About Alfred Gooding
Lived 1932 – 2018 (aged 85–86). Alfred Gooding was a British entrepreneur.
Alfred Gooding (died 29 January 2018 ) was a Welsh entrepreneur. Over a fifty-year period, he founded companies in the construction and electronics sectors. In the 1950s he started Modern Building Wales Limited which built 7,000 houses across Wales. His most famous venture is Catnic, the company credited with developing the steel lintel for the building industry. In 1982, the company was involved in a House of Lords case, Catnic Components Ltd v Hill & Smith Ltd. Gooding sold it the following year, making a personal profit of £9 million. Another company, Race Electronics, was founded in the 1980s in partnership with Japanese business interests.
In 2007, Gooding organised a bid to buy the troubled bank Northern Rock.
In 2014, the house in Rhiwderin, near Newport, where Gooding, then 82, lived with his wife Lavinia was destroyed by fire; the couple escaped unharmed.
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Who was Alfred Gooding?
British businessman
When was Alfred Gooding born?
Alfred Gooding was born in 1932 in Risca.
When did Alfred Gooding die?
Alfred Gooding died on 29 January 2018.
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Alfred Gooding was an entrepreneur.
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Alfred Gooding was British.
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