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Donald Nicholas Pritzker (October 31, 1932 – May 6, 1972) was an American entrepreneur and businessman. He was a member of the Pritzker family and served as the president of Hyatt, where he helped grow the hotel chain.
The Pritzker family is an American family engaged in entrepreneurship and philanthropy, and one of the wealthiest families in the United States (staying in the top 10 of Forbes magazine's "America's Richest Families" list since the magazine began such listings in 1982).
Over the following decade, Jay Pritzker and his brother, Donald Pritzker, working together with other Pritzker family business interests, grew the company into a North American management and hotel ownership company, which became a public company in 1962.
Donald N. Pritzker. Hyatt Hotels. 1959–1972. Industry: Restaurants & Lodging. Era: 1950. Pritzker assumed management of just one hotel in 1959, but throughout the next 13 years he acquired dozens more throughout the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean, totaling 26 hotels by the time of his death.
The Pritzkers, a powerful Chicago family, spent the 2000s feuding over trusts and eventually divvied up the family fortune that includes Hyatt hotels. With his sons, A.N. Pritzker (d. 1986 ...
Oct 18, 2023 · Donald Pritzker, along with his brother, Jay, turned a single hotel near the Los Angeles airport into the prosperous Hyatt chain.
Feb 13, 2020 · Hyatt founder Jay Pritzker was working as a lawyer when he took a business trip to LA in 1957. Today, 11 members of his family are billionaires.
