Background
Bloomquist, Howard Richard was born on September 16, 1918 in Minneapolis. Son of Richard P. and Ruth M. (Holmgren) Bloomquist.
Bloomquist, Howard Richard was born on September 16, 1918 in Minneapolis. Son of Richard P. and Ruth M. (Holmgren) Bloomquist.
Student, U. Minn.
Assistant advertising manager Pillsbury Mills, Inc., 1941-1946. Advertising manager Toni division Gillette Company, 1946-1949. General manager Lever Brothers Company, 1949-1953.
With General Foods Corporation, 1953-1968, general manager, 1962-1963, vice president, 1963-1967, group vice president, 1967-1968. Director, senior partner McKinsey & Company, 1969-1971. Corporation vice president, president grocery products group (world-wide) W.R. Grace & Company, 1971-1973.
Senior vice president, president consumer products group Warner-Lambert Company, Morris Plains, New Jersey, 1973-1977, senior vice president corporation marketing-worldwide, 1977-1980, also director Past trustee Greenwich (Connecticut) Academy. Past vice chairman United Way, Morris County, New Jersey.
Member American Management Association, Association National Advertisers, Grocery Manufacturers Association. Member Community Church (past chairman official board). Clubs: Field (Greenwich).
Married Ingrid M. Brostrom, February 14, 1941. Children: Dennis, Diane (Mistress W. Mowry Connelly), Laurel (Mistress Paul Shields).