Larry Goodman | |
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| Born | Laurence Goodman 15 September 1937 Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Education | St Mary's College, Dundalk |
| Spouse | Kitty Goodman |
| Children | 2 |
Laurence Goodman (born 15 September 1937) is an Irish businessman, chiefly involved in the beef processing industry. He is the 6th generation of a livestock and meat exporting family and founded what is now ABP Food Group in 1954. He is the Executive Chairman of the company[1] which has grown to become one of Europe’s largest agri-business companies with 51 processing plants in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Denmark, Netherlands, Austria, Poland. ABP employs over 11,000 people. Separately, the Goodman family office has business interests in property, healthcare and productive arable and beef farming.
His companies attracted controversy during the 1991 Beef Tribunal, while a burger manufacturing facility, Silvercrest, was one of a number of high profile food manufacturing facilities which were involved in the 2013 European horse meat scandal.[2] An investigation by the Irish Government into the issue concluded that the company had never knowingly purchased meat containing equine DNA.[3]