HOWARD JOHNSON
Name: Howard Deering Johnson
Born: 1896 Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Died: 1972
Business executive, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Uneducated beyond
elementary school, he developed 28 flavours of ice-cream for his Wollaston, MA,
drugstore soda fountain, and by 1929 was franchising his name and products. He
won exclusive catering rights on thousands of miles of East Coast highways, and
built the country's largest private food distribution corporation before
retiring in 1959.
Name: Howard Deering Johnson
Born: 1896 Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Died: 1972
Business executive, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Uneducated beyond
elementary school, he developed 28 flavours of ice-cream for his Wollaston, MA,
drugstore soda fountain, and by 1929 was franchising his name and products. He
won exclusive catering rights on thousands of miles of East Coast highways, and
built the country's largest private food distribution corporation before
retiring in 1959.