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Herb Lotman
Herb Lotman (October 9, 1933 – May 8, 2014) was a food industry magnate who started out as a truck driver and grew his business, Keystone Foods, to one of the largest worldwide beef and chicken suppliers in the world. He is best known for developing products and processes for McDonald's (including Chicken McNuggets), and for his extensive involvement in charitable and philanthropic activities in Philadelphia and other parts of the United States. Personal life Lotman was born in Philadelphia on October 9, 1933, the son of a butcher. Lotman had two children with his wife Karen. He died in Philadelphia at age 80 following complications from heart failure. Business career Lotman began his working career in his family's beef wholesale business. He established Keystone Foods, which was instrumental in developing the use of mass-produced frozen burgers in the late 1960s, and supplied these as well as chicken and fish products to McDonald's. In the 1980s he was the inventor of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since 1854, the city has been coextensive with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the Delaware Valley, the nation's seventh-largest and one of world's largest metropolitan regions, with 6.245 million residents . The city's population at the 2020 census was 1,603,797, and over 56 million people live within of Philadelphia. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker. The city served as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony during the British colonial era and went on to play a historic and vital role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers whose plans and actions in Philadelphia ultimately inspired the American Revolution and the nation's inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
