BNET Industries
Market Cap:$1.2B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$454.8M
- Public
- US
Dow Jones Description
Over-the-Counter Healthcare Products, Toiletries & Dietary Supplements Marketer & Mfr
Chairman & CEO
Zan GuerryNumber of Employees 488
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing: 325412
Recent Events
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Chattem, Inc. - SWOT Analysis
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UPDATE 2-Chattem Q3 profit tops Street; backs FY adj EPS view
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Altera: Analysts' Upgrades, Downgrades
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Chattem still performs in tough economy
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EDITORIAL: Chattem commits to city, growth
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Chattem Inc., Q4 F08 (Qtr End 11/30/08) Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions. And your first question comes from the line of Bill Chappell of Suntrust Robinson Humphrey. Please proceed. Bill Chappell - Suntrust Robinson Humphrey Good morning. Bob Bosworth Hi, Bill. Bill Chappell - Suntrust Robinson Humphrey First, maybe you...
Chattem, Inc. F3Q08 (Qtr End 08/31/08) Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your next question comes from Bill Chappell - Suntrust Robinson. Bill Chappell - Suntrust Robinson I guess a couple things on the third quarter P&L. On gross margin, down sequentially, is that more due to commodity costs or is it just more...
Chattem Sets Date for Third Quarter Fiscal 2008 Earnings Conference Call
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- Chattem, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTT) confirmed today that it will issue a news release regarding its third quarter and first nine months of fiscal 2008 results on Thursday, September 25, 2008 before market open. Zan Guerry, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bob Bosworth, President and Chief Operating...
Chattem, Inc. F2Q08 (Qtr End 05/31/08) Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Bill Chappell – SunTrust Robinson Humphrey Bill Chappell – SunTrust Robinson Humphrey Just to get into some of the product lines can you maybe give us a little more color both on the BullFrog business...
Chattem Sets Date for Second Quarter and First Six Months Of Fiscal 2008 Earnings Conference Call
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- Chattem, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTT) confirmed today that it will issue a news release regarding its second quarter and first six months of fiscal 2008 results on Thursday, July 10, 2008 before market open. Zan Guerry, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bob Bosworth, President and Chief Operating...
Chattem to Webcast Presentation from Goldman Sachs Consumer Products Symposium on May 12, 2008
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- Zan Guerry, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Chattem, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTT), will present at the Goldman Sachs Consumer Products Symposium in New York on Monday, May 12, 2008 beginning at 3:10 p.m. ET. Interested listeners may access the live webcast via the Company's website www.chattem.com,...
Chattem, Inc. F1Q08 (Qtr End 02/29/08) Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions] The first question comes from the line of Bill Chappell with Suntrust Robinson. Bill Chappell – Suntrust Robinson First, not as related to the quarter, but on the acquisition landscape we saw last week Orajel go for about 13 time EBITDA and I guess a...
Chattem Inc. F4Q07 (Qtr End 11/30/07) Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions Your first question comes from the line of Bill Leach of Neuberger Berman. Please proceed. Bill Leach – Neuberger Berman Good morning, everyone. Congratulations on a great quarter and a great year. Bob, just to follow up on your comments, is there any...
Zacks #1 Rank Top Performers: Owens-Illinois, Bankrate, Chattem, Websense and Herman Miller
CHICAGO -- Zacks.com announces the latest list of top performing Zacks #1 Rank ("strong buy") stocks. The stocks on the prestigious list with the highest returns last week were Owens-Illinois, Inc. (NYSE: OI), Bankrate, Inc. (NASDAQ: RATE), Chattem, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTT), Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN) and Herman Miller, Inc. (NASDAQ:...
Chattem Sets Date for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2007 Earnings Conference Call
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- Chattem, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTT) confirmed today that it will issue a news release regarding its fourth quarter and fiscal 2007 results on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 before market open. Zan Guerry, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bob Bosworth, President and Chief Operating Officer, and Robert Long,...
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Robert E. Bosworth | President |
| Donald K. Riker | Vice President, R & D & Chief Scientific Officer |
| Robert B. Long | Vice President & Chief Financial Officer |
| Andrea Crouch | Vice President, Brand Mgmt |
| B. Derrill Pitts | Vice President, Operations |
| Charles Stafford | Vice President, Sales |
| J. Blair Ramey | Vice President, Marketing |
| John L. Stroud | Vice President, Marketing |
| Joseph J. Czerwinski | Vice President, Product Dev |
| Ron Galante | Vice President, New Business Dev |
| Theodore K Whitfield | General Counsel, Secretary & Vice President |
| Gary D Chazen | Partner, Perimeter Properties and Metal Systems, I |
| Blair Ramey | Director, Marketing |
| Catherine Baker | Director, IR |
| Allison Johnson | Western Region Analyst |
| Hugh F. Sharber | Secretary |
| Peter R. Kellogg |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Zan Guerry | Chairman & CEO |
| Bill W. Stacy | Board of Directors |
| Joey B. Hogan | Board of Directors |
| Philip H. Sanford | Board of Directors |
| Richard E. Cheney | Board of Directors |
| Ruth W. Brinkley | Board of Directors |
| Samuel E. Allen | Board of Directors |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Aspercreme | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | Current |
| Capzasin-HP | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | Current |
| Chattem, Inc. | Chairman & CEO | Current |
| SunTrust Bank | Director | Current |
| Chattem, Inc. | President | Former |
| Chattem, Inc. | Chief Financial Officer | Former |
| Chattem, Inc. | Executive Vice President | Former |
| Chattem, Inc. | Board of Directors | Former |
Robert E. Bosworth , 61, has served as a director since 1998. Since September 19, 2005, Mr. Bosworth has served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Chattem, Inc., a publicly traded consumer products company. Prior to such position, Mr. Bosworth served as Chief Financial Officer for the Livingston Company, a merchant bank located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, since 2004, and as Livingston's Vice President of Corporate Finance since 2001. From 1998 until 2001, Mr. Bosworth was a business and management consultant to various corporations in the Chattanooga area. Prior to 1998, Mr. Bosworth served for more than five years as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Chattem, Inc. Mr. Bosworth is currently a director of Chattem, Inc.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chattem, Inc. | President | Current |
| Chattem, Inc. | Chief Operating Officer | Current |
| Covenant Transport Inc. | Chairman | Current |
| Chattem, Inc. | Director | Current |
| Livingston & Company | Chief Financial Officer | Former |
| Chattem, Inc. | Executive Vice President | Former |
| Covenant Transport Inc. | Director | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chattem, Inc. | Vice President, R & D & Chief Scientific Officer | Current |
| Chattem, Inc. | Vice President, Res | Former |
| Procter & Gamble | Former |
Mr. Long became our vice president of finance in 2007 after serving as chief accounting officer in 2006. Prior to joining Chattem, Mr. Long served as vice president and chief financial officer of Charleston Hosiery, Inc., a manufacturer of hosiery products, previously served as an audit senior manager for Ernst & Young LLP, a global professional services provider, and previously served as staff accountant for Brach’s Confections Holdings, Inc., a manufacturer of confections. Mr. Long is registered as a C.P.A. in the State of Tennessee.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chattem, Inc. | Vice President & Chief Financial Officer | Current |
| Aspercreme | Chief Accounting Officer | Former |
Ms. Crouch became our vice president-brand management in 1995. Ms. Crouch joined us in 1985 as an assistant brand manager. Prior to joining us, she served as product planner for Hayes Microcomputer Products, a manufacturer of modems and communication equipment, and previously was a systems consultant with Arthur Andersen LLP, an accounting firm.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chattem, Inc. | Vice President, Brand Mgmt | Current |
| Arthur Andersen LLP | systems consultant | Former |
Mr. Pitts joined us in 1961 and since that time has served us in all manufacturing operation disciplines. He was promoted to vice president-operations in 1984.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chattem, Inc. | Vice President, Operations | Current |
Mr. Stafford became our vice president-sales in June 1994. Previously, he served as our director of field sales and zone sales manager. Prior to joining us in 1983, Mr. Stafford held sales management positions with Johnson & Johnson, a pharmaceutical company, and Schering Corporation (now Schering–Plough Corporation), a research-based pharmaceutical company.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chattem, Inc. | Vice President, Sales | Current |
| Johnson & Johnson | Former | |
| Schering-Plough Corporation | Former | |
| Chattem, Inc. | Director | Former |
Mr. Ramey became our vice president of marketing in 2007 after serving as vice president-brand management and media in 2006, marketing manager, from 1998 – 2000, and marketing director, from 2000 - 2006. Prior to joining Chattem in 1998, Mr. Ramey served as brand manager for Nabisco, Inc., a consumer products company, from 1994 – 1997, and previously as an account executive for Interpublic Group, a global marketing communications and marketing services company, from 1993-1994.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chattem, Inc. | Vice President, Marketing | Current |
| Chattem, Inc. | Marketing Manager | Former |
| Nabisco | Brand Manager | Former |
Mr. Stroud became our vice president of marketing in 2007 after serving as the Company’s vice president of brand management and as category manager since joining the Company in 2005. From 1995 - 2005, Mr. Stroud served in various capacities, including as vice president of marketing, R&D and quality, at Brach’s Confections, Inc., a manufacturer of confections and fruit snacks. Prior to joining Brach’s, he held marketing positions at Alpo Petfoods (now Purina) and Welch Food, Inc.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chattem, Inc. | Vice President, Marketing | Current |
Mr. Czerwinski became our vice president of product development in 2007 after serving as the Company’s director of product development since joining Chattem in 2002. Previously, Mr. Czerwinski held various positions at the Procter and Gamble Company and Richardson -Vicks.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chattem, Inc. | Vice President, Product Dev | Current |
Mr. Galante became our vice president-new business development in June 1996. Previously, he was director - new business development. Prior to that, Mr. Galante served as general manager of Chattem Canada, our Canadian subsidiary, from June 1990 to May 1993 and as director of marketing for many of our domestic brands from 1980 until 1990.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chattem, Inc. | Vice President, New Business Dev | Current |
| Chattem, Inc. | General Manager | Former |
| Chattem, Inc. | Director of Marketing | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Aspercreme | Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary | Current |
| Capzasin-HP | Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary | Current |
| Chattem, Inc. | General Counsel, Secretary & Vice President | Current |
| Chattem, Inc. | Secretary | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chattem, Inc. | Partner, Perimeter Properties and Metal Systems, I | Current |
| Chattem, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chattem, Inc. | Director, Marketing | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chattem, Inc. | Director, IR | Current |
Allison Johnson allisoncjohnson@hotmail.com returns to the board in her third year as chapter President. After serving past roles of VP/Operations and President-Elect, Allison?s mission is to serve members? needs, and encourage the active involvement of all AMASV members, board of directors and volunteers. Allison is the Western Region Analyst for Chattem, Inc., a Tennessee based Consumer Products Company. Although Chattem Manufactures and markets roughly 26 brands, the major brands in Chattem?s portfolio include Icy Hot, Gold Bond, Selsun, Act Mouthwash, Cortizone-10 and Unisom. As an Analyst, Allison manages Nielsen data in order to support sales and marketing initiatives at such retailers as Safeway, Longs and Raley?s.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chattem, Inc. | Western Region Analyst | Current |
| American Marketing Association Sacramento Valley | Board of Directors | Current |
| American Marketing Association Sacramento Valley | President | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chattem, Inc. | Secretary | Current |
| Chattem, Inc. | Secretary | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chattem, Inc. | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chattem, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chattem, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Value Place, LLC | President & Chief Operating Officer | Current |
| Chattem, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Caribou Coffee Company Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| The Krystal Company | Chairman & Chief Executive Officer | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Rowe Companies | Chairman of the Board of Hill & Knowlton | Current |
| The Rowe Companies | Director | Current |
| Chattem, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Hill & Knowlton, Inc. | Chairman of the Board | Former |
| Stoneridge, Inc. | Board of Directors | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chattem, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chattem, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
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