{"id":114226,"date":"2024-10-15T01:08:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T18:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=114226"},"modified":"2024-10-15T01:08:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T18:08:55","slug":"inside-boars-head-deli-meats-ultra-secretive-billionaire-dynasty-amid-listeria-outbreak-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=114226","title":{"rendered":"Inside Boar&#8217;s Head deli meat&#8217;s ultra-secretive billionaire dynasty amid listeria outbreak concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-13891933\/Death-update-Boars-Head-deli-meat-listeria.html\" rel=\"noopener\">deadly listeria outbreak<\/a> at a Boar&#8217;s Head plant has put a spotlight on the ultra-secretive billionaire dynasty behind one of America&#8217;s top deli-meat brands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Beyond their luxury homes and affluent lifestyle, little is known of the family members who run the $3 billion-a-year privately owned firm, and who have fallen out in recent years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The outbreak this summer left 10 people dead and dozens hospitalized, most from eating liverwurst prepared in a Boar&#8217;s Head factory in <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/virginia\/index.html\" id=\"mol-4e3e9900-8a40-11ef-9af6-adb8165f0d40\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A criminal probe followed, and at least six lawsuits for wrongful death and personal injury have been filed against the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The plant was shuttered and 7 million pounds of deli meat and other products were recalled.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"> <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-7111bb4420c0c356\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/10\/14\/16\/90828809-13957811-image-a-2_1728919638705.jpg\" height=\"356\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Bob Martin, 74, bought this multimillion-dollar home on the tip of Longboat Key near Sarasota, Florida\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/> <\/div>\n<p> <noscript> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-7111bb4420c0c356\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/10\/14\/16\/90828809-13957811-image-a-2_1728919638705.jpg\" height=\"356\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Bob Martin, 74, bought this multimillion-dollar home on the tip of Longboat Key near Sarasota, Florida\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\" data-lt-tmp-id=\"lt-850117\" data-gramm=\"false\">Bob Martin, 74, bought this multimillion-dollar home on the tip of Longboat Key near Sarasota, Florida<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Yet nobody from the two families who own the brand, the Brunckhorsts and Bischoffs, has commented on the scandal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Tom Johnston, the editor of trade publication Meatingplace, <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/13\/business\/boars-head-owners-listeria-outbreak.html\">told the New York Times<\/a> that this was typical of the guarded families.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mol-img-group floatRHS\" style=\"\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"> <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-17f4fe62f5ff15ad\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/10\/14\/17\/90832429-13957811-Frank_Brunckhorst_III_61_stepped_down_from_day_to_day_operations-a-17_1728924618172.jpg\" height=\"383\" width=\"306\" alt=\"Frank Brunckhorst III, 61, stepped down from day-to-day operations at the company in 2003\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/> <\/div>\n<p> <noscript> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-17f4fe62f5ff15ad\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/10\/14\/17\/90832429-13957811-Frank_Brunckhorst_III_61_stepped_down_from_day_to_day_operations-a-17_1728924618172.jpg\" height=\"383\" width=\"306\" alt=\"Frank Brunckhorst III, 61, stepped down from day-to-day operations at the company in 2003\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Frank Brunckhorst III, 61, stepped down from day-to-day operations at the company in 2003<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;They&#8217;re as secretive as anybody I can think of in the industry,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The company&#8217;s day-to-day operations are led by president Carlos Giraldo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But legal filings show key decisions are made by three family members: Robert S. Martin, known as Bob, the 74-year-old grandson of one of Boar&#8217;s Head&#8217;s founders; his 50-year-old son, Robert A. Martin, known as Bob Jr.; and their cousin, Frank Brunckhorst III, 61.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Those names do not appear on the company&#8217;s website. Even senior employees are kept in the dark about sales numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The owners &#8211; including the two Martins and Brunckhorst, along with other cousins who don&#8217;t work at Boar&#8217;s Head &#8211; got $1.5 billion in payouts over a nearly 15-year period, court filings suggest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Bob Martin is likened to a &#8216;Jay Gatsby&#8217; of the deli-meat industry &#8211; a reference to F. Scott Fitzgerald&#8217;s fictional protagonist &#8211; thanks to his dashing good looks, charisma, wealth, multiple homes and a love for boating, the Times reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">When the company moved its headquarters to Sarasota, Florida in 2001, Brunckhorst and Martin relocated there and lived in luxurious, multimillion-dollar waterfront properties with pools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">At a swanky party for Boar&#8217;s Head&#8217;s 100th anniversary in the ballroom of Manhattan&#8217;s Waldorf-Astoria hotel in 2005, family members wore tuxedos and gowns to mark their shared history and success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But that soon started to unravel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Another relative, Eric Bischoff, has sued his cousins and the company several times over the allocation of shares.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Court filings point to family members linked by history and a business who&#8217;ve been torn apart by tensions over money and pride.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Martin and Eric Bischoff, both grandsons of early partner Bruno Bischoff, started working at the family business&#8217;s Brooklyn processing plant in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"> <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-89496affeb8ea378\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/10\/14\/16\/90826657-13957811-image-a-6_1728919804149.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Boar's Head has grown into a well-known brand with annual revenue of some $3 billion a year\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/> <\/div>\n<p> <noscript> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-89496affeb8ea378\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/10\/14\/16\/90826657-13957811-image-a-6_1728919804149.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Boar's Head has grown into a well-known brand with annual revenue of some $3 billion a year\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Boar&#8217;s Head has grown into a well-known brand with annual revenue of some $3 billion a year<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"> <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-209e9f4954df238c\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/10\/14\/16\/90826655-13957811-image-a-3_1728919775572.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The Boar's Head processing plant in Jarratt, Virginia, was shuttered after a deadly listeria outbreak\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/> <\/div>\n<p> <noscript> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-209e9f4954df238c\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/10\/14\/16\/90826655-13957811-image-a-3_1728919775572.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The Boar's Head processing plant in Jarratt, Virginia, was shuttered after a deadly listeria outbreak\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The Boar&#8217;s Head processing plant in Jarratt, Virginia, was shuttered after a deadly listeria outbreak<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"> <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-146d59cf8c51c230\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/10\/14\/16\/89065951-13957811-The_above_map_shows_the_states_where_illnesses_linked_to_the_del-a-16_1728920440482.jpg\" height=\"551\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The above map shows the states where illnesses linked to the deli meat listeria outbreak have been reported\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/> <\/div>\n<p> <noscript> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-146d59cf8c51c230\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/10\/14\/16\/89065951-13957811-The_above_map_shows_the_states_where_illnesses_linked_to_the_del-a-16_1728920440482.jpg\" height=\"551\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The above map shows the states where illnesses linked to the deli meat listeria outbreak have been reported\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The above map shows the states where illnesses linked to the deli meat listeria outbreak have been reported<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"> <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-e1789b9277b4d33e\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/10\/14\/16\/90826649-13957811-image-a-5_1728919781370.jpg\" height=\"451\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The company remains tight-lipped about the family members who make key decisions\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/> <\/div>\n<p> <noscript> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-e1789b9277b4d33e\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/10\/14\/16\/90826649-13957811-image-a-5_1728919781370.jpg\" height=\"451\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The company remains tight-lipped about the family members who make key decisions\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The company remains tight-lipped about the family members who make key decisions<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Eric Bischoff felt he had been short-changed in how many shares were allocated to him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Tensions worsened between Bischoff and his cousins over the years. Martin said he tried to undermine employees hired by him or his father.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He and Brunckhorst even reportedly offered to pay Bischoff to stay home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Months after the company&#8217;s centenary, Bischoff sued Martin and Brunckhorst for a bigger stake in the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The case was settled in 2008, with Bischoff getting a larger, roughly 14 percent of the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">After the lawsuit, Bischoff no longer worked at the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Martin, who was by that point running Boar&#8217;s Head, stopped talking to his cousin. Staff knew not to utter Bischoff&#8217;s name around the office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The feud reignited when Bob Martin transferred shares to his son, Bob Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Bischoff sued him again, saying the transfers violated a shareholder agreement. The case was thrown out and Bischoff is appealing that decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Brunckhorst, meanwhile, stepped down from day-to-day operations at the company in 2003.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Last month, Boar&#8217;s Head announced the names of four food safety experts who would tackle the problems underpinning the listeria outbreak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The company released extensive biographies of the safety team members on its website, but the names of both Martins and Brunckhorst were nowhere to be seen, the Times reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-13957811\/boars-head-deli-meat-billionaire-dynasty-listeria-outbreak.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deadly listeria outbreak at a Boar&#8217;s Head plant has put a spotlight on the ultra-secretive billionaire dynasty behind one of America&#8217;s top deli-meat brands. 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