Dr. Alfred Gooding OBE LLB is a Welsh entrepreneur born in Risca, South Wales. In the 1950s he started Modern Building Wales Limited which built 7,000 houses across Wales.[1] His most famous venture is Catnic, the company credited with developing the steel lintel for the building industry[2]. In 1982, the company was involved in a House of Lords case, Catnic Components Ltd v Hill & Smith Ltd.
Gooding is a former chairman of CBI Wales. He was awarded with a fellowship from the University of Wales, Newport in 2010.[3]
In 2007, Gooding organised a bid to buy the troubled bank Northern Rock.[4]