Tycoons: How Goodman rose, fell and rose again
A quarter of a century after she first reported on his business dealings, Susan O’Keeffe looked back at the beef baron’s extraordinary career
Date of publication: September 11, 2016
If you’ve never been inside a slaughterhouse, then you can’t even come close to understanding the world Larry Goodman has inhabited – and made his home – for so many decades. It’s dirty and bloody, and it takes no prisoners. The faint-hearted stay at the gate and drink tea.
In many ways, it’s the very nature of the work that has afforded Goodman the secrecy to build ...