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CHAMBER PRESENTS 2010 HOVEY S. DABNEY AWARD FOR COPORATE CITIZENSHIP TO PEPSI COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA AT CHAMBER ANNUAL BUSINESS LUNCHEON
(Charlottesville, Virginia – February 24) The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce today presented its 2010 Hovey S. Dabney Award for Corporate Citizenship to Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Central Virginia, Inc. before an audience of more than 200 business and community leaders attending the Annual Chamber Business Luncheon held at the Glenmore Country Club in Albemarle County.
“It is with great pleasure that we honor Pepsi-Cola Bottling, its legacy, leadership and employees,” said Bryan Thomas Senior Vice President & Area Executive of BB&T, Immediate Past Chairman of the Chamber Board, and Chairman of the Hovey S. Dabney Award for Corporate Citizenship Committee. “Our community is fortunate to have businesses like Pepsi with a century of commitment to building business and a world class community. Pepsi Cola Bottling is a stellar Chamber corporate citizen.”
The Annual Chamber Business Luncheon, underwritten by Virginia National Bank, was attended by more than 200 business and civic leaders. Prior to the award presentation, W. Rod Gentry, Regional Executive of Union Bank and Trust and 2010 Chairman of the Chamber Board of Directors, led a group of Chamber officers in presenting the 2010 Annual Chamber Report to the Chamber membership and business and civic leadership.
The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce established the Hovey S. Dabney Award for Corporate Citizenship in 2005 to recognize outstanding examples of corporate citizenship in the Greater Charlottesville communities. This Chamber Award is established and named in honor of the late Hovey S. Dabney, a distinguished business leader and citizen in the Greater Charlottesville area, the Commonwealth of Virginia and our nation. The Chamber Hovey S. Dabney Award for Corporate Citizenship is underwritten through the generosity of Hunter E. Craig, W. K. Heischman and Ivo Romenesko.
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Central Virginia has been a cornerstone business and employer in Greater Charlottesville since 1908. The company’s founder, Samuel Ambrose Jessup (“Mr. S.A.”) was born in North Carolina and moved to Virginia, first to Camellia, then in 1904 to Martinsville where he started a bottling business. In 1908, Mr. Jessup moved to Charlottesville with the idea of increasing his bottling business. Mr. Jessup looked for the most popular cola drink he could find and decided that Pepsi-Cola was the one that seemed to provide the best future. Mr. Jessup secured a franchise with Pepsi-Cola – the oldest written franchise on record with the parent Pepsi-Cola Company, dated December 28, 1908. That continuing Pepsi franchise consists of eighteen counties in Central Virginia.
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“Mr. S.A” Jessup started his Pepsi-Cola business on the corner of Fourth and Water Streets in downtown Charlottesville. He passed away in 1960 but Pepsi-Cola was produced at that location until it was outgrown and moved to Millmont Street in November, 1963. James L. Jessup became President after his father's death and served in this capacity until his death in February, 1984.
Again the facility was outgrown and the present production building on Pepsi Place was constructed and became occupied in 1983. The Executive Office building was completed the following year. After their father's death in 1984, James L. Jessup, Jr. (Jay) became President and Suzanne Jessup Brooks became Executive Vice President of Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Central Virginia.
In addition to Charlottesville, the company owns and operates distribution centers in Warrenton, Weyers Cave and Virginia Beach. Today the company produces or distributes Pepsi-Cola and other products including: Mountain Dew, Sierra Mist, Sobe, Mug Root Beer, Starbucks Frappucino, Lipton Iced Tea, Aquafina water, Dr. Pepper and Snapple. The Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Central Virginia employs 350 men and women, including more than 120 employees working out of Charlottesville.
For more than a century, the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Central Virginia has been active in the community and has valued its employees as a way of giving back to those who have fostered the company’s growth and sustained its success. The Jessup Family – recipients of the 1994 Chamber Paul Goodloe McIntire Citizenship Award – sets the corporate example and tone for community commitment.
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Central Virginia supports – both financially and through employee involvement – virtually every civic organization in Greater Charlottesville including: Martha Jefferson Hospital, Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, United Way – Thomas Jefferson Area, Women in Philanthropy, YMCA, Paramount Theater, Ashlawn Opera, Miller School, Blue Ridge School, Charlottesville Catholic School, Covenant School, Piedmont Virginia Community College Educational Foundation, University of Virginia Children’s Hospital, Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership, Madison House, and Virginia Athletics Foundation, Westminster Presbyterian Church, IMPACT, Charlottesville Free Clinic, Monticello Area Community Action Agency, Westminster-Canterbury of the Blue Ridge Foundation, the Senior Center, Alzheimer Association, Salvation Army, Multiple Scleroses Society, Literacy Volunteers of Virginia, Dogwood Festival, Live Arts, First Night Virginia, Jefferson Area Crime Stoppers, Albemarle County Police Foundation, Thomas Jefferson Partnership for Economic Development, Rotary, Kiwanis, the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce, numerous youth sports leagues and many, many more civic endeavors.
In addition the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Central Virginia is “a ready and good business partner with other community businesses” procuring much of its supplies –office and building supplies, fuel, benefits, etc. – from area and Virginia businesses.
The 2010 Chamber Hovey S. Dabney Award for Corporate Citizenship Selection Committee, in addition to Mr. Thomas as Committee Chairman, included: Jon Bright; Mary Loose DeViney; W. Rod Gentry; Eddie Giles; Robert Hodous, Timothy Hulbert; Robert Kroner; Christopher Lee; Mark Nelson; Ivo Romenesko; and Cathy Train.
The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce is dedicated to representing private enterprise, promoting business and enhancing the quality of life in our greater Charlottesville communities. The Chamber‘s 1,000 member enterprises employ more than 45,000 people in our community, representing an estimated total payroll of more than $1.3 billion a year.
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ATTACHEMENT: Hovey S. Dabney Award for Corporate Citizenship Criteria & Recipients
“… dedicated to representing private enterprise, promoting business
and enhancing the quality of life in our Greater Charlottesville communities.”
Hovey S. Dabney Award for Corporate Citizenship Criteria
The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce established the Hovey S. Dabney Award for Corporate Citizenship in 2005 to recognize outstanding examples of corporate citizenship in our Greater Charlottesville communities.
This Chamber Award is established and named in honor of Hovey S. Dabney, a distinguished business leader and citizen in our Greater Charlottesville area, the Commonwealth of Virginia and our nation.
The Chamber Hovey S. Dabney Award for Corporate Citizenship recipient is a Chamber member enterprise within the Greater Charlottesville area that is known for:
- engaging in sound, successful business or professional practice and presence in our Greater Charlottesville communities and being a ready and good business partner with other community businesses;
- investing directly in the economic, cultural and humanitarian advancement of our Greater Charlottesville communities and its culture;
- pursuing a positive and healthy work environment for its employees and encouraging and supporting its employees and their families to participate in and support, our community’s activities, organizations and institutions; and,
- inspiring other corporate citizenship by example.
The Chamber Hovey S. Dabney Award for Corporate Citizenship is underwritten through the generosity of Hunter E. Craig, W. K. Heischman and Ivo Romenesko.
“… dedicated to representing private enterprise, promoting business
and enhancing the quality of life in our Greater Charlottesville communities.”
cvillechamber.com
PO Box 1564 • Fifth & Market Streets • Charlottesville, Virginia 22902
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Hovey S. Dabney Award for Corporate Citizenship Recipients
Pepsi-Cola Bottling of Central Virginia • 2010
Martin Horn, Inc. • 2009
Better Living, Inc. • 2008
State Farm Insurance Companies • 2007
McGuireWoods • 2006
Hantzmon, Wiebel & Company • 2005
