‘The pub life': How hotel barons keep it in the family
Plunged into the family business in his twenties when his father died in a light plane crash, Laundy has grown the group from two pubs in 1969 to more than 40 – an empire now worth $1.75 billion and putting him at no. 94 on this year's Financial Review Rich List.
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