Food-firm founder Lotman dies at 80
HERB LOTMAN, a food industry entrepreneur and founder of one of the world's largest food companies, has died at age 80.
HERB LOTMAN, a food industry entrepreneur and founder of one of the world's largest food companies, has died at age 80.
Jeff Lotman said his father died yesterday at a Philly-area hospital from complications of heart failure.
Herb Lotman is the founder of Keystone Foods.
A Philadelphia native, he began his career in the food industry with his family's wholesale beef business.
In the late 1960s, Lotman and his partners pioneered cryogenics for McDonald's and developed a mass-production system for making frozen hamburgers.
Lotman built Keystone Foods over 40 years to a company generating more than $5 billion in sales annually.
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