben F. Thomas and Joseph Brown Whitehead. During
30-505: A result of the city's decline due to water and air pollution. In 1995 the foundation gave $ 2.5 million towards a citywide planning process. As part of the revitalization process, Lyndhurst Foundation chairman Jack Lupton donated $ 11 million of his own funds along with $ 10 million from the foundation itself to building the Tennessee Aquarium . In 1992, the aquarium opened as the world's largest freshwater aquarium and brought new tourism to
45-567: A result of the merger between Johnson & Johnson and the consumer healthcare business of Pfizer . These brands are: Pending the US government’s approval of the merger of Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, Chattem will acquire five brands divested from the firms. Chattem has announced it expects to take possession of the brands around January 2007. These mature brands will provide $ 150 million in additional revenue to Chattem per year. On December 21, 2009, Paris-based (France) Sanofi ,
60-666: A visit to the home of a fellow student, he settled in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1887. Lupton soon met Elizabeth Patten, daughter of Chattanooga Medicine Company founder Zeboim Cartter Patten , and they married on November 14, 1889. They had a son, Thomas Cartter Lupton , to whom they left the bulk of their combined wealth. After his marriage, Lupton took a job as legal counsel to the Chattanooga Medicine Company (now Chattem ), eventually becoming company vice president and treasurer. Lupton, Whitehead and Thomas were
75-447: Is now governed by a board of trustees who come from different backgrounds in business, art, and health-care. The current board includes five grandchildren of the founder. The goal of this 10-member board of community leaders is to bring about a new era of charitable giving to Chattanooga and its surrounding community. The Lyndhurst Foundation has played a major role in the revitalization process of Chattanooga 's downtown and riverfront as
90-612: The Chattanooga Medicine Company, the company’s brand portfolio holds twenty-two brands including Allegra , Gold Bond , Flexall , IcyHot , Rolaids , Sun-In , Pamprin, Dexatrim , Aspercreme , and Selsun Blue . The company produces two-thirds of its products at its Chattanooga production facilities with the remaining produced by third-party producers. The company is a subsidiary of the French multinational pharmaceutical company Sanofi . The company’s brands are sold nationally through mass merchandiser, drug and food retailers. In 2005, 70% of
105-638: The city. The Lyndhurst foundation has given several donations to improve education in the Hamilton County area. Lyndhurst was a founding member of the Public Education Foundation, an organization that strives to strengthen Chattanooga's public schools. Many of these donations have been received by the local University of Tennessee Chattanooga . Lyndhurst has further developed education in Chattanooga by funding two new public elementary schools in
120-567: The death of its founder, Cartter Lupton, the Lyndhurst foundation began to redirect its fundings towards enhancing the Chattanooga community by way of education, art, and the revitalization of the riverfront. In 1992, Jack Lupton retired from the Lyndhurst Foundation board, and his children and nephews were elected as trustees to lead the foundation. In 2012, Lyndhurst spun off five new smaller family foundations. The legacy Lyndhurst Foundation
135-521: The downtown area, Tommie F. Brown and Herman H. Battle Academy. The foundation also contributed the funding of the Creative Discovery Museum , a children's museum which provides hands-on education activities, in downtown Chattanooga. In 1996 the foundation's grant of $ 10,000,000 effectively saved Double Take magazine, until they closed their doors in 2005. This gift is considered one of the largest gifts to an American publication. In 2007,
150-501: The downtown area. John Thomas Lupton John Thomas Lupton (1862–1933) was an American lawyer , industrialist and philanthropist who along with Benjamin Thomas and Joseph Whitehead , obtained exclusive rights from Asa Candler to bottle and sell Coca-Cola . Lupton was born near Winchester, Virginia , and received a degree in law from the University of Virginia . After
165-458: The early stages of the Memorial Welfare Foundation, its main focus was to benefit primary health care and cultural activities in and around the city of Chattanooga. Upon the death of Cartter Lupton in 1977, his son Jack Lupton became the president. Jack Lupton then changed the named of the Memorial Welfare Foundation to The Lyndhurst Foundation, which was named for the family mansion of the same name built by his grandfather John Thomas Lupton . With
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#1732854959272180-596: The family's bottling operations back to Coca-Cola in 1986 for $ 1.4 billion in cash. Lupton was a significant contributor to a number of southern schools, colleges and universities; Baylor School in Chattanooga, Oglethorpe University and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga all have named buildings on their campuses in his honor. Chattem Chattem, Inc. is an American, Chattanooga, Tennessee -based, producer and marketer of over-the-counter healthcare products, toiletries, dietary supplements, topical analgesics, and medicated skin care products. Originally named
195-623: The firm's sales were made through its top ten customers, which include Wal-Mart , Walgreens , and Kroger. Sales to Wal-Mart constituted 36% of Chattem’s total sales in 2005. Chattem supports these sales with a forty-five-person sales force and broadcast media advertising. Chattem has market penetration in the United States, Europe, Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean. In October 2006, Chattem announced it would acquire five brands for $ 410 million as
210-498: The foundation launched CreateHere, a program focused on economic development and the attraction and retention of individuals associated with the creative class . Over the past eight years, Lyndhurst has donated over two million dollars to help the program evolve. Lyndhurst has further focused on economic development in Chattanooga with the creation of the River City Company, a non-profit organization that creates public spaces in
225-615: The primary investors in the Dixie Coca-Cola Bottling Company , the first Coca-Cola bottling plant in the United States. Following the business' rapid success, the partners divided the country into territories and gave various family members responsibility over them and began selling bottling franchises . By 1909, nearly 400 bottling operations had been opened. John Thomas Lupton died in Brevard, North Carolina on July 31, 1933. Lupton's grandson, John T. Lupton II , sold
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