Richard LaMotta

Richard LaMotta (born 1942) is the inventor and principal promoter of the Chipwich ice cream sandwich.

In 1981, LaMotta invented the Chipwich and began a guerilla marketing campaign, in which he trained and enlisted 100 street cart vendors (students) to sell the Chipwich in New York City. The campaign established Chipwich as a successful brand. CoolBrands, the country’s second-largest ice cream distributor, bought the Chipwich brand in 2000, and sold it in 2007 to Dreyer's division of Nestlé.

LaMotta has been featured in over 8,000 stories in newspapers, magazines and other media covering the past 25 years. He has received the Ad Age Executive Marketing Award, Adweek Magazine’s Hottest Product of the Year Award, and Sales and Marketing Magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

LaMotta holds a B.S. in Economics from Brooklyn College and a J.D. from New York Law School, both earned while studying at night.

As a college freshman, LaMotta developed his own record label and (after negotiating with the college business office, music professors, and executives at RCA, BMG Music, Deutsche Gramophon, etc.) created a two-record album featuring recordings for the Music 101 class required of all City College students. He then sold over fifty-thousand albums.

External links

* [http://www.chipwich.com/chipwich/story.htm Richard LaMotta's description of the founding of Chipwich Inc. (Chipwich official site)]
* [http://www.flexnews.com/console/PageViewer.aspx?page=6833&str= CoolBrands press release announcing sale of Chipwich to Dreyer's]
* [http://www.nyls.edu/pages/4154.asp New York Law School profile]
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,953149,00.html "War of the Chocolate Chips", TIME, Sept. 28, 1981]