Yup. Which is strange too because OSU took his money and is now The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Wexner Center for the Arts. Children's is now Nationwide Children's Hospital and attached to the new Abigail Wexner Research Institute.
Timeline and some history:
2011: The Wexners and Limited Brands Foundation donate $100 million to OSU, the university’s largest single gift, in what OSU President E. Gordon Gee calls “a transformative moment” for the school. Much of the money goes to the OSU Medical Center and the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, as well as the Wexner Center for the Arts.
2012: OSU renames its Medical Center after Wexner.
2012: Wexner and Limited Brands donate $163.4 million to the Columbus Foundation; it’s believed to be the largest gift to a charitable organization in Ohio history.
2016: L Brands eliminates the Victoria’s Secret catalog.
2016: Wexner is awarded the Centennial Award of Distinction from OSU’s Fisher College of Business.
2019: An activist investor group urges L Brands to spin off Victoria’s Secret or turn Bath & Body Works into a separate company after poor performance by Victoria’s Secret.
2019: Longtime Wexner associate Jeffrey Epstein is arrested on sex trafficking charges in June. Two months later, Epstein is found dead in his jail cell.
2019: L Brands cancels the annual Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, which had been criticized as out of touch with modern audiences.
2020: L Brands announces the sale of a 55% stake in Victoria's Secret to private-equity firm Sycamore Partners, but the deal falls apart as the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on traditional retailers.
2020: Wexner steps down as chairman and CEO of L Brands at the company's annual meeting in May but remains on the company's board. At the time, Wexner was the longest-serving CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
2020: L Brands cuts about 15% of the jobs at its corporate offices in Columbus and around the world — about 850 positions — as part of a plan to reduce costs by $400 million a year.
2021: L Brands announces that founder Leslie H. Wexner, along with his wife, Abigail Wexner, will retire from the company's board.
Yup. Which is strange too because OSU took his money and is now The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Wexner Center for the Arts. Children's is now Nationwide Children's Hospital and attached to the new Abigail Wexner Research Institute.
Timeline and some history:
2011: The Wexners and Limited Brands Foundation donate $100 million to OSU, the university’s largest single gift, in what OSU President E. Gordon Gee calls “a transformative moment” for the school. Much of the money goes to the OSU Medical Center and the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, as well as the Wexner Center for the Arts.
2012: OSU renames its Medical Center after Wexner.
2012: Wexner and Limited Brands donate $163.4 million to the Columbus Foundation; it’s believed to be the largest gift to a charitable organization in Ohio history.
2016: L Brands eliminates the Victoria’s Secret catalog.
2016: Wexner is awarded the Centennial Award of Distinction from OSU’s Fisher College of Business.
2019: An activist investor group urges L Brands to spin off Victoria’s Secret or turn Bath & Body Works into a separate company after poor performance by Victoria’s Secret.
2019: Longtime Wexner associate Jeffrey Epstein is arrested on sex trafficking charges in June. Two months later, Epstein is found dead in his jail cell.
2019: L Brands cancels the annual Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, which had been criticized as out of touch with modern audiences.
2020: L Brands announces the sale of a 55% stake in Victoria's Secret to private-equity firm Sycamore Partners, but the deal falls apart as the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on traditional retailers.
2020: Wexner steps down as chairman and CEO of L Brands at the company's annual meeting in May but remains on the company's board. At the time, Wexner was the longest-serving CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
2020: L Brands cuts about 15% of the jobs at its corporate offices in Columbus and around the world — about 850 positions — as part of a plan to reduce costs by $400 million a year.
2021: L Brands announces that founder Leslie H. Wexner, along with his wife, Abigail Wexner, will retire from the company's board.