The Phil Hardin Foundation

Organizations to improve teaching and learning.

Overview

In the 1930s Mr. Phil Hardin bought a bankrupt bakery business in Meridian Mississippi. A remarkable entrepreneur with a genius for marketing Mr. Hardin built the Hardin Bakeries Corporation into a highly successful business operation with production plants for bread and buns in Meridian Jackson and Tupelo and a sweet goods plant in Columbus. Dedicated to his business Mr. Hardin also had a strong sense for the importance of the Bakeries Corporations to be a good corporate citizen and responsible member of those communities.